Baseball Coach William Jacobsen Guilty of Sexual Abuse

A Bell County jury returned a guilty verdict Wednesday afternoon in the trial of former youth baseball coach William Thomas Jacobsen, who was charged with two counts of continuous sexual abuse of a child in a series of incidents involving two young boys, one of whom was a member of his team.

Jurors returned the verdict after about a day of testimony.

On Tuesday, the victims detailed incidents that typically involved sleepovers at Jacobsen’s house where he gave boys alcohol and then singled one out for abuse, away from the others.

Jacobsen is the first person to be indicted and tried under the continuous sexual abuse of a child law, which went into effect in September 2007 and which raises the punishment range from 25 years to life without parole in certain sexual assault cases.

Jacobsen will be sentenced later.

The charges stem from an investigation that started on June 10, 2008 when deputies were sent to Scott & White Hospital in response to a report that a youth baseball coach had sexually assaulted a 13-year-old boy.

The boy told investigators the sexual assaults started about a year before and said the latest had occurred in early June. 2008.

Authorities identified at least four potential victims, but Jacobsen went to trial on charges stemming from incidents involving just two.

Jacobsen was relieved of his coaching duties after deputies advised the Little River-Academy Youth Baseball League about the investigation.

He was also relieved of his duties as a Little River-Academy volunteer firefighter.

Jacobsen didn’t stick around to wait for deputies to arrest him, however.

He and his wife fled the area on June 21, 2008 after an initial interview with investigators.

The two were fugitives for 50 days before being captured in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico on August 9, 2008.

Marilyn Wesson, 58, was charged with hindering apprehension.

She is scheduled to go on trial next month.
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Perry Leonard Gibbs Accused of Molesting 4-year-old

A local man has been arrested after he was accused of molesting a four-year girl back in 2000.

Perry Leonard Gibbs, 52, of 5451 Still Road Lot 5 in Bratt, was arrested and charged with molesting a child under the age of 12. He remained in the Escambia County Jail Friday morning on $25,000 bond.

A female told the investigators under oath that Gibbs molested her in 2000 when she was four and five years old, according to Sgt. Ted Roy with the Escambia County Sheriff’s Department. The victim told investigators that the molestation occurred in the Walnut Hill area.

The female made the allegations in May of this year, accord to Roy.

Gibbs, who provided an Atmore, Ala., address at the time of his arrest, made his initial court appearance Wednesday afternoon via a closed circuit video feed from the Escambia County Jail. If he makes bond, Gibbs was ordered to have no direct or indirect contact with the victim and to wear a GPS monitor.

The felony molestation charge carries a maximum penalty of life in prison. Gibbs is due back in court in early July.

Former Major League Outfielder Mel Hall Convicted of Raping 12-year-old

Former major league outfielder Mel Hall was sentenced to 45 years in prison yesterday in Fort Worth, Texas, after being convicted of raping a 12-year-old girl and sexually abusing or inappropriately touching three girls.

Hall, 48, looked skyward and swayed back and forth as the verdict was read. One of his two daughters who testified on his behalf during the punishment phase sobbed as the reality of the sentence set in.

Jurors reached the verdict on the punishment after about an hour of deliberating. They took about 90 minutes Tuesday to convict Hall on three counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and two counts of indecency with a child. He must serve about 22 1/2 years in prison before becoming eligible for parole.

After the verdict was announced, prosecutor Kim D'Avignon read a brief statement on behalf of the 12-year-old victim and other of Hall's accusers.

"We believe that the verdict does on some level show that the jury understood," D'Avignon said. "They looked in these girls' eyes and said this is worth 40 years and we agree with them."

The defense had argued in the sentencing phase of the trial that Hall was a good man who mentored a lot of athletes and had a lot of good still to do.
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Firefighter Brian Wilkerson Arrested for Child Porn

A Springfield firefighter has pleaded not guilty to child pornography charges.

Brian Wilkerson is free on $50,000 bail after his arraignment Tuesday in federal court in Springfield. He faces four counts of receiving child pornography and one count of possessing it between August of 2005 and September.

A fire department spokesman says the 38-year-old Wilkerson has been suspended without pay pending the outcome of his case.

Wilkerson has also been ordered not to use the Internet, but his lawyer asked if that order could be relaxed so he can look for a job online.

A pretrial conference is scheduled for July 28.

If convicted, he faces a maximum prison term of five years.

Former Pastor William Brown Arrested for Sexual Assault

The former pastor of Bellmead First Baptist Church was indicted today multiple counts of sexual abuse of a child.

William Frank Brown, 45, was indicted on four counts of sexual assault of a child and four counts of indecency with a child.

remained in the McLennan County Jail late Wednesday, held in lieu of $200,000 bond.

Police said the case involved two victims. One of the children, who was 9 or 10 at the time, told a school counselor about the abuse, which began four years ago and continued for years, Waco police have said.

Francisco Trevino Guilty of Sexual Assault on Child

A jury on Wednesday found a 48-year-old man guilty of eight felony counts related to allegations he molested five girls.

Francisco Treviño was found guilty of six counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and two count of indecency with a child. He was acquitted on three other counts.

Jurors deliberated more than three hours before reaching a decision.

Each indecency count is a second-degree felony punishable by as many as 20 years in prison. The aggravated sexual assault counts are first-degree felonies which carry sentences as long as life in prison. All the counts also each carry as much as $10,000 fines.

The trial’s punishment phase will begin at 8:30 a.m. today in 105th District Judge J. Manuel Bañales’ court.

Officer Louis Buck Morris Charged with Lewd Acts with Minor

A Stillwater Police Officer has been arrested and charged in Payne County District Court with 3 counts of lewd acts to a child under age 16 and two counts of rape. Louis Alvie "Buck" Morris, 48, was charged after an investigation by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, and an internal investigation by Stillwater Police.

Morris, 48, of Ripley, who served as the School Resource Officer at the Stillwater Junior High School, was charged Tuesday with five sex acts with a 15-year-old female student in May.

Morris was arrested Tuesday in the case investigated by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation and released after posting a $25,000 property bond, court records show.

If convicted of two counts of rape by instrumentation and three counts of lewd acts with a child, Morris could receive as much as two life without parole sentences plus 60 years in prison.

According to an affidavit by OSBI agent Richard Brown, the girl knew Morris for the two years she attended Stillwater Junior High School. She said that she talked with Morris every morning at school, the affidavit said.

"She and Morris exchanged phone numbers and would text each other. She felt Morris knew she liked him and that he liked her.

"She became close to Morris. Morris would text her saying he loved her and would be able to show her how much he loved her," the affidavit alleged.

She told the OSBI agent that Morris fondled her while they were alone in his home and that while he was driving her back to her house, Morris put his finger in her genital area, the affidavit alleged.

In May two days before she was to leave Oklahoma for the summer, Morris came by her house while her father was at work and they performed manual sex acts on each other, the affidavit alleged.

"Morris talked with her about getting married and she felt they mutually agreed they would. She felt Morris loved her and she loved him," according to the affidavit.

Stillwater Police Officer Guy Palladino, who was a School Resource Officer assigned to Stillwater's Sangre Ridge Elementary and Middle Schools, as well as Westwood Elementary School, was a Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) representative for any officer at the Stillwater Police Department.

Palladino, who has been with SPD for about 22 years, had worked with Morris, who on May 28 contacted Palladino and told him he was under investigation for "inappropriate text messaging with a 15-year-old female," the affidavit alleged.

"Morris told Palladino the girl was a student at the Stillwater Junior High School and all he did was talk and text message with her," the affidavit alleged.

"On June 2, 2009, Morris came over to Palladino's house and told Palladino he had been suspended with pay and was being investigated for lewd acts with a minor.

"Morris told Palladino he was sorry and he had lied to him the last time they had talked," the affidavit alleged.

"Morris asked the girl to marry him and she accepted," the affidavit alleged.
Morris told Palladino that they had sexual contact, but denied having oral or vaginal sex with the girl, the affidavit alleged.

"The girl wanted to have sex with Morris, but he told her they would have to wait until she was 16," the affidavit alleged.

"Morris told Palladino he had become one of 'them,' and felt like he was 15.
"Morris knew his job was gone and he hoped he did not have to go to prison, but that he had done this to himself," the affidavit alleged.

When the girl's father was interviewed, he said that he "felt he could trust Morris since he was a police officer," and had allowed his daughter to visit at Morris's house on several occasions since he met Morris, the affidavit alleged.

Stillwater Police Detective Sgt. Jeff Watts spoke with the girl in her father's presence on May 21, the affidavit said.

She told the detective that "She and Officer Morris were involved in a relationship," the affidavit alleged. She said that they "had been talking about being together when she turned 18," the affidavit alleged.

She allowed the detective to look at her cell phone where he viewed text messages between the two, the affidavit alleged.

The detective also conducted an interview with the girl in another state on June 11, the affidavit said.

Teresa Moses Accused of Torturing & Killing 8-year-old

Three doctors who evaluated Teresa Moses, a 26-year-old Richmond woman accused of torturing and killing her 8-year-old son in 2006, found that she was legally insane at the time of his death, her attorney Emily Gunston said Thursday.

Moses has been charged with felony child abuse, torture and murder in connection with her son Raijon Daniels' death.

All three mental health professionals, one psychiatrist and two forensic psychologists, concluded that Moses suffered from paranoid delusions and was incapable of knowing or understanding the nature and consequences of her actions, Deputy District Attorney Gerald Chang said.

Prosecutors will be reviewing the reports and making a decision within the next couple of weeks about whether to accept a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity or take the case to trial, Chang said.

Raijon died Oct. 27, 2006. Police and paramedics were called to Moses' apartment at 725 S. 40th St. early that evening and found Raijon unconscious and lying near a puddle of his own vomit.

Moses allegedly told police that her son was "destructive" and might have poisoned himself by drinking the household cleaner Pine-Sol, a Richmond police detective said.

Along with several open containers of Pine-Sol found throughout the apartment, investigators allegedly uncovered evidence that Moses had kept Raijon locked in his bedroom and had restrained him with a nylon cord tied to his wrists, arms and legs.

They also found surveillance cameras in his bedroom that were hooked up to a monitor in Moses' bedroom and motion sensors designed to alert Moses if Raijon attempted to get off his bed, according to investigators.

A forensic pathologist testified during a preliminary hearing in the case that Raijon had bruises, scrapes, chemical burns and extensive scarring covering his entire body. The child was also starving, and the coroner's office concluded that he died from continuous, long-term abuse diagnosed as "battered child syndrome."

Before his death, Contra Costa Children and Family Services had received five separate reports from people who suspected that Raijon was being abused beginning in November 2005. The most recent report was in January 2006. Raijon's case was closed eight months before he died, according to CFS documents.

Investigators found no evidence that Moses had abused Raijon's half-sister, who is now 5 or 6 years old, but a CFS report alleged that the girl had suffered severe mental and emotional trauma from witnessing her mother's continuous torture and abuse of Raijon, according to a California Court of Appeal decision issued in 2008.

The court heard the case after Moses sought visitation rights with her daughter and unanimously denied her appeal.

If Moses is found not guilty by reason of insanity, she will be committed to a state mental hospital, but could be released within a few years. If she is convicted of the charges, she could face a life sentence with the possibility of parole, Chang said.

Moses is scheduled to return to Contra Costa County Superior Court in Martinez on June 25 at 8:30 a.m.

Julie Carr Arrested for Sexually Abusing her own Child

Detectives in Britain teamed up with U.S. federal officers and cops in Maine to quickly track down and arrest a woman who allegedly used a webcam to stream video of her sexually abusing her own young child.

The international dragnet resulted in the arrest of Julie Carr, 30, in Mars Hill, Maine, Friday. Carr, who, in her mug shot was wearing a shirt with the logo "Bad Angel" on the front and had tattoos on both of her arms, is being held in lieu of $50,000 cash bail.

Carr was arrested after a tip went to police in Humberside County in England about a man who may have been involved with child pornography.

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Emanuel Dewayne Dodson Wanted for Killing 2-year-old

Las Vegas police say they are searching for a 28-year-old man suspected of abusing and killing his girlfriend's 2-year-old child.

Authorities said Monday that officers found the child dead Sunday morning in a neighborhood east of the Las Vegas Strip after the child's mother called authorities.

Police say the mother described her child as unresponsive when she called.

Authorities say they believe Emanuel Dewayne Dodson may have gone to the Los Angeles area, where he is from.

Thomas Reynolds Jr Pleads Guilty to Sexually Assaulting 2 Boys

A 50-year-old Westampton man pleaded guilty Monday to sexually assaulting two boys and inappropriately touching a third over the course of several years.

Thomas R. Reynolds Jr. of Lawrence Drive faces state prison when sentenced in September for two counts of sexual assault and a count of endangering the welfare of a child. He entered the plea before Superior Court Judge Patricia R. LeBon.

Reynolds, a former service clerk for a transportation company, admitted that he abused one boy from 2002 to 2006, starting when the child was 11. He also acknowledged assaulting another boy over a two-year period from May 2001 to August 2003, starting when the child was 15.

Reynolds admitted touching another boy for several months in 2006, when the child had just turned 15. He acknowledged he touched all the boys for his own sexual gratification. All the contact occurred in Pemberton Township.

Reynolds’ sentence will be determined after he is evaluated at the state’s Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center, a state prison that evaluates and treats sex offenders in custody.

Advertisement If professionals find Reynolds’ behavior is “compulsive and repetitive,” if he is amenable to treatment, and if he is willing to participate in treatment, LeBon will sentence him to seven years, to be served at the center, according to the plea agreement.

If his behavior is not compulsive and repetitive or if he is unwilling to be treated, he will receive a 10-year sentence, to be served in another state prison, Assistant Prosecutor Kevin Morgan said.

Regardless of the custodial part of his sentence, Reynolds will have to register as a sex offender under Megan’s Law and be on parole supervision for life after his release, according to the plea deal. Conditions of that parole could restrict where he is allowed to live, work and travel, among other things, LeBon said.

If he is found to be a “sexually violent” predator, he could be civilly committed for life.

Jamie Overstreet Sentenced to 20 Years for Making Child Porn

A Huntington man is headed to federal prison for producing, possessing and trafficking in child pornography.

29-year-old Jamie Overstreet was sentenced to 20 years in prison during a hearing in U.S. District Court in Huntington on Monday.

Back in December, Overstreet pleaded guilty of the charges.

Prosecutors say the conviction stems from an investigation in California of a person suspected of possessing child pornography and sharing it with Overstreet.

Authorities in West Virginia searched Overstreet's residence.

Prosecutors say it was clear that Overstreet was involved in a nationwide ring of individuals engaged in the sexual abuse of children, and the production and trafficking in child pornography.

Investigators found hundreds of images and videos of pre-pubescent minors engaged in sexual activity on Overstreet's computer. Many of these images and videos were produced by Overstreet

Jeremy 'Jay' Semprebon Charged with Possession of Child Porn

Jeremy "Jay" Semprebon was in possession of more than a hundred images of child pornography when detectives raided his personal computer last fall, say police.

As a result, the 40-year-old former AIDS Response-Seacoast counselor and registered sex offender has been indicted by a Rockingham County grand jury on 17 new counts of possession of child

Semprebon has been incarcerated at the Rockingham County House of Corrections since his August 2008 arrest in which he was charged with and indicted on felony counts of "prohibition from child care services of persons convicted of certain offenses."

Those charges allege Semprebon failed to disclose his sex-offender status before counseling minors at Seacoast Outright, while acting as an agent of AIDS Response Seacoast.

Police allege he had contact with minors during his course of employment with AIDS Response Seacoast, despite a court order to not have contact with children. He is alleged to have begun working as a youth coordinator for the nonprofit in the summer of 2007 and did not disclose his sex-offender status when he was hired.

As part of his job, Semprebon was sent to other nonprofits and worked with both adults and minors.

The former Rye resident is a registered sex offender on New Hampshire's public list, having been convicted in 1995 in Strafford County of aggravated felonious sexual assault on a 5-year-old child.

The latest charges stem from a search warrant obtained by local police detectives during the course of investigation into his employment status last fall, according to Detective Kristyn Bernier.

Bernier said the investigation revealed that Semprebon had made his way onto various social networking sites and because of that police were concerned he was trying to look for more victims.

"We were concerned that there might be more victims out there," said Bernier.

When detectives obtained a search warrant for his computer looking for his history on the social networking site, Bernier said they discovered some pictures deemed as "child sexual assault images."

After obtaining an addendum to the search warrant, Bernier said detectives stumbled upon more than 100 images of prepubescent males undressed and exploited.

Bernier said although detectives were unable to pinpoint the exact identity of the victims, it was clear that many of them were of young boys. Some of the images were of the same children, while many of them were of a variety of different victims.

Authorities are unsure of the source of the images, but Bernier said they could have been downloaded by Semprebon, obtained through peer-to-peer networking, e-mailed or taken by himself.

The detective said police have forwarded the images to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children for evaluation and in an effort to locate the children depicted.

An indictment is not an indication of guilt; rather it means a grand jury has found sufficient evidence to warrant a trial.

Operation Viking Busts Child Porn Distribution

Police in Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark on Tuesday raided the homes of 81 people suspected of downloading and spreading child pornography on the internet.

In the joint operation, police seized computers and other equipment believed to contain photos and films of sexual assaults against children. In Finland, police targeted 23 homes in 14 municipalities.

“The raids were made across Finland. Police detained suspects and seized computers in small towns as well as in the capital city region,” says Mika Ihaksinen of Finland's National Bureau of Investigation.

Ihaksinen says the suspects were all members of the same file-sharing site. That said, police say there is no evidence to indicate that the suspects were involved in an organised child porn ring. Police, however, say the suspects were well aware of the nature of the material they were accessing, as downloading times sometimes spanned several days.

Police agencies in the four countries have been gathering evidence since May against people suspected of downloading and distributing illegal child pornography through file-sharing sites. Danish authorities have led the investigation.

Authorities are now tracing the source of the pornographic material, which they say may be linked to human trafficking.

The exact number of arrests in the crackdown dubbed "Operation Viking" is not known.

Queens Baker Issac Ebstein Arrested for Molesting 10-year-old

A Queens baker who admitted molesting a 10-year-old boy isn't going to prison - but he's been booted from the kitchen.

The Rabbinical Council of Queens banned Issac Ebstein, 50, from Queens Kosher Pita in Kew Gardens Hills after he pleaded guilty to luring the boy with cookies and abusing him in 2002.

The council told Ebstein, 50, he had to divest himself of ownership because he was convicted of a "crime of moral turpitude" - or the shop would lose kosher certification.

A council spokesman declined to comment, but a source said Ebstein agreed. Ebstein's victim confronted him in court Tuesday, describing how he turned to drugs to mask his secret pain.

"I've been wanting to do this since the day this happened," the boy, now 17, told Ebstein, who hung his head in shame.

"The pain that I've been through, words can't describe it. You ruined my life. It's not fair. It's not right." He listed the ways the abuse had destroyed his young life: "I lost my respect for religion, use of drugs, loss of self respect."

"If you have done this to anybody else, tell someone. Let the kids get help," the teen added. "I'm sorry," the defendant said.

The abuse came to light when the victim approached Rabbi Yakov Horowitz, a child abuse advocate who works with the Orthodox Jewish community and urged him to go to authorities.

Ebstein is getting a year's probation for attempted sexual abuse and attempted child endangerment.

He was released without bail and does not have to register as a sexual predator as long as he completes a year of counseling and monitoring.

Prosecutors said the deal spared the victim from testifying about his ordeal.
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