Amish Beard Cutting Attacks: Defendants Plead Not Guilty
Twelve members of an Amish splinter group in Ohio pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges stemming from a spate of beard- and hair-cutting assaults last fall on other Amish. The 10 men and two women were indicted on seven counts, including federal hate crime charges, for their part in the unusual attacks, which began [...]
Teacher, 40, ‘had six-month sexual relationship with student, 14, after wooing him on Words with Friends and Facebook chat’
A teacher is accused of having a six-month sexual relationship with a 14-year-old student which started through the smart phone game Words with Friends, text messages and Facebook chats. Granada High School math teacher Marie Johnson, 40, from Livermore, California, was arrested and booked on 24 counts of sexual assault charges on Wednesday. Authorities believe [...]
Pamela Joan Rogers a former elementary school physical education teacher, had a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old boy
Pamela Rogers just couldn’t stay away from the 13-year-old boy she was accused of having sex with. After serving 9 months in jail, she was arrested a second time in 2006 for contacting the boy and sending him sexually explicit texts, photos, and videos of herself. Read more: WikiPedia
Texas Mom Accused of Sending Nude Pics to Minor
Texas mother Lori Darling David is facing charges for allegedly sending nude pictures of herself to her friend’s 16-year-old son. The 37-year-old is charged with online solicitation of a minor. According to CBS affiliate KHOU, investigators said David used to be jogging buddies with the victim’s mother, and that the victim and David’s son, also [...]
Teacher Charged in Student Sex Case Makes Bail
Illinois high school teacher Ashley Blumenshine has been released on bond after being charged with having sex with a 16-year-old student. The 27-year-old dance teacher was arrested behind a Kohl’s department store in Plainfield, Ill. on Tuesday. Police say they caught her in a car with a 16-year-old boy and determined that they’d had sex [...]
Teacher convicted of having sex with student
Gail Gagne, a 28-year-old former teacher and coach at Cretin-Derham Hall, will have to register as a sex offender and pay a $300 fine after being convicted of having sex with a 16-year-old student. Judge Richard Sherer convicted Gail Gagne of fifth-degree criminal sexual conduct for having sex with the former student and football player [...]
Hate Group: Blood and Honour
Blood & Honour is a neo-Nazi music promotion network and political group founded in 1987 with links to Combat 18 and composed of white power skinheads and other white nationalists. The group organizes white power concerts by Rock Against Communism (RAC) bands and distributes a magazine of the same name. There are official divisions in [...]
Convicted child rapist arrested in attempted Arlington kidnapping
A convicted child rapist is back behind bars for allegedly attempting to snatch a 12-year-old Arlington girl off the street on Sunday. Arlington police say the girl was walking in the 18300 block 31st Ave. NE when 24-year-old Fredrick Thurmond grabbed her and tried to drag her into a nearby wooded area. The girl fought [...]
Female school registrar, 57, charged after ‘having sex in car with boy, 17′
A high school administrator was facing up to 20 years in jail after being reportedly found engaged in a sex act with a 17-year-old boy. Emma Jean Hardy, 57, posted $75,000 bail and was released from jail after being arrested along with the pupil on Sunday evening. Hardy works as a registrar at the Memorial [...]
The Haditha killings
The Haditha killings (also called the Haditha incident or the Haditha massacre) refers to the incident in which 24 Iraqi men, women and children were killed by a group of United States Marines on November 19, 2005 in Haditha, a city in the western Iraqi province of Al Anbar. At least 19 of those killed [...]