Crimes Against Children

Arizona DCS had the Tempe family on file since 2008 before Melony Granados, a disabled 13-year-old, died after being confined in a filthy bunk-bed cage. Her grandmother died in jail.…

A senior compliance specialist told FinCEN that Visa and Mastercard were warned as early as 2021 that OnlyFans charges included child sexual abuse material. Both companies deny it. The complaint…

New owners renovating an Orangevale outbuilding found Polaroids and tapes hidden in the walls. Theodore Smith received 100 years. James Smith received 23 years to life.

St. Petersburg physician Stephen Andrew Leedy is charged with producing child sexual abuse material and enticing minors. He is presumed innocent. The Florida medical board already suspended his license.

Investigators in Tift County are being asked to treat boiling water on a sleeping child as a child-injury case, not a joke that got out of hand.

Frank Gervasi's search and public tips ended a 25-day disappearance. Prosecutors later charged 23 people in two states. The AEGIS Alliance is not treating the rescue as the end of…

David Lane Braff Jr., arrested November 22, 2024, as an assistant principal, is accused of crimes against children while a counselor at McKevett Elementary in Santa Paula. A Ventura County…

Matthew Turner Vereen was arrested August 21, 2024, after South Carolina's ICAC task force found child sexual abuse material on his laptop. In September 2025 he pleaded guilty to one…

Investigator John Cary matched Gerardo Aguilar to Gerardo Mulato of Forest Park, Ohio. DNA confirmed the 1991 Foxdale Loop shooter was the man FBI agents killed during a 2007 drug…

Judge Charissa Liller called Shane and Crystal Robertson two of the worst parents she had ever seen after they pleaded guilty to locking food away from seven children in a…