Crime Watch

Alabama televangelist Paul Acton Bowen pleaded guilty to sexually abusing six teenage boys. A judge stacked the counts. He is not eligible until the year 2980.

Burbank nanny Travis Elconin produced child sexual abuse material with children in his care. A federal judge sentenced him to 30 years and lifetime supervision.

An 11-year-old in Trentola Ducenta secretly recorded Father Michele Mottola abusing her. The phone files did what the adults around her would not: they forced an arrest.

A 38-country task force arrested 337 people tied to Welcome to Video, a Bitcoin-paywalled dark-web abuse site. The operator, Jong Woo Son, served 18 months in South Korea.

Anonymous and The AEGIS Alliance exposed the Farmington double murder. Timothy Verrill was convicted in 2024 of two counts of second-degree murder and sentenced to 90 years to life.

The Berling family says Brevard County overcharged Dalton after a high-school relationship. Florida's Romeo and Juliet law and the public court record are the facts to check.

German police dismantled Elysium, a darknet forum with 87,000 members trading child-abuse material. Operators were jailed in 2019. Kidflix, with nearly two million users, was taken down in 2025.