Crimes Against Children

Glenn Sullivan Sr. received 50 years and agreed to surgical castration after pleading guilty to four counts of second-degree rape. Louisiana says it has never performed the procedure and has…

Former York City officer Steven Cugini is charged with raping a 13-month-old and remains free on $200,000 bail. ABC27 reported his trial is set for January 25, 2027. He has…

Former Boulder Swimming coach Jon Beber was sentenced to 42 years to life after a jury convicted him of abusing three teenage athletes. He kept coaching for years after parents…

Ian Watkins survived a 2023 hostage stabbing at HMP Wakefield and was killed there in October 2025. A Leeds jury was discharged in May 2026. The retrial is listed for…

Operation Protect the Innocent arrested 141 people across five California counties in September 2022. The same ICAC task force later reported 341 arrests and 40 children rescued in Operation Firewall.

Sheriff Grady Judd said 17 people, including three Walt Disney World workers, traveled to meet children and met detectives instead. The arrests were national news. The judgments were not.

Sarah Sands was convicted of manslaughter for killing Michael Pleasted, the neighbor who abused her sons under a changed name. The name-change statute for sex offenders has not been commenced.

Corinna Smith poured boiling sugar water over Michael Baines as he slept in Neston. He died five weeks later. Chester Crown Court imposed life with a 12-year minimum and said…

John McKno, jailed for 14 years for sexually abusing five boys at three English boarding schools, choked to death on breakfast at HMP Norwich. A victim said the abuse was…