Crimes Against Children

Fifteen former detainees sued Spokane County in October 2025 over alleged guard abuse at the juvenile detention center from 1983 to 2010. The named officers are dead. The county is…

Pakistan's NCCIA raided a Muzaffargarh studio on May 23, 2025, after Interpol and NCMEC tips. Officials say a German national left before the raid. More than 50 children were identified…

A Sharp County jury convicted former Hardy Police Chief Scott Rose on August 28, 2026, of second-degree sexual assault and furnishing alcohol to a minor. He was fined $15,000 on…

A Decatur County grand jury indicted former Climax Mayor Joseph Melvin Kelly on five child molestation counts, enticing a child, and violation of oath. He resigned June 2, 2025. No…

Cody and Kylie Scott each pleaded guilty on March 6, 2026, to one count of neglect of a dependent after forcing a 6-year-old to stand outside in 18-degree weather holding…

JetBlue pilot Jeremy Gudorf was pulled off a Boston-to-Paris pairing after CBP flagged a Huntersville child-exploitation warrant. He died in Revere on March 7, 2025, as a fugitive team moved…

Retta Cruse, 38, was found unresponsive on February 21, 2025, at the Arizona State Prison Complex-Perryville. She was serving consecutive life terms after pleading guilty to murdering Aleyah McIntyre, 9,…

Ross Lanvin, a math teacher at MS 256 Lafayette Academy, was arrested February 13, 2025, after Google reported a fake-name account to NCMEC. Prosecutors say devices in his apartment held…

A Will County jury convicted Joseph Czuba of murder and hate crimes in the October 2023 stabbing of Wadee Alfayoumi and the attack on the boy's mother. He received 53…

After 17 years as a fugitive in Mexico, Galo Herrera pleaded guilty to first-degree rape in Westchester County and was sentenced on October 31, 2025, to 18 years in prison…