Crimes Against Children

Riverside County arrested 64 people and rescued two women during the 2021 Operation Reclaim and Rebuild sweep targeting online prostitution and trafficking. The 2026 statewide edition produced 611 arrests and…

Joshua Paul Jennings, a QAnon #SaveOurChildren follower, beat his girlfriend's 10-month-old daughter Paisley Louise Cearley to death in Yukon, Oklahoma. A Canadian County jury convicted him of first-degree murder and…

Jennifer Araoz sued Ghislaine Maxwell under New York's Child Victims Act, alleging Maxwell recruited her at 14 for Jeffrey Epstein. Maxwell was later convicted and is serving 20 years.

Key West police tried to cuff a 64-pound 8-year-old at Gerald Adams Elementary, then booked him on a felony. The charge was dropped. A federal judge dismissed the family's civil-rights…

Polk County's Operation Guardians of Innocence V arrested 16 men on 1,409 child-pornography counts, including two Disney World employees. Sheriff Grady Judd said many victims were infants.

James Fairbanks, an Omaha public-school employee, confessed to shooting twice-convicted child sex offender Mattieo Condoluci. He pleaded no contest to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 40 to 70 years.

Fourteen men, including Valdosta State University dean Keith Walters, were arrested in Georgia's Operation Broken Arrow after traveling to meet children for sex.

Graham De Luis-Conti died three days after Jonathan Watson used a walking cane on two Corcoran inmates serving life for raping a child under 14. Watson later confessed and said…

Jonathan Watson used a cane to kill two Corcoran inmates serving life for child sexual assault. He had warned staff he was about to explode. Nobody was disciplined.

Denise George sued Epstein's estate for trafficking girls to Little St. James as late as 2018. The Virgin Islands later took more than $105 million. Maxwell is still in prison.