Crimes Against Children

The 2021 Operation Reclaim and Rebuild week produced about 450 arrests and 39 rescues, including 13 children. In January 2026 Sheriff Robert Luna separated the week's 611 arrests into 71…

Riverside County's 2021 piece of Operation Reclaim and Rebuild was four days of decoy ads: 64 arrests, almost all for solicitation, and two women rescued. The 2025 county list named…

Joshua Paul Jennings, who posted #SaveOurChildren weeks earlier, was convicted of murdering 10-month-old Paisley Louise Cearley in Yukon. A jury recommended life without parole, and Oklahoma's appeals court affirmed in…

Jennifer Araoz sued Ghislaine Maxwell in September 2020 under New York's Child Victims Act. Maxwell is serving 20 years after Judge Paul Engelmayer rejected her habeas petition as frivolous.

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

Sheriff Grady Judd's Computer Crimes unit charged 16 men, among them Millennium Falcon operator Justin Hazan and Animal Kingdom food runner Arlandres Sims, after a 2020 child-pornography sweep in Polk…

James Fairbanks emailed Omaha newsrooms to confess the May 14, 2020 killing of twice-convicted child sex offender Mattieo Condoluci. He pleaded no contest to second-degree murder and is eligible for…

Keith Walters, dean at Valdosta State University, was one of 14 men arrested in the GBI's Operation Broken Arrow after investigators said they traveled to meet a child for sex.

Graham De Luis-Conti died three days after Jonathan Watson used a walking cane on two Corcoran inmates serving life for aggravated sexual assault of a child. Watson later confessed, said…

Jonathan Watson confessed to beating David Bobb and Graham De Luis-Conti to death with a cane. The inspector general cleared the staff. No public murder case followed.