Crimes Against Children

A 14-year-old in Okaloosa County hid cameras after no one believed she was being beaten. The footage led to an arrest. A judge later gave her father custody anyway.

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.

Jared Perry, serving 17 years for assaults on infants, was found dead at HMP Parc in Wales. Prison-death investigators treated it as a suicide in custody.

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.

Richard Huckle, one of Britain's worst child-sex offenders, was stabbed to death in his Full Sutton cell. An inquest later examined how a high-risk prisoner was left that exposed.

The FBI warned parents about child sextortion. By 2025 NCMEC logged more than 50,000 financial-sextortion reports a year — 137 a day — mostly targeting teen boys.

Conspiracy of Silence, the 1994 documentary on the Franklin child-abuse scandal, was ordered destroyed. One copy survived. The torrent still circulates with the John DeCamp interview.

Disney music publishing director Jon Heely was charged with three felony counts of child sex abuse. Two juries hung. A judge dismissed the case in October 2019. He was never…