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Politics
Accused Pelosi Laptop Thief's Dad Convicted Of Child Abuse Year After Daughter's DC Conviction
The father of a Pennsylvania woman who was accused of stealing Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's laptop was convicted of sexually abusing a girl on Wednesday, Oct. 30 — just two days after the trial began, according to court documents and the Dauphin County District Attorney's office. Rickey Williams, 55, — a security guard from Dauphin County — touched the girl when she was between the ages of 8 and 18. Judge William T. presided over the trial. She came forward about the abuse within two weeks after police allegedly caught him soliciting a video of a 14-ye…
Police & Fire
Ex-Boston Children's Anesthesiologist Traded Child Rape Videos In Messages: Court Docs
Federal investigators said a former anesthesiologist fellow at Boston Children's Hospital traded child pornography on a messaging app to get access to other videos and photos of children as young as infants being sexually abused by adults. Christopher Sheerer, 35, of Boston, is charged with one count of distribution of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography, Homeland Security investigators said. Sheerer was previously a cardiac anesthesiology fellow at Johns Hopkins Children's Center and attended Albright University in Reading, Pennsylvania, a…
Police & Fire
Mass. Man Caught Watching Child Porn On Plane, Arranging To Have Sex With 5-Year-Old: DA
A 74-year-old passenger aboard a JetBlue flight was caught by someone sitting near him exchanging child sexual abuse material of children as young as toddlers and having text conversations on how much it would cost to rape them, authorities said. Jed Cohen, 74, of Dartmouth, is charged with possession of child pornography, disseminating photographs of sexual or intimate parts of a child, and paying for sexual conduct with a child under 18, the Suffolk County District Attorney said. A judge ordered him held on a $10,000 bond. He must wear a GPS-monitoring device and remain i…
Police & Fire
Mass. Sex Offender Guilty Of Indecent Assault On Child Last Year Charged Again With Child Porn
A 33-year-old Cape Cod level-three sex offender who was convicted last year on multiple charges including indecent assault on a minor and child porn now faces more charges, authorities said. Anthony Argo, 33, of Orleans, is charged with possession of child sexual abuse material, the US Attorney for Massachusetts said. Police identified Argo on a chat application expressing sexual interest in minors and sharing child sexual abuse material, the prosecutor said. When officers searched his home, they found an SD card containing more than 100 videos of child pornography. …
Police & Fire
'Incredibly Dangerous' Registered Chelsea Sex Offender Gets 10 Years For Child Porn
A registered sex offender with a history of sexual abuse will spend a decade in prison after he admitted to having hundreds of images and videos of child sexual abuse material, federal authorities said. Lasall Johnson, 55, pleaded guilty to one count of possession of child pornography in March and was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison on Thursday, June 6, the US Attorney for Massachusetts said. He will serve five years of probation after he is released. Investigators arrested Johnson after agents traced his IP address from a peer-to-peer file-sharing site where large amounts of …