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Registered Sex Offender In Maryland To Get Prison Time For Coercing Teens Online: Feds Registered Sex Offender In Maryland To Get Prison Time For Coercing Teens Online: Feds
Registered Sex Offender In Maryland To Get Prison Time For Coercing Teens Online: Feds A previously convicted sex offender is facing up to 50 years in prison following a three-day trial for attempting to coerce teen girls sexual activities, authorities announced. Werth was convicted of two counts of production of child pornography and for coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity, as well as committing a crime involving a minor by a registered sex offender. According to prosecutors, between January and June 2021, Werth persuaded, enticed, and coerced two underage girls to engage in sexually explicit conduct by producing child porn that was then…
Navy Service Member From VA Staying In MD Hotel Sentenced For Sexual Contact With Minor: Feds Navy Service Member From VA Staying In MD Hotel Sentenced For Sexual Contact With Minor: Feds
Navy Service Member From VA Staying In MD Hotel Sentenced For Sexual Contact With Minor: Feds A US Navy service member from Virginia will spend years in prison and will register as a sex offender for targeting an underage girl through social media in Maryland, federal authorities announced. Virginia Beach resident Delvon Lashawn Redd, 30, has been sentenced to 78 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release, after pleading guilty to abusive sexual contact with a minor, according to a judge on Wednesday, Feb. 7. According to his guilty plea, between April 17 and May 28, 2022, Redd, a serviceman staying at the Naval Lodge Hotel at the US Naval Air Station Patuxent Riv…
Maryland Man Who Paid To Livestream Child Porn From Overseas Heading To Prison: Feds Maryland Man Who Paid To Livestream Child Porn From Overseas Heading To Prison: Feds
Maryland Man Who Paid To Livestream Child Porn From Overseas Heading To Prison: Feds The 62-year-old Maryland man who paid to have child porn livestreamed from the Philippines and Madagascar has been sentenced after being busted by investigators. Severn native Carey Lee Sackmann has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison after admitting to "the coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in unlawful sexual activity in connection to his online sexual exploitation of multiple underage victims overseas," federal officials said. According to his guilty plea, beginning in 2015, Sackmann would join video chats with facilitators overseas who exploited minor children in…
Sex Trafficker Who Terrorized Women In MD Gets Federal Prison Time Sex Trafficker Who Terrorized Women In MD Gets Federal Prison Time
Sex Trafficker Who Terrorized Women In MD Gets Federal Prison Time A sex trafficker in Anne Arundel County will have years to ponder his horrendous mistakes after being sentenced to nearly two decades in prison, federal authorities announced. Benjamin Lawton, 42, of Glen Burnie, was sentenced to 19 years behind bars followed by 25 years of supervised release for using eight women to work for him as part of a prostitution business he was running. According to court documents, beginning in 2020, Lawton recruited, enticed, transported, and advertised several women by force, threats of force, or coercion into working as prostitutes.  During the operation…
Shamer Sentenced For Sharing, Collecting Child Porn In MD Shamer Sentenced For Sharing, Collecting Child Porn In MD
Shamer Sentenced For Sharing, Collecting Child Porn In MD Officials say that a 21-year-old Pasadena man with peculiar sexual proclivities will spend years behind bars for collecting and discussing child porn depicting toddlers getting sexually abused. Raymond Martin Shamer III was sentenced to 50 months in prison, followed by 45 years of supervised release for the possession and distribution of child pornography over the course of several months while he was still a teenager. Shamer admitted that between July 2019 and late June 2020, he took to the Internet to talk about, distribute, and collect child porn, some of which showed adults sexually abu…
Convicted Sex Offender Admits To Sexually Abusing Minors Over 13 Years In Maryland Convicted Sex Offender Admits To Sexually Abusing Minors Over 13 Years In Maryland
Convicted Sex Offender Admits To Sexually Abusing Minors Over 13 Years In Maryland A previously convicted sex offender in Maryland is facing decades in prison after admitting to recording himself sexually abusing minors over the course of more than 13 years. Baltimore resident Garnell Eugene Graves, 58, pleaded guilty in federal court to four counts of sexual exploitation of a child in relation to the sexual abuse of five minor victims, federal prosecutors announced. As part of his plea, Graves admitted that between 2007 and 2020, he abused minors between the ages of 6 and 13 years old. Beginning in 2007, Graves frequently sexually abused a minor until she was 13 years …
Former Bethesda Teacher, Rowing Coach Admits Sexually Abusing Students Former Bethesda Teacher, Rowing Coach Admits Sexually Abusing Students
Former Bethesda Teacher, Rowing Coach Admits Sexually Abusing Students A former Bethesda teacher and girls' rowing coach has confessed to sexually abusing two teen girls — one of whom was a student, officials say. Kirkland Shipley, 48, pleaded guilty to first-degree sexual abuse of a secondary education student and possession of a sexual performance by a minor on Friday, June 3, according to the Department of Justice. Shipley was arrested for sexually abusing at least two minors on Aug. 21, 2021. At the time of the abuse he was the girls' head coach as well as their History teacher. The first known victim was abused by Shipley from 2009-2013. Shipley began c…
Silver Spring Man Gets Time In Fed Pen For International Child Porn Case Silver Spring Man Gets Time In Fed Pen For International Child Porn Case
Silver Spring Man Gets Time In Fed Pen For International Child Porn Case A Silver Spring man who paid for and solicited international production of child pornography has been sentenced to federal prison, authorities say. Patrick Lawrence Wood, 35, pleaded guilty after he admitted to paying co-conspirators in the Philippines to produce child pornography with sexually explicit images and videos of children under 12. Wood was sentenced to 17 years in federal prison Thursday, May 26, according to the United State's Attorney's Office.  Wood used social media and various digital money transfer services to solicit and pay for the child pornography. After Wood requ…
Maryland Man Who Posed As Teenage Boy To Sleep With Young Girls Facing Life In Prison Maryland Man Who Posed As Teenage Boy To Sleep With Young Girls Facing Life In Prison
Maryland Man Who Posed As Teenage Boy To Sleep With Young Girls Facing Life In Prison An Easton man who posed as a teenage boy to trick minor girls is facing a maximum life sentence after pleading guilty to illegal sex-related charges, authorities say. Angel Gabriel Arroyo-Angelino “Arroyo," 34, posed as a 16-year-old named "Elias Garcia" to convince minors to send sexually explicit videos and pictures to him over social media from 2017 to 2018, according to the United States Attorney's Office of the District of Maryland.  During this time, Arroyo depicted himself as a teenage boy to manipulate his victims and make romantic overtures, the office reports.  Des…
Queens Livery Driver Who Travelled To Cape May For Sex With Underage Girl Gets 19½ Years Queens Livery Driver Who Travelled To Cape May For Sex With Underage Girl Gets 19½ Years
Queens Livery Driver Who Travelled To Cape May For Sex With Underage Girl Gets 19½ Years A livery driver who traveled more than 300 miles roundtrip between his Queens home and Cape May for sex with an underage girl was sentenced to 19½ years in federal prison. Richard Gabriel Piedra Ordonez, 37, must serve out just about all of the plea-bargained sentence because there’s no parole in the federal prison system. Piedra pretended to be 19 when he began communicating with the under-16 girl on Snapchat and other social media and messaging platforms, U.S. Attorney Phillip Sellinger said. Over the next several months, by his own admission, Piedra drove to New Jersey for sex and twice…
PA Man On Probation Busted With Child Porn, Authorities Say PA Man On Probation Busted With Child Porn, Authorities Say
PA Man On Probation Busted With Child Porn, Authorities Say A 36-year-old man on probation for promoting child pornography in Maryland two years ago was arrested again on similar offenses in Pennsylvania, authorities said. Eric Albitz, of Upper Pottsgrove, PA, had 37 pictures and videos of child pornography on his cell phone of girls as young as 8 years old, they said. Detectives with the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office found the content during a warranted search of his Snyder Road home in Jan. 2022 after they had linked his IP address to a Snapchat account that had uploaded a video of suspected child abuse in Sept. 2021. The investiga…
Sex Offender Admits Having Photos Of Infants Being Sexually Abused, Child Porn: Feds Sex Offender Admits Having Photos Of Infants Being Sexually Abused, Child Porn: Feds
Sex Offender Admits Having Photos Of Infants Being Sexually Abused, Child Porn: Feds A convicted sex offender from Maryland has pleaded guilty to possessing nearly 500 pictures of child pornography, according to officials. Jade Wade Harley, 49, of Frederick, made the guilty plea on Jan. 7, it was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Erek L. Barron. According to Harley's plea agreement, on Feb. 24, 2020, four suspected child pornographic images were uploaded to the internet. Investigators later executed a search warrant at his home where they located a SIM card within a cell phone that contained two videos of children engaging in sexually explicit…