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Man Who Abused 14-Year-Old Victim In Maryland Ordered To Register As Lifetime Sex Offender
A grown man who sexually abused a teenager will spend nearly a decade in prison, according to the Frederick County State's Attorney's Office. Jose Nelson Guerra-Sanchez was sentenced to 25 years with all but nine years suspended for the sexual abuse of a minor, authorities announced on Monday afternoon. On Valentine's Day last year, a Frederick Police Department detective responded to a call for a delayed report of sexual abuse, and after a forensic interview at the Child Advocacy Center, it was determined that Guerra-Sanchez sexually abused his victim when they were 14 and he was…
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MD Sex Assault Victim's Mom Leads Cops To Concerning Social Media Post, Officials Say
A man will have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life following a near two-decade prison term for sexually assaulting a minor, the Frederick County State's Attorney's Office announced on Monday afternoon. Nicholas Wayne Summers has been sentenced to 40 years in prison, with all but 19 suspended, after admitting to two counts of second-degree rape following an investigation that was launched last year, officials say. In May 2023, investigators from the Frederick County Sheriff's Office received a report of a sexual assault of a minor that had previously taken place. Accordi…
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Sex-Seeking Man Busted By Agent Posing As Teen Girl Sentenced For Solicitation In Maryland
A 51-year-old Howard County man who sent salacious texts to an undercover officer posing as a teen girl in Frederick County has been sentenced after admitting to soliciting a minor online, authorities announced. Scott Paul Locastro, of West Friendship, has been ordered to serve two years behind bars after pleading guilty to one count of sexual solicitation of a minor dating back to an investigation earlier this year. According to the Frederick County State's Attorney's Office, on Wednesday, Jan. 3, a deputy from the Frederick County Sheriff's Office launched an investigation posing as a 13-…
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Hummad Siddiqui Sentenced For Child Porn Charges
A man who was caught with child porn depicting men sexually abusing prepubescent girls will spend years in prison, the Montgomery County State's Attorney's Office announced on Friday. Germantown resident Hummad Siddiqui, 35, was sentenced on Friday, April 5 to 64 years in prison, with all but 18 years suspended, after being caught in 2022 with dozens of troubling photos and videos featuring underage girls. Siddiqui became the center of an investigation following cyber tips from Google to the Montgomery County Police Department, they said. Siddiqui’s internet activity that were reported…
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'Father-Figure' From MD Who Repeatedly Raped, Abused Girl Under His Care Gets Life In Prison
A man who repeatedly raped and sexually abused a young girl he helped raise in Maryland has been sentenced to life in prison, federal authorities in DC announced on Wednesday. Waldorf resident Charles Clark, 67, was sentenced on April 3 for sexually abusing a child who was entrusted to his care hundreds of times over the course of several years. According to court documents, beginning in June 2017, Clark targeted a child under the age of 17, subjecting the girl to repeated rape and sexual abuse for five years. Despite being a “father-figure” to this girl, and despite having helped ra…
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District Man Busted With Toddler Torture Porn In Southeast Heading To Prison: Feds
A District man who collected images and videos of child porn - some of which depicted the rape and torture of children as young as toddlers - will spend years in prison, federal authorities announced. Southeast DC resident Donte Mintz, 30, has been sentenced to 72 months in prison after pleading guilty last summer to attempted receipt of child pornography, which was accepted by a judge on Tuesday, April 2. According to court documents, Mintz possessed, received, and distributed child pornography in October 2020, which was flagged by an employee at Dropbox, who tipped off the…
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Maryland Who Sexually Abused 8-Year-Old Child In DC Facing Life In Prison: Feds
A 42-year-old Maryland woman is facing life in prison and will have to register as a sex offender for the rest of her life for sexually abusing the 8-year-old child of what federal prosecutors described as a "close family friend." Griselda Martinez-Moz was convicted on Thursday on multiple counts of first-degree child sexual abuse with aggravating circumstances following a seven-day trial in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia Prosecutors say that "on two occasions in 2015 and 2016, Martinez-Moz sexually abused a child who was eight years old at the time. A close friend of …
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Man Who Raped Young Girl In MD Gets Prison Time, Must Register As Lifetime Sex Offender: Judge
A Frederick man will spend years in prison for raping a 12-year-old child who ran away from home, the State's Attorney's Office announced. Jonatan Daniel Corado-Moscoso was sentenced this week to 20 years in prison, with all but seven suspended, and will have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life following the investigation into a sexual assault in 2022. In January 2022, officials say that the child ran away from home, and when located by Frederick Police investigators, it was disclosed that she was being sexually abused by Corado-Moscoso. A forensic investigation con…
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Man Who Climbed Into Child's Bed In Maryland To Get New Bunkmates In Prison: Feds
Jose Alexander Diaz-Rodriguez will spend years in prison after he admitted to breaking into his neighbor’s Frederick County home and climbing into bed with an 8-year-old girl. The 23-year-old Thurmont resident has been sentenced to 18 years in federal prison after pleading guilty earlier this year to sexual exploitation of a child for taking explicit photographs with his neighbor’s daughter, federal authorities announced. According to court documents, in July 2021, Diaz-Rodriguez broke into the home and went into a bedroom where two young girls were sleeping. He then got into bed …
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Babysitter Who Forced Children Into Sex Acts In DC Heading To Prison
A 35-year-old predator who sexually abused children he was tasked with babysitting in Washington, DC will spend nearly two decades in prison. District resident David Geddie was sentenced to 19 years in prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release for repeatedly sexually abusing children under the age of 12, federal authorities announced on Friday. Prosecutors say that over the course of several months in 2021, Geddie acted as a babysitter for two 6 year olds and an 11 year old, who he preyed upon while taking care of them. According to court documents, during that time, Geddie forc…
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Convicted MoCo Sex Offender Uploaded Self-Made Child Porn To Google: Feds
A 41-year-old convicted sex offender from Washington DC was indicted after he was caught uploading footage of himself sexually abusing a young girl to Google, federal authorities said. Michael Humphrey was indicted Tuesday, Sept. 5, in U.S. District Court on charges of sexual exploitation of a child, first degree child sexual abuse with aggravating circumstances, and transportation and possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves said. Google LLC told the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) that two Google accounts, later identified as Humphre…
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DC Police Officer Convicted Of Raping 9-Year-Old Girl For Years
A 29-year-old former DC Metro police officer was convicted of sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl for years. A jury Washington DC jury found Charles Johnson guilty of several counts of at least five different sex abuse charges, U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves said. Johnson forced the girl to perform sex acts on him multiple times between November 2019 and September 2021, according to evidence and testimony presented at trial. Johnson, who was working as a DC police officer at the time, was living in the home with the victim and took advantage of her on multiple occasions when h…
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Rapist Who Lured Teen With Booze To MD Home Gets Time For Sexual Assault: State's Attorney
The 40-year-old Maryland man who lured his teen neighbor to his Harford County home and plied her with alcohol before sexually assaulting her will spend years behind bars, authorities announced. Forest Hill resident Steven Jay Friedman has been sentenced to 30 years in prison with all but 18 suspended after being convicted earlier this year on rape and other charges in January. A jury found Friedman complicit in supplying a 16-year-old girl with alcohol before sexually assaulting her in February last year. Specifically, Friedman was convicted of and sentenced for: Second-degre…
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Pervy Passenger Gets Life For Raping, Robbing Woman Who Gave Him A Ride In MD: State's Attorney
The man who raped and tortured a driver during a harrowing ride in Maryland will likely spend the rest of his life behind bars. Devon Allen Odell Scott, 40, of Edgewood, was sentenced to life plus 50 years in prison after being convicted earlier this year on rape and robbery charges, the Harford County State’s Attorney announced. The traumatic trip played out when Scott flagged down his 28-year-old victim - who sometimes worked as an unlicensed taxi driver for extra cash - in Baltimore and asked for a ride to the Edgewood area in August 2019, though he would not commit to a specific h…
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Predator Posing As Young Girl Online To Terrorize 10-Year-Old Gets Prison Time
A grown man from DC who pretended to be a child online to sexually abuse a 10-year-old girl who he later blackmailed will spend decades behind bars, federal officials announced. District resident Christopher Young, 31, was sentenced to 26 years in prison after pleading guilty to sexual exploitation of a minor and child sexual abuse for terrorizing a 10-year-old girl in 2019. Prosecutors said that in June 2019, Young used a messaging app to approach a 10-year-old girl, posing as a child himself. In the messages he exchanged with his minor victim, Young blackmailed her for the purpose of se…
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'Where's My Gun?' Felon In Maryland Sentenced For Possessing Weapon, Producing Child Porn: DOJ
A convicted felon in Maryland will spend years behind bars after being caught with an illegal handgun and child pornography that was produced without his victim’s knowledge, federal officials announced. US District Judge George L. Russell, III sentenced Edgewood resident Travis Joseph Crawford, 34, to 15 years in federal prison, followed by 25 years of supervised release, for sexual exploitation of a child to produce child pornography and for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. According to the plea agreement, in November 2020, Harford County Sheriff’s deputies responde…
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Sexual Abuser Sentenced For Raping Stepdaughter In Maryland: State's Attorney
A 37-year-old man will spend more than a decade in prison and must register as a sex offender for life in Maryland for sexually abusing a family member in Calvert County, the state's attorney announced. Lusby resident Ryan Christopher Carpenter has been sentenced to 14 years in prison following his conviction of second-degree rape involving his stepdaughter. In November 2021, Carpenter’s victim came forward to her school guidance counselor that she had been sexually abused by her stepfather, prosecutors said. The subsequent investigation by Child Protective Services (CPS) and the Calvert C…
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Convicted Sex Offender Admits To New Federal Child Porn Charges In Maryland
A 34-year-old convicted sex offender in Maryland will spend at least a decade behind bars after being busted on federal charges for possession of child pornography. August Candeloro III - also known as “Nick” - who was previously convicted of a sex offense involving a 13-year-old victim in Howard County, pleaded guilty in federal court to the new child porn charge, prosecutors announced. Beginning in 2019, Candeloro began using a messaging application to send images depicting the sexual abuse of children, officials said. After additional investigation, law enforcement agents executed …
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Maryland Man Admits Paying Social Media Users In Philippines To Produce Child Porn, Feds Say
A man from Maryland has pleaded guilty to helping produce child pornography that was made overseas, federal officials announced. Patrick Wood, 35, of Silver Spring, admitted to using social media to pay social media users in the Philippines to collect pornographic images of children, U.S. District Attorney of Maryland Erek Barron said. The images and videos depict at least five children, male and female, under the age of 12 engaging in sexually explicit behavior per Wood’s request, court documents say. In addition, more content was found depicting at least eight minor male victims…
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Ex-Movie Lawyer From MD Sentenced For Raping Woman He Met On 'Sugar Daddy' Website
The former top lawyer for the Motion Picture Association of America has been sentenced to about a year in prison for sexually abusing and blackmailing a woman he met through a "sugar daddy" dating website, according to Reuters. Steven Fabrizio, 58, of Chevy Chase, Maryland, pleaded guilty on July 30, 2021, to one count each of blackmail and third-degree sexual abuse, according to Attorney Matthew M. Graves and Robert J. Contee III, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). He was sentenced to a total of 30 months behind bars on Jan. 7 by a Washington DC Superior Court judge. H…
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