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Hagerstown Woman Who Helped Florida Man Sexually Exploit Minors Heading To Prison: Feds Hagerstown Woman Who Helped Florida Man Sexually Exploit Minors Heading To Prison: Feds
Hagerstown Woman Who Helped Florida Man Sexually Exploit Minors Heading To Prison: Feds The Maryland woman who helped facilitate illicit hotel rendezvous involving women and a 76-year-old predator from Florida is going to spend more than a decade in prison, federal authorities announced.  Hagerstown resident Jane Ellen Campbell, 35, has been sentenced to 210 months in federal prison, followed by 15 years of supervised release, for distribution of child pornography related to one of the underage victims who was preyed on by Florida man John Balch.  The Jacksonville native admitted to sexually exploiting six minors between the ages of 3 and 15 years old between 2017 an…

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Maryland Sex Offender Found With Beastiality Images Sentenced For Trying To Target Child: Feds Maryland Sex Offender Found With Beastiality Images Sentenced For Trying To Target Child: Feds
Maryland Sex Offender Found With Beastiality Images Sentenced For Trying To Target Child: Feds A predator from Maryland who already spent years behind bars for preying on minors through his computer is heading back to the Big House after being busted repeating the crime, federal officials announced on Wednesday. Samuel Charles Hardeman, 55, has been sentenced to 18 years in federal prison for the attempted coercion and enticement of a minor after being busted by an undercover police officer, who purported to have a 10-year-old daughter the convict was interested in. Prosecutors say that in December 2022, Hardeman engaged in illicit conversations with an undercover agent, during …

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Predator Who Preyed On Teen Girl Over Social Media In MD Gets Prison Time Predator Who Preyed On Teen Girl Over Social Media In MD Gets Prison Time
Predator Who Preyed On Teen Girl Over Social Media In MD Gets Prison Time The 43-year-old man who solicited a teen online before raping her in Maryland will spend years behind bars, a judge ordered. Joppa resident Edwin Richard Hunt has been sentenced in Frederick County to 40 years in prison with all but 20 suspended after he preyed on a 13-year-old girl over social media, authorities announced. On Friday, Jan. 20, detectives from the Frederick County Police Department's Major Crime Unit were contacted about a teen girl who was solicited and raped by a white man in his 40s who was later identified as Hunt, officials said. Detectives launched an investigation in…

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Man With History Of Sexual Abuse Accused Of Luring, Raping Child In MD: Police Man With History Of Sexual Abuse Accused Of Luring, Raping Child In MD: Police
Man With History Of Sexual Abuse Accused Of Luring, Raping Child In MD: Police Police in Maryland are fearful that a predator with a history of sexual assault may have more victims after he was arrested for luring a child on Thursday night. Joshua Black, 31, of Olney, is facing multiple rape and sexual offense charges after allegedly assaulting a minor on Thursday, July 20 in Montgomery County. The incident was reported at approximately 7 p.m. on Thursday in the 17700 block of Prince Philip Drive, when he lured the girl into a wooded area and sexually assaulted her, police said. Black was also arrested last April for inappropriate acts with a pair of women at the Uni…

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Creep Preying On 13-Year-Old Girl Online Busted By Undercover Officers In MD: Sheriff Creep Preying On 13-Year-Old Girl Online Busted By Undercover Officers In MD: Sheriff
Creep Preying On 13-Year-Old Girl Online Busted By Undercover Officers In MD: Sheriff Technology reared its ugly head in Maryland once again. A 56-year-old Pennsylvania predator is facing charges in Frederick County after being busted having sexually explicit conversations with an undercover officer posing as a 13-year-old girl. According to the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office, on Thursday, April 20, Ronald Laman, of Chambersburg, initiated an illicit conversation with what he believed to be a teen girl, who was in fact a detective doing online surveillance and investigation. During the conversation, the detective advised Laman that he was having a conversation with a 13…

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Convicted Sex Offender Gets 50 Years For Abusing Minors In MD, Recording It For Years: DOJ Convicted Sex Offender Gets 50 Years For Abusing Minors In MD, Recording It For Years: DOJ
Convicted Sex Offender Gets 50 Years For Abusing Minors In MD, Recording It For Years: DOJ A convicted sex offender with a history of sexually abusing minors and recording it over the course of more than a decade in Maryland may spend the rest of his life behind bars. Baltimore resident Garnell Eugene Graves, 59, was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release after pleading guilty to four counts of sexual exploitation of a child related to his sexual abuse of multiple minor victims, authorities announced. Graves pleaded guilty in June last year in federal court. As part of his plea, Graves admitted that between 2007 and 2020, he abused …

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Florida Dad Posts Child Porn To Facebook Story: Chambersburg Police Florida Dad Posts Child Porn To Facebook Story: Chambersburg Police
Florida Dad Posts Child Porn To Facebook Story: Chambersburg Police A 32-year-old dad from Florida shared photos of children engaging in sexual acts to his Facebook story as a way to "harass or intimidate" the victim(s), police in Chambersburg explain in court documents obtained by Daily Voice. Tylor Davidson Lamance was "charged with one count of unlawful dissemination of intimate image after an incident was reported to police" on North Church Street, Chambersburg on November 2, 2022, at 11:47 a.m., the police stated in a release on January 19.  He was arrested on Wednesday, January 18 at 8 a.m., according to the release. Lamance has been held on a m…

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Maryland Man Sentenced After Paying For International Video Chats Exposing Young Children Maryland Man Sentenced After Paying For International Video Chats Exposing Young Children
Maryland Man Sentenced After Paying For International Video Chats Exposing Young Children Federal authorities announced that a Maryland man will spend years in prison after admitting to visiting chatrooms and having performers pose their prepubescent daughters for him while he pleasured himself. Steven Martin Bickling, 48, of Baltimore, has been sentenced to 12 years in federal prison, followed by 15 years of supervised release for coercion and enticement of a minor to produce child pornography.  It all began in 2018, when, according to his guilty plea, Bickling visited a website that offered live chat rooms with foreign women.  After hearing children in the backgrou…

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Students Report Indecent Exposure, Assault While Walking To Maryland Middle, High Schools Students Report Indecent Exposure, Assault While Walking To Maryland Middle, High Schools
Students Report Indecent Exposure, Assault While Walking To Maryland Middle, High Schools The Baltimore County Police Department is investigating a pair of incidents involving students that happened in the Lansdowne area and could be connected, authorities announced. First, on Tuesday, Nov. 1, a middle school student reported that a man exposed himself to her while she was walking to class, prompting the department to assign additional officers to the area to ensure student safety. The following day, on Wednesday, Nov. 2, a Lansdowne High School student reported that while she was walking to school over the footbridge, near Twin Circle Way she was assaulted by an unknown assail…

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Predator Sentenced For Using Social Media To Trade Explicit Images For Vapes With Teens In Area Predator Sentenced For Using Social Media To Trade Explicit Images For Vapes With Teens In Area
Predator Sentenced For Using Social Media To Trade Explicit Images For Vapes With Teens In Area Authorities announced that a North Carolina man has been sentenced to time in federal prison after admitting to using social media platforms and traveling over state lines to exploit teenage boys in Virginia. Jonathan Avery Shumate, 54, of Warrensville, N.C. has been sentenced to 151 months in federal prison after pleading guilty earlier this year to one count of coercion and enticement of minors. Prosecutors say that Shumate used both Snapchat and Grindr to contact teenage boys attending Oak Hill Academy in Grayson County, and offered to provide vapes and vaping materials in exchange for t…

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Former State Department Employee Admits To Sexual Conduct With Philippine Minors: DOJ Former State Department Employee Admits To Sexual Conduct With Philippine Minors: DOJ
Former State Department Employee Admits To Sexual Conduct With Philippine Minors: DOJ A former state department employee admitted in court to having sexual conduct with Philippine minors, authorities said. Dean Edward Cheves, 63, pleaded guilty to two counts of engaging in illicit sexual conduct in a foreign place on Monday, Oct. 24, according to the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia. Cheves met multiple minors over the Internet while serving at the US Embassy in the Philippines from 2017 to 2021, federal officials said. From Dec. 2020 to March 2021, the man communicated online with a then 15 to 16-year-old Philippine juvenile, who he paid …

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FBI: Groomed-For-Sex Indiana Girl, 15, Rescued After Paterson Man Pays Uber To Bring Her To NJ FBI: Groomed-For-Sex Indiana Girl, 15, Rescued After Paterson Man Pays Uber To Bring Her To NJ
FBI: Groomed-For-Sex Indiana Girl, 15, Rescued After Paterson Man Pays Uber To Bring Her To NJ A 22-year-old Paterson man showered a 15-year-old Indiana girl he'd met online with money, gifts and compliments before paying an Uber driver to bring her to him for sex, federal authorities said. Arnold Castillo "groomed" the girl, gaining her trust and alienating her from her family and other support systems before convincing her to leave Lawrence, IN, for New Jersey, the U.S. Attorney's Office for Southern Indiana charged. Castillo "paid and arranged for an Uber driver to pick up the minor and transport her across state lines to him," alleges to an FBI complaint on file in U.S. District …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Maryland Chiropractor Accused Of Sexually Assaulting Child Met Through Video Game: Sheriff Maryland Chiropractor Accused Of Sexually Assaulting Child Met Through Video Game: Sheriff
Maryland Chiropractor Accused Of Sexually Assaulting Child Met Through Video Game: Sheriff A Baltimore chiropractor has been arrested in Stafford, Texas after allegedly traveling there to sexually assault a child he met online, authorities say. Blake Edward Kalkstein, 37, was arrested in the 700 block of Dulles Avenue around 11:15 a.m., Wednesday, July 6 according to Fort Bend County police. Kalkstein is a gamer on several different gaming platforms, one of which he used to meet and lure the young victim, according to officials. Investigation revealed that Kalkstein had traveled to Fort Bend County in May and July of 2022. Kalkstein has been charged with sexual assault of a chi…

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Maryland Man Admits To Posing As Women To Entice Boys, Threatening Families Maryland Man Admits To Posing As Women To Entice Boys, Threatening Families
Maryland Man Admits To Posing As Women To Entice Boys, Threatening Families A Baltimore man who pretended to be a young girl to lure boys into sending explicit content to him has pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation of a minor, officials say. Matthew K. Walsh, 24, admitted that he created the fake profiles that he used to contact the boys from 2016 until 2021, according to the Department of Justice. The boys Walsh targeted ranged from 12 to 17 years old, they said. At least 40 victims have been identified as being abused by Walsh, and at least 30 of those had their content distributed to others. Walsh used several platforms to entice the boys to send the sexual i…

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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 …

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