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PA Kids Club Employee Who Showed 'Dark Web' Suicides To Boys He Assaulted Sentenced: DA
A former Neshaminy Kids Club worker was sentenced to 35 to 88 years in state prison for sexually assaulting seven boys and filming some of the abuse, Bucks County authorities announced on Friday, Nov. 15, 2024. Gerald William Spoto, 42, of Disk Lane in Bristol Township, pleaded guilty in July to nearly three dozen charges for crimes committed between the late 1990s and 2023. He was also declared a sexually violent predator, requiring lifetime sex offender registration and treatment. These assaults of seven boys included "sleepovers" in New Jersey, Detectives with the Middletown Township Pol…
Police & Fire
Lititz Man Accused Of Possessing Over 750 Child Pornography Images: Police
A Lititz man is accused of possessing over 750 images of child pornography, police announced on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024. Michael Gwyn Davies, 62, was charged after an investigation in Lititz, according to the police. He was charged with multiple felonies for possession of child pornography, according to the police and confirmed by court documents. His preliminary arraignment was set before Judge Joseph C. Stauffer at 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 7, as detailed in his docket. He has been held in the Lancaster County Prison on $80,000 in bail as set by the judge. His prelimin…
Politics
Accused Pelosi Laptop Thief's Dad Convicted Of Child Abuse In Pennsylvania
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
Lancaster Discord User Charged With Sexual Abuse Of Children: Police
A Lancaster City man has been charged with Sexual Abuse of Children due to his activities on the website Discord, police announced on Monday, Oct. 21. Kenneth Stuart Rader, 60, of the 300 block of Travis Lane was arrested on Friday, Oct. 18. The charges come following an investigation into a CyberTipline report of child pornography on Discord. Rader's e-mail address and IP address were found to be connected to the offending Discord user, the police explained. "Rader confirmed that he was the user of the e-mail address obtained and that he had a Discord accoun…
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Outraged Parents Blast Officials At Lehigh County Board Meeting After School Employee's Arrest
Outraged parents showed up to a school board meeting in Lehigh County to blast officials after news broke that a teacher had been arrested for secretly recording a student undressing in a school auditorium. Laura Warmkessel was just one of those parents. "You guys sit up here the majority of the time patting yourselves on the back and congratulating each other on how wonderful this school district is, but under the radar letting these monsters into our system, repeatedly," Warmkessel told the Parkland School District Board of Directors on Tuesday, Oct. 15. Click here to watch the meeting. …
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Performing Arts Director At Lehigh School Secretly Recorded Student: Affidavit
The former performing arts director at a Lehigh County high school was charged for secretly recording a student while he was in a changing room, according to court documents obtained by Daily Voice. Francis Anonia, 43, of Allentown, was accused of using his cell phone to secretly record a student changing clothes while he was in the Parkland High School auditorium on Monday, Oct. 14, as detailed by the Allentown police in the affidavit of probable cause. The student, who is now 21 years old, was 18 when the recordings were made in the auditorium's changing rooms in April 2021, a…
Police & Fire
Federal Parolee, Sex Offender Busted Downloading Child Porn At PA Auto Repair Shop: DA
A convicted sex offender and federal parolee from Bucks and Montgomery counties has been arrested on accusations he downloaded child pornography at the auto repair shop where he worked, police paperwork shows. A Bensalem police detective was running an undercover computer program trying to identify devices within the county that were using the BitTorrent Peer2Peer (P2P) file-sharing protocol to download and share child porn, when he connected with a device at 749 Butler Ave., in New Britain on June 20, according to a criminal complaint filed within the Bucks County DA's office. Dozens of fi…
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PA Daycare Worker, Mom, BF Made Children Perform Sex Acts: Affidavit
Multiple videos found on a man's phone of young children being sexually abused or being forced to commit sex acts by and on a daycare employee and Mechanicsburg mom have led to two arrests in Cumberland County, according to court documents received by Daily Voice on Monday, Sept. 16. Morgan Rothenhoefer, 24, of Mechanicsburg, has been charged with the following felonies: corruption of minors, five counts of filming a sex act of a child, deviate sexual intercourse of a child, aggravated indecent assault with a child under 13, and child rape. Jamie Souders, 41, of Middlesex, has be…
Police & Fire
Former Sesame Place Mascot Convinced Preteen To Send Nudes: Prosecutor
A New Jersey man who had been employed as a mascot for amusement parks and sports teams including Sesame Place is arrested on accusations he convinced a preteen girl to send him child pornography, authorities said. Don-Diego Parkman, 19, was arrested in mid-September, Acting Mercer County Prosecutor Theresa Hilton said in a news release on Tuesday, Sept. 17. New Jersey investigators said they received a tip from police in Missouri in early September that the preteen was chatting with Parkman and he sent her sexual pictures. Parkman also told the girl to send him photos a…
Schools
PA Middle School Teacher Sends Students Nudes, Has Sex With Teen: Affidavit
A coach and teacher in the Central Dauphin School district has been charged and arrested in connection with multiple sex crimes with multiple students, according to court documents obtained by Daily Voice. Alexander Jeffery Sweigard, 32, of Camp Hill, is a coach with the Central Dauphin Wrestling Program and a teacher at Central Dauphin Middle School, where he was once a student, according to public records. He is accused of exchanging nude images with teens and having sex with a high school student. Nude photos of Sweigard on a 16-year-old girl's phone prompted an interview…
Schools
PA HS Teacher Who 'Catfished' Teen Girls Gets 30 Years In Prison:
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A Philadelphia teacher who posed as a student to get teenage girls to send him nudes has been sentenced to 30 years in prison the US Department of Justice announced on Wednesday, Sept. 11. Jeremy Schobel, 33, of Philadelphia, was an English teacher at Harriton High School in Lower Merion Township and the High School of Creative and Performing Arts in Philadelphia when he created the Snapchat and Yubo accounts that he used to "entice young teenage girls, including one who was a student at his school," as stated in the USDOJ release. For over three years Schobel posed as fictional…
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Professor Of Pediatric Radiology Indicted For Child Porn:
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A University of Pittsburgh Doctor and Professor Of Pediatric Radiology has been indicted on child pornography charges, according to a release by the US Department Of Justice on Wednesday, Sept. 4. Dr. Ashok Panigrahy, 53, of Pittsburgh, was caught transporting "material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor in interstate commerce, as well as possessed material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor," in Nov. 2022, as stated in the USDOJ release. The material included images of the raping of children under the of 12 and/or prepubescent, according to federal court documents obt…
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Repeat PA Sex Offender Returned To Prison For Child Porn Charges:
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A repeat sex offender from Philadelphia has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for possessing child pornography, authorities said. Christopher Daniels, 34, also was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Juan R. Sánchez to 15 years of supervised release for repeated child pornography and related offenses, U.S. Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero said on Wednesday, Aug. 28. Daniels was charged with those violations in an August 2023 superseding indictment, and in March of this year, a federal jury convicted the defendant of all six counts against him, including receiving child pornography as a s…
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US Army Researcher From Pennsylvania Sexually Abused 7 Children:
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A US Army researcher from Chester County is accused of sexually abusing seven young children including recording them on the toilet, authorities said. Jason James Cain, 49, of Oxford, has been charged with seven counts of manufacture and attempted manufacture of child pornography, and two counts of possession of child pornography, according to United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero. The charges arise out of Cain’s alleged sexual abuse and exploitation of seven minor children in his care over more than 3½ years, including exposing himself to the children, touching both himself and …
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PA Man's Spotted In Child Pornography, Authorities Say
A 28-year-old man from Reading has been charged with possession of child pornography after sexually explicit images were found on his cellphone, authorities said. Kristopher W. Tanner also was charged with criminal use of a communication facility, corruption of minors, and indecent assault, according to a joint release from the Reading police and Berks County District Attorney. He was identified by investigators who noticed the unique tattoo visible on his right forearm in some of the videos. Additionally, investigators recognized that the background in these digital videos appeared to…
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Bethlehem Man Paid $24K+ To Filipino Child Sex Traffickers:
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A 49-year-old Pennsylvania man has been sentenced for paying and directing "livestreamed sexual abuse of Filipino children," the US Department of Justice announced on Friday night, Aug. 2. Harold "Harry" C. Daleus (also known as Dalaeus), Jr., 49, of Bethlehem, was sentenced to 20 years in prison to be followed by a lifetime of supervised release for the production of child pornography and related offenses, United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero detailed in the release. Daleus sent over $24,000 to the Philippines over several years, "in order to view the live transmiss…
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
Child Foot Porn Made By Lancaster Babysitter Charged In Multiple Abuse Cases: DA
Photographs found on a former babysitter's computers (following a warranted search of his home) have led Pennsylvania State Police to identify yet another victim he abused, according to a release Lancaster County District Attorney's Office announced on Monday, Jan. 23. Eric Dorwart, 54, of the 500 block of Pleasure Road in Manheim Township has been charged for the third time in a year for sexually assaulting children, the DA explained. Originally, Dorwart was matched by DNA to the cold case assault of a boy and girl on West Newport Road, Gordonville, Leacock on April 4…
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Convicted Child Porn Collector Accused Of Rape In Lebanon City: Police
"Mondays Got Me Like," Samuel James Rhoads's t-shirt reads in his first Pennsylvania State Police Megan's Law Sex Offender Registry photo on March 13, 2024 — but Monday really got him on July 8, when police announced he was charged with rape. When police announced the new charges, Rhoads, 20 of Lebanon, was still in the Lebanon County Prison serving a four-month to 11 months and 29 days sentence for felons for child pornography and unlawful contact with a minor/sexual abuse, court records show. Rhoads was charged with Rape, Involuntary Deviate Sexual Intercourse, Statutory…
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New Cumberland 'Disgusting Mama' Posted Child Porn On Twitter/X: Affidavit
A 27-year-old mom was caught with over a dozen images of "prepubescent minors" on her devices, according to Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry's Office release on Friday, June 28, and court documents obtained by Daily Voice. Victoria "Tori" Madlein Carney of Rose Hill Drive, New Cumberland was arrested Wednesday and charged with 19 counts of possessing child pornography and one count of criminal use of a communication facility — all felonies, according to the AG's release. Her arrest comes on the heels of an investigation by the Pennsylvania Office of Att…
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162 Year Prison Sentence Slapped On Northampton Man Sharing Child Porn On Social Media: AG
A Northampton County man was sentenced to decades in prison for 55 felony counts related to child pornography, according to the state Attorney General's Office. Zebbelin Standish, 36, was previously convicted at trial in February. He was arrested in 2022 after investigators said he had over 50 illegal images on his cellphone. Judge Judge Paula A. Roscioli handed him 81 to 162 years in prison saying she "wanted to ensure Standish could never victimize another child," according to prosecutors. ”This defendant re-victimized the children who were depicted being exploited…
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