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Longtime SEPTA Employee Caught With Condoms After Bus Trip To Meet 13-Year-Old: Police Longtime SEPTA Employee Caught With Condoms After Bus Trip To Meet 13-Year-Old: Police
Longtime SEPTA Employee Caught With Condoms After Bus Trip To Meet 13-Year-Old: Police A longtime SEPTA employee’s bus trip to meet who he thought was a 13-year-old girl ended in his arrest in Bensalem, police announced on Friday, Sept. 12 Eric Karch, 53, of Jenkintown, began chatting with who he believed was a 13-year-old middle school student on a dating app on Saturday, Sept. 6, according to Bensalem Township Police. Karch quickly turned the conversation sexual, telling the girl to sleep naked, photograph herself, and send him pictures, investigators said. He allegedly sent her a photo of his penis and described sex acts he wanted her to perform while calling him “daddy.” …

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by Jillian Pikora
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Montco Man Filmed Himself Sexually Assaulting Teen, Attorney General Says Montco Man Filmed Himself Sexually Assaulting Teen, Attorney General Says
Montco Man Filmed Himself Sexually Assaulting Teen, Attorney General Says A Montgomery County man is charged with multiple felonies after prosecutors claim he filmed himself sexually assaulting a 14-year-old victim.  Joshua Warner, 24, was arrested at his Elkins Park home on Thursday, June 15, said Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry's Office in a release.  Prosecutors said Warner met the teen on the messaging app Discord and later "arranged a meeting" where he assaulted her. Further investigation revealed evidence that the 24-year-old had recorded the crime and saved the footage to his cell phone, according to authorities.  “These charge…

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by Mac Bullock
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FBI: ‘Sextortion’ Of Teen Boys Is Increasing, Here's What Parents, Guardians Should Know FBI: ‘Sextortion’ Of Teen Boys Is Increasing, Here's What Parents, Guardians Should Know
FBI: ‘Sextortion’ Of Teen Boys Is Increasing, Here's What Parents, Guardians Should Know Reports of adults ‘sextorting’ teenage boys into sending them sexual videos or photos online are booming, particularly involving victims 14 to 17 years old, the FBI warns. In 2021 alone, its Internet Crime Complaint Center received more than 18,000 sextortion-related complaints of various types, the bureau announced on Wednesday, April 13. A growing number involved late-teen boys targeted by predators posing as someone else, federal authorities said. It ordinarily begins with a contact through social media or on a gaming site. The adult predator or scammer "convinces the child to s…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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DA: Perkasie Man Charged With Sexually Assaulting 15-Year-Old Girl He Met Online DA: Perkasie Man Charged With Sexually Assaulting 15-Year-Old Girl He Met Online
DA: Perkasie Man Charged With Sexually Assaulting 15-Year-Old Girl He Met Online A Perkasie man was arrested on multiple felony charges for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl whom he met on an online chat platform marketed as a website to "talk to strangers," authorities said. An investigation into Jonathan Faucette, 55, ensued after New Hanover Township police on May 18 received a ChildLine report stating that the girl had described a sexual encounter with an older, married man, according to Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele and New Hanover Township Police Chief Kevin McKeon. Investigators discovered that Faucette and the girl …

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by Nicole Acosta
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Predators, Pedophiles And Perverts: Horror Stories Abound In NJ Online Child-Sex Abuse Roundup Predators, Pedophiles And Perverts: Horror Stories Abound In NJ Online Child-Sex Abuse Roundup
Predators, Pedophiles And Perverts: Horror Stories Abound In NJ Online Child-Sex Abuse Roundup A mail carrier, a train conductor and a retired corrections officer are among 31 men charged amid a massive roundup that produced some horrifying stories about online child sex abuse in the age of COVID, New Jersey authorities announced Wednesday. One of them offered money and other prizes through a social media “game” that he created to convince underage girls to send him nude photos, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. Another got victims between 7 and 15 years old to send him sexual photos, then pressured them to send more by threatening to share those he had online, he said. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Jersey Shore Man Forced Girl, 14, To Carve His Initials Above Her Breast, Indictment Charges Jersey Shore Man Forced Girl, 14, To Carve His Initials Above Her Breast, Indictment Charges
Jersey Shore Man Forced Girl, 14, To Carve His Initials Above Her Breast, Indictment Charges A Jersey Shore man who convinced a 14-year-old girl he met online to carve his initials above her breast with a razor blade threatened to hurt her and her family if she didn’t meet his demands, an indictment returned Wednesday by a state grand jury alleges. Jason Berry, 40, of Keansburg also “demanded that the girl photograph herself engaging in acts of sexual penetration,” then sent some of the images to her mother, the indictment returned in Trenton charges. He also sent the girl “sexually explicit photos and videos of himself,” it adds. The case “demonstrates how powerful online predato…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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DA: DelCo Man Tells Undercover Agent He Ejaculated On Children, Admits To Having Child Porn DA: DelCo Man Tells Undercover Agent He Ejaculated On Children, Admits To Having Child Porn
DA: DelCo Man Tells Undercover Agent He Ejaculated On Children, Admits To Having Child Porn A Delaware County man admitted to not only having child pornography videos on his phone but masturbating near and ejaculated on children in his home while they slept, authorities announced. An undercover investigation involving the FBI began unfolding when Jason E. Hasson, 29, of Crum Lynne, began chatting with an agent posing as a father of a 9-year-old daughter online, according to District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer. Hasson told the "father" he wanted to meet his child for sex, and admitted touching a child to him, the DA's office said. Investigators served a search warrant Tuesday at H…

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by Nicole Acosta