"25% of all sex offenders re-offend within 15 years"

.........Sarah Tofte

A Salina man was sentenced to 10 years in prison Wednesday for sexual exploitation of a child and possession of marijuana.

Richard E. Shelton, 52, 211 Millview, is considered a persistent sexual offender because of a prior conviction for possession of child pornography.

He will serve time for five felony counts of sexual exploitation of a child at the same time as a sentence for a felony count of possession of marijuana, according to the sentence imposed by Saline County District Judge Rene Young.

Following his prison sentence, he will be registered as a sex offender for the rest of his life, the judge said.

He was also ordered to pay a $400 fee to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation to cover the costs of drug testing.

Shelton was arrested in April 2007, accused of possessing images and videos of children in sexually suggestive poses and of children engaged in sexual activity with other children and adults.

The images were found on Shelton’s home computer and on computer disks in his home after his daughter alerted police to their existence.

"25% of all sex offenders re-offend within 15 years"
.........Sarah Tofte

Charles Franklin Knight - Church Youth Leader and Boy Scout Leader - Busted for Child Pornography

Watch the pedo whine

A youth chaplain at a Gastonia church who mentored Boy Scouts in south Charlotte was arrested Monday.

Charles Franklin Knight, 62, faces six counts of third-degree exploitation of a minor. He is in the Mecklenburg County Jail. No bond was available.

On July 2, a woman told Charlotte-Mecklenburg police that Knight had material depicting sex acts with youths under 18, according to a police report.

Investigators questioned Knight, who turned over some child pornography, which included “inappropriate Internet images,” the report said. Detectives also seized a laptop computer from his home on Harrowfield Drive in Charlotte.

Knight told police he worked with Boy Scouts in south Charlotte for years. He also co-coordinated a home-based youth program at Christ Church in Gastonia, said Brian Cornell, the pastor. The coed program, open to church members and Boy Scouts, helped parents teach their children to better understand what it means to be Christian.

Cornell was not sure how long Knight has been a member of the church. He told the Observer the church has a rule that there must always be two adults present during any interaction with children or minors and that church policies were followed.

“This reminds us that we're doing ministry to a world that's hurting,” Cornell said.

Police did not identify the south Charlotte church and Boy Scout troop Knight worked with in Charlotte.

And then he began the pedophile whine shuffle

“I can’t comment as much as I’d love to,” he said. "I’m a gentle person. After this is all over, I’ll answer any questions you have.”

A neighbor whose apartment is below Knight’s says a repairman made the discovery after being called to Knight’s home to fix an air conditioner. The woman says her boyfriend’s mother called police after the air conditioning unit in Knight's apartment began to leak into theirs.

Child Pornography is not a victimless crime

Behind every image there is pain

Daniel L. Fontes - Repeat Sex Offender Raped teen in cemetery

A registered sex offender charged with raping a city teen in a North End cemetery was arraigned Tuesday in New Bedford Superior Court.

Daniel L. Fontes, 44, of Fall River, was ordered held without bail. He has been incarcerated since his arrest May 28.

According to police, he kidnapped a city teen at knifepoint and sexually assaulted him in the Sacred Heart Cemetery on May 14.

Mr. Fontes is a Level 2 sex offender with a lengthy criminal record that includes multiple convictions for open and gross lewdness.

In 2002, he was sentenced to serve two years in jail for open and gross lewdness in Fall River.

Nine days before the alleged sexual assault in the cemetery, Mr. Fontes was reportedly seen by three young boys in the playground of the Carlos Pacheco Elementary School on Mount Pleasant Street, police said.

The boys said a man wearing dark clothing and a ski mask approached them. They left the playground, and as they walked away, the suspect emerged in front of them. He had his pants down and tried calling the boys over, police reported.

Mr. Fontes is charged with rape, indecent assault and battery on a person over 14, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, and threatening to commit a crime.

"25% of all sex offenders re-offend within 15 years"

.........Sarah Tofte

Civil Commitment and Repeat Sex Offenders

According to the Office of Sex Offender Management, which was created by legislative action last spring, 36 sex offenders were committed to psychiatric facilities during the first year of New York's new civil-confinement law. Another 139 were identified for "civil management"—either commitment to a psychiatric facility or long-term, intensive parole. Many of these men's cases are sealed, but documents obtained by the Voice provide a glimpse into the criminal histories of a few men identified as sexually violent predators with "mental abnormalities." They are:

Christopher James, 26, whose life was disastrous from the start. He was born with the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck, causing a lack of oxygen to his brain, and two genetic syndromes that cause eye-movement problems, small testicles, and reduced fertility. By seven months old, he was banging his head against things—the first sign of developmental delays. At four, he was kicked out of special-ed preschool for behavioral problems, and at nine, a cyst was found in his brain, which was drained but unable to be removed. All of these early problems, according to a state psychiatrist, contributed to what came next: an inability to control deviant sexual behavior. James was kicked out of his house and arrested for his first offense at age 19, after a seven-year-old girl accused him of touching her vagina. Out on probation, he was arrested a second time for fondling a 17-year-old girl while she was sleeping. That incident was caught on tape after the family he was living with put cameras up because they thought James was stealing from them. By 2005, he was behind bars and in trouble for violently raping a fellow inmate. He was going to be released in February, but has been civilly committed and will remain in a psychiatric facility indefinitely.

Stanley Dixon, an aging pedophile who racked up six sex-offense convictions from 1964 to 2002 in New York, North Carolina, and Connecticut. Dixon claims that he was sexually abused by his father and uncle as a child, and physically abused by his mother and foster family. After being arrested for sodomizing an eight-year-old boy in 1968, his first sex offense, he told police: "I didn't think I had a problem, but I did. I did it three more times." He molested and sodomized several boys ranging in age from eight to 15 over the years, serving a short sentence after each conviction. Then, in 1973, he pulled a gun on a 20-year-old woman and forced her to give him oral sex. In 1990, he was arrested after pulling a razor on a 26-year-old female acquaintance and sodomizing her for several hours. Only three months after his release for that crime, Dixon was arrested again for repeatedly molesting his girlfriend's 11-year-old daughter and her 12-year-old friend. He was supposed to be released last August, but has been detained in a psychiatric facility instead.

Shawn Short, a pedophile convicted of vaginally and anally raping a six-year-old girl in 1992. Short was also accused of molesting the girl's two-year-old brother, but never charged. After serving 10 years, Short was released on parole and was soon accused of victimizing children again. His parole was revoked eight months after his release, when he was accused of molesting his girlfriend's three-year-old son. Those charges were dropped, but a state psychiatric examiner petitioned to have Short put on "strict and intensive supervision"—basically lifetime parole with an ankle bracelet.

Freddie Johnson, who made headlines in April for his 53rd arrest, this time for rubbing against a young woman on the No. 6 train. Previously, the attorney general's office had tried to get the 49-year-old repeat sex offender committed to a psychiatric facility, but Judge William Wetzel ruled that Johnson should be released instead under "strict and intensive supervision" (lifetime parole with an ankle bracelet). That decision came back to bite Judge Wetzel just a couple weeks later, when Johnson was arrested after subway cops spotted him in the act. It was his 30th arrest for a sex crime.

"25% of all sex offenders re-offend within 15 years"

.........Sarah Tofte

Jon Schillaci, highly educated and articulate, was 28 years old and had already served a 10-year sentence for sexually molesting two young boys when he was accused of assaulting a 5-year-old boy in 1999.

With a $100,000 bounty on his head and the FBI hot on his heels, he fled to Mexico.

He traveled the country using various false names, including Jon Willis, Dylan Pierce, Christopher Keegan and Cody Keegan. He ran a pro-pedophile Web site, and he hosted an Internet radio show associated with the site.

And there he remained — with his picture on the FBI's Top 10 Most Wanted List, right up there with Usama bin Laden — until the law finally caught up with him last month.


Tips and hard-nosed detective work led the FBI to Schillaci's home in San Jose de Garcia. Police commander Salvador Elisea said he didn't know how long Schillaci had been living in the dairy town of about 10,000.

Upon contact with officials, Schillaci confirmed his identity and, assisted by Mexican authorities, turned himself in for the arrest, said FBI spokeswoman Gale Marcinkiewicz.

“He showed no resistance whatsoever,” Marcinkiewicz said.

Schillaci is educated in philosophy, religion and politics. He is a skilled musician, computer savvy and he speaks three languages.

So it was no wonder there was an instant connection when he began a pen-pal relationship with his 5-year-old victim’s family in New Hampshire after he submitted a poem to a literary magazine the family worked on.

"Everyone who meets him likes him," said FBI agent Laura Hanlon.

According to police, Schillaci and the New Hampshire family — whose name has not been released for safety reasons — started writing back and forth. Writing regularly from his jail cell when he was serving the 10-year sentence, he told of his hopes for life after prison and his desire for a new beginning. He promised he could change, and the family believed him.

"He's a very eloquent person and he wrote very nice letters, talking about how he was studying in prison and how he [was] regretting the mistakes of his youth," the mother told America's Most Wanted.

"They became quite close, to the point where the family felt strong enough about him that they wanted to give him a chance," Hanlon said. "They offered for him to come up and stay at their home in New Hampshire with their family."

In 1999, fresh out of prison, Schillaci headed not for Oklahoma, where he was born, or his adoptive state of Texas, but instead to the New Hampshire town of Deerfield, where his pen-pal family lived.

He registered as a sex offender, and the family offered him a room in their home until he could get back on his feet. He stayed there while working part-time at a music store and taking classes at a nearby college.

Schillaci, an accomplished pianist, gave the family's 5-year-old son piano lessons.

One night at the dinner table, the boy told his parents he had a dark secret to share.

"One night, when we were at supper, and Schillaci wasn't around, our son said, 'I have a secret. I have a secret with Jon that I think I should tell you,’” the mother told America's Most Wanted.

The boy told his parents that Schillaci, who wasn't there that night, had sexually assaulted him during piano lessons. Some of the assaults occurred in a bedroom in the family home.

"They (the family) had befriended him, had given him a great opportunity, and yet that friendship and bond meant nothing to him," Hanlon said.

The family went to the police, and authorities served Schillaci with a restraining order to stay away from the home. Schillaci reported to work the next day, but he left in the afternoon, leaving behind his computer and the car he abandoned near a bus station — but few clues to where he had gone.

Schillaci was born in Oklahoma in 1971. He was given up for adoption at an early age and he spent most of his turbulent childhood in Texas.

He excelled in school and went on to college. He holds two master's degrees in Humanities and Literature, and he speaks French, Spanish and German.

He faces charges of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution, aggravated felonious sexual assault, felonious sexual assault and 23 counts of possession of child pornography.

Schillaci was held without bail after his June 5 arrest and was arraigned the next day. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges. He has a status conference on Aug. 5, in which he and his attorney will be informed of the findings, the probable length of his trial and other federally mandated information.

Schillaci could face a life sentence if convicted.

"25% of all sex offenders re-offend within 15 years"
.........Sarah Tofte

Terrance Madden AKA Colt Madden Repeat Sex Offender

A 53-year-old convicted pedophile, who left town several years ago following a Belleville radio station’s exposé into his public dating activities, has been charged by police in Kitchener with sex-related offences involving minors, including making and possessing child pornography.

The former Foxboro native and Belleville man was arrested Friday at his Kitchener home after a three-month investigation into allegations made by someone within his home, stated to Waterloo Regional Police.

Officers seized a laptop computer and several digital storage devices, including a hard drive, from a Kitchener townhouse.

Police said they found some worrisome digital images on the computer, including photos showing at least one young girl and possibly another engaged in sexual acts.

Through those pictures, police were able to identify the girls.

Both are from the Kitchener area and under the age of 12, but are not related to the accused and did not live in the same home, police said.

It's still not clear when any abuse began or for how long it occurred, police said.

Further charges could be laid as police forensic experts continue to comb through the computer

Charged with sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching and sexual assault is Terrance Madden, who is also known as Colt Madden. The charges are connected to the making of child pornography, police said.

Madden made a weekend appearance in a London, Ont. court and was remanded back into custody.

In February 2006 Madden — who is a convicted pedophile and a registered sex offender — was exposed by the Mix 97 morning show after he put himself up for auction in a local charity event.

"25% of all sex offenders re-offend within 15 years"

.........Sarah Tofte

Louis Gene Remont Jr - Repeat Sex Offender - Habitual Pervert Strikes Again

Previous Convictions:

• Conviction date: 7/21/1999
  INDECENT BEHAVIOR WITH JUVENILES
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• Conviction date: 6/23/2003
  SEXUAL BATTERY
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• Conviction date: 6/23/2003
  ORAL SEXUAL BATTERY
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• Conviction date: 6/23/2003
  INDECENT BEHAVIOR WITH JUVENILE

Police arrested a 48-year-old repeat sex offender Saturday after he allegedly exposed himself to a woman and then was found with sexually explicit material in his car.

Louis Gene Remont Jr., of Arthur Street in Bay St. Louis, was arrested after a Saturday incident, Police Chief James Varnell said. Remont was reported after a woman bicyclist told police a man in a white Lincoln had driven by her and exposed himself in the area of Nicholson Avenue and Beach Boulevard; he then drove away.

Following the report Waveland Officer Eddie Besse spotted a car of the same description in the Sears Avenue area and conducted a traffic stop. He found Remont in the car with an open pornographic magazine "in plain sight," Varnell said.

Besse then ran a background check on Remont. "A check of the suspect's criminal history proved a long history of the same type of charges," Varnell said. "His history dated back to 1998."

Remont is listed on the Mississippi Sex Offender criminal Web site, which shows he has four convictions in Terrebonne Parish, La., on indecent behavior with juveniles, sexual battery and related charges.

In the Saturday case he was charged with public display of sexual materials, a felony. Police are also processing an affidavit from the Waveland victim in a second charge of indecent exposure, Varnell said.

Municipal Court Judge Frank Wittmann ordered Remont held under $25,000 bond. An initial court appearance was set for Aug. 7.

"25% of all sex offenders re-offend within 15 years"

.........Sarah Tofte

Gilbert Hinojosa - Repeat Sex Offender Exposes himself to child in Cole Park

Previous convictions:

• Indecency with a Child by Exposure
  Victim Age: 8
• Indecency with a Child by Exposure
  Victim Age: 12
• Indecency with a Child by Exposure
  Victim Age: 13

A registered sex offender exposed himself to a little girl Sunday night at Kids Place in Cole Park. However, quick thinking by the girl and her mother helped police nab the suspect.

Another parent, Pearl Soto, said it was upsetting to hear that registered sex offender Gilbert Hinojosa allegedly exposed himself to an 8-year-old girl around 9:30 p.m. Sunday night at Kids Place. She said she was, "angry. Yeah, that's pretty gross."

"We're on par, I would say, with other cities our size," said CCPD Captain Wayne Tisdale. "It's just a constant, tracking and monitoring of registered sex offenders."

It was the intuitive 8-year-old who knew she had to tell her mom about what happened. She gave a detailed description to her mother who, in turn, tipped off police.

Captain Tisdale added, "If they are obviously not there with another child they should be on an exceptional alert."

It is places like this - a park, even a school playground - where an incident like this is most likely to happen because of the large number of kids that congregate there.

"I always keep them real close, Soto added. "Don't let them talk to strangers."

Unfortunately, this mom has seen other questionable things at the park. "There were condoms under there and tampons and all kind of stuff. Just disgusting, so maybe they need to put more security or something because that is unsanitary for the kids."

CCPD said it increases its patrols of area parks during the summer months but nothing compares to a parent's watchful eye.

Hinojosa is facing a charge of indecency with a child.

"25% of all sex offenders re-offend within 15 years"

.........Sarah Tofte

Michael Edward Hatch -AFP Officer caught in Operation Centurion

A former federal policeman has been jailed for five months on child pornography charges by a magistrate who said a ruined career and community ridicule were not punishment enough.

Michael Edward Hatch, 38, will also be required to be of good behaviour for another 18 months after his release.

Hatch's lawyers immediately lodged an appeal against the sentence handed down in the ACT Magistrates Court today.

Hatch was caught in the global investigation codenamed Operation Centurion which has netted more than 100 Australians.

Magistrate Karen Fryar told the court she could not be certain Hatch would not reoffend.

She said a search warrant on Hatch's Canberra home in March 2008 revealed about 20 images of child pornography on his computer's hard disk.

Further searches of his computer revealed about 50 more images of girls as young as four involved in various sexual activities with adults.

A report was provided to the court of about 200 pages of websites entered from the computer's browser, totalling about 5,770 different addresses, mostly concerned with teenaged porn.

Ms Fryar said she took into account Hatch's remorse over his actions, his references of previous good character, the fact that he was suffering from depression and the submission from Hatch's defence that there was little chance of him reoffending.

She said he had suffered a significant fall from grace, losing his career, suffering financial loss, community censure due to media exposure and a loss of reputation with his friends and family.

"I agree that it is unnecessary for me to make a specific finding as to whether the defendant is a pedophile and I would be unable to do so in the face of the psychological opinion before me," Ms Fryar said.

"However, it would be wrong to suggest that his interest in accessing these particular websites was not directly related to the specific content of child pornography.

"Whatever may have been his motive in searching out this material I cannot be positively satisfied that he is not likely to reoffend."

Ms Fryar said the court needed to ensure that the defendant was adequately punished for his criminal behaviour.

"In my view, nothing less than an immediate custodial sentence would appropriately mark the objective seriousness of this offence, act as a deterrent to others, a personal deterrent to and punishment for the defendant," Ms Fryar said.

She said a wholly suspended sentence would be inappropriate.

"I have also had regard to the defendant's prospects for rehabilitation and the fact that as a former police officer imprisonment may be more difficult for him than others," she said.

"On those bases, I have taken the view that the non-parole period should be significantly shortened."

Hatch will be treated as a prisoner at risk when in custody.

Charles Hurrey - Disney Worker - Arraigned on Child Pornography charges

A Disney worker is scheduled to be arraigned Monday on child pornography charges.

Charles Hurrey, 29, was arrested June 17 after Lake County investigators found three videos showing children engaging in sex acts with adults and each other on his home computer.

Hurrey reportedly admitted to downloading the images, but said he was just curious as to why anyone would make those types of videos......which showed children engaging in sex acts with adults, and each other.

Disney placed him on unpaid administrative leave, pending the outcome of the charges.