A Bossier City man is behind bars at Bossier Max, charged with 100 counts of possession of child pornography. According to the Bossier Sheriff’s Office, 61-year-old Anthony “Tony” H. Martin was arrested Tuesday on a warrant that was the culmination of an investigation that began in late November. Investigators say…
Former Army major, wife, to be sentenced in child abuse case
A former U.S. Army Major and his wife, convicted this summer of physically and psychologically abusing their children, will learn their fate in federal court Tuesday. Former Army Maj. John Jackson and his wife Carolyn were convicted in July of severely abusing their three adoptive children in the name of disciplining…
York County officer accused of child abuse seeking reduced bond
The former police officer from York County accused of child abuse against his infant son – in what prosecutors have called a shaken baby case – will appear in court Thursday after a family court judge ruled there was no abuse. Robert Jeffrey “Jeff” Taylor was an officer at the…
Two in East Ridge Charged with Child Abuse, Including Mother
East Ridge Police have arrested and charged a 39-year-old mother and another man with aggravated child abuse, after her daughter reported she had been abused to teachers at East Ridge High School. An arrest report obtained by NewsChannel 9 from the arresting officer for East Ridge Police reads as follows:…
Child abuse royal commission: George Pell ‘crestfallen’ after call with abuse victim, priest John Walshe says
In the phone call, Cardinal Pell and the victim, David Ridsdale, discussed the fact that Mr Ridsdale had been sexually abused by his uncle, Father Gerald Ridsdale. In May, Mr Ridsdale told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse the conversation ended acrimoniously after Cardinal Pell allegedly…
Florida volunteer boys basketball coach, attorney arrested for disturbing child abuse
Pinellas County Sheriff”s Office have arrested a man for child abuse and possession of child pornography. On Oct. 20, detectives assigned to the Crimes Against Children Unit received information from the Pinellas County Schools Police reference a possible child abuse case. The suspect was identified as 56-year-old Frederick T. Lowe,…
KCK woman appears in court in child abuse murder case
A Kansas City, Kan., woman accused in the child-abuse death of her 7-year-old stepson made her first court appearance Monday morning. Heather Jones and her husband, Michael A. Jones, are charged in Wyandotte County District Court with first-degree felony murder and child abuse in the death of the boy, whom…
DA to push for life sentences in child abuse cases
19th Judicial Circuit District Attorney Randall Houston will ask the Alabama Legislature to increase the possible penalty for Aggravated Child Abuse for a child under six years of age to life in prison when it convenes for its regular session in February. “I stood in court last week to oppose…
Qld sisters awarded $800,000 compensation after foster child abuse
The state government has been ordered to pay three sisters nearly $800,000 in compensation after they were sexually abused by a foster child who was living in their home. The three women – now aged 27, 26 and 23 – were under 18 when the abuse occurred in their Cairns home…
Former high school basketball coach faces child abuse, pornography charges
A former volunteer basketball coach at East Lake High was arrested Saturday on charges of child abuse and child pornography, the Pinellas Sheriff’s Office said. Frederick T. Lowe, 56, of Palm Harbor is accused of abusing a 16-year-old student who was on the basketball team. Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said in…