child sex abuse

An American Airlines flight attendant has been indicted after authorities say he tried to secretly video record a 14-year-old girl using an airplane bathroom. A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted 36-year-old Estes Carter Thompson III, of Charlotte, North Carolina. Police say he also had recordings of four other girls using lavatories on an aircraft where he worked. Thompson was...

A former police lieutenant from Winthrop, Massachusetts, arrested in December on suspicion of raping a child at his home pleaded not guilty to new charges Thursday. Prosecutors shared some new information on the case against former Winthrop Police Lt. James Feeley in Suffolk Superior Court, and the timeline for the trial was set. Feeley was initially charged with rape of…

A man being chased by police for allegedly sexually assaulting a child in Farmington, Maine, died on Monday when his car sped over a spike strip and into a tree, police said. Joshua Burdin, a 32-year-old from nearby Strong, Maine, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, which took place on South Strong Road in Farmington at about…

A New Hampshire husband and wife are facing charges for creating images showing the man sexually abusing a child, according to a federal court document. Paul Baird is seen abusing a minor in sexually explicit images that were later shared on the dark web, federal investigators wrote in a criminal complaint filed Wednesday in New Hampshire. The pictures were allegedly…

A former elementary school paraeducator in Easthampton, Massachusetts, was charged with sexually assaulting a child under 14, prosecutors said Tuesday. Troy Gray, a 57-year-old from Easthampton, was arrested Thursday on five counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 and one count of intimidating a witness, the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office said. Gray pleaded not guilty in…

Investigators found more than 100 images and videos apparently depicting child sex abuse on the phone of a man who lived at a registered Massachusetts day care facility, federal prosecutors said Thursday. Jaun Levano, a 23-year-old living in West Bridgewater, was arrested Wednesday on a charge of receiving child pornography, the office of the U.S. attorney for Massachusetts. He was…

The former editor-in-chief of a news website was found with hundreds of images and videos showing child sex abuse, including at least one video he produced himself, prosecutors in western Massachusetts said this week. Slade Sohmer, the former editor of The Recount, was arraigned in Southern Berkshire District Court Monday on two counts of possessing child pornography and two counts…

A man who advises a Massachusetts high school robotics team was arrested Monday on suspicion of possessing images and video of child sex abuse, federal prosecutors said. Brian Lingard, a 60-year-old from Shrewsbury, is accused of having about 135 videos of apparent child sexual abuse on his computer and about 23 such images on his phone. He also had images…

A Massachusetts man was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of possessing videos showing the sexual abuse of a child, federal authorities said. Bradley Driscoll, of Amherst, was due to appear in federal court in Springfield Wednesday on one charge each of distributing and possessing child pornography. The Massachusetts U.S. Attorney’s Office said the 25-year-old shared child sexual abuse material showing...

Frustrated former residents of New Hampshire’s only youth detention center are pushing for a federal investigation into allegations of decades of abuse. The Sununu Youth Services Center in Manchester has been under criminal investigation by the state since 2019. Ten former workers and an 11th who worked at a pretrial facility in Concord have been arrested, while close to 1,000...

The former Tyngsboro, Massachusetts, day care employee who is now facing child exploitation charges in a sex abuse image case will remain behind bars for now, delaying a possible release from custody on Friday. Lindsay Groves was due in federal court for a hearing Friday afternoon. She faces multiple federal charges alleging that she took photos of young children naked…

A former New Hampshire marina manager has admitted to paying minors who worked for him for sex acts and pornographic images over several years, federal prosecutors said. John E. Murray III, who was a manager at West Alton Marina on Lake Winnipesaukee in Alton Bay, pleaded guilty to four counts of sex trafficking a child and 12 counts of producing…