Eraelia Glisson, 35-year-old Former Bobby Sox League softball coach has pleaded no contest yesterday to charges of unlawful intercourse with a minor, possession of child pornography, and possession of a controlled substance.
The conviction carries a possible sentence of four years and four months in prison and registration as a sex offender.
Glisson's no contest plea means that she did not admit guilt, but offered no defense. The plea carries the same punishment as if she pleaded guilty or was convicted.
Back in 2007 Glisson was arrested for allegedly hosting a party in which 14- and 15-year-old girls were allowed to drink alcohol. Glisson was then charged with child endangerment, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and hosting a party that provided alcohol to minors.
In October 2007, Glisson pleaded no contest and was sentenced to 90 days in jail and three years of probation.
Some time later Glisson was arrested again -- this time on charges stemming from alleged sex with a 16-year-old.
Assistant District Attorney Stephanie Hulsey said Glisson faces violations of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, oral copulation with a minor, and charges related to child pornography.
Sentencing is scheduled for March 3 before Superior Court Judge Terrence Duncan.Eraelia Glisson, 35-year-old Former Bobby Sox League softball coach has pleaded no... more
Abigail Nichols, 24-year-old teacher formerly at Meadowbrook Academy, has been arrested yesterday for allegedly engaging in sex with a 16-year-old boy. She has been charged with lewd and lascivious molestation.
Police arrested Nichols last Tuesday at her home in Ocala. Detectives say the former Meadowbrook Academy teacher was reportedly giving a 16-year-old boy answers to tests and having a sexual relationship with him. Another 15-year-old boy had a similar story.
OPD officials were notified about the alleged incidents in the end of the January
, when a woman told an officer there was a rumor at the school suggesting that last summer Nichols had performed oral sex on the woman's 16-year-old son. Detectives met with the woman's son and another 16-year-old at the police department.
The first boy told Bowman that Nichols taught him 10th-grade history, that he did not have to do homework and that she reportedly gave him answers to quizzes. He said they became friends and, last June, she came to his home. While watching a movie, he said, they kissed and she performed oral sex on him.
The second 16-year-old told the official that when he was 15, he and some friends were hanging out with Nichols and she asked if they wanted to ride in her Jeep. He said while they were in the vehicle, Nichols, who was in the back with him, gave him permission to touch her breast, which he said he did.Abigail Nichols, 24-year-old teacher formerly at Meadowbrook Academy, has been... more
A would-be rapist fled Sunday night after he ripped off his victim's clothes and discovered he had attacked a man dressed as a woman, Athens-Clarke police said.
The suspect was riding a bicycle when he started stalking a 17-year-old walking along Bray Street near Fourth Street in East Athens about 6:30 p.m., police said.
The teen began to walk faster, but the man caught up to him, grabbed his arm and dragged him into some nearby woods.
The attacker started to take off the teen's clothes, tearing his shirt and yanking off his boots; he realized when he stripped off the teen's pants that the victim was male, too, police said.
The victim fought back, but his attacker kicked him repeatedly, police said.
The man ran when the victim's cell phone rang, but by then witnesses on Bray Street had called 911, police said.
The victim crawled from the woods and was sitting on the ground, crying in the rain, when police arrived.
The teenager only could describe his attacker as a fat Hispanic man who wore a gray hoodie and sweatpants, according to police.
The attacker will be charged with criminal attempted rape and false imprisonment if he's found, police said.
"It doesn't matter that (the victim) wasn't a female," Athens-Clarke Capt. Clarence Holeman said. "The suspect's intent was to commit rape."
He’s 100 years old. He’s a pedophile. And today he’s back behind bars.
Fortunately it’s not because he committed another sex crime…which is something a lot of people expressed concern about when Theodore Sypnier was paroled last November. No, he screwed up.
Sypnier is being held at the Erie County Holding Center because he didn’t follow the rules for his parole. He didn’t take part in sex offender counseling.
As a result, he’ll have a violation hearing sometime in the next month….and the state division of parole says he could be ordered back to prison. Which happened once before. When he was paroled this time, it was after he served 15 months for….you guessed it….failing to take part in counseling.
Sypnier insists he never molested any children, and doesn’t need counseling. That denial worries prosecutors, who say he should stay in jail because he's a danger to children.
He’s said he wants to get to know his great grandchildren. His own daughter, by the way, is among those who said they were concerned he’d molest other children.
Sypnier was first convicted of a sex crime in 1978. His most recent sentence was for molesting two young Tonawanda girls when he was 90.
The mum of one collapsed in a bar when her drink was spiked with a substance, thought to be Rohypnol.
But she was carried safely to an ambulance by the mystery hero who then vanished - leaving her wrapped in his red cape, the only clue to his identity.
Dangerous ... Rohypnol tablets
After recovering from partial paralysis in hospital, Elizabeth, 26, made an appeal to track down her Superman using the local paper in her hometown of Wigan, Lancs.
Modest hero Paul Longmire came forward. He had been out with pals in the costume borrowed from a friend.
The marketing executive, 23, said: "We saw Elizabeth stumble and go down face first. I tried supporting her but her legs kept giving way so I just picked her up and carried her outside before the ambulance came.
"She was shivering so I wrapped my cape around her then left. It wasn't heroic. I just helped someone."
Married Elizabeth, who had been out with pals and her sister, said: "I'd drunk three drinks when I collapsed. I woke hours later in hospital.
"Doctors were certain I'd been spiked, probably with Rohypnol or maybe GHB.
"I was determined to find who Superman was to say thanks and return his cape.
"Now we're pals on Facebook. I dread to think what could have happened without him."
Laura Pace was sentenced to two years in prison for engaging in sex with two schoolboys.
Circuit Judge Mark Nacke, imposed the 24-month prison term to be followed by 10 years of sex-offender probation. He could have sentenced her to more than 20 years in prison if he had strictly followed Florida sentencing guidelines.
The victims were 15 and 16 when they had sex with Pace during the 2007-08 school year.
Both boys said they left Eustis High because of their notoriety and never again participated in high-school sports, a loss both regret. Both were involved in athletics and may have been chosen by Pace because of that prowess.
The mother of one of the boys struggled to fight off tears and anger as she chastised Pace for abusing her role as a teacher and using the boys "for your own fun." The mom said she couldn't understand the crime.Laura Pace was sentenced to two years in prison for engaging in sex with two... more
More than 12% of youths in juvenile prisons are sexually abused while in custody there, according to a Justice Department study out Thursday, and the vast majority of cases involve female staff and boys under their supervision.
In the worst facilities surveyed — in Indiana, Maryland, North Carolina and Texas — more than 30% of youths reported they had been sexually victimized. The study, the first of its kind, shows a rate of sexual assault more than seven times higher than that indicated by a 2008 Justice Department report that collected sexual abuse claims to juvenile facility administrators. It is also higher than a similar study of adult prisons because of the "very high rate of staff sexual misconduct," said Allen Beck, who directed the survey for the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
The survey of 9,198 youths ages 13 to 21 — all in custody by order of a juvenile court — included methods to eliminate interviews considered unreliable. The survey covered 195 facilities, at least one in each state. Approximately 26,550 juveniles — 91% of them boys — are held in more than 500 such facilities around the country.
The survey showed that 10.3% of youths reported the sexual contact was with staff, compared with 2.6% who reported sexual victimization by other youths. In nearly half the incidents with staff, youths reported having sexual contact as a result of force.
The study sets a wider definition of sexual contact than rape, Beck said. Nonetheless, "these are all things that in the outside world would be considered violent or, by definition in law, they are illegal," he said.
Sexual victimization of youths in custody "is one of those hidden closets of the system," said Bart Lubow, director of the juvenile justice and strategy group for the Annie E. Casey Foundation, which advocates for children. The rates at the worst facilities are "so high they're stunning," he said. "I am, on the other hand, never surprised as people peel the layers of the youth corrections onion and expose more and more things that make you cry."
Linda McFarlane of Just Detention International, an advocacy group focused on eliminating sexual abuse in prison, called the highest rates of abuse "shocking beyond belief."
"The incredibly high rates of staff misconduct is shocking and disturbing," McFarlane said. "We just need to do a better job with training and recruitment and hiring and supervision."
The survey showed that gay youths reported higher levels of sexual abuse from other juveniles, and so did youths who had been abused before coming to the facility.
That makes the survey valuable for juvenile facilities other than the type covered in the survey, she said. "While we can't say we know what's happening in, say, the smaller group-home settings … we can look at the information in this report and use it to protect those (particularly vulnerable) kids."
In Maryland, where 36% of youths surveyed at Backbone Mountain Youth Center said they had been victimized, the state Department of Juvenile Services said in a statement Thursday there will be an independent investigation by the state human resources and health agencies.
At Pendleton Juvenile Correctional Facility in Indiana, which also had among the highest rates of abuse in the study, four female guards were suspended a month ago after a report of sexual abuse, said Edwin Buss, state corrections commissioner.
Indiana officials say their own surveys show a much lower rate of sexual victimization.
"We're not denying that this happens," said Amanda Copeland, executive director of research and technology for the state Corrections Department. "We would be foolish to say that it never happens. We're just questioning the extent to which it's being reported" by the Justice Department. But the survey "gives us something to work with. Whether we agree with the percentages or the ratings or not, we recognize that we have issues and we need to address them, and we're taking steps to do so."Updated 1/7/2010 9:45 PM... more
When Miami increases its residency restrictions on registered sex offenders, unintended consequences result. Many offenders are forced into homelessness due to the lack of affordable and compliant housing, while others are funneled into the few places where they are legally allowed to reside. These new laws were enacted to protect the Miami community, but may be doing more harm than good. Is the culture and ideology behind such laws really what's best for our children?When Miami increases its residency restrictions on registered sex offenders,... more
Manuella St. Germain. 44-year-old paraprofessional at a Pelham middle schoolhas been arrested for the alleged sexual assault of two male juveniles. She has been charged with three counts of sexual assault. She pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges she sexually assaulted two boys.
Pelham Police Detectives received a complaint from the Division for Children Youth and Families that alleged two male juveniles had been sexually assaulted. The boys Manuella St. Germain is accused of sexually assaulting were not students at the middle school where she worked.
St. Germain's lawyer, Melissa Penson of Nashua, said in an interview in the courthouse yesterday that her client would respond to the charges as the case unfolds.
"There is plenty that is going to come out in the court case," Penson said.
No information is available on the time and place of the incidents, what happened or the alleged victims' ages, The court files in the case are sealed.
Mannion said no additional charges have been filed in the case. A probable cause hearing is scheduled for Jan. 27 in Salem District Court.Manuella St. Germain. 44-year-old paraprofessional at a Pelham middle schoolhas been... more
Sherry Darrnell Gentle, 25-year-old teacher at Arthur F. Smith Middle Magnet Schoolhas been arrested for allegedly engaging in sex with a 15-year-old male student. She has been charged with three counts of felony carnal knowledge of a juvenile.
The boy was a student in Gentle’s class this school year.The reported sex acts happened at Gentle’s home, not at the school
According to the local Sheriff’s Office, Gentle was arrested less than a month ago in connection with this case. On Dec. 14, she was arrested and charged with stalking. The charge was in connection with the same boy.
Bond on that charge was set at $10,000. Gentle was released the same day as her arrest on that bond.
Gentle was booked into custody on the carnal knowledge charges at the Rapides Parish Jail with bond set at $3,000.Sherry Darrnell Gentle, 25-year-old teacher at Arthur F. Smith Middle Magnet Schoolhas... more
As this year winds down and the television channels lay fallow before the January kick-off, there's not a lot for a dedicated TV-watcher to do except see which show marathon on which channel will likely suck away six hours of your day if you're careful.
Let me make a suggestion: try the Law & Order: SVU marathon, which airs on Sunday, December 27, 2009, from 9 a.m. eastern on. I say this not because shows about busting up child slavery routes and questioning whether the law is protecting the right person in fetal alcohol cases is a real post-holiday mood lifter. I say this because the show is refreshing. Let me count the ways:
The women on this show tend to be dignified. In a TV landscape where women are routinely shown as hyperemotional and unprofessional (I'm looking at you, Grey's Anatomy and Ugly Betty), watching the no-nonsense Detective Olivia Benson is a cool, calm drink of water. I have big love for Diane Neal as ADA Casey Novak as well. Maybe it's residual trauma from the Ally McBeal era; I'm just grateful when a female lawyer on TV isn't hallucinating or openly weeping over her ticking biological clock.
The detectives on the show are aware of gender and how it may make people susceptible to certain crimes -- but they don't see the law in gendered terms. In other words, this is the exact opposite approach of every story you've ever seen in a newspaper where some crackpot legislator decides that the role of the state is to tell private citizens what's what in their uteri. I'm not suggesting that the show is an oasis of feminism -- but it is populated by characters who do not see the world in terms of "people" and then "women."
Finally, knowing that every Law & Order: SVU episode is going to have the same structure -- reveal of the victim, detective taking point, detecting and strategizing going on, presumed perp caught after a few scenes, the legal wrangling that does or doesn't get the perp off the hook, the ironic final scene that's supposed to make you think -- oh, my gosh, it is soothing to know that no matter how insane the rest of TV's scripted or reality fare may get, there will be one show where Olivia Benson, eyes shining with righteous wrath and a jaw as set as her sense of duty, is fixing the world in under 53 minutes.
Tabitha J. Hritz, 18-year-old Sussex County woman has been arrested by Delaware State Police for allegedly engaging in a three-month sexual relationship with a 10-year-old boy.
Hritz has been charged with 18 counts of rape and one count of continuous sexual abuse of a child, son of man she dated.
State police were alerted after the victim had a discussion with a school counselor about his poor performance at school. Reportedly, the boy was assaulted by Hritz at his home during a period when she was having a relationship with the boy's dad.Tabitha J. Hritz, 18-year-old Sussex County woman has been arrested by Delaware State... more
Wendy Rogers, 39-year-old Boy Scout troop leader, was caught engaging in sex with a Boy Scout. Rogers faces a charge of criminal sexual assault. According to the St. Clair County Sheriff, the parents, who'd been shopping, returned to their home when they heard noise coming from the bedroom and caught Wendy Rogers having sex with their son.
The parents blocked the door so Rogers couldn't escape, then called 911 dispatchers, to whom they reported a "rape in progress." Three police officers arrived at the home and found, "A 39-year-old female was being detained in the caller's son's bedroom."
nvestigators say the two may also have had intercourse at Rogers' home and during a camping trip. Rogers was booked into custody at the St. Clair County Jail with bond set at $100,000.Wendy Rogers, 39-year-old Boy Scout troop leader, was caught engaging in sex with a... more
Dana Sue Stikeleather, 28-year-old woman from Tampa, Florida, has been arrested for allegedly engaging in sex with a 15-year-old boy. She has been charged with lewd or lascivious battery.
According to the Pasco County Sheriff's Office, Stikeleather said she had sex with the boy because she was "curious." The report says Stikeleather and the boy had sex at least three times in July.Dana Sue Stikeleather, 28-year-old woman from Tampa, Florida, has been arrested for... more
Michelle Leigh Kemp, 30-year-old Crestview, FL, woman has been accused of engaging in sex with a 15-year-old boy and providing him with marijuana and prescription pills. Kemp is charged with lewd and lascivious acts on a child and delivery of a controlled substance.
Kemp picked the boy up and drove to a ballpark, where Kemp gave the boy marijuana and prescription pills. They then drove to the Callaway area, Corley said, and had sex in the vehicle.
When the boy returned home, an adult at the house saw the two together and confronted the juvenile. The boy's mother said Kemp previously was invovled (sic) with the boy in Okaloosa County but charges were dropped when she agreed to undergo counseling.
The boy told the adult what happened, and the adult called Springfield police. Sheriff's deputies became involved because the incident allegedly occurred in Callaway.
In Okaloosa County, where she first was accused, Sheriff’s Investigator Ralph Garrett said, “She’s going to be coming in to see me pretty shortly” and her case “is about to be reopened.”
The case in Bay began Nov. 25, when the boy’s mother brought him from Crestview to Springfield for Starting Over Straight, a drug addiction program, the report said. The next day, staff said he left the facility and returned with drugs.
Springfield police later said he got them from Kemp, his neighbor in Crestview, who made the 100-mile trip and picked him up at the back door of the treatment facility.
Kemp’s offense report indicated she has children who were friends with the boy’s family.Michelle Leigh Kemp, 30-year-old Crestview, FL, woman has been accused of engaging in... more
my Elizabeth Yarbrough, 32-year-old English teacher at Atkins High School, Winston-Salem/Forsyth County, has been arrested for allegedly engaging in an inappropriate relationship with a student.
School Superintendent Don Martin suspended Yarbrough without pay. She faces multiple felony counts of sexual activity with a student and indecent liberties with a student.
The investigation arose out of a Nov. 18 report from a staff member at the school about the possibility of an inappropriate relationship with a studentAlthough the school is in Winston-Salem, he said, the sheriff's department took responsibility for the investigation because Atkins' school resource officer is a deputy sheriff. After the investigation had started, someone else made similar allegations against the same teacher.my Elizabeth Yarbrough, 32-year-old English teacher at Atkins High School,... more
Marinelli, now 41, pleaded guilty in court last thursday morning. Married mother of two faced up to 15 years in prison but avoided any time behind bars. Instead, prosecutors and her defense attorney agreed to a stringent probationary sentence that includes a year of house arrest and no contact with children under 18 without supervision.Marinelli, now 41, pleaded guilty in court last thursday morning. Married mother of... more
21-year-old Florida woman, Pilar Rocha, was arrested in Florida by federal agents for allegedly forcing a seven-year-old boy to have sex with her. The alleged crime occurred in Gastonia while Rocha was babysitting the boy.
Rocha faces charges of of first-degree rape of a child and disseminating obscene material to a minor less than 13.
According to arrest records, Pilar Rocha of Homestead Fla., showed several pornographic videos to the 7-year-old boy. When the boy went into the bathroom, Rocha allegedly followed him and they engaged in sexual intercourse, according to a warrant affidavit.
The alleged incident occurred in November and December of 2007. Rocha is now 21, but at the time of the alleged incident, she was 19.
Gastonia police said the boy gathered the courage to tell his mother what had happened. She told police. Sometime during the investigation, Rocha disappeared.
Police came close to capturing Rocha a year ago. She had been arrested on a prostitution charge in Miami, but made bond before the Gastonia police could have a hold placed on her.
FBI agents in Miami learned that Rocha was wanted and told Gastonia Police where they could find her.21-year-old Florida woman, Pilar Rocha, was arrested in Florida by federal agents for... more
In September, a 13-year-old girl in Florida named Hope Witsell hanged herself. Raised in a rural Florida suburb, she was the only child of a church-going couple who met in the post office where they're both employed. "She often went fishing with her father in her big, white-framed sunglasses," according to the excellent reporting in this story in the St. Petersburg Times.
Last week, Hope's suicide became the second with a clear link to sexting and the peer torture that can follow from it. At the end of seventh grade last spring, Hope sent a photo of her breasts to a boy she liked, and the picture went viral at her school. "Tons of people talk about me behind my back and I hate it because they call me a whore!" Hope wrote in her journal before her death. Jessie Logan, who was 18 and lived outside Cincinnati, hanged herself last July after nude photos she sent to her boyfriend circulated widely among teenagers she knew. What explains this awful chain of events that leads to tragedy? Is this just the usual bullying, only with different tools, or a distinct harm unto itself? And are these isolated cases or legitimate cause for the wider uproar over sexting?
As a grown-up and a parent, at first I was skeptical about how prevalent anything this blindly risky could really be. But I'm starting to think I was wrong. In three polls that have been conducted on the prevalence of sexting, the numbers are fairly high. The latest, which looks methodologically solid, is an MTV-Associated Press poll reported last week of about 1,450 teens and young adults aged 14 to 24. More than one-quarter said they'd been involved in sexting in some way. Ten percent had sent out naked pictures of themselves on a cell phone or online. And 17 percent of the kids who'd received such a picture reported passing it along to someone else.
Those results match up fairly well with research by Sameer Hinduja and Justin Patchin, academics who direct the Cyberbullying Research Center, based on their 2007 survey of about 1,900 middle-schoolers. About 12 percent of the kids in that survey said they'd taken a picture of someone and posted it online without permission. That's a lower number than the MTV-AP poll, and the photos involved weren't necessarily sexually compromising. But these kids are younger, and the data was collected two years ago. So, again, dismaying. "Kids do it without thinking," Hinduju says of sexting. "It's a courtship ritual between boyfriend and girlfriend. Or in a more severe situation, there is coercion or trickery to get the picture. But it's becoming commonplace behavior, even if it seems moronic to you and me. We're talking about the neurological immaturity of youth."
As an American journalist in Japan, Jake Adelstein uncovered a world unknown to many of the Japanese public, let alone to foreigners: the world of organized crime. For 12 years, he investigated for Japan's largest newspaper, the Yomiuri Shinbun.
In his final story, Adelstein went toe-to-toe with one of the country's most notorious crime bosses, a discovery that led to death threats for him and his family — death threats that have yet to be lifted. His new memoir about his experiences is called Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan.
After leaving the paper in 2005, Adelstein was chief investigator for a U.S. State Department-sponsored study of human trafficking in Japan. Today he is considered one of the foremost experts on organized crime in Japan, and works as a writer and consultant in Japan and the United States.
Adelstein is also the public relations director for the Washington, D.C.-based Polaris Project Japan, which combats human trafficking and the exploitation of women and children in the sex trade. He joins Terry Gross to talk about that work, his book and the organized-crime landscape in Japan.
