Tag: Child Abuse
Mario Rene Garcia Martinez, Production of Child Pornography, Connecticut 2024
⏱ 2 min read Mario Rene Garcia Martinez, a 41-year-old Guatemalan national, pleaded guilty to recording his sexual abuse of a sleeping child in Connecticut. The abuse occurred on two occasions in February 2024, when Garcia Martinez used his smartphone to take images and videos of himself molesting a prepubescent minor female while she was…
Kevin Hedgpeth, Sex Trafficking, South Carolina 2026
⏱ 3 min read A 48-year-old Hanahan city official has been caught in a harrowing child sex trafficking scheme, using social media to target and exploit at least 19 underage victims. Kevin Hedgpeth, a former city councilman and mayor pro tem, allegedly posed as a minor on Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, Telegram, and X to pressure…
Kasey Lynn Skaggs, Interstate Travel for Illicit Sex and Tampering with a Victim, Tennessee 2026
⏱ 2 min read A 27-year-old Florida woman was caged for five-and-a-half years for traveling across state lines to have sex with a 14-year-old girl in Tennessee’s Eastern District. Kasey Lynn Skaggs, of Jacksonville, was sentenced April 30, 2026, after pleading guilty to two federal charges: interstate travel for illicit sex and tampering with a…
James Robert Smith, Child Molestation, California 2020
⏱ 2 min read In Wyoming, a disturbing reality is being confronted head-on: child abuse and neglect. This April, U.S. Attorney Darin Smith is teaming up with local communities to observe National Child Abuse Prevention Month, a crucial effort to protect the state’s most vulnerable citizens. The initiative aims to prevent child abuse and neglect…
James Billings, Sex Assault, Montana 2022
⏱ 3 min read A 49-year-old Billings man is behind bars for sickening sex abuse on the Crow Indian Reservation. Matthew Stopsatprettyplaces, 49, was convicted of abusing a 9-year-old girl in 2019. According to court documents, Stopsatprettyplaces gave the young victim a ride to a family member’s residence in Hardin but instead of dropping her…
Daniel Berwick, Producing and Possessing Child Pornography, New Jersey 2026
⏱ 2 min read A 38-year-old Old Bridge man has been arrested and charged with producing and possessing child pornography after authorities discovered a stash of over 1,000 explicit images on his devices. According to sources, Daniel Berwick used Snapchat to catfish two minors by posing as a 17-year-old high school student, convincing them to…
Troy Vasquez, Child Sexual Abuse Material Production, Texas 2024
⏱ 2 min read Troy Vasquez, a 31-year-old Corpus Christi resident, has admitted to producing child sexual abuse material involving a three-year-old toddler. The investigation began after law enforcement discovered Vasquez uploading child pornography over the internet, leading to a search warrant at his home. The search uncovered child sexual abuse material created the day…
Ray Gordon, Child Sexual Abuse Material Creation, Kentucky 2023
Bowling Green, KY – Ray Gordon, 37, will spend the next five years in a federal prison cell after pleading guilty to creating and possessing a horrifying cache of child sexual abuse material generated using artificial intelligence. The case, cracked by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), shines a disturbing light on the rapidly evolving ways predators…
John Magee Gavin, Online Exploitation of Minors, Massachusetts 2025
BOSTON – Former science teacher John Magee Gavin, 35, was sentenced to ten years in federal prison yesterday for exploiting vulnerable girls online. The case, stemming from a January 2025 investigation, revealed Gavin targeted girls as young as 12 in the US, Canada, and the UK, using a Discord account to groom them. Gavin, who…
Pedro Escamilla Del Rosario, Sexual Exploitation of a Minor, California 2018
Discover the disturbing case of Pedro Escamilla Del Rosario, sentenced to 30 years in prison for sexually exploiting a child. Learn more here.
