A criminal case against an Indiana woman came to an end when a federal judge handed 36-year-old Annamarie Fleischman a 50-year prison sentence after she pleaded guilty to charges of sexual exploitation of children and receipt of child pornography. Her sentence of confinement also carries a lifetime term of supervision upon release from federal prison. Fleischman entered her guilty plea on April 20.
Amazon has reported finding hundreds of thousands of pieces of suspected child sexual abuse material in data collected for training its AI models last year, though the company has provided limited information about the material’s origins to child safety officials.
ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents arrested an Arizona church youth group leader earlier this month on charges related to attempting to produce child pornography and possession of child sexual abuse material. The man allegedly led youth groups for multiple religious organizations in the Phoenix area, according to ICE officials.
The U.S. Marshals service discovered a missing teen girl from New York being held in a hotel room by two illegal aliens in a Chicago suburb.
A toddler abducted from New Haven, Connecticut, in October 1999 has been found alive in Mexico.
A South Elgin, Illinois, girl who vanished years ago was located in North Carolina on Saturday and will be reunited with her family.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents found three tender-age children abandoned on remote ranchlands near the Texas border with Mexico. Elsewhere in Texas, Kingsville Station agents found a juvenile who was reported missing.
Missing California teen Connerjack Oswalt, who disappeared in 2019 when he was 16 years old, was found in Utah and reunited with his family. Body camera footage, obtained by KSTU, captured the emotional moments.
A Miami man received 25 years in prison for sex trafficking a 16-year-old girl and an adult woman, whom he subjected to his “Torture Chamber.”
A program manager for the sergeant-at-arms of the U.S. House of Representatives was arrested and faces ten felony charges connected to alleged possession of child pornography.
A recent report from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children claims that Facebook had 20.3 million reported incidents of child sexual abuse material. In comparison, Pornhub’s parent company MindGeek had only 13,000 reports. Facebook accounted for 95 percent of the incidents in the report.
U.S. Marshals rescued eight missing children during a five-day rescue operation in Indiana, leading to the arrest of one person on multiple charges, including parental kidnapping.
The U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia announced charges against the operator of the world’s “largest child sexual exploitation market” and hundreds of others in the U.S. and abroad. South Korean officials seized the dark web server which contained about eight terabytes of child porn content.
Google may be helping the government conduct warrantless searches into your online behavior, according to the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
Backpage.com pleaded guilty to Texas human trafficking charges in a state district court on Thursday. The company’s CEO also pleaded guilty to money laundering.
