William Mickel, 70, of Lake Hopatcong, NJ has pleaded guilty to charges of possessing and sharing child pornography. Officials said he was found with videos that depicted children at the camps where he worked A former worker at several Boy Scout camps throughout New Jersey, has pleaded guilty to charges of possessing and distributing child pornography -- including videos that depicted children at the camps where he worked. According to U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger, 70-year-old William Mickel, of Lake Hopatcong, NJ, pleaded guilty to charges of distribution and possession of child pornography. According to court documents,...

William Mickel was employed by the Boy Scouts of America in Morris County when he trafficked videos and still images of child sex abuse via email, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said. Mickel had hundreds of files stored on electronic devices in his Lake Hopatcong home, some of which "depicted children who were surreptitiously recorded using bathrooms in the Boy Scout camps where Mickel worked," Sellinger said -------------------- Local authorities originally arrested Mickel before the FBI assumed jurisdiction and gathered evidence that led to an indictment returned by a grand jury in U.S. District Court in Newark.

Jonathan Elwing, 43, and was senior pastor of Palm View Baptist Church, used cryptocurrency to make an online purchase of child sexual abuse material. Elwing was senior pastor of Palm View Baptist Church. He resigned from his position as pastor before being arrested.

Paul M. Soots, 42, is charged with 22 counts related to child molestation including several Level 1 felonies — the most serious criminal charge in Indiana outside of murder. Soots’ wife, who has since divorced him, told police she suspected her husband had been cheating on her so ended up searching his phone for proof. Located on the phone, however, were videos even more appalling, court documents claim.  Deputies reported reviewing the content of the phone and said images and video contained Soots committing sex acts on a child. Soot agreed to sign a plea deal where...

AI-generated CSAM may be protected under the First Amendment since real children are not used to create the images and, the overwhelming task of monitoring and tagging these images. This is a monstrous job that falls squarely on the shoulders of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). ----- It didn’t matter if the images were AI-generated or not—the result was the same. Viewing the images made the viewer more likely to seek out children in person to abuse. These images are easily available, and younger people are exposed to the harm that they can cause.

- Jackson County prosecutors Wednesday charged an Independence man, who police detectives identified as “a leader in a local scout troop,” with five counts of possession of child pornography. - Prosecutors charged Timothy Fry, 40, of Independence, Wednesday. - Independence police arrested and questioned Fry about disturbing images and videos found on his iPhone, according to a court document. - A tipster alerted Independence police about child sexual abuse material on Fry's cell phone. - A search of a message thread with another person in the phone's Session App revealed more than 50 images of child...

- PLANTATION, Fla. – Detectives uncovered a sordid series of chats, searches and child sexual abuse material in a Plantation woman’s online life, leading to her arrest on nearly a dozen felony charges, police allege in an arrest warrant. Some of those chats included sexual fantasies about drowning — then raping — children, the warrant states. Police said they also found another disturbing discovery on Angela Marcella Rio’s phone: a video of her sexually abusing her own dog. The 33-year-old made an appearance in Broward County court Monday after prosecutors filed formal charges earlier this month. Rio was...

“James William Nugent II, 27, of Alexandria, Virginia, has been charged with 13 counts of child pornography.” James William Nugent II, of Alexandria, Virginia, was criminally charged on Wednesday on 13 counts of child pornography and taking indecent liberties with a child, according to Fox 5. Nugent was employed as a school resource teacher at Groveton Elementary School in Alexandria. Police said that officers were dispatched to an intersection in Stratford Landing around 1:30 p.m. on Saturday after a juvenile had reported that a man had lured them into his van and exposed himself. On Wednesday morning,...

- Charging documents show prosecutors charged Rikki Lyn Laughlin, 25, with promoting obscenity in the first degree, furnishing pornographic material to a minor, attempted statutory rape in the second degree, tampering with a witness, possession of child pornography, and tampering with physical evidence. - A probable cause statement against Laughlin alleges she sent pornographic videos of herself to a 16-year-old student and received child sex abuse material from him. It alleges Laughlin invited the student to her home and said she wanted to have sex with him.  - The probable cause statement goes on to say that Laughlin...

A former youth leader for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was sentenced this week for possession of child pornography. He was also known to support Tim Ballard and his Operation Underground Railroad, which fights against child sex trafficking. Erick Allen Mosteller, 58, was convicted after pleading guilty to two second-degree felony charges of child sexual exploitation. He was sentenced to 250 days in jail, and up to four years of probation. He was originally charged with 10 counts of sexual exploitation of a child, which was shortened to two counts with the plea deal.  According...