An Orlando photographer who specialized in photos of children was arrested after authorities determined that he was distributing child pornography via the Internet, newly released documents show. The arrest affidavit for 53-year-old John Earl Huntt indicates that an investigator for the state Attorney General’s office began an investigation of child pornography distribution on Nov.10, 2010.

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EVERETT — The state Department of Social and Health Services agreed Friday to pay $2.85 million to a boy whose brother was at the center of a high-profile child abuse case in Everett. The case was scheduled for trial next week in Snohomish County Superior Court. In 2007, Marilea Mitchell and her live-in boyfriend, Danny Abegg, were found guilty in Snohomish County Superior Court of criminal mistreatment after sheriff’s deputies found Abegg’s son in critical condition from malnourishment.

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TORONTO– An aspiring actress remained in jail in Canada on Friday, accused of faking a casting call for babies in an elaborate effort to snatch an infant. The suspect, identified as Michelle Marie Gopaul, is facing charges of abduction of a minor, Toronto police said in a statement. “The accused abducted a 1-month-old girl from a casting audition,” the statement said. “With the assistance of the public, police located the child.”

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COVINA — Police in Covina have busted three women they say faked a child’s funeral in a scheme to collect money. The women allegedly made signs and solicited cash donations from drivers in the 900 block of Arrow Highway, according to Covina police. Someone who had seen the same women holding up the same signs weeks before called police on Friday afternoon. Officers then located the women and questioned them.

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IRVINE — Authorities in Orange County are trying to identify several girls allegedly molested by an Irvine man in acts that were videotaped. Matthew Christopher Tye, 31, was arrested Thursday on suspicion of having sex with two minor girls. Police searched his home and found videos of him having sex with several unidentified girls.

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MOBILE, Alabama – 5:00 p.m.–Mobile County District Attorney John Tyson has authorized capital murder charges against Heather Leavell-Keaton, the woman accused of torturing Natalie and Chase DeBlase. Until late this afternoon, Keaton was only charged with child abuse and abuse of a corpse. The children’s father, John DeBlase, was charged with murder last month.

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The Italian Postal and Communications Police, supported by Europol, have uncovered a criminal group who install malicious software on businesses’ unprotected web servers to distribute shocking child sex abuse material online. The Italian Police were first alerted to the criminal activity when a grandmother, who had been innocently surfing the internet buying gifts for her grandchildren, clicked on a link to an online shop only to find herself redirected to a child abuse website. She immediately informed the police who, in early 2009, began routinely monitoring the activities of the illicit web pages which seemed to be hosted on an Italian web server.

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EVIL gang leaders who drugged girls as young as 12 for sex were yesterday jailed for a total of 19 years. Abid Mohammed Saddique, 27, and Mohammed Romaan Liaqat, 28, carried out a “reign of terror” against 26 victims in Derby. The men befriended vulnerable girls aged 12-18, giving them booze and drugs before taking them to parties where they were handed around and raped.

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TECUMSEH — Authorities say they think a 3-month-old girl died at the hands of her father. Steven Trammell, 33, of Tecumseh, is jailed in Pottawatomie County on complaints of child abuse. District Attorney Richard Smothermon said Friday he plans to file a first-degree murder charge against the man now that his daughter has died. Lydia Trammell died about 1 a.m. Friday at The Children’s Hospital at OU Medical Center, he said.

11-year-old girl claims classmate pulled knife, demanded oral sex

LAKE FOREST, CA– A 36-year-old married woman is accused flying across the country to have sex with a 13-year-old boy she befriended while playing X-Box Live online. Rachel Ann Hicks was taken into custody Friday by Orange County sheriff’s investigators. Sheriff’s investigator say the woman initially “met” the boy in September in an X-Box live chat room, Orange County Sheriff’s spokesman Jim Amormino said.

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RENOVO – A local man is jailed on $200,000 bail, charged with several sex crimes against two known juvenile males over the course of four years, according to state police at Lamar. Magisterial District Judge Frank P. Mills arraigned Jeffrey Alan Glossner, 47, of Fifth Street, on two separate incidents involving alleged sexual activity with minors. According to court papers, Renovo police officer Curt Marinon was called by a family member of one of the juveniles on Dec. 29, 2009.

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Panama City – A local man and woman, facing aggravated child abuse charges, are each being held in the Bay County jail on $250,000 bond. Panama City Police arrested the couple early yesterday morning, after a relative took their child to the hospital with 6 broken bones. Panama City Police arrested 21 year old Courtney Shaunte Lucille Hawkins and 25 year old Joseph Tyrell Duhon early Tuesday morning on a number of drug and weapons charges, but it was a child abuse investigation that initially brought authorities to their apartment.

One of Hawkins’ relative showed up at Bay Medical Center with Hawkins’ two year old daughter. The child had 6 broken bones. Department of Children and Families investigators say they’re not aware of any other abuse complaints involving this family, but this case is not rare.

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