A former Council Bluffs youth pastor allegedly told the teens he is accused of sexually exploiting that he was trying to help them gain “sexual purity in the eyes of God.” Brent Girouex, 31, told Council Bluffs police detectives in February that starting in 2007 he had sexual contact with four young men who he knew while he was a youth pastor for Victory Fellowship Church. Pottawattamie County Attorney Matt Wilber said the number has risen since Girouex first talked with police on Feb. 16. Now, Wilber said there are at least eight people who have come forward.

NEWPORT BEACH — Police have arrested a man wanted for kidnapping and raping a 12-year-old girl in Fullerton while dressed as a clown. Jose Guadalupe Jimenez, 41, was arrested Friday morning in Newport Beach, more than 9 years after the crime. Detectives say a DNA match linked Jimenez to the kidnapping and rape, which happened on Jan. 19, 2002.

Police have arrested a mother and father who investigators say prostituted their teenage daughters. Police say Anthony and Kathy Hart offered people sexual favors from their 13 and 14 year old daughters in exchange for money, food, and clothes. According to the arrest report, the girls met with men at various locations in Berea, Richmond, Mount Vernon, Somerset, and Lancaster.

FREDERICK CO, MD– The Sherriff’s deputy in charge of policing Walkersville High School has been been charged with striking up a sexual relationship with a 14-year old girl there. Deputy Sam Bowman, 46, was arrested Wednesday evening and charged with child sex abuse and a fourth degree sex offense. After posting $75,000 bond, he was released.

A registered sex offender and his girlfriend both face charges of child abuse after Daytona Beach Shores police caught the woman trying to drop one of her children from a bathroom window onto a small roof so the man would not be caught with children in his apartment, police said. “Mommy held me out the window,” a 3-year-old boy told police, according to an arrest affidavit. “I was bad.”

Australian Federal Police (AFP) high-tech collection and capability manager Grant Edwards told a joint select committee this morning that the mutual legal assistance treaty with the US is outdated and not designed to allow for a rapid response to online crime. The treaty is required because Facebook is head-quartered in the United States, and is meant to speed the actioning of the police’s right to obtain information about online crime using a warrant.

ROWAN COUNTY, N.C. – A Rowan County couple has been arrested on charges of animal cruelty and child abuse, accused of leaving their children home in a house filled with trash. Angela Lore, 35, and David Lore Jr., 37, have both been charged with three counts of animal cruelty, four counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and four counts of child abuse.

WATONGA, Oklahoma — Authorities have taken booked a man into jail on a murder complaint of an 8-year-old Watonga girl. A man found his eight-year-old daughter Rosalyn Reynolds’ body around 5 a.m. Wednesday behind an apartment building at 500 Leach Street in Watonga. Police said the father saw the girl’s cousin, 20-year-old James Daukei, in the field with the body. Daukei ran from the scene when confronted by the girl’s father and two other men.

Tampa, Florida – Cameron Spurback, a 21-year-old Florida man was jailed Tuesday after he molested a 9-year-old boy in a zoo restroom before fondling himself. And no, nothing has been edited in the mugshot to the left – This is how Spurback appeared to the little boy on the day he was allegedly molested.

A New York man is currently behind bars today after being charged with raping a 4-year-old Pennsylvania girl. Jeffrey Allen Abbey Jr., of Jamestown, has been charged with felony rape of a child, felony involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child, felony aggravated indecent assault, felony sexual assault, felony statutory sexual assault, felony corruption of minor, indecent assault and simple assault.

MARS HILL, Maine — A Maine judge handed down a 15-year prison sentence to a woman convicted of sexually abusing her 2-year-old daughter and streaming the acts over the internet to a teenager in the United Kingdom. Julie Carr, 33, received a 20-year sentence last week after she was convicted on child pornography charges, according to court documents.

SAN BERNARDINO — A 35-year old man has been arrested for murder and torture after allegedly killing his 16-year old son and wounding five other family members. Deputies responded to the home in the 6700 block Merito Avenue at 9:15 a.m. Wednesday after receiving a 911 call from a neighbor reporting a man screaming for help inside the home.

CANADA–Millions of images of children being sexually abused have been seized after search warrants were executed on five New Brunswick homes Wednesday, say the RCMP. Members of the RCMP J Division’s Internet Child Exploitation Unit (ICE) and several other agencies served search warrants on homes in Moncton, Havelock, Grand Bay-Westfield, Dumfries and Petit-Rocher-Ouest.

ROWAN COUNTY, N.C. – A Rowan County couple has been arrested on charges of animal cruelty and child abuse. Thirty-five year old Angela Lore and 37-year-old David Lore Jr. have both been charged with three counts of animal cruelty, four counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and four counts of child abuse.