Aldair Hodza and Laura Sorensen Arrested for Child Physical, Sexual Abuse New Kent County, Virginia – Two Iowa-residents were arrested in New Kent on Tuesday for the apparent abduction and abuse of a young woman. The arrests occurred after a truck driver called the New Kent Sheriff’s Office reporting that he noticed suspicious activity at the Pilot […]

Germantown, MARYLAND – A former federal cyber-security expert who used his professional skills to hide his membership of a ‘dark web’ child pornography ring called PedoBook has been jailed for 25 years. Timothy DeFoggi, 56, of Germantown, Maryland, joined a Tor-based website which featured images of child sex abuse believing that his activity would be completely anonymous. However, federal investigators discovered DeFoggi, who was the former acting director of cyber-security at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, joined the Tor-network-based website on March 2, 2012 until the site was taken down by the FBI on December 8, 2012.

FLORIDA – A 15-year-old girl and her 11-year-old sister have been arrested in Florida and charged with the murder of their 16-year-old brother, authorities said Tuesday. The Columbia County Sheriff’s Office said that Misty “Ariel” Kornegay, 15, grabbed a handgun from her parents’ bedroom and fatally shot her brother, 16, sometime before 10 p.m. Monday in the living room of their home, and that Ariel’s sister, 11-year-old Nicole Kornegay, helped in the crime.

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA – The person who abducted 3-week-old Eliza Delcruz over the weekend is at large, and authorities have confirmed the baby was found dead in a San Diego County dumpster. The baby was kidnapped and her mother, father and uncle shot on Saturday in an incident that authorities said was not “a random act.” In a statement, Long Beach Police described the crimes as “heinous” and “horrific.”

ALICIA Kozakiewicz was lured by a sexual predator, raped, tortured and held against her will for four days. She was just 13 years old. How she survived that experience is incomprehensible, but her rescue is also equally unbelievable. While it may sound like the stuff of Hollywood films, the reality of what happened to her in January 2002 was a nightmare she can never forget.

NAMPA, Idaho—When a local nurse’s son was sent to the juvenile corrections center here at age 15, she was upset, but relieved that he would be away from drugs and gangs. The single mother said that the “night he went in, I felt bad, but I could sleep because he was safe.” But within months, the head of security at the state juvenile corrections center in Nampa struck up a sexual relationship with the teenager, according to police reports. Julie McCormick admitted to having sex with him three times in 2012 while he was incarcerated, the reports said.

A Wales man accused of shooting and killing another man while hunting two years ago is now facing several counts of child rape. Christopher S. Austin, 43, was arrested Dec. 23 on eight counts of gross sexual assault, said Lt. Glenn Holt of the Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Office. All but one of the charges is a Class A felony, Holt said. The remaining charge is a Class B.

A Hendersonville foster father charged in September with raping a 12-year-old girl who was placed in his home by the Department of Children’s Services has been indicted by a Sumner County grand jury. Randy Louis Roe, 56, of New Shackle Island Road was arrested by Sumner County Sheriff’s Office deputies on Sept. 17 and charged with one count of rape of a child.

West Virginia — A 28-year-old Logan woman has been charged with child abuse resulting in injury. According to the criminal complaint, Logan Policeman R. Adkins received a call concerning an intoxicated person on Jan. 1. Upon arriving at the residence, Adkins was informed that Reanna Browning was arguing with her mother when Reanna’s 5-year-old son exited a bedroom crying. The grandmother reportedly told Adkins “she has threw” the child “around in the bedroom.” Adkins observed that the child had a cut on the back of his arm, and redness on the back of his shoulders. Browning reportedly told Adkins that the child had fell out of the bed. Adkins allowed Browning and the child to leave.

UNDERWOOD, Kentucky — A Clark County man faces child battery charges after a Scott County Hospital doctor contacted the Indiana State Police on Saturday. Christopher A. Bruck, 27, Underwood, has been initially charged with aggravated battery and neglect of dependent resulting in serious bodily injury, both level 3 felonies.

LONG BEACH, California — A 3-week-old girl was missing Sunday from a California home where the baby’s mother, father and uncle were found shot, police said. Long Beach police were seeking an adult male in the shooting but have not said if the man is related to the missing infant. His motive was unknown but detectives do not believe the shooting was a random act, police spokeswoman Marlene Arrona said.

CALIFORNIA – Two well-developed human fetuses wrapped in a blanket have been found dead on the doorstep of a home in San Diego. The bodies – apparently twins – appeared to be five months along or older, paramedics told police. They were both attached to umbilical cords and one placenta.

Royal officials on Friday denied that Britain’s Prince Andrew engaged in any “impropriety with underage minors” after he was named in U.S. court documents related to a lengthy lawsuit against American financier Jeffrey Epstein. In papers filed to a Florida court, an unidentified woman alleged that Epstein forced her to have sex with Prince Andrew in London, New York and on a private Caribbean island owned by Epstein when she was under the age of 18. The filing said the alleged encounters took place around 1999 to 2002.

A toddler was found dumped inside a recycling bin outside a house in Winnipeg in frigid temperatures, leading to charges against a 17-year-old who police say was responsible. Police in Winnipeg said the suspect was at a house party on Pritchard Avenue when a fight broke out and another person was chased from the home. With the toddler’s mother distracted by the fight, the suspect took the 22-month-old girl and ran from the home.