- 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...