Heading to the bookstore with your daughter on a sunny summer day usually doesn’t spell disaster. However, for one 10-year-old young lady and her mother, a trip to a San Francisco Barnes & Noble on W. Hillside Boulevard turned sour quickly when an unidentified 50-year-old man in a fishing hat and khaki pants led the […]
In an age where technology rules the day – for law enforcement officials and for average citizens – Facebook and other social media sites have come to be fruitful places for evidence against individuals who have been accused of inappropriate conduct with minors. The latest of these cases comes from Santa Clara County, where a […]
62-year-old Christopher Evans Hubbert, a serial rapist, has recently been released from the custody of the state prison hospital at Atascadero. He had been in prison for a period of 7 years, after which he was paroled. Hubbert then moved to the Sunnyvale area where he got up to his old tricks again. He averaged […]
63-year-old Michael Shoop’s living nightmare began 10 years ago, when he was arrested on child pornography charges and then sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison. His defense? The images showed up on his computer after he did a search on the Internet for recipes to make an asparagus dish. What does […]
40-year-old Rosemary Eusted was sentenced to 72 years + 120 years to life for the ongoing molestation of at least four children over a period of several years. Two were girls that spent time in her home and were 6 and 7 years old when the molestation occurred in 1997. Then, in 2005, Eusted molested […]
In 1989, then 20-year-old Michael Pizarro became famous – for all the wrong reasons. He was accused, and then convicted, of sexually assaulting and then murdering (CA Penal Code §187) his 13-year-old half-sister, Amber Barfield. 24 years later, no one can be sure whether or not Pizarro did it. On the one hand, there is […]
After several interviews and checking the text messages on the phone of a young girl, a warrant was put out for the arrest of Rodney Orosco, 47, an English teacher at Vacaville High. Orosco turned himself in to authorities upon learning of the warrant, but it remains to be seen whether he acted in a […]
In Los Angeles County, a man known to the public only as “J.J.,” was accused of molesting his 14-year-old daughter. Even though the girl later recanted and her father never prosecuted, a juvenile court judge decided that sexual abuse had occurred in the home and took 5 children away from their father, according to CA Welfare & […]
Marie Johnson, 42, has taught math in the Livermore area for more than 13 years. But after pleading no contest to 9 felony charges of molestation relating to her extended connection with a 14-year-old male student, she will spend a good bit of her time in prison and most likely never teach again. For four […]
When 15-year-old Audrie Pott took her own life this past September, it was, her mother claims, it was the fault of 3 boys who sexually assaulted Audrie at a party, then shared pictures of the assault with the entirety of her Saratoga high school. Each of the boys involved were arrested for 1 misdemeanor and […]