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It sounds like the beginning of a 1970s horror flick based on a Stephen King novel. A 16-year-old girl leaves the safety of the crowd at an innocent Homecoming dance and ends up incoherently drunk and crumpled under a picnic table, dress askew and a trail of grisly pieces of evidence – a high-heeled shoe, […]

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 […]

We all know that the justice system doesn’t always work the way that it should. The work of Project Innocence has proved this to be true – juries don’t always understand their instructions or the evidence before them.  But in the case of Valentin Carbajal, a man accused of molesting both his stepdaughter and daughter, […]

Judge Jerome Benson cut Gilbert Lam’s bail back from $250,000 to $80,000 due to lack of evidence that the 37-year-old had distributed the images of child pornography found in his home (CA PC311). It is not unusual for law enforcement officials in California to charge an individual with distribution of child pornography when such pornographic […]

33-year-old Peter Ruiz of San Bernardino has been sentenced to 25 years for the creation, production, and distribution of child pornography.  Ruiz filmed his abuse of three young boys living in his neighborhood and then traded and sold the images online.  When area law enforcement officials raided his computer this past Halloween, they found over […]