A man who posed as a 14-year-old girl to entice children to perform sex acts in front of a web camera has been jailed for almost seven years. Barry McCluskey, 40, pleaded guilty to 49 charges, which included lewd and libidinous behaviour. The offences were committed between March 2003 and August last year at locations [...]
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Nov 2011
Man charged with kidnap of boy aged 10
November 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Police investigating the alleged kidnapping of a boy aged 10 in the West Midlands have charged a man in connection with the incident. Michael Jackson, 49, has been charged with kidnap and sexual assault in Oldbury on Sunday. The boy was reported missing after he failed to return home from the shops. Police searched for [...]
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Sep 2011
DNA that freed one man may convict other Read more
September 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, USA • The man grabbed a 14-year-old as she walked through her neighborhood, forcing her at knifepoint to a vacant garage where he raped her, sodomized her and raped her again. It was the first of a string of sexual attacks in north St. Louis from July to October 1985 that ultimately would [...]
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Nov 2010
Sex offender found in Dublin jailed
November 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
A convicted sex offender who fled the UK and was caught in the Republic of Ireland is back behind bars after featuring in an online “Most Wanted” list. Scot Fraser McLaughlin was tracked down in Dublin when someone recognised him from a picture posted by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre. The 57-year-old from [...]
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Jul 2010
Jon Venables posed as paedophile mother online
July 23, 2010 By 1 Comment
Jon Venables, one of James Bulger’s killers, posed online as a mother of an eight-year-old girl offering to sell her daughter for sex, the Old Bailey has heard. The court heard how the 27-year-old contacted convicted paedophile Leslie Blanchard from Chelmsford posing as a 35-year-old mother called Dawn, who claimed to abuse her eight-year-old daughter. [...]
