Man slain, son/ police officer charged

A 14-year-old Mississippi boy has been charged with murder in the slaying of his father, and a police officer charged as an accessory to the killing is also charged with sexual battery of the boy. The boy and two others — 17-year-old LeJerrious A. Perkins and 26-year-old Greg Antonio Fortenberry — are charged with murder, conspiracy to commit murder, arson and conspiracy to commit arson in the death of Kenneth Thompson of McComb. Jasper Cortez Pittman, a 25-year-old Brookhaven police officer, is charged with accessory after the fact of murder, sexual battery, third degree arson and conspiracy to commit arson.

Monroe cop facing child rape charges

A local police officer charged with having sexual relationship with a girl for nearly a decade will be in court Tuesday.  Investigators said the sexual relationship between former Monroe police officer Carlos Martinez and his victim started when she was 14. Detectives said they found sex tapes and other videos of the victim in Martinez' home that had been taken with a hidden camera.

Westmoreland police officer charged with statutory rape

John Puckett, 49, of Westmoreland, is accused of having sex with the girl on at least two occasions, at various locations around town including a church parking lot. Smith said he only learned of the allegations after he went by Puckett's home Tuesday. He had not shown up for his shift that morning. 

Investigators said Puckett also sent the teen nude photos and a video of himself. Smith said Puckett handed over his badge and gun before their conversation at his home ended.

Since June, Puckett has carried police badge 506 full-time for the Westmoreland Police Department. 

Suspended New Orleans police officer indicted in 3 cases involving alleged abuse of minors

NEW ORLEANS — A grand jury Thursday indicted a New Orleans police officer, who has been suspended without pay since April, in three separate cases involving the alleged sexual abuse of minors. Desmond Pratt was formally charged with forcible rape of a minor and sexual battery of a minor in a case involving a 15-year-old girl. He also was indicted on a charge of carnal knowledge of a juvenile after a Texas resident contacted the police department claiming she had been victimized by Pratt in 1997 when she was a student at a New Orleans public school. The final charge, sexual battery of a minor, involves a complaint of sexual abuse filed against Pratt on Dec. 4, 2001. In that case, police said the victim alleged Pratt sexually violated her when she was a student at a different New Orleans public school.

Greeneville officer facing child porn charges

GREENEVILLE (AP) - Federal authorities have charged a Greenville police officer with possessing and receiving child pornography. Herbert Eugene Miller is accused of downloading more than 80 images of children to a laptop computer in a police patrol car.The FBI said Miller was assigned to the car during the time when the searches were conducted.

Milwaukee officer charged with sexual assault of a child.

A Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Department officer sentenced to 40 years in prison for child porn photos is now charged with 12 counts of sexual assault of a child.

Philip Wentzel, an inmate at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terra Haute, Ind., is accused of performing sexual acts with the young victims he was filming in May 2010 at a campsite in Fond du Lac County, according to a criminal complaint.

Wentzel has been in custody at the Fond du Lac County Jail since June, awaiting a plea and sentencing hearing, said Fond du Lac County Circuit Court Judge Gary Sharpe. Wentzel appeared in court Thursday with public defender Laurel Munger.

The sexual assault charges, filed in February, state that videos obtained from Wentzel show him performing sexual acts on girls ages 7, 14 and 15, and that the children appear drugged, according to the complaint.

Wentzel was sentenced in December 2012 after pleading guilty in federal court to seven counts of producing child pornography.

Suspended Springfield police officer Rafael Nazario to resign as part of plea bargain in rape case

SPRINGFIELD - Police officer Rafael Nazario- who has been on unpaid suspension since being charged with rape in late 2011 - will resign from the department as part of a plea agreement in the case. Nazario pleaded guilty t to one count of assault and battery and one count of providing liquor to a person under 21. The prosecution dropped the rape charge and reduced an indecent assault and battery charge to assault and battery.

City rejects plea to reinstate cop accused of child rape

LAWRENCE Mass.— The city yesterday rejected a plea to reinstate a cop Mayor William Lantigua fired last month after the officer was accused of sexually assaulting children in Florida and New Hampshire. In a four-sentence ruling, Personnel Director Frank Bonet denied the grievance filed by the Lawrence Patrolmen’s Association arguing that Officer Carlos Gonzalez should be reinstated to his $60,000-a-year job.

Gonzalez was charged in December with raping a girl under the age of 12 in Haines City, Fla., earlier that year. The charges caused New Hampshire law enforcement officials to reopen their investigation into allegations that Gonzalez sexually assaulted a girl under age 13 in Salem, N.H., in 1992 and 1993. He was indicted on those charges in June.

NJ cop sentenced on child endangerment charge/register as a sex offender

Jeffrey Kimmel a northern New Jersey police officer convicted of child endangerment has been sentenced to seven years in state prison. Kimmel will also have to register as a sex offender and will be placed on lifetime parole once he's freed. He was convicted of the charge in April by a Bergen County jury that also cleared him of child sexual assault charges. Prosecutors claimed Kimmel fondled a 6-year-old girl in a relative's home in 2010. But the defense argued the girl's "sketchy memory meant Kimmel should be acquitted on both counts.

Officer accused of raping child allowed to have kids at wedding

Christopher R. Warren, a Beaverton, Ore., police officer accused of raping a 5-year-old child will be allowed to have children at his wedding. He  will marry former high school classmate Meliah Colon on Aug. 3 at Camas Meadows Golf Course, according to court documents filed in Clark County Superior Court.

After his arrest in May on suspicion of first-degree child rape, Judge Barbara Johnson prohibited Warren from having contact with minors.

"This has caused us to tell everyone attending the wedding that no kids can attend …" Warren wrote in a court motion heard Wednesday. "This includes our own kids, who were all supposed to be participants in the wedding."

Warren also asked Johnson to allow him to have contact with his two children after the wedding.

Before he was accused of raping a child, he said that he, Colon and their respective children from previous relationships "lived together as a happy family" in Vancouver, and "all of our kids have attended school together."

Deputy Prosecutor Randy St. Clair, standing in for Senior Deputy Prosecutor Alan Harvey, objected to Warren's request, Harvey said.

Johnson granted Warren's motion to socialize with children at his wedding but did not modify the order of no contact with minors, with the exception of the wedding, Harvey said.

An estimated 120 adults are expected to attend the wedding, Warren indicated.

Warren's trial is scheduled for Dec. 16 but is likely to be delayed until February because of scheduling conflicts, his attorneys, Louis Byrd Jr. and Ernest Warren Jr., have said.

Warren and Colon dated 15 years ago in high school and reconnected more than two years ago, Warren wrote in his motion.

He remains on paid administrative leave from his police job. He was temporarily relieved from duty in April, when he was arrested in Washington County, Ore., on suspicion of misusing food stamps.

A probable cause affidavit filed in court indicates that Vancouver police received a report that Warren had fondled the five-year-old's genital area during a bath. In a May 14 interview at Clark County Children's Justice Center, the child said that Warren also had penetrated the child's private parts with a pencil, the court records state.

This isn't the first time the officer has been accused of such a crime, according to published reports.

Warren was put on paid leave in 2010 while Multnomah County and Washington County authorities investigated allegations that he failed to report suspected child abuse about six years ago involving a friend, The Oregonian reported. The friend, Sugar Ray Black, was convicted earlier in 2010 of sexually abusing three other girls who were 14 or younger.

That same year, the Multnomah County District Attorney's office also investigated separate claims that Warren had molested a minor girl when he was 17, according to the newspaper. Oregon prosecutors did not charge Warren with a crime because the victim declined to cooperate, the newspaper reported.

Not guilty pleas entered for former Mount Horeb officer charged with sexual assault of 14-year-old boy

A Dane County judge Thursday entered not guilty pleas on behalf of a former Mount Horeb police lieutenant charged with repeated sexual assault of a 14-year-old runaway who moved into his Madison apartment.

Dane County Circuit Judge Ellen Berz entered the pleas for Dennis Jenks, 44, who also is charged with eight counts of sexual exploitation of a child and 24 counts of possessing child pornography.

In July, the former music director of a Middleton church pleaded no contest to sexually assaulting the same Beloit boy, who at the time was living with Jenks.

James "Alex" Gillespie, 48, of Port Charlotte, Fla., who was music director of St. Luke's Lutheran Church in Middleton, is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 4.

Former Anniston police officer charged with sex abuse

An Anniston police officer was charged Thursday with sexually abusing a child younger than 12, court records online show. The 39-year-old Wellington man allegedly sexually abused a girl from November 2009 until July, according to the warrant for his arrest. Anniston police Chief Shane Denham said the former patrol officer of five years resigned on July 23.

cop gets bond in sex case

STAUNTON — John C. Nuckolls a taunton cop and one-time school resource officer charged in May with trying to have sex with a fictitious teen girl was given a $10,000 secured bond Monday.

Nuckolls, 55, of Staunton, faces two charges of attempted indecent liberties with a minor and two charges of use of electronic means to solicit sex from a minor following his May 19 arrest.

Authorities arrested Nuckolls after he made plans to see a fictitious 14-year-old girl he met on the Internet, according to a Staunton police report.

Police said Nuckolls was in an Internet chat room when he made contact with a male police officer posing as the girl. The online conversations between Nuckolls and the undercover officer were sexual in nature, police said.