Sexual Offenses

The Case of the Missing Investigator

Schools' Web Monitor Gets Probation

A New Sex Offender Takes Residence Under the Julia Tuttle -- Voluntarily

Julia Tuttle Bridge-Dweller Goes Home

Alleged Molester Arrested

The Names

South Florida Firm Finds 90,000 Sex Offenders on MySpace

Not every sex offender lives under a bridge, in fact if they're not in jail, many have relatively normal living conditions complete with internet connections and MySpace accounts. Sentinel Tech Holding, a Miami-based firm, specializes in detecting registered sex offenders on social networking sites ... More >>

Reno Reconsidered (Part B)

The evidence was not there. The kids' stories were outrageous beyond belief. But that didn't stop Janet Reno from trying to destroy Bobby Fijnje.

The public was shocked. Country Walk parents demanded action. An election was near. Janet Reno was going to send someone to jail. No matter what.

Reno Consideration ( Part A) If she is confirmed as U.S. Attorney General, Janet Reno's ability to maintain discipline and impartiality among a vast bureaucracy of prosecutors will be tested like never before. The notorious cases examined here, drawn from

Julia Tuttle Sex Offender Charged in New Sexual Battery Case

Experts have said it all along: Sex offenders in transient environments are far more likely to repeat-offend. To say that's the only reason for an alleged sexual battery that occurred Monday is a stretch -- but it certainly didn't help. Miami police charged Julia Tuttle Causeway resident and r ... More >>

The Compassionate Omission

When is a rape not a rape? When it becomes "assault" in the pages of the Miami Herald.

Unequal Justice

At federal prisons across the country, guards are preying on inmates. FDC Miami is no different.

Aventura Lawyer Goes After Pedophile Priests

The Catholic Church must hate this guy.

Homeless Sex Offenders Face Eviction

State officials scrap under-the-bridge policy.

Letters from the Issue of January 3, 2008

"It's unacceptable that Commissioner Rebeca Sosa refuses to take responsibility for what she's done."

Sex Offenders Set Up Camp

The Julia Tuttle becomes a colony. Politicians pass the buck.

Artist as Prisoner

Ed Bobb punched a few keys and went to jail. Where's the justice?

Letters from the Issue of March 15, 2007

"Your excellent article exposed the ugly truth."

Swept Under the Bridge

Sex offenders are ordered to sleep near a center for abused kids

The Doctor, Part 1

He's accused of child abuse. But slow down, folks. Think it over.

– How to Get Away with – MURDER

A woman witnesses her boyfriend's murder, is then raped, and now faces criminal charges herself. Unbelievable but true

The Principal, the Pedophile, His Pastor, Her Parish

An exclusive private school finds itself in turmoil after parents revolt

Love and Violation, Part 3

Following death threats to alleged rape victim Bridget Garcia, two police departments open new investigations

Love & Violation, Part 2

Bridget Garcia swears she was raped. The Aventura police chief says her story stinks. If anything stinks, it's the Aventura Police Department's own investigation.

Carnival? Try Criminal

What happens when a female passenger is assaulted on a cruise ship? Not much.

A South Beach Love Story

A playboy's steamy sexual liaison leads to a tangled investigation and a police feud

Extended Sentence

A convicted pedophile earns his release but can't escape from himself

City of Miami to Julia Tuttle Squatters: If You're Not a Molester, You Gotsta Go!

"You on the [sexual predator] list?"​For about two years, Daniel Zajac has lived in a tent tucked behind a big tree along the northern banks of the Julia Tuttle Causeway. "I can't live in a shelter," explains the jittery 47-year-old transient who wears a baseball cap reading "New York" and a Willi ... More >>

Homeless under Julia Tuttle try to pass for sex offenders

"You on the [sexual predator] list?"​For about two years, Daniel Zajac has lived in a tent tucked behind a big tree along the northern banks of the Julia Tuttle Causeway. "I can't live in a shelter," explains the jittery 47-year-old transient who wears a baseball cap reading "New York" and a Willi ... More >>

Sex Offenders Might Be Banned From Dressing as Santa or Clowns in Florida

​With the saga of sex offenders living under the Julia Tuttle Causeway finally coming to something of an end, a new state law seeks to dictate not where registered sex offenders live, but rather how they dress. The Sun-Sentinel reports that criminals convicted of sex crimes involving children woul ... More >>

California Governor Candidate Wants to Put Pedophiles on an Island, Sounds Oddly Familiar

via CurbedLA​A minor candidate in California's governor race has proposed an oddly familiar idea for dealing with convicted sex offenders and pedophiles: he wants to put them all on an island. No, Ron Book has not moved to the Golden State.Douglas Hughes, a dark horse Republican candidate, has mad ... More >>

Michael Lyons, Cult Leader Who Raped Female Followers, Might Have Victims in Miami

Michael Lyons might have found some of his victims in Miami, where he owned a house.​Michael Lyons, also known as Mohan Singh, led a bizarre spiritual cult; lived a lavish, globetrotting lifestyle; and claimed to know Hollywood stars. He is also accused of raping many of his female devotees, telli ... More >>

Walter Coleman, Retired Priest, Sued for Molesting an Altar Boy in Connecticut

St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Fairfield, CT where Coleman worked at the time of the alleged abuse​It's not just disgraced Latin American dictators who come to South Florida to bury their dirty pasts. Apparently, men of the cloth do as well.Walter Philip Coleman, a retired priest now living in Pompa ... More >>

Willard Trent Sues Archdiocese of Miami for $5 Million Over Alleged Sexual Abuse

Fr. Thomas Dennehy, who died in 1999.​Willard Trent, 13-years-old at time of alleged abuse​In what could be the first test of its new leadership, the Archdiocese of Miami is defending itself against charges it concealed the sexual abuse of at least one altar boy since the late 1960s.In a lawsuit ... More >>

Child-Porn Suspect Was Set to Play Santa at Miami Middle School

​Charlie Garcia, 30 an 11-year employee at Paul W. Bell Middle School, located in west Miami-Dade, was all set to play Santa Claus for the school's holiday festivities. Then Broward Sheriff's Officers knocked on his door. They arrested him for the very un-Santa like crime of possessing child porn ... More >>

Four Women Claim Sexual Assault at Doral Golf Resort and Spa

​Four women have come forward and claimed they were sexually assaulted by employees at the spa at Doral Golf Resort & Spa. Two woman came forward with their allegations in early February, and now, according to NBCMiami, two other women plan to sue the resort for sexual assault by spa work ... More >>

Pedobear Makes Awkwardly Appropriate Appearance in Florida Coupon Book

​Pedobear, the online meme meant to mock pedophiles, recently popped up in a Lakeland, Florida coupon book for a computer parts distribution company called CP Distributor. Unfortunately, CP also stands for "child pornography," and it appears some clueless coupon designer included the image not kno ... More >>

Bieyanka Moore, Reality Kings' 15-Year-Old Porn Star?

Right: photo from Bieyanka Moore's Myspace; Left: C.S.'s missing child photo.​In January 2010, a 15-year-old girl from Palm Beach Shores -- though her name has already been broadcasted on the internet, we'll call her C.S. -- ran away from home. Eight months later, porn site Reality Kings, owned ... More >>

Reality Kings sued for casting a 15-year-old runaway in a porn

Right: photo from Bieyanka Moore's Myspace; Left: C.S.'s missing child photo.​In January 2010, a 15-year-old girl from Palm Beach Shores -- though her name has already been broadcasted on the internet, we'll call her C.S. -- ran away from home. Eight months later, porn site Reality Kings, owned ... More >>

University of Miami Football Player Jeffrey Brown Charged with Rape

​Jeffrey Brown, a 19-year-old red shirt Freshman on the University of Miami Hurricanes football team, has been charged with raping a woman on the school's Coral Gables campus. Brown has been suspended from the team indefinitely.

Teen porn star Bieyanka Moore's disaster

​Jeffrey Brown, a 19-year-old red shirt Freshman on the University of Miami Hurricanes football team, has been charged with raping a woman on the school's Coral Gables campus. Brown has been suspended from the team indefinitely.

Anthony Mangione, South Florida's Top Immigration Cop, Arrested on Child Porn Charges

​Anthony Mangione, the chief of the the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's South Florida department, was arrested today on charges related to child pornography. Mangione had been suspended in April after federal investigators found images of child porn on his computer in his Broward County ... More >>

Florida Court Rules Pasting Kids' Faces on Naked Adult Bodies is Not Child Porn

​Danny Parker, a Sunday school teacher from Lakeland, Florida, was arrested and eventually convicted on child porn charges in 2009 after he was found to have cut out the faces of children from photos he'd taken and then pasted them on the bodies of explicit photos of adults. Now, a Florida appeals ... More >>

Royal Caribbean doesn't care about employees raped at sea, a lawyer says

​Danny Parker, a Sunday school teacher from Lakeland, Florida, was arrested and eventually convicted on child porn charges in 2009 after he was found to have cut out the faces of children from photos he'd taken and then pasted them on the bodies of explicit photos of adults. Now, a Florida appeals ... More >>

Pastor Jose Campos Jailed for Allegedly Sexually Touching 11-Year-Old

​Jose Campos, a local pastor more comfortable behind the pulpit, finds himself behind bars this morning. Campos stands accused of sexual battery of a minor after an 11-year-old girl told a teacher about the abuse. Campos has admitted as much to police, but says that the touching happened by accide ... More >>

Math Teacher Jerome Pearson Found With 1,500 Child Porn Images in Hialeah

​Jerome Emery Pearson, a Hialeah resident and former math teacher at a Broward public school, has plead guilty to possession of child pornography after a gigantic stash of lewd images were found on his personal laptop computer. Pearson was initially released on bond, but couldn't keep away from po ... More >>

Miami Man Thinks Uploading a Sex Tape of a 14-Year-Old to Facebook is a Good Idea, Promptly Gets Arrested

​When trying to get revenge on someone, it's best that your plan doesn't end up getting you arrested for child pornography charges.Take Rashad Hannibal Jackson for example. He wanted to get back at an ex for "disrespecting" him, so he decided to upload a tape he had secretly made while the two wer ... More >>

Steven Warren Arrested for Multiple Rapes of Homeless Women

​Police believe Steven Warren, 37, prowled the Overtown area of Downtown Miami preying on homeless women. Warren was arrested on New Years Day and charged with raping two women, and police believe he may be responsible for more. Warren has also been linked to the death of a woman in a popular ... More >>

Don Bartling of Miami Arrested for Having Possibly Thousands of Child Porn Movies on His Computer

​Don Bartling, a 54-year-old Miami resident and a student at Florida International University, has been arrested on charges of downloading and sharing child pornography. Bartling, according to a criminal complaint, told officials that he started downloading child pornography sometime in the past t ... More >>