Sexual Offenses

Rick Ross's Reebok Endorsement Deal Killed Over "U.O.E.N.O." Rape Lyrics

Maybe the sneaker mob over at Reebok was just waiting for one of Rick Ross's homies to fire the first shot. So when Rocko announced that he was planning to strike the Bawse's rape lyrics ("Put molly all in her champagne, she ain't even know it/I took her home and I enjoyed that, she ain't even know ... More >>

Man Lured Underage Girl He Met on VampireFreaks.com to Miami for Sex

After pleading guilty to possession of child porn, a judge allowed Nelson Carrizo to spend one last holiday season at home before heading to the big house. It's a pretty common practice for nonviolent criminals who strike plea deals, but Carrizo spent his final months of freedom trolling around on V ... More >>

Coral Gables Marriott Manager Raped, Molested Housekeeper, Suit Says

Soon after a new housekeeper joined the Courtyard by Marriott in Coral Gables in 2009, the hotel's manager began personally assigning her schedule and monitoring her work. Before long, that unusual personal attention turned into unwanted sexual advances, demands for nude photos, and outright molesta ... More >>

The Invisible War Reveals a Military That's "Target Rich" for Sexual Predators

Florida's Bestiality Law Doesn't Forbid Oral Sex

After years of sex with animals being technically legal in Florida, the legislature finally passed an anti-bestiality law last year. Eric Antunes looked like he'd be one of the first people prosecuted under the new law when police discovered pictures of him engaged in sex acts with his gir ... More >>

Marc Sarnoff Creates a Park to Quell New Sex Offender Encampment

Yesterday marked the two-year anniversary of the day the final sex offenders moved out from the infamous encampment under the Julia Tuttle Causeway. However, the problems that created the camp in the first place haven't been totally eased, and earlier this year sex offenders started popping up in a ... More >>

A New Sex Offender Encampment Has Sprung Up in Miami

​It's been almost two years now since the last of the sex offenders cleared out from their infamous encampment under the Julia Tuttle Causeway, but the Miami Herald now reports that a new sex offender camp has sprung up in the Shorecrest area. Once again, the Florida Department of Corrections has ... More >>

Jeff Rubin, troubled advisor to Terrell Owens, faces drug charges and lawsuits

After Joe Paterno: Enough Already With Child Sexual Abuse Hysteria UPDATED

With news this morning that Penn State coach Joe Paterno has died of lung cancer, I am reposting this column from last November. The scandal, it's now clear, killed the master at age 85.Enough already. This lunacy is past crazy.Joe Paterno, an icon of sport, was fired as coach of the Penn State foot ... 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 >>

Former 'Cane Jeffrey Brown Takes Plea Deal in Sexual Assault Case

​Jeffrey Brown, a 19-year-old former redshirt freshman defensive lineman with the Miami Hurricanes, has accepted a plea deal in a case involving his alleged rape of a female University of Miami student in a dorm room. As part of the deal Brown will face no prison time and will not have a felon ... More >>

Florida Principal Reports Two Students Kissing As "Possible Sex Crime"

​This really is the only logical endpoint in a state so obsessed with sex crimes that we banished sex offenders to live under a bridge and unleashed prosecutors onto sexting teens: A teacher sees two 12-year-old students smooching in gym class and tells the school's principal, who then report ... More >>

Rev. Neil Doherty Hit With $100 Million Judgment in Miami Catholic Church Sex Abuse Suit

​A local jury has returned a $100 million judgment in a civil lawsuit against Rev. Neil Dohetry, a former Catholic priest with the Archdiocese of Miami. Although the money might be impossible to collect, the judgment is the biggest ever levied in a case concerning the sexual abuse of children ... More >>

ICE Chief Anthony V. Mangione Regularly Sent Child Porn, Ordered to Undergo Mental Evaluation

New details are coming out about the investigation that lead to the arrest of Anthony V. Mangione, South Florida's top immigration cop. The Sun-Sentinel reports that AOL e-mail accounts registered to Mangione regularly sent nude and pornographic images of children, including several images of n ... More >>

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

Royal Caribbean Doesn't Care When Foreign Employees Are Raped At Sea, Lawyer Says

photo by Citking via Wikimedia Commons​On October 10, 2010, off the coast of Israel, a 40-year-old South African woman working on a Celebrity cruise ship blacked out while having a drink with a male co-worker in his cabin. She awoke hours later to find the man, a Costa Rican, raping her.The sexual ... More >>

Randy Pozdol Faces Trial for Drugging and Molesting a Woman and her Two Children on Film

​In 2009, Miami-Dade Police arrested Randy Jerome Pozdol after they found video of him sexually assaulting a woman and two children who all appeared to have been drugged and unconscious. However, as the investigation continued, police discovered that the woman in the video had died of a drug overd ... More >>

Polk County Deputy Tied Naked Children to Desk and Spanked them with Sex Toys

​Well, there's really no word for how disgusting and messed up this is. Robin Leigh Pagoria, a Sheriff's Deputy in Polk County, Florida, is accused of tying two young girls to a desk, spanking them with sex toys, and capturing it on video so her online boyfriend could watch. Ugh.

Proposed State Amendment Would Deny Funding For Abortions For Rape and Incest Victims

​Federal Republicans were forced to back down from a controversial bill dictating that federal money could only be spent on abortions for woman who were "forcibly raped," where as current language allows for some public spending on abortions for woman who are victims of rape or incest. They backed ... More >>

Password Protect Your Wireless Router or Risk Child Porn Charges

​Malcolm Riddell, a 58-year-old married resident of Sarasota, never got around to password protecting his wireless router. That led to the FBI knocking on his door, holding him up against a wall, and searching his computer for images of child porn according to The Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Riddell ... More >>

Garrett Wittels, Streak-Hitting FIU Star, Charged In Rape of 17-Year-Olds In Bahamas

Photo by C. StilesGarrett Wittels​Garrett Wittels, the Florida International University baseball star who made national headlines last year with a DiMaggio-esque hitting streak, is about to be all over the interwebs for much less savory reasons. Wittels and two friends have been charged in the rap ... More >>

Archdiocese of Miami Sued Over Alleged Sexual Abuse by Coral Springs Music Teacher

Michael MillerArchbishop of Miami Thomas Wenski gives a press conference after a recent trip to Cuba​The Archdiocese of Miami is getting hit with yet another lawsuit claiming sexual abuse by an employee of the Church.A lawsuit filed this morning in Miami-Dade Circuit Court alleges that Miguel Cala ... 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 >>

Who's Ready for the Return of the Sex Offender Camp?

Jacek Gancarz​In today's roundup of the sins of South Florida: When rent money runs out for sex offenders, where will they all go? Another sex offender camp? A yacht sinks off Haulover Beach, a toddler goes for a tumble and ends up in the hospital, and a medical building is evacuated because of a ... More >>

Julia Tuttle Bum Daniel Zajac Claims City of Miami Stole his Shit

This guy is not Daniel Zajac. He is, however, an angry homeless man.​Daniel Zajac really hates sex offenders -- but not for the usual reasons. No, he loathes the gropey pervs because they foiled his swell digs: "They totally ruined everything." Zajac is a shelter-averse homeless man who star ... More >>

Julia Tuttle Sex Offenders Evicted, Again

On Friday, the Miami-Dade Homeless Trust sent out a self-congratulatory press release announcing it had finally shut down the sex offender shantytown under the Julia Tuttle bridge.​"From the very first report of people moving in under the Julia Tuttle Causeway, the men and women of The Homeless Tr ... More >>

Hide Your Children! "Sex Offender" and Sometimes Musician Pete Townshend is Coming for the Super Bowl!

​Now this isn't sensationalist at all. No, the Brevard-based sexual predator watchdog group "Protect Our Children" is being entirely reasonable. If you disagree, you're most likely a pedophile -- or Roger Daltrey.The Who's Pete Townshend is coming to South Florida to perform at the Super Bowl. In ... More >>

Will The Who's Pete Townsend Have to Stay Under The Bridge After Super Bowl?

,​The Who, who we're told used to be a relevant rock band but is now mostly known as the CSI theme song band, will be playing the Super Bowl halftime show. That keeps with the NFL's recent history of letting boring ol' white guy bands your dad likes play the big halftime, but a South Florida grou ... More >>

Sex Offenders Find Little Relief From the Cold

Jacek Gancarz​There's no relief in sight for the sex offenders living under the Julia Tuttle Causeway. As Miami experienced record low temperatures, the group was forced to huddle for warmth in the makeshift halfway house.Because of county rules that forbid sex offenders from living within 2,500 f ... More >>

Lawsuit to Kick Sex Offender Out from Under the Bridge Stays in Miami

The City of Miami is suing Florida over keeping sex offender under the Julia Tuttle Causeway, but the Department of Transportation said the suit should have been filed on their home turf in Leon County. A judge ruled today that the lawsuit can continue in Miami-Dade. The city is alleging t ... More >>

Dr. Dread

A Miami plastic surgeon is accused of child molestation.

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 >>

Alleged Molester Arrested

Homeless Sex Offenders Face Eviction

State officials scrap under-the-bridge policy.

Feds Crack Down on Kiddie Porn in SoFla

Letters from the Issue of March 22, 2007

"It seems that the green tide in our paradise is here to stay, and we feel very sad about that."

Letters from the Issue of March 15, 2007

"Your excellent article exposed the ugly truth."

The Power of Pussy

The Doctor, Part 1

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

Yeshiva Dustup

A lawyer who battled the church takes on the Orthodox establishment

Extended Sentence

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

Used, Abused, and Forgotten

What happens when you muster the courage to complain that you've been sexually assaulted at an INS facility? Not much.

Love and Violation, Part 4

The tangled tale of an alleged rape sputters to an inconclusive end

Letters to the Editor

From the issue of October 26, 2000

Best Ensemble Cast

Caldwell Theatre Company's How I Learned to Drive

Flunk Out

Dade County's school district may have its own police department, but law enforcement experts say it doesn't come close to making the grade

News of the Weird

A Case of Date Rape

The Case From Hell: Part 3

State investigators take a new look at the Nogues family's horror story. And reach a new conclusion.

The Case From Hell, Part I