November 20th 2009

QUEBEC, Canada — A 55-year-old woman was given a sentence without any jail time, and was ordered to pay several thousand dollars, for sexually assaulting her teenage son.

Marie-Jeanne Bedard, (pictured left) who lives in the suburbs of Quebec City, was handed Friday a two-year sentence to be served outside prison. She must also give her son $3,500, and has been ordered to pay for the therapy he's needed over the years.

The assaults occurred between January 1993 and March 1994, when the boy was 13.

In handing down his sentence, the judge said he took into account the fact that Bedard was living through what he called a troubled period in her life.

But the Crown was disappointed. It had been seeking a jail term.

The victim noted one positive result from Friday's sentencing: people will now know what his mother did to him. The judge lifted a publication ban on Bedard's identity, which had been kept secret to protect the victim.

But the son held a news scrum outside the courtroom, and told reporters he wanted his mother's identity made public.

"I lived with that secret inside me for 14 years," he said.

"Today I'm tired of living with that secret."

http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jb28ZChRqKYBz8dfqLkM9Q7FT3JA

French Language News Reports On This Case:-

http://www2.canoe.com/infos/societe/archives/2009/11/20091120-130512.html

http://lcn.canoe.ca/lcn/infos/faitsdivers/archives/2009/11/20091120-111433.html

http://www.radio-canada.ca/regions/Quebec/2009/11/20/003-bedard_peine.shtml

November 20th 2009

A Rogers, Arkansas woman was sentenced to 10 years in prison Thursday after admitting to sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy.

Anita Kay Fine, 40, (pictured left) pled guilty to sexual assault in the fourth degree and possession of a controlled substance. She also was charged as a habitual offender.

Fine was originally charged with rape, a class Y felony, but agreed to plead guilty to the lesser charged under a plea agreement her attorney Shane Wilkinson reached with Chief Deputy Prosecutor Stuart Cearley.

Fine was arrested in June after Lowell police received a call concerning a woman seeking assistance from police to remove a naked Fine from the boy’s bedroom.

The boy’s mother had allowed Fine to spend the night in her home, but later found her naked son hiding under a bed. Fine was naked underneath the bed covers, according to court documents. The 14-year-old told police Fine performed oral sex on him, and the two had sexual intercourse, according to an affidavit in the case.

Fine admitted to having sex with the boy, but claims the boy came into the room and got into bed with her, court documents state.

Fine was arrested in April on a drug charge.

Circuit Judge Robin Green accepted the plea agreement and Fine’s guilty plea.

Green followed the plea agreement’s sentencing recommendation and ordered Fine to serve 10 years in the Arkansas Department of Correction. Fine was given a 10-year suspended sentence on the drug charge.

Fine must complete the prison’s sex-offender treatment program and must register as a sex offender. She was ordered not to have any contact with the victim.

Fine also must pay $920 in court-associated costs. She received 74 days of credit for the time she spent in the Benton County Jail awaiting trial.

http://www.nwanews.com/news/2009/nov/20/woman-draws-prison-sentence-sexual-assault/

November 19th 2009

A 54-year-old woman has been placed under house arrest after pleading not guilty to defiling her nine-year-old grandson. She was also accused of holding him against his will, taking part in sexual activities with him and committing indecent assault.

The cases allegedly happened in various localities throughout this year and in previous years.

Police Inspector Louise Calleja told the court that the police had initially launched an investigation of the boy's uncle and taken him to court. During the boy's testimony before the court, this second case of defilement came to light.

The woman was granted bail against a personal guarantee of €5,000 and ordered not to leave her home.

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20091119/local/woman-54-accused-of-defiling-grandson-aged-9

November 19th 2009

OTTAWA, Canada — A man and a woman are facing child pornography charges after separate search warrants were executed this week.

Ottawa police received information that prompted Internet Child Exploitation investigators on Tuesday to seize and examine computers and other media of the 30-year-old Ottawa woman.

Crystal Dodds, 30, http://www.wayn.com/profiles/cdodds has been charged with two counts of accessing and possession of child pornography. She appeared in court Wednesday.

On Wednesday, Internet Child Exploitation investigators executed a search warrant and examined computers and other computer-related media belonging to a 37-year-old man.

Edouard Chalfeev of Ottawa has been charged with two counts of possession and making child pornography and was to appear in court Thursday.

Anyone with information regarding these incidents, or other child internet abuse cases, is asked to contact the High Tech Crime Section at 613-236-1222, ext.5640, or Crime stoppers at 613-233-8477 (TIPS).

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Ottawa+police+charge+woman+separate+child+porn+cases/2242077/story.html

http://www.metronews.ca/ottawa/local/article/374061--two-charged-after-separate-child-porn-investigations

http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2009/11/19/11815996.html

November 19th 2009

River Falls, Wisconsin - A former teacher's aide has been charged with sexual assault.

She's been accused of having sex with a 12-year-old several times, including at a school. Not only that, the child claims the woman put a gun to his head and threatened to kill his family if he ever told anyone about their relationship.

Rebecca O'Malley-Tietz, 34, (pictured left) from River Falls, has been charged with first degree sexual assault of a child. She used to be a teacher's aide for the Harbor Program at the River Falls Academy before being fired last year.

Police say the boy told them O'Malley-Tietz would write notes to him at school. Eventually, he told officers he started staying at her house overnight as their relationship allegedly escalated.

Police interviewed O'Malley-Tietz and claim she, at first, denied they had sex, but later changed her story. She told them they did, but that he forced himself on her.

O'Malley-Tietz was scheduled to make her first court appearance on Thursday.

The River Falls School District says she was fired in 2008 because there were concerns about her relationships with students, staff and parents. The district says it had no knowledge of the alleged assault while O'Malley-Tietz was an employee.

http://www.wqow.com/Global/story.asp?S=11538882

http://wcco.com/crime/sexual.assault.child.2.1322853.html

http://www.riverfallsjournal.com/event/article/id/93578/

November 19th 2009

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Taiwan Fund for Children and Families (TFCF) yesterday urged early intervention for deviant sexual behaviors as statistics show that sex offenders who are younger than the age of consent have more than doubled over the past five years, while the number of female minor sexual offenders has also increased.

Sexual violators have increased to 6,227 individuals in 2008, or 2.93 times the reported cases in 2005, and those who are underage have increased from 153 people to 751, according to TFCF, adding that the number of offenders aged six to 12 have increased the most, by more than double as compared to 2005.

Compared to juvenile offence cases in 2005, 2008 saw an increase in male violators by 160 percent and a 257 percent rise in female perpetrators, said Hsiao Tsung-chi, an official from TFCF.

The spike in female offenders may be a result of victims turning into offenders in order to compensate for their own suffering, added Hsiao.

Other reasons for the increase include minors trying to live out media or video game scenarios, peer pressure, reenacting pornographies and victims-turned-aggressors, said Chen Jo-chang, director of the counseling center at National Dong Hwa University.

Chen recounted a conversation he had with a convicted sexual offender in his 20s. The convict said that he had started playing sexual games with other kids in his neighborhood when he was six. The games only got more intense as he got older, and he ended up assaulting a neighboring child for the same thrills when he became an adult.

TFCF urged the public to teach children the importance of respecting the other gender, to be careful in selecting movies and other media for their children and to provide early counseling to sexual assault victims.

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/national-news/2009/11/19/233305/Underage-sex.htm

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2009/11/19/2003458846

http://news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Crime/Story/A1Story20091119-181054.html

November 19th 2009

A federal grand jury in Peoria, Illinois on Wednesday indicted Dustin E. Mandrell, 25, of Clinton on one count each of producing and possessing images of child pornography.

Co-defendant Ruby Roberts, 19, of Sullivan, Illinois is charged with one count of possession of child pornography.

Mandrell also is charged with committing a felony involving a minor while designated as a sex offender. The indictment also seeks forfeiture of camera and computer equipment and related items used in the commission of the alleged offenses.

Mandrell and Roberts are in the custody of DeWitt County authorities on unrelated charges. They both are charged with possession of child pornography on or about Aug. 1.

The indictment alleged that on Aug. 5, Mandrell coerced a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing a visual depiction of that conduct. Mandrell has a prior sex offense conviction in Illinois.

Mandrell, charged as a registered sex offender, faces enhanced penalties of up to life in prison for production of child pornography with a mandatory 10 years in prison to be served after any prison term imposed. If he is convicted of possession of child pornography, he faces a mandatory minimum of 10 to 20 years in prison.

Roberts faces statutory penalties of up to 10 years in prison with terms of up to life on supervised released following any term of imprisonment if convicted of possession of child pornography.

The charges were the result of an investigation by the U.S. Secret Service and members of a working group including the Bloomington and Clinton police departments and Illinois State Police.

http://www.herald-review.com/news/local/article_011ff0ab-6641-5c28-bcc9-300bd02c075c.html