On October 5, 2022, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals upheld the two convictions of Stoyan Anastassov for the second-degree felony of indecency with a child by contact. The jury assessed punishment at nine years in prison on one charge,…
Category: Crimes Against Children
2021
Category: Crimes Against Children | Sex Crimes Against Children
Michael Charles Hill was convicted by a Hunt County, Texas jury in April 2012 for aggravated sexual assault of a child and indecency with a child. He was sentenced to consecutive(stacked) life terms. A grand jury had indicted Hill in…
2021
Category: Crimes Against Children | Criminal Law | Sex Crimes | Sexual Abuse
Following the horrendous kidnapping and murder of nine-year-old Jessica Lunsford in 2005, Florida enacted Jessica’s Law. The statute was intended to create tough penalties for sex offenders, such as 25-year minimum sentences for certain offenses and a lifetime of electronic…
2021
Category: Crimes Against Children | Illegal Pornography | Sex Crimes
The larger general population views crimes against children as particularly egregious in society. With so many children exploring the internet on a daily basis (and too often without parental supervision), child sex offenders see the internet as a portal to…
2020
Category: Crimes Against Children | Human Trafficking | Sex Trafficking
Child trafficking happens in places least likely to come to mind, including Texas. In fact, it’s a crime that is on the rise in this state and across the nation.
Recently, a human trafficking sting in Beaumont resulted in…
2020
Category: Crimes Against Children | Illegal Pornography | Sex Crimes
Being charged with an offense such as possession of child pornography or invasive visual recording in Texas is a big deal. If convicted of either offense, it will have serious ramifications for the rest of a person’s life.
In…
2019
Category: Corruption | Crimes Against Children | Criminal Justice Reform
The Flores Settlement Agreement is a 1997 court settlement that places limits on the length of time in which migrant children can be held in detention and defines the conditions under which these children are incarcerated.
President Trump’s administration…
2019
Category: Corruption | Crimes Against Children
In an excellent Miami Herald report (November 28, 2018), Julie K Brown wrote that Florida billionaire money manager Jeffery Epstein trafficked in underage girls at his Palm Beach Mansion between 2001 and 2006. Stories floated for years that Epstein, a…
2019
A search of a New Jersey home last year by federal agents discovered pornographic images of two children believed to be less than one year of age. Determined by forensic review to have been taken in 2015, the images revealed…
2018
Category: Child Abuse | Crimes Against Children
Many crimes can be prosecuted and tried at either the state or federal level. This matters a lot, because the level could have a serious impact on your sentence.
Child abuse, however, is an interesting scenario.
How so?…