Category Archives: Child Exploitation

Whittel & Melton, LLC 1-866-608-5LAW (5529) – Florida Sex Crimes Attorneys A 39-year-old Jacksonville Beach mother was being held in Columbus, Ga., Saturday, awaiting extradition to Jacksonville after allegedly trading her 6-year-old daughter for drugs. Police claim the woman sold her daughter to two men in Jacksonville Beach, Florida in exchange for crack cocaine. Police issued [...]

Whittel & Melton, LLC  local 813-221-3200 statewide 866-608-5529 Florida Sex Crime Attorneys From October 1, 2010 through September 30, 2011, the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Middle District of Florida prosecuted more Project Safe Childhood cases than any other district in the country reaching a total of 114 prosecuted child sex cases. Launched by the [...]

A joint operation of local, state and federal agents cracking down on alleged sexual predators dubbed Operation Safe Summer ended Thursday with 26 men arrested for child porn and child exploitation. The arrests reached all over Central Florida and even into other states. The so-called predators were supposedly lurking online for minors enjoying their summer [...]

A California state appeals court overturned a Milpitas, CA man’s conviction Wednesday saying that he should not have been convicted of child pornography after he was found guilty of superimposing images of his 13-year-old daughter’s face onto bodies of women engaged in sexual behavior. Why? The pictures did not show actual minors engaging in sexual [...]

A 34-year-old Lauderhill, Florida man and a 37-year-old Oakland Park, FL woman were denied bail at a hearing Wednesday for their charges of child sex trafficking. They allegedly ran a bordello called the Boom Boom Room that offered sex with four underage minors. The couple was arrested May 14 by members of the FBI Minor [...]