All posts tagged "Child Abuse"

A federal judge denied reality TV star Josh Duggar's appeal to vacate his possession of child sexual abuse material conviction — saying that he missed the filing deadline, People reported on Tuesday.

Duggar, who was sentenced to more than 12 years in prison after he was convicted in 2021, had argued that his constitutional rights were violated. Court records obtained by People revealed that U.S. District Judge Timothy L. Brooks had denied Duggar's appeal on the grounds that he filed his motion too late.

"Duggar claimed that he should be protected by the 'prison mailbox rule,' which provides leeway on deadlines as long as motions are 'deposited in the institution's internal mailing system on or before the last day for filing,'" according to People. ...

The work to bring a pedophile into custody was put on hold because of the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the Capital.

A child pornography case charging a Virginia man had to be halted just as an FBI agent had launched a sting pretending to be a father with a 9-year-old son, according to a complaint filed in the District of Columbia federal court and first flagged down by Court News Watch.

On Dec. 20, 2020, the feds started to zero in on a Richmond, Virginia man named Brogan Welsh, who claimed to be 28 and expressed a sexual interest in young boys. ...