Actors
Bafta-winning actor Micheal Ward, 27, has been granted bail after appearing in court charged with rape and sexual assault. The charges relate to an alleged incident in January 2023. Ward, known for his roles in Blue Story and Top Boy, denies the charges and has cooperated with police throughout the
Police officers
Former Cleveland Police officer Nathan Henderson, 30, has pleaded guilty to 11 counts of sexual activity with a child between July 2024 and July 2025. Henderson's guilty plea includes 3 charges where the victim was 14 years old and 8 charges where the victim was either 14 or
Police officers
Gwyn Samuels, formerly known as James Bubb, a serving volunteer Special Constable with the Metropolitan Police Department, has been convicted of committing serious offences, including the rape of a child under thirteen. The conviction follows a trial at Amersham Law Courts, which began on Monday, 11 August, and concluded on
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A federal jury has found Dariel Javier Quiles-Davila, a former Kissimmee Police Department officer, guilty of receiving child sexual abuse material. According to the evidence presented at trial, Quiles-Davila met a child victim while on duty in October 2023 and began communicating directly with the child, soliciting and receiving sexually
Actors
Prosecutors say John Alford, 53, had been drinking with the girls and another family friend at a property in Hertfordshire before allegedly sexually assaulting them. The alleged victims, aged 14 and 15, had been left alone with Alford after others went to bed, and he had asked them how old
Actors
A Glasgow-born actor has appeared in court charged with sexually abusing two teenage girls at a party. John Alford, who played a role in the popular British TV show Grange Hill, is accused of four counts of sexual activity with a 14-year-old and two counts relating to a second girl,
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U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Clark handed down an eight-year prison sentence to James C. Astorian, a St. Louis County, Missouri man, for sharing child sexual abuse material. Astorian was also ordered to pay $10,000 in restitution to the identified victims. The investigation, led by the St. Louis
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A 40-year-old St. Louis County, Missouri man, James C. Astorian, has been sentenced to eight years in prison for sharing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) with an undercover police officer. The sentence, handed down by U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Clark, also includes a $10,000 restitution order to
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A court has heard allegations against 27-year-old Gwyn Samuels, a Metropolitan Police volunteer officer from Chesham, who met minors online and allegedly perpetrated sex crimes against them. The defendant, who has since changed their name from James Bubb, was working as a steward at a Christian festival where they met
Police officers
A shocking case of alleged gang rape has come to light in Mumbai, where five teenagers and a 27-year-old man have been arrested for allegedly raping a 15-year-old girl. The police claim that the teenagers, all college students, knew the victim and took her to the accused's house,
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A crowd that gathered at a police station in Rajasthan's Udaipur district on Monday to demand strict action against a man accused of raping an eight-year-old girl turned violent, vandalising and damaging buses and several vehicles of the police and district administration. The situation became volatile in the
Teachers
A 91-year-old former teacher at the prestigious Edinburgh Academy has been found to have physically and sexually abused young boys during his 27-year tenure. A court ruled that John Young, who was deemed medically unfit to stand trial, had targeted pupils while employed as a PE teacher between 1966 and
