Subject: Sexual Offenses

• Think The Priest Was A Drunk, Too?

  October 3, 2006

• What Did Hastert Know, and When Did He Know It?

  September 30, 2006

• Miami Developer Nabbed For Crotch Grab

  April 3, 2007

• Is R. Kelly Ever Going to Trial??

  August 1, 2007

• Miami Herald's Corral Busted On Hooker Charge

  August 7, 2007

• BSO Uses Kiddie Porn Subpoena To Crack Political Blog

  October 22, 2007

• Prosecutor To Blog: Take Down That Transcript

  October 30, 2007

• Sheriff Grandstanding On Public's Dime?

  June 4, 2008

• Former Football Star Charged With Rapes

  October 1, 2008

• The Pervert Next Door

  December 11, 1997

• Importing Miami's Vice

  June 25, 1998

• Letters

  July 16, 1998

• Presumed Guilty

  May 13, 1999

• Best Ensemble Cast

  May 11, 2000

• Onstage Culeros

  June 14, 2007

• Internal Inquisition

  Doubt wags the finger of moral relativism

  December 18, 2008

• Will Bill O'Reilly Blame Rape Victims for Their Own Rapes At Palm Beach Event?

  It might seem like a nice gesture, Fox News talking head hot-air balloon Bill O'Reilly speaking at an event in Manalapan for the It Happened to Alexa Foundation, a rape survivors advocacy group based in New York. But rape victims and anti-O'Reilly enthusiasts  are circulating a petition asking the foundation to cancel O'Reilly's appearance. (Keith Olbermann's leading the charge.) The petition, found at www.onemorevoice.net, says: "Not only has O'Reilly b

  March 11, 2009

• O'Reilly Errand Boy Chases Bloggers Now

  Amanda Terkel is the winner in the Blogger-Baiting-O'Reilly Sweepstakes, and she didn't even seem to try. The Think Progress blogger wrote this post after it was announced that Fox News idiot charmer Bill O'Reilly would be the guest speaker at a fundraiser in Manalapan for the It Happened to Alexa Foundation, which helps rape victims.Terkel merely pointed out that O'Reilly was a curious and controversial choice, considering past remarks he's made about Jennifer Moore, the 18-year-old who was rap

  March 23, 2009

• Bill O'Reilly on the Alexa Foundation Controversy

  Last night, Fox News hot-air balloon complete asshole Bill O'Reilly aired a segment about the controversy over his speech at a benefit in Manalapan. He framed it as a battle between good and evil. A few weeks ago, I wrote about the possible conflict of interest O'Reilly might have speaking at the event -- put on by the It Happened to Alexa Foundation -- given his remarkable comments about a rape victim a few years earlier. (See that post here.) Yesterday we learned that O'Reilly has been s

  March 24, 2009

• Sen. Nan Rich Defends Bestiality Bill

  Of all the thorny, polarizing, and controversial subjects that a state legislator must handle, Sen. Nan Rich probably didn't think she'd have to explain the logic behind a bill that makes bestiality illegal. And to be fair, she doesn't have to explain it to anyone -- everybody else, it seems, gets it -- except me.Last week, I consulted with some leading experts in the field of zoophilia -- sexual attraction to animals. Drs. Hani Miletski and Andrea Beetz had both found that "zoos" have genuine a

  March 27, 2009

• Embattled Plastic Surgeon Richard B. Edison Faces Molestation Charge in Lawsuit

  March 19, 2009

• Stacey & Friends

  Four characters in search of a talk show

  December 20, 2007

• High School Sexical

  December 6, 2007

• Not in My Bus Stop

  The new fad cities can't seem to resist — keeping sex offenders out of every nook and cranny.

  November 30, 2006

• Bringing TV Glitter to Our Town

  Stacey Honowitz yaks it up on the evening talk-show circuit

  June 29, 2006

• In the Clouds

  FAU Tries to Get Real

  March 16, 2006

• Cybercreep

  July 28, 2005

• Extended Sentence

  A convicted pedophile earns his release but can't escape from himself

  January 13, 2005

• Sex Tourism

  September 16, 2004

• Gale Farce

  Kevin isn't the only thing Spacey in this overlong death-penalty drama

  February 20, 2003

• A Devilish Deal

  A high-profile judge long ago made a deal that freed the area's most heinous killer

  May 17, 2001

• The Widow and the Nurse, Part Two

  When Bridget Garcia told police that her boss' son had raped her, they barely listened. This is her story.

  August 31, 2000

• The Unforgiven

  Bryant Troville served out his sentence for his sexually violent acts. His prospects for freedom? Not good.

  May 4, 2000

• Assail on the Fun Ship

  Carnival doesn't just neglect passengers who claim to be victims of sexual assault. It attempts to shut them up.

  February 3, 2000

• Fearless Prediction: Hollywood Will Soon Bring Anti-Sex-Offender Ordinance

  Flickr User: Paul ThurlbyFor Hollywood pols, sex offender legislation is a low-hanging fruit that may prove temptingTo piggyback on a Fred Grimm column in the Herald and a Smashed Frog blog post -- as well as the article that started it all, in our sister paper -- I'll venture a prediction that recent concerns about draconian laws regulating sex offenders will have the opposite effect on municipal policymaking. Let's make Hollywood a test case.A recently released task force report found that Hol

  July 16, 2009

• 10-Year-Old Boca Girl Tells of Harrowing Boat Ride With Sex Offender

  Photo Broward Sheriff's OfficeCorey HipscherFile this one under "Parent's Worst Nightmare." Broward Sheriff's Office is reporting the arrest of a registered sex offender from Plantation who was working at a water park in Deerfield Beach. Corey Hipscher allegedly told the parents that, due to a boat's "weight limit," he couldn't bring any other adults on the trip he was offering to the girls. You can bet the parents are going to find out how Broward Watersports allowed someone with Hipscher's his

  July 22, 2009

• More Kids Accuse Sex Offender From Deerfield Beach Water Park

  Oh, this is getting ugly. We told you about Corey Hipscher last week. The 37-year-old somehow managed to get a job at Quiet Waters Park in Deerfield Beach despite being a registered sex offender. A 10-year-old girl says he groped her. And her story sounded familiar to at least two other girls.Photo: Broward Sheriff's OfficeCorey Hipscher​The mother of three young girls contacted Broward Sheriff's Office Detective Carol Dansky last week after hearing in the news about how 37-year-old Corey Hips

  July 29, 2009

• A Peek at a New Broward-Based Reality Show

  That's the trailer for Police Women of Broward County (Why not Al's Angels?), which makes its debut next Friday on TLC. Because if you're going to launch a reality series on cops, place your chips on the county that birthed the 20-year-old reality series.The cable network has video intros of the local ladies in blue:Andrea Penoyer: Smokes out bad guys trying to blend into South Florida blight.Shelunda Cooper: Busts a wild-eyed DUI suspect.Julie Bower: Sex crimes detective who braves the strip c

  July 30, 2009

• Broward Deputy Charged With Sex Crimes

  Photo: Broward Sheriff's OfficeBleiweiss​A grueling summer for the Broward Sheriff''s Office just got worse. The agency arrested one of its own this morning on charges he sexually exploited illegal immigrants. Here's the agency's news release:A Broward Sheriff's Office deputy who disgraced his badge by preying on illegal residents was arrested Monday morning on a 14-court warrant for various offenses.Deputy Jonathan Bleiweiss, 29, who's been with BSO for almost seven years, faces five counts o

  August 3, 2009

• Fugitive Accused of Child Rape Captured in Kentucky

  Whitehead​Several weeks after his child sex abuse case was featured on America's Most Wanted, Roshard Whitehead of West Palm Beach was found in Lexington, Kentucky. And not a moment too soon, according to a report by WPBF, which says federal marshals found him living with four children.In mid-January police wondered whether Whitehead had committed suicide, following his learning that he was a suspect in a child sex case. Instead, he headed north, where he had friends.Whitehead is accused of ab

  August 10, 2009

• Video of Cobra's Takedown of an Alleged Child Molester

  In this week's New Times cover story, "Cobra's Last Stand," Fort Lauderdale bail bondsman William Staubs, AKA "Cobra," gets arrested for false imprisonment during his search for missing 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings. The confrontation that caused all the trouble was caught on video by independent, Atlanta-based journalist Art Harris.In the video, Cobra is trying to revoke the bond on Daniel Snodgrass, a 55-year-old from Putnam County who had been arrested for capital sexual battery two years earl

  September 2, 2009

• Town of Palm Beach is Sex Offender Ghetto

  Sex offender Epstein: A long way from Pahokee​Look at a map of zones where sex offenders are allowed to live in Palm Beach and Broward counties, and the picture bears a creepy resemblance to old-style European ghettos. A Broward task force took up the problem in July and found that a new proposal to prohibit sex offenders from living within 2500 feet of a school, park, playground, daycare center, or school bus stop would effectively eliminate anyplace for sex offenders to live in unincorporate

  September 14, 2009

• Bike-Riding, Guilt-Ridden Rape Suspect Makes Easy Target for Broward Deputies

  Eduardo Josue Ortizromero, an 18-year-old suspected of raping two women, aged 18 and 25, has been arrested by Broward Sheriff's Office deputies in Dania Beach. Judging by the news release, he made it easy for cops and prosecutors -- riding the bike associated with one rape and then giving a quick confession. A Broward Sheriff's Office Sex Crimes Unit detective canvassing a Dania Beach neighborhood for a rapist spotted the suspect and took him into custody this past Thursday night. On the eveni

  September 14, 2009

• Florida to Sex Offenders: Hold the Reese's

  This Halloween, it's lights out for sex offenders​Sex offenders in Florida are off the hook this year: They won't have to spend a fortune at Target on plastic pumpkins, corn-sheaves, and fake spiderwebs. They can keep all the Reese's Pieces for themselves. The Florida Department of Corrections says that for registered sex offenders -- at least the ones that actually have a place to live -- it's nix on Halloween this year. From today's Miami Herald: In the hopes of curbing child predators thi

  October 9, 2009

• Registered Sex Offender Finds That a Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss

  Ronald Murphy​In what appears to be a form-letter notice, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office yesterday announced that "a declared sexual predator, Ronald Earl Murphy... is now residing at Transient, Delray Beach, FL." Transient is not the name of a hip new boutique hotel on Atlantic Avenue. It's more of a lifestyle, and with Florida's draconian laws on sex offender residency, Transient is the hippest trend in sex offender culture.Ridiculously, the form letter goes on to say that PBSO is "i

  October 15, 2009

• Sex Offender Murphy Benched in Delray

  Ronald Murphy, getting ready to bed down in Delray​We wrote about sex offender Ronald Murphy last week here and here, a man released from prison in September after serving 13 years on a rape conviction, and stuck in limbo ever since.Murphy's home is currently a bench outside the Delray Beach Florida Department of Corrections Probation and Parole Office on the corner of NE 3rd Ave. and NE 2nd St.  Murphy, wearing an ankle monitor, is confined there from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. every night, oblige

  October 18, 2009

• UPDATED: Kiddie Porn Offender Alexander Scholling Shacks Up Opposite School Bus Stop

  Scholling: There's no place like home.​WPTV reports today that the bus stop across the street from convicted sex offender Alexander Scholling's residence will be moved, thanks to a decision by the Palm Beach County School District yesterday.Alexander Scholling, the Tequesta man who was arrested in 2005 when he took a computer filled with kiddie porn to a local computer repair store, was released from prison -- only to move into a house directly across the street from a bus stop in Jupiter tran

  October 28, 2009

• Benched Delray Sex Offender Off the Bench

  Ronald Murphy​In the last few weeks, we've brought you the story of Ronald Murphy, the convicted rapist forced to sleep on a bench outside his parole officer's building in Delray Beach. (You can read some background here, here, and here.)Well this week Murphy moved from his bench to a new address in Broward County, where his sex offense originally occurred.While it's still not clear whose idea it was for Murphy to sleep on the bench for nearly two months, a Florida Department of Corrections sp

  October 30, 2009

• Boynton Beach Police Release Names of Those Charged in Platinum Showgirls Case

  Flickr: nightride​Stephanie Slater, spokeswoman for the Boynton Beach Police Department, just sent across a list of the people charged in connection with alleged crimes at Platinum Showgirls gentleman's club. It's a long list, and it starts with the owners, who face the severest penalties:Matt Barrow, 11-29-56, Lake Park, racketeering, felony public nuisance, unlawfully possessing property for sale of controlled substance, deriving support from proceeds of prostitution, allowing employees to e

  November 2, 2009

• Registered Sex Offender Betrayed by What Was Supposed to Be a 15-Year-Old Girl

  Photo courtesy Fort Lauderdale PoliceDavid Forget​Just slap on those handcuffs. His name may be David R. Forget, but he remembers this drill. According to police, the registered sex offender who lived in Plantation believed -- truly believed -- that when he arrived at their meeting place, he would see the 15-year-old girl with whom he'd been having amorous online chats.But we know how these stories end. The 27-year-old was pounced upon by the Fort Lauderdale Police, and now he's facing a new b

  November 6, 2009