Tag: Project Safe Childhood
'Monster' Teacher Who Raped, Tortured Students At NY Boarding School Gets Decades
A onetime teacher at a private boarding school in upstate New York will spend decades in prison for torturing and sexually abusing children under his care.
Paul Geer, 58, of Hancock, was sentenced to over 27 years behind bars in Albany federal court on Thursday, Sept. 4, after a jury found he brought two children across state lines to sexually abuse them.
Geer worked at the Family Foundation School, more recently known as Allynwood Academy, from 1994 to 2001. The school shuttered in 2014 amid a wave of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse allegations dating back to the 1990s.
Evidence at …
Lebanon County Man Shared Child Porn, Feds Say
A 35-year-old man from Lebanon County has been indicted on federal charges for distributing and possessing child pornography, authorities said.
Stephen Okamoto, of Lebanon, was charged by grand jury indictment on Wednesday, March 6, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
Prosecutors say Okamoto distributed child porn images and videos on November 13, 2023, and was later caught with additional material on February 8, 2024.
The charges are part of Project Safe Childhood, a national initiative launched by the Department of Justice to crack down on the…
Shrewsbury Man Raped Girl, Filmed It, Paid Her $2K To Stay Quiet: FBI, DA
A York County man who raped a girl for years, recorded the abuse, and paid her $2,000 to stay silent now faces federal child pornography charges, authorities announced Thursday, April 24.
Robert Angel Haley, 41, of Shrewsbury, was indicted by a federal grand jury on Wednesday, April 23, for producing and possessing child pornography, according to Acting U.S. Attorney John C. Gurganus.
York County Regional Police say Haley began abusing the girl in 2020 when she was just 10. The now 15-year-old victim told police he showed her pornographic videos, forced her to mimic them, filmed the assault…
Lebanon County Man Traveled To Ohio To Abuse 14-Year-Old: FBI
A Lebanon County man has been indicted for traveling to Ohio to sexually abuse a 14-year-old girl, federal authorities announced.
Chase Alexander Lawrence, 23, of Palmyra, was arrested on Feb. 7, 2025, after officers from the Western Lebanon County Regional Police Department assisted the FBI in serving a federal warrant at a home on the 200 block of North College Street in Palmyra, according to law enforcement.
Investigators allege that between Dec. 18, 2022, and Oct. 6, 2023, Lawrence repeatedly traveled from Pennsylvania to Ohio, where he engaged in illicit sexual conduct with the minor. …
Register Sex Offender Among PA Men Indicted For Conspiracy To Produce Child Pornography: Feds
Two Pennsylvania men — including a registered sex offender — are facing federal charges after allegedly conspiring to produce child pornography and enticing children online, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced on Wednesday, Nov. 20.
Kevin Eric Abbott, 39, of Scranton, and Rashaad Khalid Che Taylor, 28, of Milford, were indicted by a federal grand jury for charges that include conspiracy to produce child pornography, online enticement, distribution, and possession of child pornography, according to the release. Taylor also faces an addit…
Child Porn Charges: Capital Region Man Busted With Illicit Photos, Videos, Feds Say
Federal prosecutors are pursuing child pornography charges against a man from the region after he allegedly sent and received numerous illicit images of children.
Taykwun Smoaks, age 32, of Albany, was arraigned on charges that he distributed, received, and possessed child pornography in Albany federal court on Friday, April 12.
According to investigators, Smoaks sent and received images and videos of child pornography over the internet between February and March 2023. The illicit images were reportedly found on both his computer and an external hard drive.
If convicted, he face…
NY 'Sugar Daddy' Admits Traveling To Virginia For Sex With 14-Year-Old: Feds
A 27-year-old New York man admitted to driving eight hours to Virginia for sex with a 14-year-old girl, his "sugar baby," federal authorities said.
Derrick Loi, of Lakeville, NY this week pleaded guilty to one count of coercion and enticement, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Virginia.
In February 2023, Loi met a 14-year-old girl from Lynchburg on Twitter (now known as X), and, in the early morning hours of Feb. 14, 2023, began chatting with her on Discord, the attorney's office said citing court documents.
Loi told the young girl not on…
