Los Angeles Sex Crime Blog
Posted on Feb 21, 2012 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
The family of a sex abuse victim is suing the Boy Scouts of America several years after their son was abused by a former troop leader in 2007. According to the victim's mother, when she first ...
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Posted on Feb 6, 2012 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
A dance choreographer who has appeared on the popular televsion show "So You Think You Can Dance" was sentenced to 10 years in prison last month after having been convicted of raping a ...
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Posted on Feb 6, 2012 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
As an experienced Los Angeles Sex Crime Defense Attorney can tell you, the law is like a living, breathing organism in that it actually grows and changes all the time. It might be easy to think of ...
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Posted on Feb 5, 2012 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
Two teachers were arrested within four days of eachother at Miramonte Elementary School last week after allegations were made that each teacher had acted in a lewd manner or had inappropriately ...
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Posted on Jan 26, 2012 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
A federal judge in Riverside sentenced a man to 25 years in prison this past Monday for his part in a child pornography ring. Joshua Boras, 34, had pleaded guilty to charges of participating in an ...
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Posted on Jan 25, 2012 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
An Orange County man was arrested for child pornography this past Tuesday after a family member turned in a portable hard drive with thousands of pornographic images of children to the Orange County ...
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Posted on Jan 25, 2012 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
Convicted sex offender Leonard Scroggins, 43, was sentenced yesterday to 195 years in prison for a two-day crime spree in the San Diego area in 2010. Scroggins reportedly cut off the electronic ...
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Posted on Jan 23, 2012 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
A female prison guard pleaded guilty last week to charges of unlawful sex with an inmate. Renee Noelle Gutierrez, who is 42 and lives in Redondo Beach, pleaded guilty in a United States Distric Court ...
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Posted on Jan 23, 2012 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
An Orange County man was charged with molesting several children last week. According to police reports, Shane Norman Crawford is said to have molested a boy and two girls, including one girl who is ...
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Posted on Jan 23, 2012 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
Prosecutors in Pennsylvania have accused the Archdiocese of Philadelphia of being an "unindicted co-conspirator" in a sex abuse case in which they claim the Roman Catholic Church in ...
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Posted on Jan 6, 2012 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
Professional baseball player Starlin Castro is being investigated by local law enforcement agents after a woman accused him of sexually assaulting her. The woman, whose name has not been released, ...
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Posted on Dec 27, 2011 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
Law enforcement agents in San Bernardino County are searching for a man who was arrested on suspicion of child molestation earlier this month. Umar Love, who is 30 years old, was arrested on December ...
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Posted on Dec 26, 2011 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
A Sacramento man was sentenced to 10 years in a state prison after being convicted of sexually assaulting a dog. Robert Edward De Shields was on parole and renting space in a Sacramento home until a ...
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Posted on Dec 22, 2011 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
Five men were arrested in last week after local law enforcement agents suspected that they had brought a group of minors from the Inland Empire into Long Beach and North Hollywood to use as ...
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Posted on Dec 21, 2011 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
A Santa Clarita teenager was arrested by local law enforcement agents last week after several young girls claim he sexually assaulted them. Michael Downs, who is just 19 years old, is facing 29 ...
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Posted on Dec 12, 2011 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
Professional basketball player Devin Ebanks was cleared of any wrong-doing in a rape investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department. Investigators in the case report that an unnamed woman claimed ...
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Posted on Dec 12, 2011 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
Former Pennsylvania State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was arrested again last Wednesday after new allegations of sexual abuse surfaced from two new alleged victims. The ...
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Posted on Dec 11, 2011 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
In an unusual case, a woman named Carrie Kelly was sentenced for being found guilty of possessing and distributing child pornography last Friday. Kelly, who is from Brazoria County, just south of ...
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Posted on Nov 25, 2011 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
Former Olympic gymnastics coach Don Peters has been barred for life from coaching by the United States of America Gymnastics (USAG) governing body after two former athletes came recently came forward ...
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Posted on Nov 24, 2011 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
Syracuse University basketball coach Bernie Fine has been put on administrative leave while university officials and local law enforcement agents investigate allegations that he sexually abused two ...
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Posted on Nov 22, 2011 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
Fernando Rivas, a Cuban-born composer, pianist and music producer was charged with producing child pornography in a South Carolina Court yesterday. Rivas, who is 59, attended the famed Julliard School ...
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Posted on Nov 21, 2011 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
While the possession and even production of most types of pornography is legal in the United States, any pornography that involves children under the age of 18 is strictly illegal. Child pornography ...
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Posted on Nov 16, 2011 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
A man suspected of child molestation was killed following a tense standoff with Riverside police this morning. The suspect, whose name has not been released, barricaded himself in an apartment in a ...
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Posted on Nov 15, 2011 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
Jerry Sandusky, the former assistant football coach at Pennsylvania State University admitted in a recent television interview that he showered and "horsed around" with several children he ...
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Posted on Nov 6, 2011 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
As any Los Angeles Sex Crime Defense Attorney can tell you, being accused of a sex crime can change your life. For many people, being accused of a sex crime, even if they are not found guilty, can ...
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