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• Man pleads guilty to selling teen sex online

  January 28, 2013 9:42 PM

  BATON ROUGE- A 31-year-old man has been convicted of selling sex with an underage girl online. Erick Banks pled guilty Monday. Prosecutors said Banks enticed a 15-year-old to engage in acts of prostitution. Banks used ads on the website backpage.com to get clients for the teen. She... more »

• 'Ben & Cherry's' porn movie withdrawn after suit

  September 12, 2012 12:57 PM

  NEW YORK - A California company that produced X-rated films based on popular Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavors has agreed to pull the movies from store shelves and destroy materials related to them. A federal consent order was filed Tuesday in Manhattan. It describes how Rodax Distributors and Caballero... more »

• Ky. woman fights porn companies' anti-piracy suits

  July 12, 2012 12:44 PM

  LOUISVILLE, Ky. - It's a common tactic for pornography producers trying to protect their product from online piracy. They sue unknown "John Does" who illegally download movies, then go to Internet providers to learn their true identities and collect. Hundreds of porn companies have filed thousands of lawsuits across the... more »

• Man booked on child pornography charges

  May 17, 2012 10:00 AM

  BATON ROUGE - A New Orleans man has been arrested and charged with pornography involving juveniles, announced Attorney General Buddy Caldwell. Daniel R. Ponder, 30, was arrested Wednesday as part of a joint investigation involving the Attorney General's High Technology Crime Unit, Homeland Security Investigations, Baton Rouge City Constable's... more »

• Walker man arrested on 20 counts of child pornography

  April 3, 2012 2:16 PM

  WALKER - A number of law enforcement agencies arrested a man Tuesday they say was in possession of child pornography. Cody Bryant, 25, of 33970 Galloway Road, is charged with 20 counts of pornography involving juveniles. State law forbids a person to produce, distribute, possess, or possess with... more »

• Baton Rouge man booked with child pornography

  March 14, 2012 2:21 PM

  BATON ROUGE - A Baton Rouge man has been arrested and charged with pornography involving juveniles, that's according to Attorney General Buddy Caldwell. Jonathan C. Stevens, 38, of 1225 Main St., was arrested today as part of a joint investigation involving the Attorney General's High Technology Crime Unit, Baton... more »

• Unregistered sex offender sentenced to 21 months in prison

  February 3, 2012 5:05 PM

  BATON ROUGE - The United States Department of Justice sent a strong message to unregistered sex offenders Friday by sentencing a convicted child pornographer who didn't register to 21 months in prison. Noel Carlson, 38, of Mesa, Arizona will be supervised for five years after release . In... more »

• Fire chief accused of possessing child pornography

  December 30, 2011 3:01 PM

  BRIDGE CITY, La. - The chief of a volunteer fire department here has been accused of possessing child pornography. The Times-Picayune reports that Paul Jackson was arrested Thursday and booked with possession of child pornography. Jackson, 43, is the chief of the Nine Mile Point Fire Department in Bridge City.... more »

• Former library official pleads guilty to child porn charge Play Video

  December 13, 2011 6:20 PM

  BATON ROUGE - The former second-in-command at the East Baton Rouge Library faces up to 20 years in prison after he plead guilty to attempted receipt of child porn. Aaron Brian Fielder, 42, signed a plea agreement in Alabama admitting to soliciting sex from who he thought was a... more »

• Fired brother sues Hustler publisher for $20M

  October 17, 2011 12:37 PM

  CINCINNATI - The estranged brother of Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt is suing him in Ohio for $20 million, saying he was wrongly fired from his job at Flynt's pornography company. Jimmy Flynt says his brother stopped paying him his $250,000 annual salary in 2009 as part of an... more »

• Thibodaux man arrested on child porn charges

  August 2, 2011 2:41 PM

  THIBODAUX - A Thibodaux man is in jail after being arrested and charged with child pornography. Police arrested Blaine Granier, 21, on Thursday after a joint investigation involving Louisiana Attorney General's High Technology Crime Unit, Baton Rouge City Constable's Office, Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office, and St. Charles Parish Sheriff's Office.... more »

• Jail inmate: Lack of porn violates U.S. Constitution

  July 4, 2011 11:05 AM

  MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. - A Michigan jail inmate says he's being subjected to cruel and unusual punishment because he can't have pornography. In a handwritten lawsuit, 21-year-old Kyle Richards claims his civil rights are being violated at the Macomb County Jail. Richards says denying his request for erotic... more »

• Ex-Gueydan fire chief sentenced in child porn case

  April 16, 2011 5:42 PM

  LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) - The former fire chief for the town of Gueydan has been sentenced in federal court for attempting to receive child pornography. U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley said Friday that U.S. District Judge Rebecca Doherty sentenced 43-year-old Lindsey Troy LeBlanc to 63 months in prison for... more »

• Ex-teacher sentenced in La. child porn case

  December 1, 2010 6:37 AM

  LAFAYETTE - After receiving a 14-year prison sentence on a child pornography charge, Larry Caillier II told a federal judge that he was innocent and that his attorneys had persuaded him to accept a plea deal. Caillier, a former Opelousas High School teacher, was accused of receiving a sexually explicit... more »

• Gueydan fire chief pleads guilty to sex counts

  October 13, 2010 7:16 AM

  Suspended Gueydan Fire Chief Lindsey T. LeBlanc has pleaded guilty in federal court to two counts of attempting to receive child pornography. LeBlanc acknowledged he asked two undercover officers posing as 14-year-old girls to perform bodily functions while he listened and masturbated during online chats in 2009 and 2010.... more »

• Children's soccer referee accused of solicitation of a minor

  October 8, 2010 8:06 PM

  Police arrested a Lafayette man accused of computer-aided solicitation of a minor and attempted production of child pornography. They also arrested the man's son, a convicted sex offender who wasn't complying with his sex offender status. Authorities said 43-year-old Bernard Escoyne was arrested after police carried out a search... more »

• LSP, sheriff make child porn arrest in Point Coupee Parish

  September 17, 2010 4:35 PM

  Authorities have arrested a Point Coupee man in suspicion of having child pornography. 36-year-old Robin Kimball, Glynn, was arrested Thursday after investigators with the Point Coupee Sheriff’s Office and Louisiana State Police searched his home. Detectives said they found a computer with several images of child pornography on it. Kimball... more »

• Denham Springs man arrested for child pornography

  September 9, 2010 7:11 PM

  A man was arrested earlier today for online solicitation of a juvenile and pornography involving juveniles. 34-year-old Brad Marschak, Denham Springs, was arrested as a result of an undercover operation. A trooper was undercover as an underage girl, and Marschak engaged in “inappropriate and sexually explicit online communications” with the... more »

• Livingston Parish man arrested on child pornography charges

  September 1, 2010 3:22 PM

  Authorities in Livingston Parish have arrested a man for child pornography. Detectives found several images of child porn on 59-year-old Willis M. Krause's computer inside his home in Livingston. Krause was booked into the Livingston Parish Jail on charges of pornography involving juveniles. more »

• Porn-viewing trucker sentenced in deadly crash

  September 1, 2010 1:16 PM

  An Ohio truck driver whose laptop computer was streaming pornography when his rig hit a disabled car on the New York State Thruway has been sentenced to three-to-nine years in prison for killing the other driver. Thomas Wallace of Brook Park, Ohio, pleaded guilty in May to second-degree manslaughter.... more »

• Ex-LSU officer gets 18 months in prison

  August 27, 2010 6:04 AM

  Former LSU Police Officer Thomas Eugene Fife has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for possession of child pornography that a prosecutor said included images of children being raped by adults. Fife was also fined $10,000 and ordered to serve 10 years of post-prison supervision. Fife served 21 years... more »

• Mass. official aims to shame library porn viewers

  June 29, 2010 12:55 PM

  A city councilor in Massachusetts thinks he's come up with a way to stop people looking at pornography on public library computers - name them and shame them. Quincy Councilor Daniel Raymondi has asked Mayor Thomas Koch to make public a list of people who have viewed pornography on... more »

• Man accused of incest, porn with juveniles

  June 23, 2010 6:17 AM

  A DeRidder man faces 10 counts of aggravated incest and one count of pornography involving juveniles. Beauregard Parish deputies arrested Anthony L. Weathers after an investigation into complaints of inappropriate behavior between Weathers and a female. Deputies allegedly found inappropriate images involving juveniles on Weathers' computer during the investigation. He... more »

• Ponchatoula man arrested for child pornography

  June 21, 2010 9:12 AM

  Tangipahoa Parish deputies arrested a man from Ponchatoula for child pornography. Deputies searched the home of Kenneth Allen Hayes, and allegedly found child pornography pictures on electronic equipment. Detectives say some of the images / videos depicted children as young as 10-years-old engaged in sexual activity. Deputies say Hayes admitted... more »

• Guilty plea by trucker who watched porn before a crash

  May 25, 2010 1:01 PM

  An Ohio truck driver has pleaded guilty to manslaughter after his rig hit a disabled car on a New York highway while his laptop computer streamed pornography. Authorities say Thomas Wallace of Brook Park, Ohio, had little sleep before the Dec. 12 crash on the New York State Thruway... more »

• Man gets 40 years for child porn

  March 12, 2010 8:00 AM

  Christopher J. Comeaux of Leesville was sentenced to 30 years in prison on charges of production of child pornography and and 10 years possession of child pornography. Comeaux will now be tried on charges of aggravated rape in state court. After a two-day trial in December, jurors took about 30... more »

• Former Opelousas high school teacher accused of child porn

  March 10, 2010 1:28 PM

  A federal grand jury has indicted a former Opelousas alderman and Opelousas High School teacher with getting a minor to engage in sex acts to produce pornography. Acting U.S. Attorney William J. Flanagan said Wednesday that Larry Caillier II is charged with producing and possessing child pornography, and with... more »

• Man sentenced for sex crimes

  February 25, 2010 6:28 AM

  A Rapides Parish man has been given twelve 99-year sentences along with two 40-year sentences for sexual assaults and pornography involving children aged 2 and 5 when the abuse first started. Authorities say 56-year-old James Edward Davis pleaded guilty Wednesday to two counts of forcible rape, two counts of aggravated... more »

• Teen faces pornography, sex charges

  February 3, 2010 6:04 AM

  An Alexandria teenager has been arrested and booked with pornography involving juveniles and carnal knowledge of a juvenile. Police say 17-year-old James Darrell Dearborne Jr. was arrested after the mother of a 14-year-old Alexandria girl reported that he'd had sex with her daughter. Officers say the girl claims she... more »