Sexual Offenses

Young Woman Raped in Stall By Registered Sex Offender Enlists Rusty Hardin to Sue TGI Friday's for Negligence

Nearly two years after claiming she was raped in the stall of a TGI Friday's in Webster, Texas, by one of its employees, a young woman is suing the restaurant for negligence. The woman, who was 17 at the time of the rape and is referred to as Jane Doe within the lawsuit, the man who raped her regist ... More >>

Debra Jean Eyerly: Gets 25 Years For Child Porn Starring Family Member, But At Least She Got To Marry Her Child-Porn-Producing Boyfriend

Debra Jean Eyerly is going away for 25 years on child-porn charges, but the last few months haven't been totally bleak for the 54-year-old sicko: At least she got to marry her boyfriend, who's as much into producing child porn as she is. Because people like her deserve happiness, you know? Eyerly ... More >>

Civil Suit Filed in Alleged Rape at Houston Grand Opera

A woman who claims she was raped at age 16, while working as an extra last year for a Houston Grand Opera performance, is suing the HGO, the City of Houston, the Wortham Center, and her alleged attacker in Harris County District Civil Court. Amber Dewalt, now 17, says another extra, Gerald Guidry, ... More >>

Dr. Bernard Z. Albina, Kiddy-Porn Loving, Alleged Child Rapist Orthopedic Surgeon, Gets Ten Years in Federal Prison

A Houston orthopedic surgeon a veteran cop called the most obsessed child molester he'd ever seen has been sentenced to ten years in federal prison after he was found guilty of possessing ten videos and 326 images of child pornography. Bernard Z. Albina was arrested in July of 2009 and charged not ... More >>

Bye, Bye "Jer": Jerry Sandusky Sentenced to Minimum 30 Years in Prison

During the trial of convicted pedophile and former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, it was revealed that he would send actual love letters to one of his numerous victims, denoted in the case as Victim Number 4. The creep factor on these letters was off the charts, and they were all p ... More >>

Chaise Green: EMT Getting Served Child-Porn Warrant Found In Bed With Underage Boy

It's bad enough when cops come knocking on your door to serve you with a warrant for having child porn. Things get much worse when those cops find you in bed with a young boy as they're doing their job. Chaise Green, 28, a firefighter and EMT from Louisiana and Humble, found himself in that situati ... More >>

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If Any School Deserves The NCAA Death Penalty, It's Got To Be Penn State

If ever a major collegiate football program deserves the so-called NCAA death penalty, it's got to be Penn State. The myth of Joe Paterno and his ethical football program has been blown out of the water, and the least the NCAA can do is put this program out of the misery of college sports fans. For ... More >>

Pilot Todd Ewanko Grounded, Sentenced for Child Porn to 151 Months in Prison

A federal judge Monday sentenced former pilot Todd Steven Ewanko, 47, of Humble, to 151 months in prison for distribution and possession of child pornography. The 151-month sentence from U.S. District Judge Kenneth M. Hoyt is in addition to 120 months on the possession charge, but the sentences ar ... More >>

Rachel Bradshaw: HS Student Sent to Alternative HS with Her Alleged Rapist Gets Policy Changed

A Henderson High student who went public to fight the district's placing her in alternative school with her alleged rapist says she's happy the policy has been changed. Rachel Bradshaw, 19, eventually graduated from another district after the March 2010 incident. Bradshaw told authorities she had b ... More >>

Jason Blain Wagner: Pawned Laptop Full of Child Porn, Then Scoffed at Terms of Probation, Police Say

It's kind of amazing how regularly it happens -- a guy will pawn his laptop full of kiddy porn and then is amazed when the buyers somehow discover the disgusting footage and call the police. These days, surely everybody, especially devotees of child porn, must know that files are very hard to eras ... More >>

Troy Allison: Reward Upped for the Sporting Sex Offender

Troy Allison, a sex offender whose mug shot features a slight smile and a sporty shirt, is still on Texas's Top 10 Most Wanted Sex Offenders list, and the reward for helping to find him has increased. Tips, anonymous or not, that lead to his arrest can be worth up to $12,000 now. Allison began his ... More >>

Jarod Barry: Former Marine Gets Nine Years For Gruesome Child Porn

A former Marine will get nine years in a federal prison for possession of a particularly gruesome genre of child porn. Jarod Barry, 30, who left the Marines in January with an "other than honorable" discharge, was sentenced after entering a guilty plea last June. He had been a sergeant. Investigat ... More >>

Comment of the Day: A Perfect Description of the Creepy Baylor Lecturer/Child-Porn Fan's Mugshot

We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it's time we paid some damn attention to them. So we'll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day's work. Maybe two comments, even. This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involving wit ... More >>

Bryan Ray Roe: Repeat Sex Offender Allegedly Assaults Autistic Boy, 9

Talk about every parent's nightmare...Police in Coryell County say that a nine-year-old autistic Abilene boy was molested at a rural Central Texas bluegrass festival. Charged with the crime is registered sex offender Bryan Ray Roe, a parolee from an earlier sex offense. Roe, 33, allegedly lured the ... More >>

CVS: No Birth Control

Won't sell morning-after pill to man.

William Gammon, Influential Homeowners Association Attorney, Gets Four Years For Child Porn

William Gammon gets four years.​William Gammon, an attorney who has been instrumental in getting Texans' homeowners associations power to wield over nonconforming residents, has been sentenced to four years in federal prison for possession of child porn. Gammon, who entered a guilty plea to t ... More >>

Teen Angels: 10 Musicians with a Penchant for Young Girls

In the great 80s comedy Night Shift, there is a scene where Michael Keaton is driving down what appears to be the West Side Highway in New York in a brand new Cadillac with "Jumpin' Jack Flash" blaring from the speakers. In a bid to impress a mildly terrified Henry Winkler, Keaton attempts to demons ... More >>

Sandusky Confirms In NBC Interview: He "Likes Young People" (w/ Interview VIDEO)

Last night on NBC's new Rock Center program, retired Penn State defensive coordinator and ousted human being (Yes, I am ousting him from the human race.) Jerry Sandusky did a phone interview with Bob Costas which accomplished the nearly impossible -- it made Sandusky infinitely more deplorable and c ... More >>

Samuel McCord Sullivan: Takes Computer Filled With Child Porn In To Be Repaired

Photo by Sugar Land policeSamuel Sullivan: Not a DIY guy​Few things can be more aggravating than computer troubles. You just want to get that sucker fixed. Samuel McCord Sullivan wanted it so bad that he didn't seem to realize he was handing over evidence of his child-porn collection when he ... More >>

German Moreno: Fugitive Child Rapist Found in Costa Rica, Can't Be Arrested

Found but not arrested.​A man who fled Houston after being charged with sexual assault of a minor in 2005 has been found in Costa Rica, according to reporters there. German Moreno was already a fugitive from Costa Rica, where he'd been convicted of sexually assaulting minors, when he was char ... More >>

David Allen Smith: Busted for Kiddy Porn after Wife Turns Geek Squad Loose on Computer

He doesn't look like he'd have kiddie porn at ALL.​Marriage and a weakness for child porn. It's a combo that doesn't mix. The latest area man to find that out the hard way is 67-year-old David Allen Smith of Lufkin. Police there say Smith's vile stash came to light after his wife took thei ... More >>

"Chicken Lips" Sex Offender Arrested in Lubbock

DPSRonnie "Chicken Lips" House, busted.​It only took a day for good old "Chicken Lips" to be picked up by the authorities. The one-time (or should we say one-day?) Texas top 10 most wanted sex offender managed just a few hours on the infamous list before Texas DPS officers arrested the 41-year ... More >>

Thomas Balzumati: Child-Porn Stash Discovered In Toolbox

She'll never look there, right?​Your wife has rightly kicked you out of the house after you've been charged with sexually abusing a child. It's a situation very few people, thankfully, have to deal with, but if they did we think most would pick up their child-porn DVD on their shameful way out ... More >>

William Gammon, Prominent Homeowners Association Attorney, Pleads Guilty to Child Porn Charges

William Gammon pleads guilty to child porn possession​William Gammon, a leading figure in the move to make highly annoying homeowners associations even more powerful and annoying, has entered a guilty plea to charges of possessing child pornography, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced today. ... More >>

Comment of the Day: Bad Judgment On Sex Offenders

​We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it's time we paid some damn attention to them. So we'll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day's work. Maybe two comments, even. This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involv ... More >>

The "Hot Sex Offenders" List: An Explanation And Apology

Our item about the "10 hottest women" on Texas' sex offender list has understandably generated a lot of controversy. Here was the genesis of the idea. Last week I spoke to two veteran child-porn prosecutors for a Q&A on how they do their jobs -- how they deal with looking at such horrific evidence ... More >>

Life Without Parole

John Kinsel remains in prison even after alleged rape victim recanted.

Mario Ruffino: Child-Porn Distributor While an Intern at the Harris County Department of Education

An intern had a side job​Mario Joseph Ruffino, 29, seems to like working with kids. He interned at the Harris County Department of Education and then took an IT job with an elementary school in Arkansas. All the while, federal prosecutors say, he was a major distributor of child pornography. ... More >>

Jonathan Hall: Convicted of Sexual Assault, Claims He Wanted to Rape Arresting Officer

Seriously, hide your kids. Hide your wife.​As YouTube celeb Antoine Dodson might say, "Hide yo kids. Hide yo wife, 'cause they be rapin' everybody up in here." In the case of Jonathan Hall, the 23-year-old Missouri City man sentenced to 30 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 69-year-old ... More >>

He's Only a Perv

Court rules video voyeur not a child pornographer

Serial Rapist on the Loose in West/Northwest Harris County

HCSOSuspected of at least three sexual assaults​Harris County sheriff's deputies say DNA tests show there's a serial rapist targeting women in the northwest and west sides of the county. At a press conference today, they released a composite drawing of the suspect, who uses a box cutter to th ... More >>

Alan Ray Steen: Just a Perv, Not a Child Pornographer

A tanning bed is not sexy, court rules​The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has formally ruled: Alan Ray Steen is a pervert, he's not a child pornographer. Steen liked to go to tanning salons and stick a video camera over the cubicle wall to tape women; one day the person he taped turned out ... More >>

Michael Joseph Snowden: Sexually Assaults 6-Year-Old Boy In Library Bathroom, Cops Say

Photo courtesy DPSMichael Joseph Snowden, registered sex offender​Here's one to make every parent shudder -- a six-year-old boy went into a bathroom stall at the Freed-Montrose Library to change clothes; while he was in there a convicted sex offender went in and sexually assaulted him. Michae ... More >>

Fugitive Sex Offenders Will Be Easier To Find, Officials Say

Photo by Paula BeltránPat Lykos, flanked by representives from the city and county​It's gotten tougher to be a fugitive sex offender in Harris County, a group of law enforcement officials announced Monday.The three main local agencies dealing with sex offenders are merging their databases and mon ... More >>

Ramiro C. Lozano, World's Dumbest Child Pornographer, Gets 20 Years

Won't be smiling for long​Most child pornographers are caught when law enforcement gains access to private, secure web groups.Then there are the child pornographers who get caught when they pass out on the side of the road in a car filled with their sick handiwork.Ramiro C. Lozano, 47, of Brownsvi ... More >>

William Gammon: Accused Child-Porn Lover Advised Homeowners Associations On Notifying Residents Of Sex Offenders

Advice on sex offenders from a man accused of child porn possession​William George Gammon, arrested and being held without bond for possessing child pornography, is a leading attorney in the state for uber-aggressive homeowners' associations.As such, he's offered advice to the legislature and to p ... More >>

Anna Mayo: Another KBR Employee Who Says She Was Raped In Iraq

The suit includes a graphic description of the rape​A Cedar Park woman has filed suit in federal court in Houston against Halliburton and KBR, alleging she was brutally raped while working for the company in Iraq last November.Mayo, 27, says she was raped by a KBR employee who is not named in the ... More >>

A Doctor Who Is (Allegedly) Sick, Sick, Sick

Houston famously is the home of one of Michael Jackson's doctors; could it also be the home of a doctor who's like Michael Jackson? (Note: Throw a half-dozen or so "allegedly"s into that sentence.)Prosecutors have charged Bernard Albina, a 69-year-old orthopedic surgeon, with sexually abusing at lea ... More >>

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South Park Monster

Fans saw Carlos Coy as the invincible rapper, the gangsta who could become an icon for outcast Hispanics everywhere. But they didn't know his weakness -- young girls did.

High-Tech Hell

Cops and courts cleared Richard King 25 years ago. But databases don't care.

The Trouble with Larry

Could castration cure Larry McQuay of his urge to molest children? He thinks it can, and wants the state to nueter him. Others would just like to neutralize him.