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A former Benton County pastor and basketball coach has been indicted on various child sex charges. Joshua Henley, 32, of Indiana, will appear in court next week in Jackson after being indicted, Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph C. Murphy Jr. announced Wednesday. Henley, a former pastor of the Holladay Church of Christ in Holladay, Tennessee, as well as a girl’s basketball coach at Holladay Elementary School from 2017 to March 2021, served as a youth pastor in Indiana at the time of his arrest. Investigators said Henly used “using three minors to create sexual abuse material” and transported a...

Report: Online enticement of children up 97.5% amid pandemic The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children said reports of online enticement, where adults communicate with children intending to commit a sexual offense or abduction, have increased 97.5% from 2019 to 2020. and last updated 2021-05-06 14:03:38-04 BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children said reports of online enticement, where adults communicate with children intending to commit a sexual offense or abduction, have increased 97.5% from 2019 to 2020. "Over 21.7 million reports. It...

Published: 1:18 PM CDT April 26, 2021 Updated: 1:18 PM CDT April 26, 2021 MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Matthew Berry, 42, of Eads, Tennessee has been sentenced to 220 months in federal prison for child exploitation offenses. Acting United States Attorney, Joseph C. Murphy, Jr., announced the sentence today. According to information presented in court, on June 25, 2019, an undercover operative with the Michigan City (Indiana) Police Department who was investigating child exploitation found a computer that was making child sexual abuse material (CSAM) available over the in...

Sgt. Peirce (Provided photo) WATERTOWN — Detective Sgt. John Peirce says he wishes he wasn’t so familiar with it, but the last five years of his career have been dedicated solely to the exploitation of children. This has resulted in a depth of insight he can provide on recent local north country cases of online extortion and suicide. Sgt. Peirce, a detective with the Davis County Sheriff’s Office in Farmington, Utah, is a sergeant overseeing the investigative division. He’s also been assigned to the FBI Child Exploitation Task Force and the Internet Crimes Against Children Task For...

WATERTOWN — Detective Sgt. John Peirce says he wishes he wasn’t so familiar with it, but the last five years of his career have been dedicated solely to the exploitation of children. This has resulted in a depth of insight he can provide on recent local north country cases of online extortion and suicide. Sgt. Peirce, a detective with the Davis County Sheriff’s Office in Farmington, Utah, is a sergeant overseeing the investigative division. He’s also been assigned to the FBI Child Exploitation Task Force and the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. Sgt. Peirce said...