A 37-year-old Colorado man who says he was sexually abused by a director at a Kanakuk Kamps, one of the biggest Christian summer camp operations in the country, has sued the organization and one of the camp’s insurance providers, alleging fraud. Andrew Summersett said that after he revealed to Kanakuk Kamps directors in fall 2009 that, years earlier, he’d been abused by Pete Newman, then director of the Kanakuk Kamp in Branson, Missouri, high-ranking officials in the organization denied knowing that Newman had been accused of molesting other children and told him to keep quiet about it, according to...

A former Nebraska Boy Scouts leader accused of child sex crimes was sentenced last Friday, court documents say. John Shores, Jr., 54, pleaded guilty to one count of attempted sexual exploitation of a minor. Six other counts were dropped. Shores will serve 20 years in prison, with an additional 20 years of supervision after his release, according to court documents.

John Shores, 55, got 20 years in federal prison with a 20-year term of supervised release for attempted sexual exploitation of a child. ----- “I don’t discount what you’ve done with the community in the light, but what you’ve done here was in the dark,” Judge Robert Rossiter Jr. told Shores. ----- Last year, Shores used his cellphone to chat online with an undercover officer posing as a 13-year-old girl. Shores continually asked the user for sexually explicit photos, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. On Aug. 10, 2023, Shores set up a meeting with...

Ignite Life Center in Gainesville is facing three sexual abuse and coverup lawsuits. Attorneys at ‘Horowitz Law’ a law firm in South Florida also named The Florida Multicultural District Council of the Assemblies of God- a denomination office in orlando that oversees the church- in the suit. TV20 spoke with the boys’ attorney, Jessica Arbour, who says her clients fear for the safety of other children. “I think for each of my clients the most important thing is not only that the entities who failed to keep them safe are held accountable but also that kids will be...

- Last week, Minick read articles covering how SBC and others reached a confidential settlement in a six-year suit accusing Pressler of sex abuse and alleging that others including First Baptist Church of Houston were responsible for covering up crimes.  - "It just left me wondering who all knew and what else are they hiding," Minick said Monday, expressing frustration that the case would never reach its February trial date. It was his belief that SBC had "calculated the cost of the cost of settlement versus trial and did what they had to do to protect themselves and there was no...

- The suit prompted a major newspaper investigation into Southern Baptist sexual abuse and seven other men to come forward with allegations against Paul Pressler, an influential conservative activist and former Texas judge. - Rollins said weaponized religious language to justify his predations — were so traumatizing that he unconsciously developed a sort of Stockholm syndrome that, coupled with the drug and alcohol addictions he blamed on the trauma, made it impossible to recognize himself as a victim until decades had passed. Thus, Rollins argued, his statute of limitations should have begun when he realized he had been...

The boy said he regularly got called to Schutte’s office throughout the rest of the school year and missed class at times. The boy said he and Schutte repeatedly had sexual contact in both Bucks and Montgomery counties in June and July of 2023.  The boy also said he and Schutte communicated through the school district’s messaging app “Canvas” as well as the social media app Snapchat.  While searching through the boy’s cellphone, police found messages between him and Schutte as well as pictures of them together at her home in Pennsburg, according to the criminal complaint. Investigators...

John Shores was charged with attempted sexual exploitation of a minor and attempted enticement of a minor. The judge decided to release the 54-year-old before the trial with GPS tracking. Another condition of his release was to have no contact with any children, including his family. According to court documents, he was in possession of four different cellphones, and he used the Whisper app to request child pornography or to trade pictures for child pornography. Court documents said Shores was texting an 11-year-old girl, asking for sexually explicit photos. He also asked a 14-year-old and a 16-year-old...

PRESS RELEASE A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia returned an indictment today charging a former FBI contractor with sexual exploitation of children. According to court documents, Brett Janes, 26, of Arlington, Virginia, allegedly contacted roughly a dozen minor boys over Discord and Snapchat. He allegedly groomed the minors by telling them he worked for a U.S. intelligence agency before repeatedly threatening suicide if the minors did not continue to communicate with him. Janes allegedly enticed one victim, a 13-year-old boy whom he met through the first-person shooter game Valorant, to strip and masturbate over a...

Former Ocean Springs martial arts instructor Allan Todd Pisarich was convicted of six counts of sexual battery and three counts of touching a child for lustful purposes in the Circuit Court of Jackson County Monday morning. According to District Attorney Angel Myers McIlrath, the 54-year-old pled guilty to the sexual battery and touching of a child for lustful purposes of two child victims who were between 10 and 14 years old at the time of the crimes. Judge Calvin Taylor sentenced Pisarich to 40 years in the Mississippi Department of Corrections, with 20 years to serve day for...