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This order was just issued by the court. ORDER EXTENDING DEADLINES AND CONTINUING THE TRIAL: The defendant’s unopposed motion to extend deadlines and continue the trial, ECF No. 36 , is granted in part. The discovery deadline is extended to 11/14/2022 . The deadline to move for summary judgment is extended to 12/12/2022 . The trial is rescheduled for the

A former Florida sheriff’s deputy is accused of molesting a 12-year-old girl multiple times at his home. The girl told a DCF investigator she had text messages from XXXXX that showed he admitted to the incident. Police downloaded evidence from the girl’s Android phone. The police report highlighted one text message from XXXXX that read, “How Dare you.” Police said

“Of course the judge found that City Walk was not a burden to the community it was in fact a blessing to the community,” says Jordan Pratt. Attorney Jordan Pratt of First Liberty Institute has been on the case for several months. He believed from the beginning this was an important cause. However, there is still a pending application for

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A school safety officer is accused of enticing a person under the age of 16 to engage in sexual activity, according to a release from Duval County Public Schools. XXXXXXX  was arrested Tuesday by the Atlantic Beach Police Department on charges including lewd and lascivious battery—encouraging or enticing a person under the age of 16 to engage

Though most crimes against children are committed by people the child knows, the Walsh case helped convince Americans that godless strangers posed the greatest risk. Walsh relayed unsourced, exaggerated statistics about the rates of missing and murdered children in testimony before the U.S. Congress in 1983, claiming the nation is “littered with mutilated, decapitated, raped, strangled children.” Walsh’s rhetoric, echoed

Stranger danger is the belief that someone unknown to the child and family (aka “an adult male stranger”) will be the one to perpetrate the abuse. However, this belief is misguided and can in fact be harmful as the large majority of those of individuals who abuse children are known to them. In fact, it is estimated that only 7%