Predator Awareness.

November 19th 2009 A MARRIED mother is to appear in court after being charged with child pornography offences, police revealed today. Melanie Gunn , 36, has also resigned from her role as learning support manager at a secondary school after being accused of the sex crimes. Gunn, the mother of a toddler, was arrested by police following a raid on her home in Alford, Lincolnshire (UK). Officers seized computer equipment including hard drives and disks during the search. When the equipment was examined officers allegedly found dozens of hardcore child porn images some of which show offences of bestiality involving small children. Yesterday Gunn ... Read Full Story

November 22nd 2009 SEVEN boy boarders at one of the State's most exclusive private schools have alleged they were raped by their female house mistress earlier this year. The boys have told police that the offences took place on the school grounds between February and June. Their 40-year-old "house mother'' (pictured left) appeared in Forster Court last week charged with 34 counts of aggravated sexual assault and aggravated indecency with the students. She was first arrested in August over offences against one boy, but has since been charged with assaulting six other students after continuing police inquiries. Her identity and the name of the ... Read Full Story

The Operation Santa Programme will still operate but the generically-addressed letters to Santa at the North Pole will no longer be forwarded to the Alaskan town     Since the Operation Santa programme started in 1954, the service has been forwarding up to 150,000 letters addressed to "Santa Claus, North Pole" to volunteers in the small Alaskan town of North Pole every year. Replies come signed by a Santa elf and bear the all-important North Pole postmark. However, concerns about the service were raised last year when a postal worker in Maryland recognised a volunteer in the state's Operation Santa letter service as a ... Read Full Story

November 19th 2009 OTTAWA, Canada — A man and a woman are facing child pornography charges after separate search warrants were executed this week. Ottawa police received information that prompted Internet Child Exploitation investigators on Tuesday to seize and examine computers and other media of the 30-year-old Ottawa woman. Crystal Dodds has been charged with two counts of accessing and possession of child pornography. She appeared in court Wednesday. On Wednesday, Internet Child Exploitation investigators executed a search warrant and examined computers and other computer-related media belonging to a 37-year-old man. Edouard Chalfeev of Ottawa has been charged with two counts of possession and ... Read Full Story

The woman from Bootle in Merseyside was last night charged with sexual offences involving a child and is due to appear in court tomorrow. She is the fourth woman to face charges in relation to the paedophile ring involving George, a 39-year-old mother-of-two who last month admitted a string of sexual crimes against children in her care. She used he mobile phone to take more than 150 obscene photographs of infants at Little Ted’s Day Nursery in Plymouth, and shared the images online with accomplices Angela Allen, 39, from Nottingham, and Colin Blanchard, 38, from Manchester. It is understood that the latest woman to ... Read Full Story