Government worker from San Antonio had sex with a minor in Honduras

[Judi Lynn]

Government worker from San Antonio had sex with a minor in Honduras
Posted, 2015-04-30

A civilian Defense Department employee from San Antonio has pleaded guilty to one count of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with a minor in a foreign place, for an illegal relationship with a young teen in Honduras.

William Curry McGrath, 55, entered the guilty plea Tuesday before U.S. District Judge Lee H. Rosenthal in Houston, where McGrath was arrested after his return from Central America in October 2014, the Justice Department announced this week.

According to admissions made in connection with his guilty plea, McGrath was the director of the Network Enterprise Center at the Soto Cano Air Base in Comayagua, Honduras, from December 2012 through March 2014. McGrath admitted that while stationed in Honduras, he met a 13 year-old girl and began a sexual relationship with her. He also admitted that he gave the girl money, gifts and other items of value in exchange for sexual acts.

A sentencing hearing is scheduled for Aug. 6. The investigation was conducted by the FBI in Houston, and he is being prosecuted as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Justice Department to combat child sexual exploitation and abuse.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Government-worker-from-San-Antonio-had-sex-with-a-6232095.php

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Ohio man accused of engaging in sex acts with minors abroad
Published 12:12 am, Friday, May 1, 2015

CLEVELAND (AP) — Homeland Security officials say a northeast Ohio man has been charged with engaging in sex with minors while working at a Honduran youth homeless shelter.

Twenty-five-year-old Corey Bryant of Norton was arrested Wednesday. He's charged in federal court with traveling to a foreign country to engage in illicit sexual conduct with minors.

Agents say Bryant engaged in sex with three minors while working at the homeless agency in Honduras beginning as early as 2011. A criminal complaint says one victim was 9 years old.

A bond hearing for Bryant has been scheduled for May 4. A message left with the public defender assigned to his case was not immediately returned Thursday.

http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Ohio-man-accused-of-engaging-in-sex-acts-with-6235276.php

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Thursday, 30 April 2015 16:42
Norton Man Busted On Fed Sex Charges Featured

Written by Edward L. Esposito

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During the search of his residence, HSI special agents seized two thumb drives, two cell phones and a laptop computer. The devices will undergo computer forensic examination. The federal charges are the product of an ongoing probe initiated after an anonymous tip was received December 2014 by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Tip Line website.The investigation is being handled by ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). HSI Transnational Criminal Investigative Unit, HSI Tegucigalpa, and the Norton Police Department assisted in the investigation.

The federal prosecution is being handled by Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael A. Sullivan. A charges is only charge an allegation and is not evidence of guilt. A defendant is entitled to a fair trial in which it will be the government's burden to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

This investigation was conducted under HSI's Operation Predator, an international initiative to protect children from sexual predators. Since the launch of Operation Predator in 2003, HSI has arrested more than 10,000 individuals for crimes against children, including the production and distribution of online child pornography, traveling overseas for sex with minors, and sex trafficking of children. In fiscal year 2014, more than 2,300 individuals were arrested by HSI special agents under this initiative and more than 1000 victims identified or rescued.

http://wakr.net/news/item/158787-norton-man-busted-on-fed-sex-charges

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141081922

[merrily]

1. Thanks, Judy. Heinous. I think people should see this, but it's so hard to rec. I'll force myself.

A Christian mission school teacher, but you'd never know that from the headline--and studies show many read only headlines.