A Cumming man who was a convicted sex offender has been charged in the death of his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son, police said Saturday night.
Christopher Brian Gilreath, 39, was charged with felony murder, aggravated battery and cruelty to children in connection with the death of Joshua Pinckney, according to the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Department.
Gilreath also is charged with possession of a firearm by a felon and failure to register as a sex offender in Georgia. He is a registered sex offender in Pennsylvania, authorities said.
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Monday, February 16, 2009
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Child Rapist to spend 56 1/2 years in prison
After her parents were deemed unfit, a 4-year-old girl and her siblings were sent to live with their closest relatives.
But their new home was no haven. Christopher Kenney, 36, repeatedly raped the girl over a two-year period, a Franklin County jury found. His sentence was handed down Thursday: 56 1/2 years to life in prison.
Kenney, formerly of Brehl Avenue on the West Side, had been convicted in November of rape, gross sexual imposition and child pornography.
Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Tim Horton called Kenney's crimes "hideous and foul."
"You have chosen not to accept responsibility for your actions. That is, in itself, a sad case," Horton said in handing down consecutive sentences, which included at least 40 years for rape. Kenney will not be eligible for parole until he is 92.
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Accused child rapist found guilty, sentenced to life
ALife without parole was the sentence issued by Circuit Judge David Reynolds Friday at the end of a two-day trial of a man now found guilty of raping his 7-year-old daughter.
The defendant accused of bringing the girl into the bedroom of his Greenbrier home to watch he and his wife have sex before compelling the girl to perform sexual acts showed little emotion as the verdict was read.
The Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children (CASA) advocate assigned to the young victim wept openly at the end of a tense trial that included graphic and disturbing testimonies from three of the defendant's alleged victims and the mother of his daughter.
More of this tragic story: http://www.thecabin.net/stories/101108/loc_1011080003.shtml
The defendant accused of bringing the girl into the bedroom of his Greenbrier home to watch he and his wife have sex before compelling the girl to perform sexual acts showed little emotion as the verdict was read.
The Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children (CASA) advocate assigned to the young victim wept openly at the end of a tense trial that included graphic and disturbing testimonies from three of the defendant's alleged victims and the mother of his daughter.
More of this tragic story: http://www.thecabin.net/stories/101108/loc_1011080003.shtml
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Ohio Supreme Court denies pedophile & wife custody
PERMANENTLY denying custody of children to their parents is an extreme move that is never made lightly or without good reason. So it was recently when the Ohio Supreme Court decided to deny a convicted pedophile and his wife permanent custody of their children.
The overriding concern of any court dealing with difficult custody cases must be the best interest of the children involved, and the state's high court did not disappoint in its ruling on a Lucas County dispute. In a 6-1 decision, the court upheld the action of Lucas County Children Services to remove two children from their home because of worries about their father.
The father and mother, whose full names were not used in the case to protect the anonymity of their children, were considered safety risks to the youngsters. A report alleging that one of the children suffered from shaken baby syndrome initially led child service agency officials to investigate the family in 2005.
While their investigation did not reveal whether either parent was responsible and did not produce evidence that the father had abused either his son, born in 2004, or a daughter, born two years earlier, it did expose troubling aspects of the father's criminal history. He had been convicted of molesting two young boys in 1991.
The man served prison time for three felonies related to the sexual abuse and completed the terms of his probation, but evidently not to the satisfaction of those who dealt with him in therapy sessions. Therapist testimony suggested the convicted pedophile just went through the motions to terminate his probation.
After the agency had removed the children from his home, it also expressed reservations about the lack of progress the father and mother had made in subsequent counseling. A majority of the justices agreed that the threat of a relapse of pedophilia with the father, and the mother's apparent inability to prevent it, was real enough to keep the children away - permanently.
Justice Paul Pfeifer, the sole dissenter, while acknowledging concern about the father offending again, objected to the couple losing custody of their children for something that only might happen.
But when serious risk to a child's safety goes beyond possible to probable, society is better to err on the side of protecting its most vulnerable members than to take a chance.
The overriding concern of any court dealing with difficult custody cases must be the best interest of the children involved, and the state's high court did not disappoint in its ruling on a Lucas County dispute. In a 6-1 decision, the court upheld the action of Lucas County Children Services to remove two children from their home because of worries about their father.
The father and mother, whose full names were not used in the case to protect the anonymity of their children, were considered safety risks to the youngsters. A report alleging that one of the children suffered from shaken baby syndrome initially led child service agency officials to investigate the family in 2005.
While their investigation did not reveal whether either parent was responsible and did not produce evidence that the father had abused either his son, born in 2004, or a daughter, born two years earlier, it did expose troubling aspects of the father's criminal history. He had been convicted of molesting two young boys in 1991.
The man served prison time for three felonies related to the sexual abuse and completed the terms of his probation, but evidently not to the satisfaction of those who dealt with him in therapy sessions. Therapist testimony suggested the convicted pedophile just went through the motions to terminate his probation.
After the agency had removed the children from his home, it also expressed reservations about the lack of progress the father and mother had made in subsequent counseling. A majority of the justices agreed that the threat of a relapse of pedophilia with the father, and the mother's apparent inability to prevent it, was real enough to keep the children away - permanently.
Justice Paul Pfeifer, the sole dissenter, while acknowledging concern about the father offending again, objected to the couple losing custody of their children for something that only might happen.
But when serious risk to a child's safety goes beyond possible to probable, society is better to err on the side of protecting its most vulnerable members than to take a chance.
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