Jeffrey Talani, chief of police and child molester.
Back in 1988 Jeffrey Talani plead guilty to molesting two little girls, just babies of 4 and 8.
Being charged with 20 counts of rape, kidnapping, gross sexual imposition, child endangering and drug abuse. Talani claimed "I was coerced into pleading for something I didn't do" and "I would rather die than to hurt a child". (Gee, where have we heard THAT before?)
Talani was sentenced to 4 to 10 years on one count of sexual battery and 2 years each on three counts of sexual imposition. He was also sentenced to 6 more months for obstructing justice.
Talani (the man who would rather die that hurt a child) is up for parole. The man who these little girls trusted, the whole community trusted, could be out in just a few weeks. Do you want this man living in your neighborhood? Do you want this man around children? Your children?
I know the victims and their families don't. This is what one of the victims had to say "it has been 21 years since he has been incarcerated, the information on what happened to me is a vivid now as it was then. It never goes away."
Lets help keep this creep behind bars where he belongs.
Ohio Parole Board, Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, 770 West Broad Street, Columbus, OH 43222.
Inmate: Jeffrey Talani, A205158
More than three million American children are victims of child molestation - that’s according to the Child Molestation Prevention Organization.
Almost half were violated by repeat offenders.
Now, Talladega County Representative Steve Hurst of Munford wants to surgically castrate convicted pedophiles older than 21 who’s victims are younger than twelve years old.
“You take a child who’s completely helpless. They have no way to defend themselves. And someone does something of this nature to them, you have literally destroyed that child for the rest of their life,“ says Hurst.
“If it’s an urge they can’t control… the castration certainly would take care of that problem and protect neighborhoods, communities and future victims,“ says Jefferson County Mike Hale, who supports the idea, which is now officially House Bill 252.
Hale says his deputies re-arrest at least 30% of the child molesters who are parolled.
“I think they would see this as a threat - from even committing one crime to start with. If the word got out that Alabama would castrate you if you molested a child, that would send a pretty strong message,“ says Hale.A Vancleave man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for molesting two little girls.
Friday, Randy Lamar Tapper, 47, was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences plus 75 years in prison. It took a Jackson County jury less than two hours to convict him of multiple counts of sexual battery and touching of a child for lustful purposes.
"These victims were six and eight at the time of the crimes. The file is full of other allegations of possible child victims. I told the court in sentencing, Tapper not only robbed the victims of part of their childhood but also part of their future. I think the maximum was appropriate for a person who was found guilty of sexually abusing two small girls," said District Attorney Tony Lawrence.
Testimony revealed that the children had stayed at Tapper's trailer in Vancleave in the summer of 2006. The molestation came to light after the children's mother took them for an examination at Singing River Hospital. The girls had just returned from Tapper's house and reported being molested by Tapper.
During the trial, Lawrence revealed that Tapper's two previous wives were minors when he got them pregnant. Lawrence also told the court that Tapper had another pending indictment for child molestation.
"Tapper will be in prison for the rest of his life and he will never be able to harm another child," said Lawrence.
"Justice in this case was a long time coming. It is a good day for the citizens of Jackson County. There is no telling how many children he has hurt, but thankfully he can't hurt any others," said Assistant District Attorney Angel Meyers who assisted Lawrence on the case.
For the first time in modern Muskegon County history, a nonmurderer has gotten the toughest sentence Michigan has to give: mandatory life in prison without chance of parole.
That sentence was handed down Tuesday to repeat child molester Aaron Michael Snyder, 34, of 1547 Auble. Snyder pleaded guilty as charged Jan. 12 to first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a person younger than 13.
An admitted sex offender pleaded guilty yesterday to charges that he sneaked into the bedroom of a 5-year-old Pequannock girl and molested her on at least two occasions in 2007.
Timothy Iberer, 28, of Bloomingdale, pleaded guilty in Superior Court in Morristown to second-degree charges of sexual assault and attempted aggravated sexual assault, and two counts of third-degree burglary, in connection with the incidents that occurred in August and September of 2007.
In all, he faces up to 18 years in prison when he is sentenced on Feb. 27.
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.
A St. George, Utah man was recently sentenced to life in prison without parole. Marc Clifton Bryant was convicted of the heinous crime of rape and torture of a 16 year old girl with a screwdriver and a blow torch.
After being charged, Bryant fled to Florida and did not appear at his April 2008 trial.
He was arrested in September at a Golden Corral restaurant in Jacksonville, Fla., after appearing on "America's Most Wanted" TV program.
A letter from the victim detailed her struggles with memories of the incident. Her struggles include nightmares, distrust of people and, when she becomes overwhelmed, she seeks shelter in a closet.
"You can see the scars on my face, and I will always have them on the inside," the victim wrote.
A St. Louis County truck driver was sentenced to life in federal prison today for molesting a young girl in 2005.
Warren McKinney, 45, molested the girl in his truck while overnighting on long road trips.
