A Houston high-school teacher and her son have been charged with sex trafficking homeless students.  Kedria Grigsby is facing six felony charges of trafficking children and compelling prostitution of a minor along with her son.

From KHOU11:

"KLEIN, Texas — A Klein Independent School District cosmetology teacher who's accused of sex trafficking and compelling prostitution was in court Monday.

Kedria Grigsby, 42, and her son Roger Magee, 21, are accused of recruiting and trafficking at least three underage victims.

On Monday, the judge lowered her bond to $75,000 on each of six counts -- three counts of trafficking a child and three counts of compelling prostitution of a minor -- for a total of $450,000.

According to Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez, the victims were 15, 16 and 17-year-old students and had been reported as runaways. Investigators said Grigsby recruited troubled juveniles from local high schools by offering them a place to stay at a motel.

"The investigating officer evidently determined there's at least one occasion where Ms. Grigsby had paid for a motel room that was used in the prostitution enterprise," the judge said in an earlier hearing.

According to prosecutors, investigators were looking for evidence in a motel room that was allegedly paid for by Grigsby when one of the alleged victims walked in and then ran out and got into a silver car believed to be driven by Grigsby. They said there was at least one other victim inside the vehicle.

Prosecutors said Grigsby and her son, who was arrested in 2022, used Zelle to transfer money and investigators found text messages between the two talking about payments and prostitution fees, as well as messages sent between her son and the victims.

Prosecutors said they anticipate more victims to come forward and more charges to be filed."

Nice.  They revoked her cosmetology license, too. 

Prison transport Holtzclaw admitted to raping three prisoners, but investigators are aware of a dozen more.  He had a little system for getting them alone. 

First of all there's no reason to have male drivers transporting female prisoners, especially long distance.  There are too many examples of that going wrong even on short drives.

Private prisoner transports should have GPS and camera systems exactly like the police.  This is just another extension of the prison-industrial complex, end-stage capitalism offering so many different ways for predators to be predatory.  

I will never forget when my mom came home from work and explained "mandatory reporting" to me.  It was a new thing they did a workshop on at her job.  She worked at a hospital.  So it was a new requirement for all personnel.  From now on, it was very important that if anybody knew, or had any reason to suspect abuse, they had to report it to the police right away or they would lose their ability to work at any hospital ever again.

It sounded really serious, my mom's role as protector of children.  She seemed really proud of herself.  Of course when she realized I had been molested by our babysitter, she handled it by screaming, "Stop crying or I'll give you something to cry about!" and I stopped crying. 

In my experience as a paramedic, it's kind of still the same a lot of the time, especially at nursing homes.  If you actually do say something every time you see something, you're just a huge pain in everybody's ass.  There aren't social workers for all of these people.  They're lying in their own shit because nobody cares about them.

But this was an infant, 13 months old.  And these people had the audacity to drop her off with a broken leg, bruises on her face and vagina, obviously raped and beaten.  Just drop her off like nobody will notice anything's wrong, status quo.  I have to wonder how drunk the mother is.  Fentanyl?

Tyler Humphreys was only 21 years old, working as a school resource officer for only a few months, when they arrested him and charged him with  sex crimes against children.

Before his employment as a police officer, Humphreys is alleged to have done a variety of inappropriate things with other kids including having a young boy to perform sex acts on him over four years (presumably when Humphreys was also younger). 

He's charged with giving a 15-year-old girl alcohol and raping her while unconscious.  He's alleged to have drugged another girl and raped her as well.  It's not entirely clear from this reporting, but there are presumably three child victims being charged here and one 19-year-old.

Portis was called to a woman's home on a 911 call and raped her instead.  He offered her $250 for further sex acts.

This is highly disturbing.

If proven true, this police officer seems to have preyed upon minors from an immigrant community, showing up at his house and forcing him to strip for his sexual gratification.

NOPD GPS data showed that Sirois was near the family's home for no good reason.  I'm glad this family came forward.

 Apparently Johnny De La Rosa was initially able to convince the police that he shot a woman in self-defense after she had stabbed him.  That's why she was arrested and spent ten days in jail.

Luckily we live in an age where there are video cameras everywhere, documenting everything.  This isn't the 1950s anymore, so she won't be rotting away in prison because he said he was the real victim.

The cameras showed that in the moments before the attack, De La Rosa attempted to hit the woman with his car.   He then grabbed her and tried to push her into oncoming traffic.  That was when she stabbed him. 

She told police he was harassing her for months.  He was a clerk at a convenience store who hit on her when she would go in.  She reported it to his manager and he was fired.  Then he started showing up at her job.  He's charged with stalking. 

It's not clear if the aggravated assault charge against her will be dropped or why it took them ten days to get her story or the corroborating video.

This would actually be kind of funny if Hair's supervisor wasn't still working there, to my knowledge.

From CBS8:

"SAN DIEGO — A San Diego Police Department officer resigned from his post after he accidentally locked himself in the backseat with a woman for more than an hour while he was transporting her to Las Colinas Women's Detention Center. 

On the night of Aug. 15, 2023, the two-year police veteran, Hair was one of several officers to help with the arrest of two people suspected of car theft. One of the people arrested was an unidentified woman who also had a bench warrant out for her arrest. 
Minutes into the transport, Hair and the woman began to speak. Their conversation was picked up by Hair's body camera that was attached to his uniform.
Woman: "Are you married?"
Officer Hair: "Why are you asking that?"
Woman: "You're not too bad. What's it gonna hurt me if I work the system, you know what I mean? That's the way I see s---t."
Hair continued driving towards police headquarters. Minutes later the body camera microphone picked up moans coming from the backseat. 
Woman: "Are you single?"
Officer Hair: "Yeah. But you're not."

The conversation then turned illicit.
Woman: "I'm down to f--- right now."
Hair: "Don't say that right now...Don't say that right now because everything is being recorded right now."
For the next several minutes, as Hair sped towards Las Colinas, little could be heard between the two. As he approached Las Colinas, Hair asked what the woman was doing in the backseat. 
His police cruiser then slowed and Hair turned off his body camera.
According to the GPS tracking system inside Hair's police cruiser, Hair's car quickly slowed to seven miles per hour before turning down a dark residential street just blocks away from Las Colinas. 
At 1:34 a.m., Hair's police cruiser stopped. 

More than twenty minutes after the police cruiser stopped, Hair called a fellow officer asking if he had a master key for the patrol cars. 
In a subsequent interview, the unnamed officer described the conversation to internal affairs investigators.
"I heard and noticed Officer Hair had a panicky voice," said the officer. "I asked him if he was okay. He said, yes, and then asked if I had my patrol car key with me...I asked why he was asking and what did he need. Officer Hair then asked me If I could go meet him. I asked him his location and he said, near Cottonwood... I asked him why he needed me, and he said he would tell me when I got there. He said he was really embarrassed."
After some back and forth, Hair finally said that he was locked in the backseat of his police cruiser with a woman that he was transporting to Las Colinas.
At 2:40 a.m., after more than an hour in the backseat with the woman, a supervisor arrived and opened the door."

Okay, Dumbest Holtzclaw Ever.

• How many Ring cameras were you on there dummy?
  
• You didn't roll the window down so you could let yourself back out?
  
• You were in the back seat anyway, you didn't get out of the car where there aren't cameras?
  
• You didn't call one of your off-duty cop buddies to help you?  Because you saw how he opened the door, right?  The trick was to leave the passenger door unlocked in the first place.  Then your off-duty cop buddy -- or if you had even one firefighter friend, which you don't -- can just reach in the side and unlock the back door for you and nobody's the wiser, Dumb Holtzclaw.
  

But the bigger problem is that the first thing the supervisor does is turn off his body cam before he starts talking to Hair.  And to my knowledge, he's still working there.

This video is so incredibly disturbing.

The 7-year-old not realizing his sister was dead, explaining that they had celebrated her birthday yesterday.

The deputy saying, "I got you, baby girl" as he snatches up the dead child.

The numerous complaints about this family to DCYF.  

I can't rewatch this video to properly report on it. 

I normally appreciate Explore With Us as a decent true crime channel.  And despite my initial appreciation for NVCAP and Gordon Flowers, and the many other Chris Hansen wannabes, I have very much cooled on all of that.  I'm a child trafficking survivor and I write true crime for survivors.  Tyler Oliveira, and the way that story was covered on EWU, is officially Not In My Name.

The NVCAP and other TCAP-type predator stings are a necessary evil.  But it's a necessary evil in a world where a legion of men are out there constantly preying on children in their every free moment.  There needs to be another legion of men countering that in their free time.  End-stage capitalism requires that things be monetized.  It is what it is.

So let me be clear.  I do appreciate good-faith efforts to prevent children being harmed, including TCAP-style sting operations.  We must do what we must do.  It unfortunately does take Gordon Flowers handing the police a  packet and a lengthy videotaped confession.  And even then there often isn't prosecution.

However, sex offenders need to live somewhere.  Having them all live in one trailer park after they serve their sentences, with one person who's responsible for monitoring them, keeping them in check, staying on top of the situation, is a best-case scenario.

Having Tyler Oliveira go over there and show his ass doesn't serve me as a survivor.  The police did a good job with him there.  Let me be clear:  I'm 100% Team Officer Kowalski in this interaction.  I don't appreciate EWU getting on a high horse about the crimes of these men, who were minding their own business not bothering children when Tyler showed up to divert public safety resources for his own merciless profit -- at the expense of people like me.

Let's not get it twisted, okay?  Tyler Oliveira is every bit as culpable as the RSOs, in a different way.  He's dehumanizing us for his own ends too.  He doesn't care about it either.  And for the moral grandstanding guys of EWU -- much as I normally appreciate them -- again NIMN, thanks.

Sex offenders are human beings, right?  They go to prison, then they come out.  They presumably have mandatory treatment, part of the mental health crisis America is in.  When people are getting enough mental health care, and are being supported appropriately, maybe they can control themselves better.

My issue with EWU was that they were kind of on Tyler's side about it.  The trailer park manager was pointing out that Tyler was harassing his residents.  He was having Tyler trespassed.  All of that is legit.  He's the manager of a trailer park, and Tyler was there trying to "sell candy" to the residents.

But of course Tyler was there to dox them, which EWU took no issue with.   The police had to deal with the situation as it was presented to them, as an illegal vendor, then a possible casing of the place for theft, then as harassment.  They couldn't go with harassment because it wasn't one person, it was the whole place.  Then they just trespassed him. 

But what Tyler was doing there was much worse, and EWU participated in it.  They doxed those people for clicks.  EWU went into detail about their sex crimes, which individuals who lived there did what.  Why?  What's the benefit of that?

The people who live in that area need to know that it's pedo park over there.  You don't let your kids anywhere near the place.  The manager seems to be  very much on the program.  The cops understand the deal locally.  Tyler Oliveira is the maggot feasting on the flesh of every molested child.  I lost a lot of respect for EWU in their position on this video.