Articles Posted in Sex Crimes in Jacksonville

The former Tampa teacher whose 2004 sex case involving a 14-year-old male student made international headlines was ordered back on Florida sexual offender probation by the Florida District Court of Appeal. A judge last year released Debra Lafave four years early from her sexual offender probation, granting a request made by Lafave and her criminal…

A 25-year veteran of the Jacksonville Sheriff Office will now face up to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to two Duval County felony sex crimes involving young girls. Richard Cannon pleaded guilty last week to Jacksonville attempted capital sexual battery and custodial sexual battery, according to a report in the Florida Times-Union. One…

After a Jacksonville fourth-grade teacher was arrested in Jacksonville for six counts of lewd and lascivious contact with a child, a backlash is being directed at the Duval County School Board for keeping the suspect in a classroom despite similar accusations in 2009. Christopher Bacca, 26, a teacher at Windy Hill Elementary School in Jacksonville,…

Two Jacksonville men were back in jail after the Florida Department of Law Enforcement conducted a sweep of unregistered sex offenders. Police arrested one man in April and another in June for these Jacksonville Sex Crimes, according to a report in the Florida Times-Union. State police timed the crackdown around a time where students were…

A fireman in Jacksonville, Florida has been arrested for a sex charge in Duval County and remains in jail on no bond. According to an article in the Florida Times Union, Daniel Evans has been accused of raping a woman in downtown Jacksonville. A witness flagged down a Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office officer and told the…

More than all other accusations, being accused of a sex crime in Jacksonville or anywhere else carries a lifetime of potential problems. In most of the cases I have handled as a Duval County Sex Crime Attorney, there is little to no physical evidence. All it takes is one person saying they were violated. HBO,…

Our Jacksonville Sex Crime Law Firm keeps tabs on criminal law changes, especially sex crime legislation around the country. A newly passed law in Louisiana will make registered sex offenders post their status on social media websites. A report on CBS news says the law aims to punish the offender with this law the same…

As a Jacksonville Sex Crime Attorney, I follow high profile sex charge cases and the case against Jerry Sandusky is about as high profile as it gets. Sandusky is currently on trial for numerous sex crime accusations. Although Sandusky himself did not take the stand in his own defense, his wife, Dottie, did. According to…

Clay County officers sent female officers undercover to try to catch a man accused of watching passersby and neighbors, then fondling himself in their presence. The investigation started after a jogger said in February she saw a man expose himself as she went by and, when she passed back by the house again, the man’s…

Horrific accusations made national headlines last week when a Jacksonville Beach mother was arrested for trading sex with her 6-year-old daughter for drugs. Dalina J. Nicholas, 35, was arrested in Georgia as a fugitive and will be charged with child neglect in Jacksonville, according to a report in the Florida Times-Union. The young girl is…