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ST. LUCIE COUNTY — A 39-year-old St. Lucie County man is facing child abuse charges after allegedly shooting a boy in the chest with a pellet gun to teach him a lesson, according to St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office arrest report.
On Christmas Day, deputies charged Christopher Fred Cady, of the 2600 block of North U.S. 1, with felony cruelty toward child without great harm. (more…)
A statewide cyber sting revealed Tuesday netted dozens of arrests of men who trolled the Internet for child pornography.
The 77 arrests round out a 10-week statewide effort involving 23 local, state and federal law enforcement agencies targeting some of the worst cybercrime offenders.
Included in the list of those facing charges are: Boynton Beach residents Timothy J. Elliott, 21, and Eric C. Super, 31; Martin County resident Timothy D. Orman, 46; and St. Lucie County resident Graham D. Widmann, 26.
All four were arrested on charges of child pornography possession, according to the Florida Attorney General’s Office.
Michael Perugini
The Port St. Lucie boy told police he was walking to a friend’s house on Monday when he cut between two houses, prompting a woman in the 1400 block of Southeast Proctor Lane to yell at him.
The boy said he yelled back and insulted homeowner Angelina Perugini.
Later, when he was outside his friend’s house on O’Donnell Lane, a gray sports utility vehicle pulled up, he said.
Michael and Angelina Perugini stepped out and began yelling and cursing at the boy, he told police.
When Michael Perugini, 37, asked the boy where he lived, the boy replied, “in a trash can.”
Cortina Wobbleton
Cortina Wobbleton, 26, told investigators with Stuart police and Martin County Sheriff’s Office that she was aware that Lamar Lloyd, 21, and Damian Louissaint, 21, had robbed a Pizza Hut and a Sunoco gas station while she and her children were outside waiting in the car.
Damian Louissaint
Lamar Lloyd
Authorities said the two men walked into the pizzeria in the 2000 block of U.S. 1 at about 9:30 p.m. before one man brandished a revolver and the other watched the door.
Minutes and about 2.5 miles south later, the men entered the gas station in the 4500 block of U.S. 1 and demanded money, according to sheriff’s reports. They also took Black & Mild cigars, Newport cigarettes, Dentyne Ice gum and an energy drink, the reports show.
A Golden Gate man faces charges of raping a child after the 11-year-old girl reported the alleged abuse to her family.
Leroius W. Thal
Thal, 40, is being held without bond at the Martin County jail.
In August, the girl told Martin County Sheriff’s investigators that Thal had forced himself on her during several encounters that began last June.
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PORT ST. LUCIE — Shane “Moo” Graham has been missing for about a decade.
Judith Leekin
Port St. Lucie police hoped to figure out what happened to him on Wednesday when they used radar equipment to help solve his case, marking the second time in a week that police have searched for his body.
Crime scene team members from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office used their ground-penetrating radar gear to scan the yards of houses once owned by Shane’s adoptive mother, convicted child abuser Judith Leekin.
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FORT PIERCE — A Port St. Lucie woman who forced her adopted children and young adults to sleep on a storage room floor, will spend most, if not all, of the next 20 years in prison, according to TCPalm.com.
Judith Leekin, 63, pleaded no contest late Wednesday afternoon to four counts of aggravated child abuse and four counts of aggravated abuse of disabled adults — some which have mental and physical disabilities.
Circuit Judge Robert Belanger, calling Leekin’s actions “reprehensible,” sentenced her to 20 years in prison, the maximum term called for under a negotiated plea.
Florida law requires Leekin to serve at least 85 percent of her 20-year term. Belanger allowed roughly the first half of Leekin’s sentence to run concurrently with a 10-year, 10-month term she received in New York City last year for defrauding that state’s adoption system out of $1.68 million that was supposed to go toward taking care of the adoptees.
For more on this story, see www.tcpalm.com
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