Molestation

Nancy Eomurian was driving through a Long Beach church parking lot April 28 when she found a man covered in blood lying on the ground near the lifeless body of his 9-year-old stepdaughter. Next to the child she saw what appeared to be nonsensical scrawl written on the side of a container. "I first thought the scrawl was graffiti, then I realized it was blood," Eomurian said. "It was like time stopped. " Prosecutors allege that the man, 31-year-old Jacinto Zuniga Trujillo, killed the girl out of fear she would reveal that he had been molesting her. The L.A. County district attorney's office accused Trujillo of capital murder and molestation, alleging that he had abused the girl for months.

Nancy Eomurian was driving through a Long Beach church parking lot April 28 when she found a man covered in blood lying on the ground near the lifeless body of his 9-year-old stepdaughter. Next to the child she saw what appeared to be nonsensical scrawl written on the side of a container. "I first thought the scrawl was graffiti, then I realized it was blood," Eomurian said. "It was like time stopped. " Prosecutors allege that the man, 31-year-old Jacinto Zuniga Trujillo, killed the girl out of fear she would reveal that he had been molesting her. The L.A. County district attorney's office accused Trujillo of capital murder and molestation, alleging that he had abused the girl for months.

The child molestation case against the fired head of Napa State Hospital began with a chance meeting last September. A man, who as a boy in the early 1970s lived a few doors from Claude Edward Foulk in Long Beach, was visiting the hospital as part of his job as a vendor. He turned the corner of a hallway and made eye contact with Foulk, who ran the 1,200-patient facility that houses mentally ill criminals. The encounter triggered memories of alleged abuse by Foulk nearly four decades ago, his attorney told The Times.

Three decades ago, they were teen idols. Todd Bridges played Willis on the popular sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes. " Corey Feldman starred in "Gremlins,""The Goonies" and "The Lost Boys. " The two men held the same dark secret: Each had been molested in his adolescence by men with Hollywood connections, experiences that would lead to downward spirals and years of drug addiction. Today, they are making a highly public case for California legislation they hope will protect child actors from sexual predators, a problem they say continues to bedevil the entertainment industry.

A Simi Valley man who draws a cartoon called "Chester the Molester" for Hustler Magazine was charged Friday with molesting a teen-age girl, authorities said. Dwaine Tinsley, 43, was arrested at his home Thursday, a day after the girl complained to police, Simi Valley Police Lt. Bob Klamser said. The Ventura County district attorney's office filed nine sexual molestation charges against Tinsley in connection with incidents alleged to have occurred from 1983 to 1986, said Deputy Dist.

A man and a woman from California's Central Valley face charges that they drugged young girls with Oreo cookies laced with antidepressants, then videotaped the girls as the man allegedly molested them. Steven Patrick Arthur, 31, and girlfriend Jennifer Lynn Thurman, 32, are in Tulare County Jail on state and federal charges of molestation and pornography. The pair have pleaded not guilty to the state charges. The couple were living in Arthur's home in Porterville, a small town between Fresno and Bakersfield, when the crimes allegedly occurred in September.

A math and science teacher at Our Lady of Holy Rosary School was charged Thursday with sexually molesting two female students. Ricardo Flores, 32, was charged with nine counts of sexual molestation of a child under 14 and one count of attempted sexual molestation. Flores allegedly molested an 11-year-old girl during the 2007-08 school year. Los Angeles police began investigating him after the girl told a counselor at a summer day camp, said Jane Robison, a spokeswoman for the district attorney's office.

Authorities are searching for a suspected polygamist accused of molesting four family members in San Diego County. Authorities say 52-year-old Jose Luis Torres committed the molestation starting in the late 1980s and ending in 2003. Police say they began their investigation last year after one of the family members told detectives about it while talking about an unrelated matter. Police have offered a $1,000 reward for information leading to Torres' arrest.

A senior Boston-area Roman Catholic priest told a friend he molested three teenage boys and photographed them naked more than 20 years ago, according to a deposition made public. Former National Hockey League star Chris Nilan gave the sworn testimony as part of a lawsuit filed earlier this year against the priest, Msgr. Frederick J. Ryan, who officiated at the hockey player's wedding. Church authorities placed Ryan on administrative leave after the allegations surfaced in March.

An East Los Angeles elementary school teacher, acquitted in 1985 on child annoyance charges, was charged Thursday with molesting five boys in his remedial reading classes, prosecutors said. Allen Gross, 43, of Pomona, taught at Malabar Elementary School in East Los Angeles. He is to be arraigned on Tuesday on one felony count of a lewd act and four misdemeanor counts of child molestation, said Los Angeles Deputy Dist. Atty. Michael Fishman. Gross was released after posting $5,000 bail.

During five years as a frequent substitute teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District, George Hernandez was investigated by police three times for allegations of sexual misconduct involving students. Although he was never arrested, Hernandez resigned a week after the third investigation in 2007. But his teaching career wasn't over. Weeks later, he joined the roster of substitutes in the Inglewood Unified School District and taught there for nearly three years - until police discovered a videotape they say shows him molesting a second-grade girl at school.

In his private journal, Jason Michael Handy once described himself as a "pedophile, full blown. " Handy snapped more than 1,000 photos of girls at the elementary school across the street from his house, using a camera with a telephoto lens, according to court documents. He volunteered at a Malibu church, where he worked with 6-year-olds. And his job as a production assistant at one of the nation's most prominent producers of children's television programs, Nickelodeon, gave him access to child actors on and off the set, and allowed him to exchange email addresses and phone numbers with them.

Reporting from San Francisco -- The California Supreme Court appeared reluctant Thursday to give adult victims of child molestation the right to sue decades later those who knew of the abuse and failed to stop it. During oral argument, several members of the state high court expressed skepticism toward a lower court's finding that gave adult victims flexible legal deadlines for bringing such third-party suits. The court is considering a lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Church by six brothers who were in their 40s when they said they discovered that they were suffering the effects of abuse by a priest decades earlier.

A convicted child molester who spent recent years helping cast Hollywood movies under an alias was arrested Friday on suspicion of violating sex offender registry laws, a move his attorney decried as an injustice born out of nationwide outrage over pedophilia scandals. Los Angeles prosecutors charged Jason James Murphy, 35, with failure to file a name change and failure to file a change of address, felonies that together carry a maximum sentence of three years in state prison. The charges against Murphy resulted from a three-week investigation that followed a Times report detailing his 1996 conviction in Washington state for kidnapping and molesting an 8-year-old and his recent work as a casting associate on films featuring children, including the summer sci-fi hit "Super 8" and the upcoming comedy "The Three Stooges.

The head of Canada's Boy Scouts has apologized to victims of sexual abuse in the organization and announced an independent review of confidential files it has long kept on leaders accused of molestation. "Our sincere efforts to prevent such crimes have not always succeeded, and we are sorry for that and saddened at any resulting harm," said Steve P. Kent, chairman of the governing board of Scouts Canada. Kent said he has asked an outside auditing firm to review confidential records that Scouts Canada, like the Boy Scouts of America, has maintained for decades to keep known molesters out of its ranks.

A pastor and youth soccer coach has pleaded not guilty to charges that he molested an 8-year-old Huntington Beach girl and possessed child pornography. Christopher Raymond Olague, 39, of Westminster was arrested by Huntington Beach police in October after the mother of the girl reported the alleged molestation. Olague allegedly picked up the girl Oct. 5 for a play date at a park with one of his daughters. Instead, he took her to the parking lot of a grocery store and molested her, Huntington Beach Police Lt. Russell Reinhart said.

Ventura County sheriff's detectives have arrested a 72-year-old Thousand Oaks man on suspicion of sexually molesting a teenage boy and possession of child pornography, authorities said Friday. Janusz Kalita was arrested at his home Thursday morning without incident, authorities said. Investigators searched the residence and discovered an undisclosed number of pornographic videotapes and photographs, including amateur photos of several youths. Kalita had been under investigation since late October, after the department was notified of his involvement with a boy, now 14, who had been his neighbor six years ago in San Bernardino County, authorities said.

Former Compton Dominguez High basketball coach Russell Otis was ordered Friday to stand trial on charges that he attempted to molest one of his players and embezzled $15,000 intended for his team. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Gary Hahn made that decision after listening to four days of testimony during a preliminary hearing in Compton. He ordered Otis, who is free on bail, to return to court July 6 for arraignment.

Former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky said he never spoke with Joe Paterno about any suspected misconduct with minors, the New York Times reported Saturday. Sandusky has been charged with 40 counts of molesting eight boys over 15 years and is free on bail while awaiting a preliminary hearing Dec. 13. A grand jury investigating Sandusky said in a report that some of the allegations occurred in the team showers, including a 2002 allegation in which a graduate assistant coach testified he saw Sandusky assaulting a young boy. University trustees fired Paterno on Nov. 9, four days after charges were filed against Sandusky, amid mounting pressure that school leaders should have done more to prevent alleged abuse.

A veteran children's talent manager pleaded not guilty Thursday to sexually abusing a former client as police sought the public's help in investigating whether he victimized other aspiring young performers. Los Angeles County prosecutors charged Martin Weiss, 47, of Santa Monica with eight felonies stemming from his alleged abuse of a boy who was trying to break into the music industry. The alleged victim, now 18, told police last month that Weiss molested him from age 11 to 15. The alleged victim came forward because he was concerned his former manager might be abusing others, police said, and provided officers a recording of a recent conversation in which Weiss acknowledged the sexual contact.