TAMPA - Investigators who went to search the home of a registered sex offender for evidence of Internet child pornography found the suspect naked at his computer, according to a federal complaint. ...more

November 27, 2007

Four-year-old Alexandra Seelig is plopped down in front of a computer screen at Brandon Regional Library next to her big sister, 7-year-old Isabella. ...more

October 5, 2007

TAMPA - Four-year-old Alexandra Seelig is plopped down in front of a computer screen next to her big sister, Isabella, 7, at the Brandon Regional Library, oblivious to her surroundings. In their ears are "bugs," small earphones that talk to them. On the screen: a 20-minute course on how not to fall victim to Internet predators. Beginning this week, they became part of a culture of prevention at the Hillsborough County Public Library Cooperative, which began a policy Monday of requiring anyone 17 or younger to take the course before they can set foot in cyberspace on a library computer. ...more

October 4, 2007

The 15-year-old Bartow girl who survived a 30-hour road trip with a registered sex offender she met online is home again. ...more

October 4, 2007

The 15-year-old Bartow girl who survived a 30-hour road trip with a registered sex offender she met online is home in Bartow ...more

October 3, 2007

The parents of a missing girl started their day draped in television microphones, pleading with a man they had never met to free their daughter and with a public they couldn't see to help find her. ...more

October 3, 2007

BARTOW - The parents of a missing girl started their day draped in television microphones, pleading with a man they had never met to free their daughter and with a public they couldn't see to help find her. ...more

October 2, 2007

The search for the suspect in the videotaped sexual assault of a little girl was shifted Saturday from a rural county to Las Vegas, where the man was last known to live and where it is thought the chilling tape was made. ...more

September 30, 2007

David Lee Onstott, who is awaiting trial on charges he killed a 13-year-old Ruskin girl, pleaded guilty Thursday to a felony charge of failing to register as a sex offender, prosecutors said. ...more

September 21, 2007

TAMPA - David Lee Onstott, who is awaiting trial on charges he killed a 13-year-old Ruskin girl, pleaded guilty today to a felony charge of failing to register as a sex offender, prosecutors said. ...more

September 20, 2007