of caraway, forcing children into sex with him and with each other. a total of eight victims so far, over the course of at least five months. much of the abuse inside judge civilania -- sylvannia woods' elementary school. >> it is hard to convey to the children in these cases to be interviewed by us, how devastating and difficult and painful it is for the parents. proz prosecutor -- >> reporter: prosecutor his no explanation for how caraway could get away with the abuse for months, even as parents were reporting their suspicions to principal michelle wlsz, who re -- williams, who remains on paid leave and is under investigation for possible failure to report. but we did get a sense of how the teacher's aide wielded power over the kids ages 9 to 11. one of the kids said cara way took hem out -- caraway took him out of class and told him to pull off his pants. and when herefused, -- he refused, caraway threatened to call the cops on the child. so the child submitted. >> the first report by an uncle of one of those victims. at that time, they caraway had

. >> reporter: mike, andrea police are saying caraway is ready to talk. he address should of the allegations against him. today he appears in u.s. district court and is prepared to talk to the judge. caraway is facing 13 charges of exploitation, 11 miners are included ranging from 9 to 12- year-old. now, according to the inditement, caraway forced students into doing sexual things with him and with practiced inside erody is individual. i don't think the whole community should be responsible. >> reporter: now, according to the inditement children were sexual abused by caraway between october of last year and february 1st of this year. atowarding to federal officials, caraway is facing a minimal sentence of 15 years and a maximum of 30 followed by a lifetime of supervised release. reporting live, mikea turner, wusa >>> and another case of alleged undercover stet g. police are saying he was ni to sex for money. kemp had $40 in his pocket. >>> the man being retried for the killing of chandra levy is due back in court today. he was granted a new trial after hi

caraway has told a lot.

but they say caraway was 13. and nay say if the schools had -- they say if the school his employed a law enforcement officer to conduct background checks or asked caraway to sign a waiver, they would have known about his criminal history before they hired him. >> they didn't follow up with those. they are responsible as well. >> so you're saying the county doesn't have one? because there's no way he could have -- they could have missed that. >> police say caraway videoed the children performing sex acts on him and on each other. at the school and at four locations, including his church, where they have found one other victim and suspect there may be more. >> all of our clients are devastated. this is one of a parent's worst nightmares. they had placed their trust in the school system and to imagine something like this happened happen during school hours. it's very hard to believe. >> i pray nothing like this ever happens again. >> reporter: tim maloney is an attorney for some of those victims. now, i just talked

caraway is facing serious federal charges. he is up against 13 counts of sexual exploitations of a miner to produce child porn. and 11 of the possible victims were between the ages of 9 and 12 years old. answers. answers that authorities have been digging for. caraway has told a lot. he is facing a slew of state and federal charges. caraway will appear in u.s. district court today at 2:00 p.m. reporting live, mikea turner, wusa 9. >>> campaign 2016 continues. the republican candidates for president took part in the first debate since super tuesday and boy was it libelee. they knew each other well after 11 times debating. ted cruz, and marco rubio paid a little bit attention to each other and they started lobbying insults at donald trump. in thursday's debate. they are questioning the frontrunner's honesty, and donald >> donald p he. >> all right. the bain detroit, donald trump they would relunk if he wins. >>> we are working on getting more details at this hour about a car into a hotel in prince george's county overnight. emer

of caraway, forcing children into sex with him and with each other. a total of eight victims so far, over the course of at least five months. much of the abuse inside judge civilania -- sylvannia woods' elementary school. >> it is hard to convey to

students with other children and at one case where the video involves caraway himself.now become involved in the investigation and it's set up a hot line for anyone who has information or knows of another victim that is 1800 call fbi and prince george county schools will hold a meeting for parents as woods elementary school tomorrow night at 6:30. live in glenarden i'm melanie alnwick, "fox5 local news". >> 5:43 at the time a plan to profile children is backfiring. >> and forecast with gary mcgrady. >> we've been talking about it weekend super cold around here. this represents saturday night to sunday. brutally cold. we're talking about single digits out there. we'll be in the teens here in town. we may be as low as 10 or 11 degrees. again that's saturday night into sunday. coldest air so far this season going to mack a visit. not so much today. we'll have the complete forecast coming up and plus airport is back with traffic forecast coming up and plus airport is back with traffic and more news too, stay with u every wonder what nature valley is made of? ♪ that's what w

deontae caraway is accused of shooting child porn. and detectives continued, one by one, to interview possible victims. bruce leshan is live in glen arden, with what he learned today. bruce? >> reporter: yeah, lesli, we told you that deontae caraway had a juvenile record missed when they hired him. but we're now getting details of that record. truth sometimes stranger than fiction. the details are particularly odd. >> reporter: parents at judge sylvannia woods elementary, had long suspected something was strange about teacher's aide, deontae caraway the but this dad was shocked to learn, the 22-year-old had allegedly solicited his own young daughter. >> he was taking video [ inaudible ] he would take a video of us naked. >> what did you say? >> i said no. >> did you tell anyone? >> yeah. i told my best friend. >> reporter: detectives are now interviewing that girl, as they build their case. and try to figure out how many children may have been victimized. each veteran sex abuse cavestigators are surprised allegedly stretches back to w

caraway worked as a volunteer. >> check their phone.ou trust them, but you can trust them to a certain extent. but chicago your kids' phone. check them. >> she couldn't say it enough. not as much upset with the app kick, but with those parents who still don't monitor their children's social media kick. sharing pornographic images. kick is also where authorities believe eisenhower met nicole lovell in the murder case. an upper marlboro man was arrested for using kick to solicit sex from a 12-year-old on its website. the app boasts 12 million users, with over 40% of them teenagers or young adults. they tell our sister station, kick is one of the many apps he warns parents about. >> from exploitation to overseas terrorist recruiting is happening on applications like this. >> i don't trust nobody anymore. >> if you feel your children have important information, please contact authorities right away. in glen arden, i'm stephanie ramirez. >>> a kick app spokesperson is on record, as to say they are working actively with authorities. police wa

. >> reporter: mike, andrea, caraway will appear in district court today at 2:00 p.m. and expected to tell a judge more than we know now, he has spoken about many of the allegations against him and ready to tell it linn court. more revolutions in the case of caraway who is accused of recording students with him and with other students. the 22-year-old suspect is expected to come before a judge today in and provide answers that authorities have onct wee coming up in the next half hour reporting live, mikea turner, wusa 9. >>> looks like google is jumping into the fight against the zika virus. engineers are trying to write algorithms to predict where zika could spread next. it will include movement of people gathered with cell phones and weather patterns. and they are donated a million dollars to unicef. >>> so who are you going to call? with this friday. 5:09. and one more school delay. fredericksburg city is on a delay. >>> the washington area fuel fund is going to give people a taste on what it is like to have no heat. they are going to handout free popsicles today. t

this van used to bring deonte a caraway to services with children who was part of his choir. night of the parents is the pastor's wife had zion praise tabernacle lutheran church and boomer police a caraway victimize the child. another update, 16 victims who are as young as nine. >> [indiscernible] >> she says do not take care away attended service every sunday with two kids who were part of the youth choir that he directed. as he sits in jail, both detectives through their buildings today where she says no child is ever left alone. >> it is shocking to all of us. partners with trinity lutheran and uses their sanctuary for service. >> a 12-year-old so it was hard to read him -- we didn't really quite understand some of the expressions that he had. >> police say deonte a caraway targeted victims in videotaped sexual acts to minors during the school day as a judge sylvania elementary england garden when he was a paid assistant the number of victims has grown throughout the week. victims, and they find some sort of feeling and of course we have to keep them in prayer and in histo

the have economic tim says caraway used the kik app to get in contact with him. you see a lot of cars and parents are arriving at the school for the meeting. this is set to take place at 6:30. the administration and parents are going to sit here and talk. the principal who is on >>> a standoff at an oregon wildlife refuge is finally over. it lasted nearly six weeks. the last four people occupying the site walked out and surrendered to fbi. they were the last members of the group that took over the complex on january 2 demanding that federal lands be turned over to local control. last month you might recall the group's leaders were arrested in an incident that saw one of the occupiers shot and killed. >>> one by one, low income immigrant families living in one of fairfax county's last affordable neighborhoods are losing their homes. the managers of the mobile home park are demanding social security numbers from every resident. if they cannot produce them, they're being evicted. bruce leshan has been talking to the families. >> reporter: the managers here at waples

. >> deonta caraway is accused of forcing nearly a dozen kids to perform sex acts while he videotaped them. >> the latest on this story, mel. >> that's right, we're learning that deonta caraway was director of the glenarden boys youth choir that practiced at the municipal center friday night and police say this is where some aft bus occurred. along with the aquatic center in this communicate tich the woods elementary school and also in private homes. 22-year-old deonta caraway is charged with felony child pornography and sexual abuse involving at least ten childre children. families of victims tell "fox5" caraway would often play kick ball at gleparden apartments and encourage them to join the youth choir it was after practices inappropriate behavior happened. somewhere videotaped in the school during the school day and some families are speaking to "fox5" about the abuse hoping other get the courage to come forward. >> i want to ask him why. first of all, and why did you betray me. if there are any other children out please notify somebody. >> did he tell you not to tell? what did he

because there's no way he could have missed that. >> >> reporter: the case against caraway just keeps getting worse. police say they now have found 14 victims. one of them in a new location. the church he attended. he is accused of videotaping children, performing sex on him and on other students at the school. a new lawsuit against the school system says there may be as many as 30 victims. a lawyer representing several of the children says the schools failed them with that weak background check. and by ignoring other red flags. >> this was an open secret that this young man had an unusually and weirdly obsessive interest in the children. he came to school some days, wearing pajamas. he was with the children all the time. he had the free run of the building. and parents and teachers were raising questions with the principal, none of which were answered. >> reporter: again, juvenile criminal records are usually se. applying to serve as a police officer, the department would have been able to see that juvenile conviction. and the lawyer for the victim says that school children deserve t

who was supervising caraway. and why did a victim's uncle, not school officials, figure out what was going on? >> who, if anyone, knew about it? are there additional individuals that should be held accountable? and we don't have answers at this point. but that is an investigation that is ongoing. >> angelaangela alsebrooks also wouldn't say who should be under criminal investigation for letting this happen or looking the other way. prosecutors hope to caraway to prison for the rest of his life. >> today's state child porn charges against caraway are not the only ones he faces. a state indictment will be prosecuted first. and caraway will stay in jail, with no bond. >>> now to a developing story out of the district. kia henderson is stepping down on september 30th. mayor mur yell yell bowser shared the news in a statement. bowser said the school district is different from when henderson started in 2007. and this is the fastest- improving urban school district in the country. john davis will serve as the interim ch

that's where deante caraway, a volunteer and former teacher's aide was able to molest and video tape multiple students on school grounds. tonight, 17 victims have been identified so far. >> is it common for volunteers to be alone with children? >> it is -- there are a whole range of activities that volunteers do. i would not express them as common. >> tonight, we learned that the prince george's county school district allows volunteers to be alone with students on school grounds. >>'s not an explicit administrative procedure that says that no volunteers can ever be a loan with the school children. >> in a lawsuit filed against the school district, principal michelle williams is aus guardian of a 9-year-old discovered a sexually explicit photo that caraway allegedly sent the child. >> what is the procedure? >> then the principal is legally obligated to report that procedure, to report that to child protective services and to report that to his or her immediate supervisor. >> sources tell news 4 nothing criminal is found in his background check before he started working two years ago.

and caraway used his status to prey on children. and the 22-year-old got away not being supervised when he was working at the center. >>> a gaithersburg mother is sharing her story what's happened to her daughter even though she was a few feet away. she hired day labors outside of a 7-eleven for help with a move. but one of them, a 44-year-old is charged with molesting the child. it happened while the labors, the mom and the kids were all in the house. >> what hurts the most, i was literally on the lower level. as a parent you feel guilty. i was right here. i felt powerless. >> he is saying the labors acted somewhat inappropriately towards her. but she didn't realize that her children were involved. >>> a man open fired into a metro bus last sentenced today. brown was found guilty last summer. one person was hurt when brown filed into a bus. the shooting prompted metro to stop running buses at night. >>> a charles county judge will not do any jail time, even after breaking the law. judge robert malle was sentenced to one year probat

sources say when caraway was 12, he sexually assaulted a 44- year-old man. they'ril that old fire -- file on the 10- year-old i case. >>> a mysterious case on a jailhouse informant from leesburg has been apparently solved tonight. >> two men, eric garrett and 26- year-old mohammed are charged with murdering osama elatari. he was found dead from a gunshot wound in his dodge pickup truck. police believe he was killed wednesday when the suspects robbed him. another inmate confessed to him about several murders. one is a cold case that has now been solved. >> there anything that connects his death to that or not? >> no, at this time, there's nothing to indicate that this connects to that trial at all. or in any way to his past. life which is rather colorful. >> he was supposed to testify in jorge torres's trial for killing two little girls. their elatari produced new evidence for a secret jailhouse recording. coming up, we're going to show and tell you how the lo >>> dr. martin luther king jr. once complained that our places of worship are amongst the most segre

caraway telling his child victims they were in a special club. and convincing them to record child sex acts and send them to him or let him record them himself. >> because of the devices, we were hoping to be able to prosecute these cases in ways that will not further harm the children. how did this occur? who, if anyone, knew about it? are there additional people who need to be held accountable? that is an investigation that wusa 9. >> caraway is also looking at a federal indictment. he'll face those charges before being tried in prince george's county. >>> former police officer, out of jail. after serving one year for shooting an unarmed man. he pled guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the death of john gear. torres has been in jail since last august. so with time served and good behavior, he was released after serving just over 10 months. >>> a texas man said his wife murdered their two daughters so he would suffer the rest of his life. he said she knew how much he loved has girls. by killing them, he would have to live with the memory of th

tenew lawsuit against deon caraway that he threatened a victim that he would kill her if she told anyone. the abuse happened on school grounds. the alleged victim in this case, an 11-year-old girl, claims that caraway recorded her engaging in students. vigil in memory of a 15-year-old who was shot to death in front of his mother and sister at a metro station. the chilling murder shook his community and now they are coming together. richard reeve has the tribute to washington tonight. richard? richard: so much emotion, davonte shot on the train platform come his mother and siblings inside the platform shelter, just feet away. many say the gun violence has to stop. >> wrap your loving arms around each and every family member. richard: an emotional vigil, with hugs and tears everywhere. >> it hurts. richard: as hundreds gathered to remember da >> it is senseless, so we want to get the point across they need to stop the violence. richard: just 15, he was gunned down saturday afternoon at the metro station. he was sitting with his mother and siblings on a bench when according to court documen

a task force plans to release its findings regarding the caraway case. the man is accused of taking pictures of young children performing sex acts on him and other children at the school. caraway faces more than a dozen federal and state charges for allegedly victimizing up to 19 students. some parents have voiced frustration, because the task force meetings were not open to the public. >>> 40,000 verizon workers returned to work on wednesday. union employees tentatively agreed to a new contract with the company, ending one of the largest strikes in recent history. the agreement adds about 1,000 new call center jobs. workers' pay will also go up 11% over the employees vote on the deal after returning to work, verizon called the deal good for employees and good for business. >>> all new at 11:00, tonight, a respected voice joins the debate over killing a gorilla at the cincinnati zoo after a child fell into the enclosure. what jack hannah has to say tonight. plus, heartache nor tfor the fa of a local graduate. first dealing with his sudden death, then a b

they arrested caraway 24 hours later. he is behind bars being held on $1 million of bail and the police are looking for other possible victims and are asking anyone who believes children may have had contact with this man to give them a call. live in palmer park, ellison barber, wusa9. >> the public schools released county that they are shocked by the allegations. they said safety of the students is a top priority and they said counselors will be made available to help victims with the recovery process. >>> a judge sentenced to silver spring maryland man to six years in prison for stabbing two men during the metro rush on the metro. it happened in december 2014. prosecutors say 39-year-old reginald cooper gotten a fight with two strangers and stabbed both of them. they suffered life-threatening injuries and both recovered. >>> a cruise ship goes back to port af you can't deal with something, by ignoring it. but that's how some presidential candidates seem to be dealing with social security. americans work hard, and pay in

. >> mark caraway mourning the loss of two of his babies, his wife 37-year-old christina is in critical condition. mark said he left to pick up a few of the older kids from school when the deadly blaze erupted. compounding caraway's pain was his mother's death 20 years. >> i didn't want this to happen again because this is what my mother and sister's kids went through, and to be the second time around is really overpowering. >> both husband and wife fix youred at several local pentecostal churches. they are making up collections to help the family. >> anything collected will be put directly into the hands of the pastor. and hopefully people can bring clothing items, coats and hats and gloves. >> they began this vigil outside of the home of the family of nine, they say the children were always polite and well behaved. >> they say a passing ambulance crew radioed it into dispatch and were disappointed nobody call it in sooner. >> a 911 call earlier, sooner, i can't dictate how lives are taken or given, but if we knew sooner -- >> a prayer service to be held at the city of victory church t

when deontae caraway was tired at the elementary school in glen arden. she said it was all the buzz in the hallways and school administrators should have known. >>> i know it's been around the school that this guy was doing this. and it didn't dawn on the principal to look into it. >> school officials say caraway went through a background check and it came clean. there are at least 10 victims ranging in age from 9 to 13. the child patriotation -- exploitation task force is looking into whether there are other victims out thrment. >>> coming up, the death toll climbs in th i do everything on the internet. but, it's kind of slow. my friends say i should get fios because it's the fastest. i just downloaded 600 photos in 60 seconds. that's seriously better. (husband) we're out of 2%! i wonder what else could be better around here? (husband) i heard that. switching to better internet is now easier than ever. only fios has the fastest internet available, with uploads up to 5x faster than cable. get 100 meg upload and download speeds. plus tv and phone for just

it wasn't found when caraway underwent a background check before he started working in 2014.ut school officials say that administrators are discussing current school policy and procedure. police right now are looking for more victims. >>> and law enforcement officials say that it's possible that sexual abuse took place at the teresa bank center where caraway started and directed a choir for young children. >>> today, president obama turns to where his political career started. springfield, illinois. president obama was there in 2007, when he announced he would run for president. springfield is also where he served in the state senate for nearly eight years. during today's visit, the president will call for less divisive politics, where he addresses the illinois general assembly. >> if the weather cooperates today you may see low flying aircraft in the other, norad have planned training flights in the d.c. area. those flights are expected to last until 2:00 this marriage. >>> the i-team, a growing risk of local firefighters and possibly your neighbor. >> i-team found a rising

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