Prosecutors in Panama City are seeking to revoke the bond of a Georgia teen who officials believe faked his death and traveled to Denver.

According to court records in Bay County, on April 22, a fisherman found a pile of clothes and a suicide note along the bank of the Little River in Brooks County, Ga., which is on the Florida-Georgia line. Investigators say Nathan Wilkins, 19, turned up in Aurora, Colo., three days later.

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The News Herald of Panama City (http://bit.ly/10Uwb7U ) reported that Wilkins was due in court on Monday from charges stemming from his arrest on sex charges in June. It is unclear whether Wilkins has returned from Colorado.

Assistant State Attorney Christa Diviney said that Wilkins violated his bond by leaving his home without notifying the court or his bondsman.

Wilkins was charged with traveling to meet a minor for sex, computer pornography and child exploitation. He was arrested during Operation Riptide, a multi-agency sting operation that officials say was designed to lure men interested in having sex with children.

Wilkins responded to a Craigslist ad from a man looking for someone to help his 11-year-old daughter lose her virginity, according to court records. The person Wilkins exchanged emails with asked him to bring a slushy for the child.

Police said Wilkins arrived at the predetermined location with a slushy. But the father and child weren’t waiting for him. Instead, officers representing the North Florida Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force were waiting. Wilkins and 11 other men were arrested as part of the sex sting.

An ex-Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department employee has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for attempted child enticement and distributing child pornography, U.S. Attorney’s officials said Tuesday.

Mark Robin Rainwater, 46, flew from California to Birmingham in October to have sex with two young boys, according to Peggy Sanford, spokeswoman for the Northern District of Alabama.

Rainwater, a 14-year department veteran, worked in the information technology division and began communicating with an undercover police officer over the Internet, email, and text messages. Rainwater thought he was communicating with a parent who was willing to let him have sex with two boys, ages 13 and 8.

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Rainwater was arrested at the Birmingham Shuttlesworth International Airport. Authorities found sex toys and children’s toys in his luggage. Officials also found hundreds of videos and more than 4,400 images of child pornography that he stored digitally. Officials say some of the images involved babies, toddlers and young children performing sex acts.

Rainwater pleaded guilty to charges in January and was sentenced Tuesday. He has been ordered to serve 20 years of probation after his prison sentence.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations division and the Alabama Bureau of Investigation’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force investigated the case.

“Our children deserve every measure of protection we can give them,” District Attorney Joyce Vance said in a statement. “We will use every tool we have to find and stop child predators from abusing and torturing children.”

For the second time in five months, a Gettysburg man is facing multiple charges following an investigation into child pornography and sexual abuse.

Michael Allen Orner, 28, was taken into custody today by state police in Gettysburg and members of the Computer Crimes Task Force.

Their most-recent investigation revealed that Orner coerced, through use of physical force or threats, eight victims under the age of 18 to take pictures and video of themselves posing naked in sexually explicit positions.

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According to police, he also had over 50,000 images and movie files depicting child pornography on his computer in two folders: one labeled “under 12,” the other, “under 18.”

Authorities say Orner threatened to publicly post naked pictures of a 14-year-old victim unless she met him for oral sex. He was aware of her age, police report.

Orner was arraigned today and subsequently committed to the Adams County Prison in lieu of $250,000 bail.

Officials charged Orner with 10 counts of sexual abuse of children/possession of child pornography; 8 counts of unlawful contact with minors; 8 counts of corruption of minors; 8 counts of photographing, videotaping, depicting on computer or filming sexual acts; and 1 count of involuntary deviant sexual intercourse.

In December 2012, Orner was charged with stalking; photographing, videotaping, depicting on computer or filming sexual act; unlawful contact with minors; and sexual abuse of children/possession of child pornography.

According to court documents those incidents took place in September 2005. He is currently awaiting trial on those charges

A former chief deputy for the Pike County Sheriff’s Office pleaded no contest Monday to a single count of gross sexual imposition.

The entire week had been set aside for Clyde Franklin Sanders Jr.’s trial on child sex abuse charges. Sanders, who worked under former Sheriff Larry Travis, faced two counts of kidnapping, one count of rape and one count of gross sexual imposition, all first-degree felonies.

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The charge Sanders pleaded to Monday is a third-degree felony and he faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison and up to a $10,000 fine.

Because of Sanders’ former position in Pike County, the case had special prosecutors assigned from the Ohio Attorney General’s Office. Retired Ross County Judge Jhan Corzine also had been appointed to preside over the case.

Because Sanders entered the plea, a presentence investigation was ordered. However, prosecutors declined to comment on the case. A date has yet to be set for sentencing.

According to the indictment, the gross sexual imposition charge stems from an alleged October 2008 encounter with a 3-year-old girl Sanders knew. The rape charge, which is dropped as a condition of the plea agreement, had alleged another encounter with the same child in January 2009.

In December 2011, Corzine had ruled that the victim — who was 6 at the time of the hearing — was competent to testify and left Sanders under house arrest.