Crime & Courts

Anchorage police look for more victims in child sex abuse cases

In three separate cases involving child sexual abuse, there could be additional victims, the Anchorage Police Department says.

In all three cases, APD spokeswoman Jennifer Castro said, the victims knew their abusers. All the suspects were in custody as of Tuesday evening, but based on their patterns of alleged behavior, APD believes they may have abused other children.

The first case goes back 10 years. According to police, on Aug. 18 APD's crimes against children unit reopened its investigation into Brian Meester and Naomi Meester Sinford, who are accused of abusing a 2-year-old and a 12-year-old in the early 2000s.

When the initial investigation started in December 2005, both were already in jail for an unrelated sexual abuse of a minor case from the same year, police said. Neither was prosecuted on the alleged abuse of the 2-year-old and 12-year-old at the time.

"Back in 2005 there wasn't enough enough evidence to corroborate them," Castro said. "The case wasn't prosecuted. Then this summer, there was a separate case and there was information revealed that allowed us to reopen the 2005 case and look further into that."

The two are accused of abusing the children multiple times in the their Midtown mobile home.

Brian Meester, 36, has been charged with seven counts of first-degree sexual abuse of a minor. He was arrested Oct. 2 and taken to the Anchorage jail, where he's being held on $100,000 bail, plus a third-party custodian.

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Naomi Meester Sinford, 33, was charged with two counts of second-degree sexual abuse of a minor. She was already booked in the Hiland Mountain jail. Her initial bail has been set at $100,000, plus a third-party custodian.

The couple filed for divorce in 2006, online court records show.

In the second case, Anchorage police and the FBI performed an undercover operation in which an agent posing as a woman with an 8-year-old daughter messaged Justin Nekeferoff online and then texted him multiple times in June. The conversations became sexually explicit, with Nekeferoff suggesting sex acts he could perform on the girl, according to the complaint.

Investigators arranged a meeting with the fictional mother and daughter at a Wasilla hotel, where they arrested Nekeferoff.

"Prior to the meeting, Nekeferoff admitted to having sex with a female minor that was 4 years old until she was 14 years old, beginning when he was a teenager. It was reported that these incidents occurred outside of a residence in the Peters Creek area," police said.

Nekeferoff was charged on a federal count of attempted coercion and enticement of a minor. In addition, he faces state charges for three counts of first-degree sexual assault and one count of second-degree sexual abuse of a minor.

The third case came in late August, when 32-year-old David Cargill tried to pay a minor for sex and drugs inside a car on Muldoon Road.

APD said Cargill was arrested and charged with two counts of attempted sexual abuse of a minor.

Anyone with additional information is urged to call APD Det. Leonard Torres at 907-786-8573.

Megan Edge

Megan Edge is a former reporter for Alaska Dispatch and Alaska Dispatch News.

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