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April 20, 2021
Joel Leal
KXXV

BRAZOS COUNTY, TX — A man has been sentenced to 17 years in prison on two counts of sexual assault of a child.
54 year-old, Albert Hernandez, pleaded guilty and waived his appeal as a part of his plea agreement. He was facing a maximum possible sentence of 20 years.
On Sept 27, 2017, a 15-year-old girl reported to her mother that an acquaintance of the family had touched her inappropriately. The teen then identified Hernandez as her abuser.
According to a press release, Hernandez’s DNA was collected on clothing

April 30, 2021
James David Dickson
Detroit News

Four people in Crawford County face charges of criminal sexual conduct with two victims under 13, Michigan State Police said.
The four suspects all hail from Roscommon, and range from 21 to 62 years old.
State police arrested three of the suspects in March while executing a search warrant at a Crawford County home.
The Houghton Lake post was investigating claims of criminal sexual conduct and child sexually abusive material at the home. The fourth suspect was arrested a time later.
All were arraigned this week at 46th District

April 21, 2021
Angela Couloumbis
Inquirer

HARRISBURG — A key state Senate committee on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved legislation to temporarily allow survivors of decades-old child sexual abuse to sue the perpetrators, an alternative path to justice after a Wolf administration error derailed a previous effort.

The 11-3 vote by the Judiciary Committee positions the bill for a historic floor debate as early as next week, a win for survivors and their advocates who have been pushing for it since the child sexual-abuse cover-up scandal that enveloped the Catholic Church in the early 2000s.

In bringing

April 19, 2021
Amaris E. Rodriguez
Waco Tribune

AWaco man has charged with continuous sexual abuse of a young child, based on incidents in 2018 through 2019.
According to an affidavit, Terence Pecina, 26, was arrested April 7 after an investigation found he had committed two or more acts of sexual abuse against a child younger than 14 years from July 2018 to April 2019.
The Waco Police Department’s Crimes Against Children Unit looked into a referral from Child Protection Services after the child alleged that Pecina had abused her. According to the affidavit, the

April 20, 2021
Joshua Rhett Miller
NY Post

An Ohio school district employee who thought he was arranging sex with an 8-year-old girl showed up at a hotel with candy, condoms and a bottle of NyQuil, FBI officials said.
Bradley Willem Beun, 41, of Uniontown, was busted Friday at a hotel in Akron, where the stomach-churning items he agreed to bring in an earlier online chat with an FBI undercover investigator were found inside his car, FBI officials in Cleveland said Monday.
Beun, who worked as director of special services for Springfield Local School District,

April 21, 2021
Susan Tebben
Colombus Underground

A bipartisan bill seeks to mandate child sexual abuse and sexual violence prevention education in Ohio schools.
The bill was introduced this week, and requires “age-appropriate instruction” in child sexual abuse prevention for students in kindergarten through sixth grade. The education would include resources and available counseling for children who are sexually abused.
For grades seven through 12, sexual violence prevention education would be implemented. Education would be provided for teachers and staff as part of in-service training.
The Ohio Department of Education would be tasked with providing free