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November 14, 2019
Vikaas Shanker
Merced Sun-Star

A 65-year-old El Nido man was sentenced to 61 years to life in prison for sexually abusing four children under 14 years old, the Merced County District Attorney’s Office said Thursday.
Felipe Rubalcaba was sentenced Thursday after the four victims gave statements about how the abuse affected their lives, prosecutors said in a news release.
“He violated my sense of security, my sense of safety and my sense of self,” one of the victims told Merced County Judge Jeanne Schechter, who handed down the sentence.
One of the victims,

November 12, 2019
Nancy Bowman
Dayton Daily News

TROY — A Miami County judge Tuesday sentenced a former Ohio High School Athletic Association official from Troy to five years in prison for having sexual contact with a teenage girl, saying Henry A. Lucas Jr. had a dark side not seen by many.

Lucas, 55, pleaded guilty Sept. 25 to felony gross imposition in a plea deal that included the charge amended from first degree rape and a recommended maximum sentence of five years.
He was accused of forcefully engaging in sexual contact with the 15-year-old

November 14, 2019
Devon Mahieu
Up North Live

GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) — A former northern Michigan principal has been sentenced for sex crimes.
A Grand Traverse County judge has sentenced Karl Hartman to three to five years in prison and more than $2,000 in fines for three counts of assault with intent to commit second-degree criminal sexual conduct.
Hartman pleaded guilty to those charges in October.
According to Hartman’s attorneys, each of the charges against Hartman carried a five-year maximum sentence, and those sentences would be served at the same time.
But during the sentencing

November 14, 2019
Julie Small
AP News

SAN FRANCISCO(AP)— A state prison inmate incarcerated at the Central California Women’s Facility was awaiting her group therapy session on Aug. 23, 2017. She stepped backward in her cell toward the door, where Correctional Officer Israel Trevino waited with waist restraints.

As he attached the chains, he reached down with both of his hands “to grope and fondle her buttocks,” according to an internal investigation that led to Trevino’s firing.

The inmate, whose name was redacted in reports, angrily asked what he was doing.

“You

November 12, 2019
WSAV

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) – Tuesday the U.S. Department of Justice announced federal charges against a Bryan County man and his wife.
According to officials, Michael Wilson, 37, faces charges including Coercion and Enticement of a Minor to Engage in Sexual Activity. Michael’s spouse, Lori Wilson, a/k/a “Loretta Lightningbolt,” 34, faces a separate federal indictment with Tampering with a Victim or Witness.
“They talk through instant messaging apps, Instagram, Facebook, Whatsapp, and some of the dating apps. People misrepresent their age on there, as well, but we do have a lot

November 18, 2019
Ellie Silverman
Inquirer

Lara St. John, the famed violinist who alleged that she was sexually abused by her teacher at the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in the 1980s, on Monday joined calls for statute of limitation reform in Pennsylvania, the same day the legislature moved on a compromise still criticized as not going far enough.

“The most important thing for me, obviously, is just justice for people who were children at the time,” St. John said at a news conference Monday, standing alongside CHILD USAdvocacy executive director Kathryn Robb and