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March 5, 2021
Peter Aitken
Fox News

A North Carolina man has been charged with more than 100 counts related to secret peeping and indecent liberties with a minor, authorities said.

Michael Justin Childers, 32, is being held under a $1.25 million secured bond after he was arrested Thursday following a monthslong investigation.

Childers faces 53 counts of felony secret peeping, 55 counts of felony possession of secret peeping material and nine counts of felony indecent liberties with a minor, investigators announced.

The Alexander County Sheriff’s Office commenced an investigation in December 2020, discovering numerous videos

March 3, 2021
Diane Turbyfill
Shelby Star

A 72-year-old man accused of raping a teenage girl for 11 years was arrested Tuesday.

William K. Huffstetler, of Kings Mountain, faces 21 child sexual assault charges. Huffstetler manipulated the girl from 2009 to 2020, according to investigators. She was reportedly 13 when the abuse began.

Now a young woman, Huffstetler’s accuser finally felt confident enough to report her allegations to the Cleveland County Sheriff’s Office about four days ago.

Huffstetler was brought in for questioning and subsequently placed in Cleveland County Jail.

He is charged with

March 2, 2021
Jim Keyser
Idaho Statesman

Robert William Havery, 40, of Boise, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for a pair of child sex crimes.

Havery was arrested and charged in December 2019 with transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity and receipt of child pornography, according to a news release Tuesday from the Idaho U.S. Attorney’s Office. He pleaded guilty last June.

Chief U.S. District Judge David C. Nye sentenced Havery to the federal prison term and also ordered him to serve five years of supervised

March 2, 2021
Jim Walsh
Courier Post

WOODBURY – A Gloucester County man with a record of sex crimes against children is facing new charges of misconduct with a minor.

Scott Bicking, 54, of Paulsboro is accused of sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child after an investigation by prosecutor’s offices in Cumberland and Gloucester counties, those agencies say.

Bicking was on probation for a sex crime at the time of the latest alleged offenses, court records show.

The current charges arise from the alleged sexual assault of a boy under age 13

March 4, 2021
Jaclyn Diaz
NPR

A judge sentenced former NFL tight end Kellen Winslow II to 14 years in prison Wednesday for rapes and other sexual offenses against several women in Southern California.

San Diego County Superior Court Judge Blaine Bowman, who presided over Winslow’s trial, called the former player “a sexual predator,” according to news reports.

His sentence was the maximum allowed under a plea deal reached with the San Diego County District Attorney’s office. He was convicted of forcible rape, rape of an unconscious person, assault with intent to commit rape, indecent

March 2, 2021
Mark LaFlamme, Christopher Williams
Sun Journal

Former Auburn lawyer and one-time district attorney candidate Seth Carey was arrested Tuesday in Florida on multiple charges, including attempted gross sexual assault, after a three-year investigation, according to a Maine State Police spokeswoman.

Seth Carey, 46, of Rumford is being held at the Orange County Jail in Orlando. He was arrested at gunpoint at a Walmart parking lot, according to his Lewiston lawyer, James Howaniec.

Police began investigating Carey in March 2018, when a 34-year-old woman reported to the Rumford Police Department that Carey