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January 31, 2021
Davis Hovey
Alaska Public

Hundreds of sexual assaults have been reported in Nome over the last 15 years, but few have brought arrests. Even fewer resulted in convictions.

There are a number of factors that make it hard to investigate and prosecute sexual assault cases. But some survivors feel law enforcement doesn’t prioritize these kinds of crimes, especially when the victims are Alaska Native.

A National Native News analysis of more than 300 sexual assault cases reported in Nome between 2010 and 2017 shows only 25 of them went to court.

After 2020

February 3, 2021
Kaitlyn Karmout
KXAN

GEORGETOWN, Texas (KXAN) — A Georgetown police officer and his wife are facing felony charges after being accused of compelling a “sexual performance” from a 17-year-old girl.

Georgetown Police say 28-year-old Samuel Tejeda and his wife Ashley Tejeda turned themselves in on Wednesday Feb. 3 after they were under investigation by the Georgetown Police Department and the Texas Rangers. KXAN has requested the arrest affidavits in their case. KXAN is working to reach out to the Tejeda’s for comment. An attorney was not listed online for either of

February 1, 2021
Sam Smedly
News and Star

This week Cumbria police are highlighting the message that ‘It’s Not Ok’ and want anyone who has been a victim to come forward and they will do everything in their power to help and support them.

Cumbria’s Police and Crime Commissioner Peter McCall is supporting National Sexual Abuse and Sexual Violence Awareness campaign this week, that aims to generate discussion among the general public, statutory bodies and third sector organisations about how sexual abuse and sexual violence is not ok.

Detective Chief Inspector Jenny Beattie, Cumbria Constabulary’s

February 3, 2021
Paul Gottlieb
Peninsula Daily News

PORT ANGELES — A former longtime corrections officer has been sentenced to one year and eight months in prison for committing four sex offenses — both felony and gross misdemeanor — with four female inmates while he was employed at the Forks jail.

Forks resident John Russell Gray, 52 — who received the 20-month sentence Monday in Clallam County Superior Court — worked at the jail and was on call at Clallam Bay Corrections Center when, according to court records, he had sexual intercourse or

February 4, 2021
Danielle Wallace
Fox News

The FBI’s child pornography case against suspect David Lee Huber remains largely under wraps Thursday — two days after he allegedly peered through a doorbell camera and fired an assault-style weapon through the closed door of his apartment in South Florida, killing two FBI agents coming to serve a federal warrant and wounding three others.

Huber, who investigators believe then turned the gun on himself and died by suicide following the standoff, was the subject of a “run of the mill” child pornography case, an unnamed law

February 4, 2021
Mark Hayward
Union Leader

A Concord High School teacher has been arrested and charged with several sex crimes involving a minor, Concord police announced Thursday.

Manchester resident Joshua Harwood, 36, was arrested Thursday and charged with:

Two Class A felony charges of manufacturing child sexual abuse images.

One Class B felony charge of prostitution involving a minor.

A felony charge of possession of child sexual abuse images.

Misdemeanor charges of endangering the welfare of a child and solicitation to commit sexual contact. The solicitations charges involve an adult, Concord police said.

Concord police said Harwood was