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December 15, 2020
Nathan W. Bowe
Mitchell Republic

DETROIT LAKE, Minn. — An 18-year-old woman has been sentenced in Becker County District Court on a felony charge of first-degree criminal sexual conduct.

Monika Jeanmarie DeMarrias, of Yankton, S.D., was found guilty by a jury in October of sexually assaulting three children under the age of 8 multiple times from Jan. 1 to Aug. 5, according to court records.

The assaults occurred in a residence in Becker County, Minn., and the oldest victim said she was afraid to tell sooner because Demarrias frightened her with

December 14, 2020
Bianca Cseke
Fox 17 Online

SARANAC, Mich. — A 65-year-old Saranac man was arraigned Monday in connection to child sexually abusive materials found in his home.
Daniel Campbell was arraigned on two counts of criminal sexual conduct in the second degree, three counts of possession of child sexually abusive materials and one count of using a computer to commit a crime, according to the Ionia County Sheriff’s Office.
He is being held in the Ionia County Jail on a $150,000 bond.
Deputies and detectives from the Ionia County Sheriff’s Office executed a search

December 16, 2020
Makenzie Koch
Fox 4 KC

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Park Hill High School’s football coach is now facing charges for multiple alleged sex crimes with a student that occurred more than a decade ago when he worked in Holden, Missouri.
Joshua Hood, 43, has been charged with five counts of statutory sodomy, second-degree attempted statutory rape, child molestation and second-degree statutory rape in Jackson County, prosecutors said.
The alleged crimes occurred when Hood was a high school coach in Holden during the 2003-04 school year, court records say. Prosecutors say he’s accused

December 15, 2020
Wagar Mustafa
News Trust

LAHORE, Pakistan, Dec 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Pakistan introduced a rape law on Tuesday that will create special courts to try cases within four months, after protests over the gang rape of a woman whose car ran out of fuel.
The presidential decree also provides for anti-rape cells to provide medical examinations within six hours of a complaint being made and creates a national sex offender registry.
“The ordinance will help expedite cases of sexual abuse against women and children. Special courts will be set up across

December 19, 2020
Robert Gearty
Fox News

The “NorCal Rapist” who terrorized nine women in a 15-year crime spree has been sentenced to 897 years in prison.
Roy Waller, 60, a safety specialist at the University of California at Berkeley until his arrest, was convicted last month in Sacramento of being the notorious serial rapist.

“There’s always an appeal, but we have every faith and every hope and trust in the system that he will die in prison,” Sacramento County prosecutor Keith Hill said, according to Fox 40 Sacramento.

“Mr. Waller deserves every single second that

December 17, 2020
John Leicester
AP News

LE PECQ, France (AP) — A former model who testified to French police that she was drugged and raped as a teenager by an associate of disgraced late financer Jeffrey Epstein said she wept “tears of joy” Thursday after the modeling agent was taken into custody at Paris’ main airport for an array of suspected sex crimes.

The French agent, Jean-Luc Brunel, was detained Wednesday at Charles de Gaulle airport and was being held in police custody for questioning, the Paris prosecutors’ office said. Prosecutors didn’t