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July 21, 2020
13 Wham

(WHAM) – Two Jesuit priests and a teacher are accused of sexually abusing former students at McQuaid Jesuit High School in the 1970s and 1980s, according to lawsuits filed in New York.

Attorneys with the law firm of Jeff Anderson & Associates filed 14 child sexual abuse lawsuits Monday under the Child Victims Act (CVA) against the Society of Jesus USA Northeastern Province (Jesuits). The Child Victims Act, signed into law in August 2019, provides a one-year window for survivors of child sexual abuse to file civil lawsuits

July 27, 2020
Will Taylor
Yahoo

An X Factor reject described as “pure evil” has been jailed for life after admitting a series of rapes and other sex offences that took place over 22 years.

Phillip Blackwell, 56, had admitted committing offences against five women in Birmingham and Nuneaton between 1997 and 1998.

He later admitted a further 20 sexual offences against three women between 2005 and 2019 as well as one count of taking indecent photographs of a child and a count of voyeurism.

In all, Blackwell committed 31 sexual offences against nine victims over

July 21, 2020
KX NET

Authorities are looking for a man from Mandan who’s accused in two counties of committing sexual crimes against young children.

Court records show Vincy Bishop Smith is accused of gross sexual imposition and continuous sexual abuse of a child in Morton County — both class AA felonies. He also faces a GSI charge in Emmons County.

Mandan Police filed an affidavit with South Central District Court, saying a 12-year-old girl was interviewed by the Dakota Children’s Advocacy Center. The victim told officials that she was sexually assaulted several times

July 20, 2020
Dam Mangan
CNBC

A bombshell lawsuit filed by two women Monday accused former Fox News chief national correspondent Ed Henry of raping one of them and says that the network’s star anchor Sean Hannity once offered $100 to staffers to “date” another woman who also accuses Henry of sexual harassment.

The federal suit says that one of the plaintiffs, Cathy Areu, also was sexually harassed by other high-profile men at Fox News, including Hannity, host Tucker Carlson, journalist Howard Kurtz and contributor Gianno Caldwell.

The other plaintiff, former Fox Business associate producer

July 26, 2020
Tom Schuba
Chicago Suntimes

Jerry Jones, a South Side bishop who previously served as the assistant commissioner of the Chicago Fire Department, was charged with sexually abusing three minors, including two nieces who came forward years after the alleged abuse took place.

Jones, 71, of Olympia Fields, turned himself over to the Chicago police Friday and was charged with three counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, authorities said.

During his initial court hearing Sunday, prosecutors noted that Jones serves as a bishop of both the Apostolic Assembly of the Lord Jesus Christ

July 27, 2020
Lucas Geisler
ABC 17 News

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
A Holts Summit man admitted to several sex crimes on Monday that took place over several years.

Anthony Rowell pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree kidnapping and one count each of rape and second-degree sodomy. The crimes happened in 2017 and 2018 during three different incidents throughout Boone County.

Judge Brouck Jacobs sentenced Rowell to seven years on each of the four counts. Two of the four will run consecutively to two others, amounting to a 21-year prison sentence. Rowell will be under lifetime