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May 20, 2020
Madison Pearman
Wavy

MATHEWS, Va. (WAVY) — A federal indictment was unsealed Wednesday evening, charging a man from Mathews County with production of child pornography and coercion and enticement of a child.
10 On Your Side first reported the story of William Wellington “Billy” Hooper, Jr., 53, in November 2019. At the time, Hooper’s arrest was confirmed by authorities after he was accused of asking an underage employee working on his boat to take pornographic photos in exchange for money.
They believe a female juvenile was working on Hooper’s 59-foot yacht —

May 20, 2020
Laurie Mason Schroeder
The Morning Call

A Texas man is suing the Roman Catholic Diocese of Allentown and one of its churches, St. Catharine of Siena in Reading, claiming he was sexually abused and tortured by several priests in a church basement in the 1970s.
Timothy Paul McGettigan’s attorneys say their client learned that he was not alone in being abused by Allentown Diocese priests from the scathing 2018 Pennsylvania grand jury report on unchecked sexual abuse by clergy across the state, and decided to come forward. He is seeking a

May 25, 2020
Alan Blinder
NY TIMES

For more than 40 years, Chuck Christian did not call himself a victim because he did not think he was one.
He was a muralist who had played tight end at Michigan. He grew up poor in Detroit but came to be a world traveler. He contracted prostate cancer and outlived his doctors’ predictions.
Then, in February, an old teammate called.
Remember Dr. Robert E. Anderson? The team doctor at Michigan who performed painful, unexplained rectal exams? Someone reported him, the former teammate said, and it turns out that

May 21, 2020
Garrett Andrews
The Bulletin

Michael Richard Tallman did seemingly everything he could to avoid Thursday afternoon in Deschutes County Circuit Court.
Three years after accusations of sexual abuse and two years after he fled Oregon in the family RV, Tallman, a onetime vice principal of Redmond High School and co-founder of the Redmond Proficiency Academy, was sentenced to 17 years in prison for having an inappropriate sexual relationship with a Redmond Proficiency Academy student from 2009-10. It was his third former student he’s been convicted of sexually abusing.
“The recurring theme in

May 22, 2020
WKRG

PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — A former Florida high school teacher was sentenced to 12 years in prison for sexually abusing students after the judge ignored his request to be castrated instead.
Mark Lua, 32, told Circuit Judge Thomas Dannheisser on Wednesday that he wanted to raise his daughter and would volunteer for castration if that would spare him a prison sentence, the Pensacola News Journal reported.
The former English teacher at Booker T. Washington High School in Pensacola pleaded guilty last year to promoting a sexual performance by a child,

May 24, 2020
Vincent Barone
NY POST

Police have nabbed a suspect they say brutally attacked a 64-year-old woman in East Harlem on Monday.
Frankie Harris, 38, of Bushwick, has been charged with attempted murder, rape and sexual abuse in connection to the assault that left the victim in a vegetative state.
Shocking surveillance camera video released by police shows the assault at E. 111th Street near 2nd Avenue just before 11:30 p.m.
The assailant attacks the woman from behind and places her in a chokehold before wrestling her to the ground and sexually assaulting her.
Police