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March

ACCUSATIONS OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT ROCK GREEK ARTS WORLD

February 16, 2021
Anand Market

THENS – The Greek Olympic rowing champion has called for a national reckoning on a subject that has been banned for less than a month on charges of sexual harassment, after which the Greek art world came under a storm of accusations.
Many famous actors and directors have been accused of harassment or beatings and have been removed from high-profile productions. The director of the country’s prestigious National Theater had resigned amid allegations of sexual harassment and harassment.
Many allegations – from men as well as women – have

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March

13 MEN, 2 TEENS CHARGED IN BURLINGTON COUNTY CHILD SEX-CRIME STINGS

February 17, 2021
Erin Vogt
NJ 101.5

Authorities in South Jersey have arrested another fifteen people in a long-spanning crackdown on child pornography and predatory behavior, Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina announced Wednesday.
Among those rounded up in the second phase of “Operation Safe Quarantine”:
• A 30-year-old youth pastor accused of blackmailing boys online into recording sexual videos of themselves;
• A 40-year-old man charged with secretly recorded a nude underage girl;
• And a 72 year-old man who had child sexual abuse material, including images of infants and toddlers, according to Coffina.
A 35-year-old suspect had arranged to meet

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February

VIRGINIA STATE POLICE TROOPER ARRESTED, INDICTED ON RAPE CHARGE, OTHER SEX CRIMES. Derrick Thompson has worked for Virginia State Police since Oct. 2007

February 5, 2021
Jeff Williamson
WSLS

CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Va. – A Virginia State Police trooper is in jail after being indicted by a grand jury on charges of multiple sex crimes.
On Thursday, authorities arrested Derrick Thompson, of Drakes Branch, on charges of rape, sodomy and object sexual penetration.
All three charges are felonies.
Police said the indictments handed down by a Charlotte County grand jury stem from a state police investigation into an incident reported to the department in September 2020.
While Thompson admitted to engaging in sexual activity with the woman, he told investigators it

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23

February

SUSPECT IN MURDER OF TRINIDAD GIRL LINKED TO SEX CRIMES

February 6, 2021
Stabroek News

(Trinidad Guardian) The discovery of human remains at Heights of Aripo just hours after the decomposed body of 23-year-old Andrea Bharatt was found has prompted homicide investigators to widen their investigation to include a series of sex crimes in which women were raped and murdered but their bodies never found.

Bharatt was kidnapped on January 29, after boarding a car at King Street, Arima, on her way home from work. For six days police searched forested areas in east Trinidad, and her body was eventually found off a

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February

STANFORD PEDIATRICIAN ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY TRYING TO HAVE SEX WITH UNDERAGE GIRL. Police in California are investigating if there are more victims

February 11, 2021
Kenneth Garger
Fox News

A Stanford pediatrician was arrested for allegedly sending pornographic images to an underage girl and trying to have sex with her, police announced Tuesday.
Dr. Dylan O’Connor, 33, who practices at Stanford’s Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., was busted last Friday in a sting operation in Redwood City, according to police.
Redwood City police started investigating O’Connor after they received a tip from another law enforcement agency unit that monitors the illegal exchange of images involving children.
During their investigation, they discovered pornographic images allegedly sent

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February

SAMPSON TEEN FACING 23 RAPE, SEX OFFENSES

February 5, 2021
Clinton NC

A Sampson teenager is facing more than 20 felony charges after an investigation into sexual conduct involving a child under 12 years old, local law enforcement authorities said.
Dakota Mychal Laws, 18, of 1164 Wiggins Road, Clinton, was arrested earlier this week and placed under $250,000 secured bond for the offenses against him. According to Sampson County Sheriff’s records, Laws is facing 23 felony charges in all, including sex counts of first degree statutory rape, nine counts of first degree statutory sex offense and seven counts of crimes

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