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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

January 29, 2021
News 4 Jax

CLAY COUNTY, Fla. – A fugitive who cut off his ankle monitor set up an online fundraiser to help him flee the country.

Now the Clay County Sheriff’s Office is asking for help locating him.

Keith Smith, 29, said he needs $2,000 because if he goes back to jail he believes he will die.

Smith was initially arrested in December of 2019 on multiple charges, including committing a sex crime on a person between ages 12 to 16.

The GoFundMe.com account has now been removed after raising $0. It’s unclear

February 3, 2021
Annemarie Payson
WEAU

EAU CLAIRE COUNTY, Wis. (WEAU) – A 25-year-old Fall Creek man has been charged in Eau Claire County court with various child sex crimes.

Court records show Austin Thoren has been charged with two counts of repeated sexual assault of a child, two counts of child enticement and two counts of causing mental harm to a child.

The criminal complaint states two victims told law enforcement that they used to go to an in-home daycare that was run by Thoren’s mom. A victim told officials the incidents happened between

January 19, 2021
Denise Lavoie
ABC News

RICHMOND, Va. — Two Virginia Democratic lawmakers are spearheading a push to repeal a decades-old law that allows the state to hold certain sex offenders at psychiatric facilities indefinitely after their criminal sentences if they are deemed “sexually violent predators.”

Critics say civil commitment laws are fundamentally unfair and violate the constitutional prohibition against punishing someone twice for the same crime. Supporters counter that the laws protect society from repeat offenders who are unable to control their behavior.

Sen. Joe Morrissey and Del. Patrick Hope, both Democrats, are

January 14, 2021
Christine Breenan
USA Today

Just hours before the 2021 U.S. Figure Skating Championships were set to begin in Las Vegas, the attorney for a former skater said the sport’s national governing body agreed to pay $1.45 million to settle the skater’s lawsuit accusing the organization of being negligent in its duty to protect young athletes from sexual abuse.

Adam Schmidt, 36, a former skating student of suspended Olympic coach Richard Callaghan, alleged that he suffered “numerous sexual assaults” by the well-known coach when he trained with him as a teenager in

January 15, 2021
Pat Reavy
Deseret

SALT LAKE CITY — A registered sex offender has been charged with attacking a woman who was walking home in Salt Lake City in 2010 and raping her.

Calvin Bodie Garbett, 43, was charged Thursday in 3rd District Court with rape and object rape, first-degree felonies, and forcible sexual abuse, a second-degree felony.

In July 2010, a woman had just walked to a convenience store in downtown Salt Lake City and was returning to her residence when she was grabbed from behind.

Garbett put one arm around the woman’s stomach