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January 11, 2021
MSN

Adnan Oktar preached conservative views while women he called his “kittens” — many of whom appeared to have had plastic surgery — danced around him in the TV studio.
The 64-year-old was detained in June 2018 as part of a crackdown on his group by the financial crimes unit of the Istanbul police.
He was sentenced to 1,075 years for crimes including sexual assault, sexual abuse of minors, fraud and attempted political and military espionage, the private NTV broadcaster reported.
Some 236 suspects have been on trial in the case, 78

January 5, 2021
Drew Tripp
ABC News

BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C. (WCIV) — Two people were arrested and jailed January 1 after a juvenile told Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office investigators the couple sexually abused them for several years.
Brian Langevin, 33, and Amanda Langevin, 34, of Summerville, have been charged with second degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor, jail records show.
According to an arrest report provided by the sheriff’s office, the pair were charged after a person came forward on behalf of the minor victim to alert authorities of potential abuse.
The whistleblower told investigators

January 12, 2021
Joshua Rhett Miller
NY Post

A janitor at a Staten Island hospital tried to meet up with a 14-year-old girl he was grooming online, saying he looked forward to taking her virginity, prosecutors said.
John Emilio, 43, pleaded guilty to attempted endangering the welfare of children on Dec. 23 in exchange for a three-year sentence in New Jersey state prison, the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office said Monday.
“During the investigation, Emilio initiated contact and sent nude pictures of his genitals, said he was very excited that he would be having sex with

January 5, 2021
Sam Kelly, Elvia Malagón, Robert Herguth
Chicago Sun Times

Father Michael Pfleger, the longtime pastor at St. Sabina Church and one of the most prominent priests in Chicago, has been removed from the Auburn Gresham parish following revelations of a decades-old sexual abuse allegation against a minor.
Cardinal Blase Cupich announced “the difficult news” in a letter to the St. Sabina community Tuesday, saying he has “asked Father Pfleger to step aside from ministry following receipt by the Archdiocese of Chicago’s Office for Child Abuse Investigations and Review of an allegation

January 12, 2021
US News

BARNSTABLE, MASS. (AP) — A Roman Catholic priest who delivered the homily at U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy’s funeral in 2009 has pleaded not guilty to child sexual abuse.
The Rev. Mark Hession was released on $2,500 bail Monday after his arraignment in Barnstable Superior Court in Massachusetts on two counts of rape, indecent assault and battery on a child younger than 14 and witness intimidation, the Cape Cod Times reported.
His passport was confiscated, and he was ordered to stay away from the accuser.
One of Hession’s attorneys, Joseph Griffin,

January 11, 2021
Bismarck Tribune

A Mandan man pleaded guilty Monday to an accusation that he repeatedly forced himself on a young girl four years ago.
Vincy Smith, 74, faces the possibility of life in prison for continuous sexual abuse of a child. By state law he must receive at least a five-year prison sentence. A second sexual assault charge was dismissed under the terms of a plea agreement. Smith was charged in July and pleaded not guilty in September.
The girl told her mother about the incidents last June, according to a police