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January 5, 2021
Fox News

A federal appeals court upheld a life prison sentence Monday for an influential Iowa youth basketball coach who used his position to sexually exploit more than 400 boys over 20 years.

A panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Gregory Stephen’s argument that his 180-year sentence was excessive because he did not kill or physically injure his victims.

Stephen, 45, worked with Iowa’s most promising youth players as a coach of the Iowa Barnstormers, which was sponsored by Adidas and competed nationally. Many of the teenagers

January 6, 2021
Calgary Herald

Two previously convicted Calgary men face numerous new charges related to the alleged sexual exploitation of at least two teens in Alberta and Saskatchewan.
Cody Neubecker, 34, and Gareth Wilson, 32, shared a Calgary home and were communicating with underage girls in the two provinces for sexual purposes, the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team (ALERT) said in a release Wednesday. Both were previously convicted for sex offences involving minors, according to ALERT.
The agency’s internet child exploitation unit believes more victims could be found following its analysis of computers

January 4, 2021
Neil Docking
Daily Record

A dad-of-three was caught downloading child sexual abuse images when high on drink and drugs.
Gareth Sumner pleaded guilty before a court and claimed he “descended” into paedophilia after his wife died of cancer.
Sumner married his wife Laura Pemberton, 29, the day before she dies in June 2010, just six weeks after being told she had a rare and aggressive form of cancer.
Our sister title The Liverpool Echo report Sumner appeared in the dock at Liverpool Crown Court, having admitted downloading indecent images of children when high

January 7, 2021
Kim Hae-yeon
Korea Herald

The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family will more than double the number of staff at government agencies supporting victims of digital sex crimes, from 17 in 2020, to 39 this year.

The services provided by the Digital Sexual Crime Victim Support Center, established by the Women’s Human Rights Institute of Korea under the ministry, includes victim counseling, help getting illegal videos deleted, investigative support, litigation support, and post-monitoring.

Since its launch in April 2018, the Digital Sexual Crime Victim Support Center has directly contacted and supported victims

December 31, 2020
Elizabeth Paton
NY Times

This week, Owen Mooney, a male model and graphic designer, said that he was groped by Alexander Wang, an influential fashion designer, in a New York City nightclub in 2017.
Mr. Mooney made the accusations in a pair of videos he posted on social media. Soon after, further allegations of sexual assault and nonconsensual encounters were made against the 37-year-old designer, posted by Instagram accounts that did not identify the accusers.
Today, after days of silence, Mr. Wang responded to the claims — and the barrage of criticism

December 21, 2020
Randall Ryan
Knewz

A Princeton, West Virginia, mom who filmed herself committing incestuous sexual abuse on a little girl in a bath tub, then shared the shocking video with a friend, has had 20 years added to her 155-year prison sentence, the Mirror reports.

West Virginia authorities shipped the mom, Elizabeth Haway, off to prison in May for her “vile and horrific” acts of incest.
Local authorities got wind of the torment Haway had caused the little girl thanks to a tip-off from a concerned citizen.
The additional 20 years are punishment for