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December 28, 2020
The News Enterprise

A Hodgenville man was arrested and charged Saturday with first-degree sexual abuse of a victim younger than 12 years old.
Kentucky State Police Post 4 executed a complaint warrant against John Andrews Jr., 33, around 11 p.m.
According to the warrant, on Sept. 19, the victim, six years old, was with family at a neighbor’s house on Shamrock Street in Radcliff for a birthday party. After the birthday party ended, her family stayed at the residence.
The warrant said the adults were outside by a fire while the children

December 28, 2020
News Yahoo

A US judge has turned down a $28.5m (£21.4m) bail package by British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell who is awaiting trial on sex crime charges.
The New York ruling said the suspect, 59, poses a flight risk and the offer did not assure her appearance at future hearings.
She is accused of helping the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein groom young girls, which she denies.
It is the second time bail for Ms Maxwell has been denied.
She has been in jail in Brooklyn, New York City since she was arrested in

December 28, 2020
News Yahoo

A US judge has turned down a $28.5m (£21.4m) bail package by British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell who is awaiting trial on sex crime charges.
The New York ruling said the suspect, 59, poses a flight risk and the offer did not assure her appearance at future hearings.
She is accused of helping the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein groom young girls, which she denies.
It is the second time bail for Ms Maxwell has been denied.
She has been in jail in Brooklyn, New York City since she was arrested in

December 29, 2020
McKenzie Stauffer
KUTV

(KUTV) — A former obstetrician-gynecologist was sentenced in 2019 to more than 21 years in prison after pleading guilty to producing child pornography.
Nathan Ward allegedly livestreamed the sexual abuse of a victim, who was between the ages of 12 and 14, with another sex offender, Robert Edwin Francis, who was also convicted in federal court, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office of Utah.
Ward was convicted for the sexual abuse of the same victim in state court. A judge sentenced him to 262 months in prison and a

January 1, 2021
Stephanie Pagones
Fox News

A Florida man is accused of sexually violating and robbing someone he apparently met online after implying he was a police officer who “had other officers outside,” the local sheriff’s office said.
Thomas Lee Simmons, 37, was arrested Tuesday and charged with armed sexual battery, armed robbery, grand theft and dealing with stolen property, all felonies, and providing false information to a law enforcement officer, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) said in a Wednesday press release.
Police received a call from a man saying he was attacked

December 29, 2020
Stephanie Pagones
Fox News

California inmates convicted of nonviolent sex crimes may be eligible for early parole consideration as part of a ballot measure that nearly two-thirds of voters approved four years ago, the state’s Supreme Court recently ruled.
The 2016 initiative was never intended to cover sex offenders, former California Gov. Jerry Brown, who championed the effort, has said. But lower courts ruled that the plain language of the initiative means they cannot be excluded from consideration as nonviolent offenders, and the high court agreed on Monday.
“The initiative’s language provides