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December 19, 2020
Alicia Victoria Lozano
NBC News

A 40-year-old man who once ran for a Virginia delegate seat has been arrested in connection with the kidnapping of a 12-year-old California girl he met online, law enforcement officials said.
Nathan Daniel Larson, of Catlett, Virginia, was arrested earlier this week at Denver International Airport during a layover from Fresno, California, as he was heading home to Virginia with the girl, according to the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office.
Larson was being held in Denver County Jail and faces felony charges in Fresno for kidnapping, child abduction,

December 21, 2020
Breana Ross, Drew Hill
Wink News

Lee County Sheriff’s Office SVU detectives arrested 70-year-old Barry Gould on Saturday on sexual assault charges.
Authorities say Gould was an independently contracted massage therapist at Armando’s Day Spa on Fort Myers Beach. During a massage session, they say he inappropriately touched a client.
Colleagues who work with him at the spa say they were shocked. They say that because Gould was an independent contractor, they would call him in to do massages from time to time. But, that they only ever had positive reviews about

December 22, 2020
Julie K. Brown
Miami Herald

In a scathing rebuke of Florida’s Department of Corrections, the U.S. Department of Justice has found that officers at Lowell Correctional Institution have raped, sodomized, beaten and choked countless female inmates as part of a pattern of civil rights abuses that goes back years.
The sexual torment by staff at the women’s prison so horrified DOJ investigators that they have put the state on notice, instructing prison officials to institute remedial measures to protect inmates within 49 days or face legal consequences.
“[The] sexual abuse of women

12/19/2020
Matt Keeley
News Week

Nathan Daniel Larson, a former politician who has run for public office in Virginia, has been arrested after allegedly grooming a 12-year-old girl in California and convincing her to join him in Virginia, according to police.
The girl, whose identity has not been revealed by the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office, was reported missing on Monday. According to police, the girl met Larson, 40, via social media in October. Between October and December, police say Larson groomed the girl and convinced her to send him pornographic images of herself.
Larson also

December 20, 2020
Lance Benzel
Gazette

A 69-year-old man who sexually assaulted at least two boys in his Colorado Springs neighborhood — sometimes drugging his victim — was sentenced Friday to 624 years in prison.
Joseph Lee Davis was convicted in July of 20 counts at a six-day trial in 4th Judicial District Court, including child sex assault and manufacturing child pornography, court records show.
Judge Jessica Curtis imposed the lengthy sentence after ruling that prosecutors had proved Davis had multiple prior felony convictions, including for prior attacks on children, making him a habitual offender

December 23, 2020
Caroline Cluiss
KXII

ARDMORE, Okla. (KXII) – Since April, the Carter County Sheriff’s Office has arrested eight men on charges related to child sexual abuse- including both acts of abuse and possession of child pornography.
Sheriff Chris Bryant said that’s twice as many offenders usually caught in a year.
Bryant said he’s not sure why there’s been a rise in cases, but he’s proud of his department for catching them.
“We will find them and we will arrest them and hold them to the fullest extent of the law,” Bryant said. “These are