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December 17, 2020
John Leicester
AP News

LE PECQ, France (AP) — A former model who testified to French police that she was drugged and raped as a teenager by an associate of disgraced late financer Jeffrey Epstein said she wept “tears of joy” Thursday after the modeling agent was taken into custody at Paris’ main airport for an array of suspected sex crimes.

The French agent, Jean-Luc Brunel, was detained Wednesday at Charles de Gaulle airport and was being held in police custody for questioning, the Paris prosecutors’ office said. Prosecutors didn’t

December 16, 2020
Luke Nozicka
Kansas City

A metro area high school football coach was charged Wednesday with sexual crimes for allegedly molesting a teenager more than a decade ago in Jackson County, prosecutors said.
Park Hill High School coach Joshua Hood, now 43, was charged with five counts of statutory sodomy, second-degree attempted statutory rape, child molestation and second-degree statutory rape, according to the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol launched an investigation in April into allegations from a woman who said she was the victim of sexual offenses by Hood

December 17, 2020
Nate Day
Fox News

Jacob Roloff, a star of TLC’s “Little People, Big World,” has accused one of the show’s producers of molestation.
Now 23, the reality star appeared in the show beginning in 2006 and made his final appearance just last year. He has now brought allegations against producer Chris Cardamone.
In a lengthy Twitter post, Roloff said that as a child, he was put through “a long grooming process” by Cardamone, who ultimately “molested” the young star.
“I do not expect to provide details of this encounter at any point publicly,”

December 19, 2020
Aljazeera

French prosecutors said they have charged and imprisoned prominent French modelling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, a former close associate of disgraced American billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, over alleged sex crimes.
Brunel was charged with rape of minors over the age of 15 and sexual harassment, said a statement from the prosecutors’ office on Saturday.
He was initially detained on Wednesday at Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport as he was about to board a plane.
French police had been seeking 74-year-old Brunel since an investigation was opened in August last year.
A call for witnesses in

December 22, 2020
GJ Sentinel

Clifton resident Gary Harding, 73, is accused of multiple counts of sexual assault on a child and received a $50,000 cash-only bond from Mesa County Court on Monday.
The charges stem from alleged incidents that occurred between Aug. 1, 2009, and Nov. 13, 2020, involving two separate juveniles, the Mesa County Sheriff’s Office reports.
Harding faces nine counts of sexual assault on a child, pattern of abuse and three counts of sexual assault on a child, position of trust, both class 3 felonies, and Jessica’s Law (a indeterminate sentence

December 15, 2020
Garrett Andrews
Bend Bulletin

A 74-year-old Central Oregon man with no criminal record was sentenced to 25 years in prison for sexually abusing two young neighbors over a six-year period.
Louis Taiyon Apo lived in La Pine from 2012 to 2018, when he repeatedly sodomized and sexually assaulted two girls living next door. Apo was living near Culver at the time of his arrest in October 2019.
“This family has been turned absolutely upside down,” said prosecutor Stacy Neil. “The victims continue to suffer and will likely suffer for the rest of