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December 4, 2020
US News

WILLIAMSPORT, PA. (AP) — A Williamsport couple who mistreated their eight children with abuse that included severe beatings, starvation and molestation for over a decade have been charged with endangerment and other counts, authorities said Friday.
Their arrests capped a seven-month investigation that began when the father was arrested for firing a gun twice out the window of their home during an argument with his wife, state Attorney General Josh Shapiro said.
The children, who now range in age from 14 to 26, were interviewed after their father’s arrest

December 3, 2020
Elizabeth Thompson
Dallas News

Sen. John Cornyn has ramped up pressure on a House chairman who has stalled his bill aimed at curbing child sex abuse, demanding that Education and Labor Chairman Rep. Bobby Scott of Virginia let the bill get a vote before time runs out this month.

The Senate gave unanimous approval in September to the bipartisan Jenna Quinn Law, introduced by the Texas Republican and Sen. Maggie Hassan, a New Hampshire Democrat.

Cornyn made the bill a centerpiece of his reelection campaign, and Quinn, a Texan who was

November 25, 2020
Stephanie Pagones
Fox News

Portland law enforcement officials have announced the arrests of four people accused of taking part in a human sex-trafficking scheme involving a child.

Portland Police Bureau’s Human Trafficking Unit learned in July 2019 that a child was being “sold for sex” and, over the subsequent months, arrested four men, ages 19, 24, 51 and 51, the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office said Tuesday.

The office said it withheld all information about the case until this week’s announcement because there was still a warrant out for the arrest of

December 1, 2020
Howard Packowitz
Week

BLOOMINGTON (WEEK) – A man from Normal has pleaded guilty to committing multiple sex crimes against a child.
Normal Police arrested Austin Doyle, 30, earlier this year. He pleaded guilty Monday to six Class X felony charges of predatory criminal sexual assault. The assaults happened from 2017 to January of this year, according to prosecutors.
The sentences must run consecutively on each count, so Doyle faces 36 to 360 years in prison. Doyle will have to serve 85% of the prison term under the truth-in-sentencing law, and he’ll be

November 30, 2020
Phil Anderson
WIBW

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) – A man is being held on $1 million bond in the Shawnee County Jail in connection with two child sex abuse cases, officials said Monday morning.
Criminal charges have been filed against Charles Eugene Ferrier in connection with the sexual abuse of two minor females, according to Shawnee County District Attorney Mike Kagay.
The initial investigation began in 2015 and revealed evidence of sexual abuse of one victim when she was 8 to 9 years of age between 2008 and 2009, Kagay said.
During a separate

November 29, 2020
Sam Borcia
Patch

A pastor at Saint Francis de Sales Parish in Lake Zurich has been asked to step away while an investigation is conducted into child sexual abuse allegations.
Cardinal Blase Cupich, who is the Archbishop of Chicago, wrote in a letter to the St. Francis community announcing the investigation into Father David Ryan.
Ryan is accused of sexually abusing minors approximately 25 years ago while he was assigned to the Maryville Academy in Des Plaines.
“Allegations are claims that have not been proven as true or false. Therefore, guilt or innocence