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November 8, 2020
Harrison Keegan
News Leader

A Greene County man was sentenced Friday to 12 years in prison after he was caught in the act of sexually abusing a teenage girl.
Emmett Duty, 40, was sentenced as part of a plea agreement he signed with prosecutors in exchange for admitting he was guilty of two counts of child molestation.
According to a probable cause statement in the case, deputies were called out to a Greene County home late on Sept. 26, 2019, after a family member said she walked in on Duty sexually abusing

November 6, 2020
KRQE

BELEN, N.M. (KRQE) – A Belen foster parent is accused of raping a boy in his car over a three year period. The now 16-year-old came forward two weeks ago saying 37-year-old Edward Gonzales victimized him since 2017 when he was 13-years-old. According to court documents, the boy lived with Gonzales in a Belen home on Highway 147 until 2020. The boy disclosed the alleged abuse recently because he was moved from the home and adopted by a different family.
The boy also told police that there were other

November 12, 2020
Mirna Alsharif
CNN

(CNN)Former Louisville Metro Police Department Detective Brett Hankison, who was involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor, is being accused of sexual assault, according to a new lawsuit.
The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday, calls Hankison a “sexual predator” who “used his police uniform and secondary nightclub employment as mechanisms to prey on innocent women who are two decades younger than him.”
Hankison is being accused of assault and battery, according to the lawsuit.
CNN reached out to Hankison’s lawyer, Stew Mathews, for comment.
Hankison was among the officers that executed

November 11, 2020
Joshua Rhett Miller
NY Post

A former gym teacher in Pennsylvania pleaded guilty to repeatedly sexually assaulting a 14-year-old student over a seven-month span, according to reports.
Rochelle Cressman, 33, who previously taught at Titusville Middle School, appeared Tuesday in Crawford County Court on three counts of statutory sexual assault involving the teen who was one of her students, the Meadville Tribune reported.
State police said Cressman, of Titusville, initiated the “sexual relationship” with the boy from September 2018 through April 2019, the Times Observer previously reported.
The pair had engaged in multiple

November 12, 2020
Dan Nephin
Lancaster on Line

William R. Vollmar, 57, of Willow Street, entered the pleas in the six cases Thursday afternoon before Lancaster County Judge Dennis Reinaker.
While not an admission of guilt, a no-contest plea is considered a conviction. Vollmar acknowledged that prosecutors had enough evidence that a jury could convict him had the case gone to trial.
“The victims in this case wanted this case to be resolved, preferably in a way that didn’t put them through a long and drawn-out trial and it is a substantial sentence and they’re

November 6, 2020
Ross Guidotti
Pittsburgh CBS Local

LATROBE, Pa. (KDKA) — A family counselor in Latrobe is facing sex trafficking and child sexual abuse charges after a two-year investigation.

Police say Gregory Miscik targeted some of his own clients.

At 1001 Ligonier Avenue in Latrobe, the office of family counselor Dr. Miscik, is where Latrobe police say the 59-year-old man sexually abused young clients.

“During the investigation, I found out he, once again, had inappropriate advances toward one of his clients,” said police officer Michelle Preston.

That alleged victim, a 16-year-old, was soon joined by