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July 27, 2020
Lucas Geisler
ABC 17 News

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
A Holts Summit man admitted to several sex crimes on Monday that took place over several years.

Anthony Rowell pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree kidnapping and one count each of rape and second-degree sodomy. The crimes happened in 2017 and 2018 during three different incidents throughout Boone County.

Judge Brouck Jacobs sentenced Rowell to seven years on each of the four counts. Two of the four will run consecutively to two others, amounting to a 21-year prison sentence. Rowell will be under lifetime

July 27, 2020
Erik Cliburn
Moberly Monitor

A Higbee man was arrested Thursday after being charged with seven felonies for alleged sex crimes against a minor under 12 years old.

Bryan Hackstadt, 21, is facing three counts of second-degree child molestation, two counts of statutory sodomy, one charge of sexual misconduct involving a child under 15 and one charge of child endangerment involving sexual conduct.

Hackstadt was the target of an investigation by the Missouri State Technical Assistance Team, a division of the Department of Social Services which investigates crimes involving the abuse, sexual exploitation

July 20, 2020
Pete Madden
ABC News

Craig Maurizi, a onetime Olympic hopeful turned Olympic coach, has filed a $10 million lawsuit against famed figure skating coach Richard Callaghan and a trio of skating institutions, including U.S. Figure Skating, the sport’s national governing body.

In his complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York, Maurizi, 57, alleges that Callaghan “used his position of trust and authority to psychologically groom Craig for what turned into nearly a decade of sexual abuse” in the 1970s and 1980s, and the sport’s

July 27, 2020
Shelbie Harris
Idaho State Journal

BLACKFOOT — A former Idaho State University employee on felony probation for embezzling over $100,000 from the school now faces seven decades in prison for possessing child pornography, according to court records.
Bingham County prosecutors have charged Tyler Gene Liddle, 32, of Blackfoot, with five counts of felony sexual exploitation of a child stemming from an Idaho Internet Crimes Against Children and U.S. Department of Homeland Security investigation, according to the Idaho Office of the Attorney General news release.
The investigation also included the Blackfoot Police Department,

July 27, 2020
Kay Stephens
Altoona Mirror

HOLLIDAYSBURG — A 20-year-old Altoona man is facing 10 to 20 years in prison after rendering guilty pleas Friday in Blair County Court to rape and related sex crimes involving three girls in 2019.
Dylan Patrick Weatherwalk was expected to go on trial in August but advised President Judge Elizabeth Doyle on Friday that he would render guilty pleas for the recommended sentence.
When Doyle asked Weatherwalk if anyone was forcing him to render his pleas, Weatherwalk shook his head no. The young man also told the judge

July 21, 2020
Jennifer Kastner
10 News

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) – Multiple former students of San Diego’s Christian Youth Theater, known as CYT, are coming forward with stories of sexual assault, abuse and misconduct.
On the phone Tuesday, the president of CYT confirmed that one of her own close family members claims that he was even abused when he was in CYT many years ago.
On its Facebook page, the El Cajon-based theater group has acknowledged recent accusations of sex abuse from former students.
Part of its statement reads, “We are deeply saddened to learn about