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July 1, 2020
Jessica Napoli
Fox News In a new lawsuit, former “MythBusters” co-host Adam Savage is being accused of sexually abusing his younger sister when they were children.

Miranda Savage Pacchiana, now 51, claims that the abuse happened in the 1970s when she was between 7 and 10 years old and Savage was between 9 and 12 years old and they lived in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.

According to the lawsuit, Savage allegedly raped Pacchiana, forced oral sex upon her and forced her to perform oral sex on him. He has denied the allegations in a statement to Fox News through this attorney.

“While I

July 20, 2020
David Whisenant
WBTV

KANNAPOLIS, N.C. (WBTV) – Bond is set at $100,000 for a man who allegedly tried to run from police in Kannapolis.

Jimmy Guzman, 28, was charged with resisting police, drug possession, and driving with a revoked license.

He was also charged on outstanding warrants for first degree statutory rape, statutory sex offense, and taking indecent liberties with a child.

Investigators say the sex crimes occurred in November and December.

On Saturday during a traffic stop Guzman was being served with outstanding warrants by Kannapolis Police when he allegedly tried to run.

Guzman

July 16, 2020
Lila Fujimoto
Maui News

WAILUKU — A man charged with allegedly breaking into two women’s homes to commit sex crimes is facing separate trials, after a judge Wednesday denied a prosecution request to consolidate the cases.

Norston Mike, 22, had posted bail after being arrested in the first case in December and was being sought on a warrant when the second case occurred in April, said Deputy Prosecutor J.W. Hupp.

“The facts are very similar, even though one occurred on Lanai and one on Maui,” Hupp said, arguing in court Wednesday for the

June 18, 2020
Kenneth Garger
NY POST                  

A plea deal agreed upon by an Idaho woman accused of having sex with teenage boys was reportedly rejected by a district judge on Wednesday.

Amanda Katherine Steele, 34, had struck up an agreement with prosecutors over the case stemming from her November 2019 arrest for allegedly sleeping with teens who would skip school to see her, East Idaho News reported.

The teens reportedly consented to the encounters. But Steele was charged under a state law that says 16- and 17-year-olds cannot consent to sexual relations with adults

July 17, 2020
Karla Ward
Kentucky 

A former Bath County sheriff’s deputy has been indicted on charges accusing him of sexual crimes against a minor.

Joshua Eugene Preece, 39, of Morehead, is accused of sexually assaulting a minor on Nov. 5, 2018, and he is accused of asking for and receiving sexually graphic images of minors online between November 2017 and October 2018, the Kentucky attorney general’s office said in a news release.

Preece was indicted by a Bath County grand jury on Thursday on one count of third-degree rape, two counts of first-degree sexual

July 18, 2020
Susan Edelman
NY POST

A former BBC reporter in Wales confessed to numerous sexual offenses against children and adults spanning 30 years while working as a church pastor.

Benjamin David Thomas, 44, pleaded guilty on Friday to 10 counts of sexual activity with a child, eight sexual assaults and four attempts to commit sexual assault.

Thomas, who was charged last month, also admitted to seven counts of voyeurism and two counts of making indecent videos of children from 1990 to last year.

“It is an awful breach of the trust placed in him