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As six distraught families looked on, the man accused of sexually assaulting their daughters was handed a 10-year prison sentence by the District Court in the city of Medan, Indonesia.

“Our children,” gasped one mother as she slumped in her chair, prompting fears she had fainted.

Benyamin Sitepu, a 37-year-old Christian priest who was also the principal of the Galilea Hosana School in Medan, had received five years less than the maximum 15-year sentence the prosecution had requested.

Judge said he gave Sitepu a shorter sentence because the priest had apologised for his crimes

TURLOCK (CBS13) — A Turlock teacher who was arrested for alleged sex crimes against a minor back in November 2021 is now facing more charges.

Daniel James Baudino, 38, was initially charged with numerous sex crimes counts involving a juvenile. After more evidence was gathered and two other alleged victims came forward, Baudino was charged with 10 other sex crimes. On Thursday, Baudino was hit with more charges after detectives uncovered evidence that included secretly recording sexual acts. He’s now facing added charges of possession of child pornography, four counts of

FLAGLER COUNTY, Fla. — An Alabama man has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for sex crimes involving a teenage girl, according to the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office.

A judge sentenced 44-year-old Aaron Carpenter on Thursday to three felony sex offenses involving a teenage girl, dating back to 2018.

Deputies said Carpenter was arrested for three sex offense charges on Sept. 23, 2020, in Mobile, Alabama.

Carpenter would later admit to detectives that he sexually abused the victim multiple times,

The allegation stems from an incident that occurred sometime in 2010 or 2011

By Chris HarrisFebruary 03, 2022 03:18 PM

Leon Albert Prince
| CREDIT: ELMORE COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE

An Alabama man who unsuccessfully sought a pardon in 2020 for a decades-old rape conviction is facing disturbing new allegations, PEOPLE learned.

Leon Albert Prince, a 77-year-old former Sunday school teacher who was convicted of raping a 7-year-old girl in 1972, was indicted last month on one count of sex abuse of a child under the age of 12, a spokeswoman for the Elmore County District Attorney’s

NICOSIA, Cyprus — The Supreme Court in Cyprus overturned the conviction of a British woman given a four-month suspended sentence for making up claims that she was gang raped by as many as a dozen Israelis during a vacation in Cyprus in 2019, defense lawyers said Monday.

Michael Polak, who was among a team of lawyers representing the woman, called the decision a “watershed moment” for the woman and others “around the world who find themselves in similar positions.”

Polak said the Supreme Court agreed with the defense that the British woman

The parents of a Loudoun County school sexual assault victim worked to keep the teen attacker out of jail — instead opting for official sex offender status and treatment, but a Virginia judge Thursday ruled the juvenile offender will no longer have to register as a sex offender due to a ruling technicality.

The teenager will be held in a “residential program” at a psychiatric facility, however.

“The decision is horrific,” Scott Smith, father to one of two victims, told WJLA. “I mean what is not disclosed in his sexual evaluation and his physical evaluation