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July

Sex offender facing child pornography charges in Las Vegas

By Glenn Puit

A sex offender who attempted to commit lewd acts against a child he was babysitting in 2003 is now facing child pornography charges in the Las Vegas Valley.

William Spahr, 38, was arrested by Las Vegas police on June 17, then charged in Las Vegas Justice Court Tuesday with two counts of possession of visual pornography of a person under 16. An arrest report in the case indicates the charges stem from an alert Google sent to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in September 2020 indicating

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07

July

Man sentenced for sexually assaulting child dies in Nebraska prison

Jacob Comer

LINCOLN, Neb. (WOWT) – An inmate at the Nebraska State Penitentiary died Saturday.

According to the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, 91-year-old Clyde Hicks died Saturday while serving his sentence at the penitentiary.

A cause of death has not yet been determined. A grand jury will conduct an investigation.

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07

July

‘Dangerous to society’: East Bay man sentenced in Marin sexual assault case

By GIUSEPPE RICAPITO

An Alameda County man was sentenced to serve six years in state prison for the sexual assault of a woman in San Rafael in 2019.

Jesse John Rieder, 39, appeared in Marin County Superior Court on Thursday. Rieder was previously found guilty by a jury of forcible sexual penetration with a foreign object.

Judge Geoffrey Howard, who imposed the sentence, called Rieder “dangerous to society.”

“This conduct is conduct that I simply cannot overlook on the impact that it’s had on the victim and those around her and society in general,”

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07

July

Buncombe County teacher accused of sexually abusing student, officials say

Stephanie Moore

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — A teacher is accused of sexually abusing a student, according to the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office.

Albert Pavon, a teacher at Erwin High School, is charged with five sex offense charges related to the sexual abuse of a student, according to detectives with the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office Special Investigations Unit

The charges are:

Indecent liberties with a child

Indecent liberties with a student

Three counts of felony dissemination of obscene material to a minor

Pavon is being held at the Buncombe County Detention Facility on a $50,000 bond.

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07

July

Man charged for sexually assaulting at least 2 women in Bronx apartment: NYPD

Kimberly Dole

NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — The NYPD is asking for the public’s assistance to provide further information on a man who was arrested for various sex-related crimes in the Bronx over the weekend.

According to officials, 32-year-old Kemoy Royal sexually assaulted at least two women between June 14, and June 19, inside of his apartment on Pratt Avenue near Connor Street in Eastchester.

Royal was arrested at around 6:30 a.m. on Sunday, June 19.

Police were alerted to an attempted rape of a 26-year-old woman at approximately 4 p.m. on Wednesday, June

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07

July

R. Kelly sentenced to 30 years in sex trafficking case

By: News 12

R&B star R. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday for using his superstardom to subject young fans — some just children — to systematic sexual abuse.

The singer and songwriter, 55, was convicted of racketeering and sex trafficking last year at a trial that gave voice to accusers who had once wondered if their stories were being ignored because they were Black women.

U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly imposed the sentence after hearing from several survivors who attested to how Kelly’s exploitation reverberated across their lives.

“You made

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