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May 14, 2021
Michael S. Schmidt
AJC

A former confidant of Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz admitted in court papers on Friday to an array of federal crimes — including sex trafficking of a minor — and agreed to cooperate with the Justice Department’s investigations, handing prosecutors a potential key witness as they decide whether to charge the lawmaker from Florida.
Joel Greenberg, who was the tax collector of Seminole County, outside Orlando, until he was indicted last year, did not implicate Gaetz by name in papers filed by prosecutors in U.S. District Court in

May 20, 2021
Julia Bingel
Cleveland 19

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – New charges against a Euclid police officer accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl in August of 2020.
Officer Donald Ivory, 48, and Brittani Lumpkins, 27, are now accused of bribing and intimidating the victim to recant her statements in the sexual assault case.
According to the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s office, this happened between April 30 and May 5, 2021.
Ivory and Lumpkins allegedly bought her a cell phone and offered her money in exchange for her to tell police her prior statement was a

May 13, 2021
Dominic Casciani
BBC

The plan from the Sentencing Council says judges should look at intent, rather than whether a child was harmed.
Undercover operations with officers posing as children are a common way of uncovering paedophile rings.
Offenders have sought reduced jail terms if no child came to harm.
The rules will cover the sentencing of all abusers caught via stings, usually operating online – including those run by police forces around the world and traps set by informal groups of people often dubbed “paedophile hunters”.
Current guidelines have long been interpreted as meaning

May 20, 2021
Logan Rude
Channel 3000

SPRING GREEN, Wis. — A River Valley School District teacher has been charged with sex crimes dating back to the 1990s.
A criminal complaint alleges 63-year-old Michael Hill sexually assaulted a child in his home on multiple occasions during the summer of 1992.
Allegations were first investigated by the Spring Green Police Department in 1995, but no charges were filed. The case was re-opened last year.
The complaint, filed in Sauk County court on Wednesday, alleges that Hill, on multiple occasions, rubbed his penis against the victim while laying

May 21, 2021
Justice.gov

Miami, Florida – A Boca Raton man convicted of producing, distributing, and possessing sexual abuse material of children, including a toddler, was sentenced yesterday by a West Palm Beach federal district judge to 50 years in prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release. He also was ordered to pay $1.3 million in restitution to his victims.
Robert Solove, 29, used social networking applications on his cellular telephone to communicate with children and to solicit and distribute child sexual abuse material. Solove created illegal photos and videos

May 16, 2021
Maria Cramer
News Yahoo

In 1993, when he was 18, Randall Menges had consensual sex with two other teenage boys at a camp in Idaho.
Menges was charged by state prosecutors with “crimes against nature” — a charge since ruled unconstitutional that was used to prosecute people who engaged in sodomy or oral sex — and served seven years in prison, according to federal court documents. When he was released, he was placed on the sex offender registry in Idaho and then in Montana, where he later moved.
On Tuesday, a federal