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March 1, 2021
WKYC

The Euclid Police Department received a complaint on Nov. 8, 2020, against Euclid Police Officer Donald Ivory. The complaint alleged criminal wrongdoing involving a minor child that happened while Officer Ivory was off-duty and not acting under the scope of his employment with the Euclid Police Department.

The Euclid Police Department immediately initiated a criminal investigation, ordered by Euclid Police Chief Scott Meyer. Officer Ivory was placed on paid administrative leave while the investigation took place.

Euclid police detectives conducted and completed the investigation and on Friday, Feb. 26, 2021,

March 2, 2021
Juan Sanchez
WLKY

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — An Elizabethtown man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison followed by lifetime supervised release for his exploitation of underage boys.

Matthew Alexander Lyons, 34, was sentenced this week following his conviction on multiple counts of online enticement of a minor, production of child pornography, sex trafficking of minors and distribution/possession of child pornography, acting U.S. Attorney Michael Bennett announced.

According to a statement from Bennett’s office from the Western District of Kentucky, the investigation into Lyons began last year when a grandparent of one

February 23, 2021
Kristen Dragotto
Emissourian

A St. Clair man is facing four felonies related to sex crimes involving children, according to electronic court records.

William Michael-Myron Smith, 30, was charged last month with two counts of incest, one count of first-degree rape, involving a victim younger than 12 years of age, and one count of statutory rape, involving a victim younger than 14.

According to electronic court records, the alleged rape and incest first occurred on March 13, 2017, and again on Jan. 1, 2020.

The investigation into Smith began on Jan. 21,

February 25, 2021
Melissa Roberto
Fox News

Peter Yarrow of the 1960s folk group Peter, Paul and Mary has been accused in a new lawsuit of raping an underage girl in his hotel room in 1969.

A woman named Deborah Martin filed a complaint against Yarrow, 82, and the musical trio’s employer, in Manhattan Supreme Court on Wednesday under the state’s Child Victims Act.

In the complaint obtained by Fox News, Yarrow is accused of sexual abuse of a child, negligence, assault, battery, negligent infliction of emotional distress, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. It

February 20, 2021
Rebecca Rosenberg
Fox News

A Mexican pimp and his brothers ran a yearslong sex ring that forced women into prostitution across the U.S. and used intimidation and violence to keep them in line, Brooklyn prosecutors said Friday.

Hugo Hernandez-Velazquez, 45, also known as “The Hen,” was arrested in Mexico in August and extradited to New York earlier this week. He faces a 12-count indictment charging him and his two brothers with racketeering, sex trafficking, interstate prostitution, alien smuggling and other crimes.

Arcelia Hernandez-Velazquez, 47, and Ernesto Hernandez-Velazquez, 40, were busted in New

February 24, 2021
Caitlin M. Kenney
Stripes

WASHINGTON — The female Marine whose distressing video about another Marine’s sexual misconduct against her said Wednesday that her perpetrator was her unit’s platoon sergeant and a uniformed victim advocate.

“I am not a one in a million story. I am lucky I have been able to stay safe,” she said in a statement published by Protect Our Defenders, an advocacy organization that works to end sexual violence in the military. “My name is Dalina, I am not a martyr, I am a sergeant in the Marines