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February 16, 2021
Eric Grossarth
East Idaho News

BLACKFOOT — Investigators say the man at the center of a manhunt over the weekend allegedly sexually abused a teen girl that got pregnant.

Richard “Rocky” Iverson, 43, is charged with five felony counts of lewd conduct with a child. According to an affidavit of probable cause obtained by EastIdahoNews.com, the girl was 15-years-old at the time of the alleged sexual abuse.

Investigators were contacted in November by the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare after learning of the girl’s pregnancy and the alleged sexual

February 17, 2021
Larry D. Curtis
KUTV

SALT LAKE COUNTY (KUTV) — A Salt Lake County man was arrested on suspicion of 15 sex crimes involving children after a report was filed to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Derek Voy Taylor was arrested and interviewed then admitted to police he downloaded numerous child pornography photos and videos found on his phone and computer and admitted to touching two children sexually and taking pornographic images of one. Taylor was in a position of trust over both children, ages 8 and 6 when

February 15, 2021
Livia Albeck-Ripka
Indiana Express

A former government staff member’s account of being raped in Australia’s Parliament building sent shock waves through the country’s halls of power Monday, with the governing conservative party coming under intense criticism for the way it had handled the case.

Women’s rights advocates called it an extreme example of what has long been described as a culture of misogyny that has pushed several women out of Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s coalition government.

The former staff member, Brittany Higgins, now 26, said she was attacked nearly two years ago

February 16, 2021
S. Brady Calhoun
My panhandle

NICEVILLE, Fla. (WMBB) — A Niceville woman was arrested Tuesday on charges she sexually abused a young child over a seven month period in 2018, Okaloosa Sheriff’s deputies said.

Katrina Puri, 50, is charged with lewd and lascivious molestation of a victim less than twelve and lewd and lascivious exhibition on a victim less than sixteen, deputies wrote in a news release.

A caretaker noticed redness on the child during bath time and that the child exhibited sexual behaviors, deputies wrote.

The victim told investigators that Puri touched

February 16, 2021
Bill Wyatt
Martinsville Bulletin

There is no statute of limitations in Virginia for felonies, meaning a criminal case can be filed at any time there is sufficient evidence.

Adrian James Ryan Orrell, 27, of Martinsville learned that the hard way on July 21, when he was arrested for rape, forcible sodomy and aggravated sexual battery of a victim younger than 13 years old on evidence that was more than 10 years ago.

As of this week, Orrell, facing possible decades in prison, reached a plea agreement that will basically leave him out

February 16, 2021
Lenex Web

At the second trial, the defense lawyer did not cast doubts on her credibility and let her off the stand after 12 minutes. The jury returned a guilty verdict in two hours.

Afterward, nine other women came forward and said Mr. Worrell had raped them too.

He was sentenced to at least 15 years in prison; combined with a life sentence he earned later in Maryland, Mr. Worrell, now in his mid-70s, is all but certain to die behind bars.

Ms. Ham said after the trial that the experience had