Category Archive for : ‘ABOUT SEX OFFENDERS’

August 16, 2020
Blake Keller, Markie Heideman
WNEM

“It’s a sickness,” said Genesee County Sheriff Chris Swanson.
Swanson told TV5 new information in their hunt for suspected child traffickers.
Seventeen people have been arrested since sting operations started in March.
“National stats confirm that a pedophile or predator taken off the street can save the life of 25 future victims,” said Swanson.
Those arrested all reside over Mid-Michigan.
Swanson says offenders have been found in Flint, Burton, Grand Blanc, Holly and Goodrich among other places. “It’s pedophilia,” said Swanson. “It’s a sexual deviancy that leads to vulnerable people

March 5, 2020
Fox 5 Vegas

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia man convicted of filming an infant being sexually abused will likely spend life in prison.
Kanawha Circuit Judge Tera Salango sentenced Richard Smith II, 41, on Wednesday to serve between 205 and 775 years behind bars.
Smith was convicted last month of 11 counts of first-degree sexual abuse, four counts of sexual assault and five counts of sexual abuse by a parent, guardian, custodian or person in position of trust.
After handing down the sentence, Salango told Smith the videos he made

January 27, 2020
Democrat Herald

The Linn County Sheriff’s Office arrested a man on Sunday who is suspected of committing sex crimes against an underage girl.
During a Linn County Circuit Court appearance on Monday, Donald Burl Totton, 42, was charged with first-degree unlawful sexual penetration and first-degree sex-abuse. The state has filed a notice of intent to seek an enhanced sentence as the child was especially vulnerable, and that the degree of harm was significantly greater than typical.
Judge Carol Bispham set Totton’s bail at $100,000 in the case, as requested by the

January 28, 2020
Phaedra Haywood
Santa Fe New Mexican

Jury selection is set to begin Wednesday in the trial of an ex-priest accused of raping a first grader at a parochial school in Santa Fe County in the late 1980s.
Marvin Archuleta’s criminal trial is the first to come out of state Attorney General Hector Balderas’ ongoing investigation into claims of child sex abuse in Roman Catholic churches throughout New Mexico.
The state intends to bring Thomas P. Doyle of Virginia, a national expert on clergy sex abuse, to testify in the case, according to

October 3, 2019
Alyssa Roberts
KUTV
 

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — A 24-year-old was arrested in East Carbon on Sunday after an 11-year-old girl told police he sodomized her while giving her a tattoo.

Michael Easley was booked into the Carbon County Jail and held on charges of sodomy on a child, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and unlawful tattooing of a minor.

Police were contacted by a concerned woman whose granddaughter said one of her friends had been sexually assaulted by Easley, according to a statement of probable cause for Easley’s arrest,

October 2, 2019
Melissa Davey
The Guardian

A Catholic priest who allegedly abused 11 children at a New South Wales college 30 years ago now faces more child sexual abuse charges.

On Tuesday the 78-year-old, who is already before the courts after being charged in April with nine sexual and indecent assaults at a Southern Highlands boarding school, was rearrested and charged with another 18 offences.

These include sexual assault offences, indecent assault offences, and offences of gross indecency.

Police alleged between 1982 and 1989 the priest assaulted 11 children, and committed 27 offences in total. They