Category Archive for : ‘COURT DECISIONS’

July 14, 2020
Jesse Sowa
Gazette Times                  

An autistic Corvallis man on Monday morning was sentenced to more than 45 years in prison for sexual crimes committed against a girl for roughly four years beginning when she was about 8 years old.

Michael Brian Killion, 37, pleaded guilty to 24 felony counts and was sentenced to a total of 550 months by Judge Joan E. Demarest in Benton County Circuit Court.

The guilty pleas included 10 counts of first-degree sodomy and 12 counts of first-degree sexual penetration,

June 29, 2020
Patch 

LOS ANGELES, CA — A judge Monday approved a $5.5 million settlement of a lawsuit filed against Los Angeles County on behalf of a teenage girl who was sexually abused by a former sheriff’s detective in 2017.

Former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Detective Neil David Kimball, 47, of Agoura, pleaded guilty last July to child molestation charges. Ge was sentenced last August by a Ventura County Superior Court judge to three years in prison for crimes committed in that county between October and December 2017, when the girl

September 11, 2019
Sally Hind
Daily Record

The mum of Alesha MacPhail yesterday warned that her daughter’s teen killer will murder again, as his minimum sentence was slashed by three years.
Georgina Lochrane told the Record of her fury as appeal judges reduced the punishment part of Aaron Campbell’s 27-year sentence to 24 years – meaning the fiend who raped and murdered her six-year-old daughter on the Isle of Bute last summer could now be considered for release at the age of 40.
Georgina, 24, said vile Campbell, 17, had succeeded in “playing the system”

February 24, 2020
Anna Nicolaou
FT

Harvey Weinstein was found guilty by a jury in New York of sex crimes including rape but was acquitted of the most serious charges against him, in a verdict that activists declared a victory for women’s rights.

Weinstein, 67, was escorted out of a courtroom in handcuffs on Monday after the verdict was read, and faces up to 25 years in prison when he is sentenced on March 11. The verdict is the culmination of a six-week trial that was viewed as a landmark legal test of

February 20, 2020
Drew Tripp
ABC News 4

GOOSE CREEK, S.C. (WCIV) – Seven people have been arrested and 21 more will face charges after a “first of its kind” undercover child sex crimes sting involving Goose Creek Police partnering with other local, state and federal law enforcement agencies.
“I’m proud we were able to pull everything together,” said Goose Creek Police Chief L.J. Roscoe. “This is something I wanted to do when I came to Goose Creek.”
Dubbed “Operation Caught in the Creek,” the initiative used technology to track down several child sex crime

January 15, 2020
Cheryl Corley
NPR

A group of registered sex offenders in Aurora, Ill. — about 40 miles outside of Chicago — could face felony charges if they don’t move out of their home. The city says they live too close to a playground, which has sparked a legal fight over housing, redemption and the definition of a playground.
In downtown Aurora, McCarty Park takes up a full square block. There are walking paths, a fountain-like splashpad in the center of the park and two small rocking horses further back. Wayside Cross Ministries