Category Archive for : ‘EMOTIONAL AND PHYSICAL EFFECT’

February 22, 2021
Amy Rogers
Golf Channel

Madelene Sagstrom has been on a journey of healing and self-discovery for the last five years. She took another step down that path on Monday when she shared on social media her first on-camera interview in which she discussed being sexually abused as a child. The video was produced by the LPGA as part of their Drive On initiative.

For 16 years, Sagstrom held the secret. She didn’t tell anyone. And it ate away at her inside.

“I really did not like who I was,” Sagstrom said in

February 25, 2021
NBC

EATON COUNTY, Mich. / NBC News — Officers found the body of a former United States gymnastics coach, who has ties to disgraced doctor Larry Nassar, hours after he was criminally charged in Michigan.

The coach, John Geddert, committed suicide and was found in Grand Ledge, Michigan, according to Kelly Rossman-McKinney, a spokeswoman for Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel.

The lawyer who represented Geddert could not be immediately reached for comment.

Geddert had agreed to surrender at a sheriff’s office on Thursday before a 2:15 p.m. arraignment but he never showed

February 22, 2021
Dee Hölzel
Journal Times

RACINE — A Burlington man facing 24 felony counts relating to child sex crimes and possession of explosives accepted a plea deal for fewer charges.

Kyle Gustin, 38, pleaded guilty on Monday to one count of possession of an improvised explosive, three counts of sex crimes relating to children and a misdemeanor marijuana charge. Each charge of sex crimes relating to children carries a potential prison sentence up to 40 years.

Racine County Circuit Court Judge Robert Repischak will determine whether the sentences for the charges with be

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

February 17, 2021
Choe Sang-Hun
NY Times

SEOUL, South Korea — He has lectured in European universities and appeared on the cover of a British magazine. His book was translated into a dozen languages. He was once a guest on CNN.

Jang Jin-sung is one of the most internationally recognized defectors from North Korea. His 2014 memoir, “Dear Leader,” enthralled readers with what he said were firsthand descriptions of a private party held by Kim Jong-il, the former North Korean leader, and claims of what it was like to be one of the few

February 1, 2021
Randall Ryan
Knewz

Sarah Norton, the Connecticut mother-of-three who lured a fourteen-year-old boy into an ongoing sexually explicit exchange online, and then made efforts to consummate her predation, has been slapped with a 14-year prison sentence, The Morning Call reports.
Hailing from Jewett City, Connecticut, Sarah Norton ventured to Allentown, Pennsylvania, with the intention of sexually abusing the teenage boy.
But in December 2019 she was convicted in a U.S. district court in Allentown of attempted enticement of a minor and traveling to engage in illicit sexual conduct.
Even when she gets out