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A judge in Los Angeles today sentenced former university professor Michael J. Pepe, 68, to 210 years in prison for molesting underage girls in Cambodia.

U.S. District Judge Dale S. Fischer rejected the defense’s position that such a long sentence would be unduly harsh.

“Pepe confined numerous preteen girls in his home,” said Judge Fischer. “The horrors he inflicted on those girls was more than unduly harsh, it was torture.”

In papers filed before today’s hearing, the defense team, headed by veteran attorney Charles C. Brown, argued for a sentence of 25 years,

Former Parlier High School boys basketball coach Anthony Lepore was sentenced to probation Friday for having sexual contact with a student in 2014. Lepore, who was a 25-year-old, first-year teacher at the time, was originally charged with two felonies related to having an inappropriate relationship with one of his 16-year-old students – he also taught math. He pleaded no contest in November to a felony charge of sexual penetration by foreign object of a victim under the age of 18. The district attorney’s office dropped the charge of arranging a

May 28, 2021
Ben Myers
The Advocate

Lafayette Police repeatedly failed to notify UL administrators of student sex crime allegations over three years ending in 2018, disregarding an agreement with the university that arose from state law.
That is according to a bombshell USA Today report on Wednesday detailing how a student, Daniel Silva, bounced between three Louisiana public universities, leaving a trail of sex crime allegations at every stop.
University administrators and local police agencies repeatedly failed to disclose allegations against Silva, as intended in a 2015 law, known as Act 172, according to

April 13, 2021
Public News

MÉRIDA, Venezuela — She wore a ponytail and a crimson T-shirt, the phrases “Glitter Girl” sketched throughout the entrance.
Gripping her mom’s hand, she spoke softly, describing how she had been compelled out of faculty by Venezuela’s financial disaster, after which was raped at the very least six instances by a neighborhood predator who threatened to hurt her household if she spoke out. At simply 13, she grew to become pregnant.
With her mom, she sought out a physician, who advised her the being pregnant endangered her life,

April 3, 2021
Laura Italiano
NY Post

Rep. Matt Gaetz boasted to fellow Florida pols about women he met through Joel Greenberg, a former tax collector buddy who’s now charged with sex trafficking of a minor, The Washington Post reported Friday night.
The pols told the paper that Gaetz, (R-Fla.) played them videos of naked or topless women on several occasions, including at parties with Greenberg, the ex-tax collector of Seminole County, the paper said.
The new report is just the latest eruption of disturbing, lascivious news concerning Gaetz, who since Tuesday has been linked

NY Post

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A Harvard University professor has ignited an international uproar and faces mounting scrutiny for alleging that Korean women who were kept as sex slaves in wartime Japan had actually chosen to work as prostitutes.
In a recent academic paper, J. Mark Ramseyer rejected a wide body of research finding that Japan’s so-called “comfort women” were forced to work at military brothels during World War II. Ramseyer instead argued that the women willingly entered into contracts as sex workers.
His paper has intensified a political dispute between Japan, whose