Category Archive for : ‘INDIANA’

Author: WTHR.com staff

JOHNSON COUNTY, Ind. — Eleven Indiana men were arrested in a three-day child sex sting operation, conducted by the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office, Franklin Police Department and Marion County Sheriff’s Office. This was the third child sex sting operation conducted in the last two years by the departments. Detectives set up fake profiles on sexual websites posing as underage teens. Johnson County Sheriff Duane Burgess said the profiles were very specific that the person was a minor. “Parents need to be very vigilant in reviewing the sites that

January 20, 2020
Lauren Lumpkin
SF Gate

The former president of Franklin College in Indiana – who spent about seven years as a vice president at American University in Washington, D.C. – is facing charges related to child sex crimes after he allegedly attempted to meet a 15-year-old who turned out to be an undercover police officer.
The Indiana college fired Thomas Minar after school officials learned of his arrest in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, according to a statement from Franklin College. School leaders also announced plans to investigate Minar’s conduct while he was president.
The

October 25, 2019
Fox 59

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – An Indianapolis priest who was suspended earlier this year now faces three felony counts related to a sex abuse case involving a minor.
The Rev. David Marcotte is charged with child solicitation, vicarious sexual gratification and dissemination of matter harmful to minors, according to court records.
The Archdiocese of Indianapolis confirmed the charges against Marcotte, who was suspended in February 2019 after a report of sexual abuse involving a minor from 2016 came to light. The archdiocese said it notified authorities as well as the chair

Donald W. Rager, 41, from Grayslake, Illinois, was sentenced today to more than 31 years in federal prison for traveling to Iowa to have sex with a 13 year old boy and taping the encounter.  Rager, a part-time police officer who operated a security business, received the prison term after guilty pleas to one count of traveling in interstate commerce to engage in sexual conduct with a minor, one count of producing child pornography, and one count of transporting child pornography across a state line.  Rager met the boy in