Category Archive for : ‘INDIANA’

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