Category Archive for : ‘General’

January 15, 2020
Wadena PJ

Daniel Oweitoboh Fernand Eguwe, 49, formerly of Sebeka, is set to be sentenced for sex crime charges in March after entering a guilty plea this month.
His charges include two counts of felony first degree criminal sexual conduct including penetration with a teenager under age 16, and one count of felony first degree criminal sexual conduct including penetration with a child under age 13.
A planned jury trial scheduled for Jan. 7 was canceled when a guilty plea was made, according to court records. Eguwe originally entered a plea

January 21, 2020
WTHR

INDIANAPOLIS (WTHR) — A bill to eliminate the statute of limitations for rape, child exploitation and certain other sexual offenses is moving forward at the Indiana Statehouse.
Under the current law, most sex crimes against children have to be filed before the victim reaches 31. The new bill would create exemptions if law enforcement finds DNA evidence of a crime; discover a recording that provides evidence of a crime; or if the perpetrator confesses to the crime.
“As a former law enforcement officer, I know how important of a step

January 14.2020
Elizabeth Worthington
WNEP

SCRANTON, Pa. — Married former teachers were sentenced Tuesday for each having a sexual relationship with the same teenager.
Nick and Ruth Baggetta, both former teachers, were convicted in June of having a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old girl.
• Nick Baggetta was sentenced to four and a half to nine years in prison plus probation.
• Ruth Baggetta was sentenced to two and a half to six years plus probation.
Ruth Baggetta was on home confinement so she could be with her baby girl, but she was taken into custody while her baby

January 15, 2020
NBC Palm Springs

Yucca Valley High School Football Assistant John Linn has been relieved of all duties related to the Morongo Unified School District.
This comes a day after San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department announced the arrest of the 55-year-old Pioneertown resident. The release stats that the department received a report of a sexual relationship between Linn and a 14-year-old child.
During the investigation, deputies learned that Linn carried on the relationship with the minor for over a year.
Once the district was made aware that John Linn had been arrested for

January 15, 2020
NBC Palm Springs

Yucca Valley High School Football Assistant John Linn has been relieved of all duties related to the Morongo Unified School District.
This comes a day after San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department announced the arrest of the 55-year-old Pioneertown resident. The release stats that the department received a report of a sexual relationship between Linn and a 14-year-old child.
During the investigation, deputies learned that Linn carried on the relationship with the minor for over a year.
Once the district was made aware that John Linn had been arrested for

February 13, 2020
Vic Micolucci, Travis Gibson
News 4 Jax

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The “architect” of the Jaguars’ video board system is accused of repeatedly hacking the giant scoreboards during the 2018 season, after his contract was not renewed by the team, according to an indictment announced Thursday by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Samuel Arthur Thompson, 49, who is a registered sex offender, is also charged with having child sex abuse images, illegally possessing a firearm and traveling without notifying authorities.
Investigators said that Thompson was a contractor for the Jaguars from April 2017 to