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Kathy McGibbon Givens speaking at Montgomery County Coalition Against Human Trafficking

Twenty years ago, Kathy McGibbon Givens entered into an urban nightmare. At age 22, she started dating a man in Houston. When he invited her to go on a business trip with him to Dallas, she readily accepted. But when she arrived at the hotel, she was photographed for an escort website and prostituted out to men she didn’t know.

The ordeal lasted nine months, until she was able to escape back home to her family.

Now, the Houston-based woman tells her

One of the pilots who flew late convicted pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein’s private jets to and from Long Island airports 50 times over a two-decade span witnessed sex trafficking victims aboard unspecified flights, records show.

Details of the multimillionaire alleged sex trafficker’s local stops emerged from flight records reviewed by the Press and the recent Manhattan federal court trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, Expstein’s ex-girlfriend. The British socialite is appealing her Dec. 29 conviction on five counts of sex trafficking and other charges related to recruiting and grooming teenage girls for Epstein

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) – A psychologist in Grand Haven has been sentenced after pleading guilty in a second case for sex crimes by a mental health professional.

William Kooistra, 58, has been sentenced to nine months’ probation, 60 hours of community service and must pay a $1,404 fine for the abuse that happened in May 2020.

On Jan. 3, Kooistra pleaded guilty to one count of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct by a mental health professional, which is a high court misdemeanor.

He was previously sentenced in 2020 to 45 days in jail

A substitute teacher and coach at Jurupa Hills High School in Fontana was arrested after allegations arose of him exchanging sexually explicit text messages with a 17-year-old student, police said Monday, Jan. 31.

Joshua Armstrong, 29, was arrested on Friday, Jan. 28, on suspicion of contacting a minor to commit a sex crime at 8:38 a.m. at the high school.

On Thursday, Jan. 27, police received information that Armstrong was exchanging text messages of a sexual nature with a female student at the high school, the Fontana Police Department said in a

former Charleston police officer and wanted sex offender, who had been on the run in Mexico, is now back in Coles County after an eight-year international manhunt, police report.

David N. Iwaniw, 42, described as both a former police officer and U.S. Army intelligence officer, had been captured Jan. 11 at the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry with Mexico in Nogales, Arizona. He was brought back to Coles County on Friday

Iwaniw had been on the Coles County Sheriff Department’s Most Wanted List on charges of child pornography and two counts of

Shane Patrick Penczak, 45, has been arrested by the North Port Police Department and faces seven felony charges including lewd and lascivious battery on a child, allowing a child to engage in sexual activity, directly promoting a child to engage in sexual performance, viewing a child in the performance of sexual performance, using a computer to lure and seduce a child, and others.

Detectives, including NPPD’s digital forensic team, spent months collecting evidence in this case.

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