Category Archive for : ‘SENTENCING’

A 59-year-old man planned to travel to Cheshire to have sex with a nine-year-old boy, a court heard.

Ian Watson, 56, of Churchfields in St Helens, started speaking to another adult online to make arrangements to meet a nine-year-old boy in Cheshire with the intention of engaging in sexual activity.

But Watson didn’t know that he had actually been speaking to officers from North West Regional Organised Crime Unit (NWROCU).

On March 30, 2020 he was arrested at his home address and appeared in Liverpool Crown Court on Friday, January 28 charged with

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 former social worker with the Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services has received eight years in prison for sex crimes involving two teenage boys under her care.

Lauren Rose Cavness, 27, of Tishomingo, appeared Wednesday before Tishomingo County Circuit Judge Kelly Mims, the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reported. He sentenced her to 71 years for three felony charges but suspended most of it. Because she was in a position of trust, Cavness must serve the whole eight years and cannot seek time off for good behavior.

Cavness apologized to her victims

FORMER MET SEX CRIME PC SENTENCED FOR CHILD ABUSE IMAGES
May 25, 2021
BBC

Det Con Paul Allgood, 60, was convicted of having images of children, 32 described as the worst kind, after they were discovered on his laptop.

He had also pleaded guilty to filming a schoolgirl, aged 13 or 14, in an upskirting incident.

Allgood was given a 22-month prison term, suspended for two years.

The former detective had specialised in investigating sex offences before working in economic crime.

During sentencing at Wood Green Crown Court, Judge Kaly Kaul QC said Allgood had not used

May 25, 2021
KAKE

NORTON, Kan. (KAKE) – A former Kansas City school resource officer was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for child sex crimes and rape.
Kansas Attorney General said Mark Scheetz was sentenced for two Jessica’s Law counts of aggravated criminal sodomy with a child younger than 14 and two counts of rape. Scheetz was sentenced to life in prison and he will not be eligible for parole for at least 50 years.
Scheetz was also sentenced to 32 months for sexual exploitation of a child and six months

May 27, 2021
Brie Stimson
Fox News

A judge on Wednesday ordered former Penn State University President Graham Spanier to start serving a two-month jail sentence in July in connection with the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse case.
Spanier’s 2017 misdemeanor conviction for one count of endangering the welfare of children had been overturned amid his legal team’s appeals before Judge John Boccabella upheld it this week.
Spanier was forced out as the school’s top administrator after Sandusky was arrested in 2011. Sandusky was convicted in 2012 for sexually abusing several boys during his career