Category Archive for : ‘SENTENCING’

December 11, 2020
The Monitor

Hidalgo County District Attorney Ricardo Rodriguez Jr. announced Friday that a 30-year-old Mission man pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual abuse of child.
In a news release, authorities said Jose Javier Rodriguez received a 30-year sentence for continuous sexual abuse of a child under 14 and aggravated sexual assault of a six-year-old child, according to a news release.
The defendant is not eligible for parole.
“There is nothing more precious than the life of a child. Our office will continue to fight for justice and put these sexual predators

April 12, 2020
Euro News

A French retired surgeon accused of sexually abusing over 300 young children over decades – primarily his patients in their hospital rooms — has been sentenced to 15 years in prison in the first trial of what may be the largest-ever paedophilia case in the country.
The trial this week in the western city of Saintes concerned four people allegedly targeted by Joel Le Scouarnec, 70, including two of his nieces, a young female neighbour, and a child who was admitted to hospital at age 4 in the

December 11, 2020
Alisa M. Schafer
HTR News

MANITOWOC – Eric Fisher, a former cheer coach in Manitowoc, has been sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in state prison after attempting to have sex with a 15-year-old.
Fisher, 30, was convicted of five felony charges including using a computer to facilitate a child sex crime, two charges of soliciting intimate representation from a minor and two charges of exposing a child to harmful material.
Fisher was arrested on Feb. 27, 2019, during a sting operation.
The criminal complaint states a Manitowoc Police Department School Resource Officer received information

December 11, 2020
BBC

Joseph Telford, from Darlington, abused three children during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, Teesside Crown Court heard.

Durham Police said his “harrowing” actions included one victim being abused at least 60 times during a four-year period and another for six years starting from the age of eight.

Telford was found guilty of 12 counts of indecent assault and six rapes.

His crimes came to light in 2017 when one of his victims reported what had happened to police, a force spokeswoman said.

‘Haunting and devastating’

In a victim impact statement read out in

December 7, 2020
Bill Wyatt
Martinsville Bulletin

A Pennsylvania man who pleaded guilty to sex-related charges involving a 16-year-old girl from Martinsville was sentenced to 35 years in prison Monday during an emotional court hearing when his mother pleaded for leniency.

Cody Daniel Moore, 28, of Carlisle, Pa., appeared before Martinsville Circuit Court Judge G. Carter Greer handcuffed, shackled and wearing an orange inmate suit, to face sentencing on a negotiated plea.

“So this will be a guilty plea,” Greer said.

Martinsville Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Paula Bowen told Greer her office had agreed to drop

November 25, 2020
Stephanie Pagones
Fox News

Portland law enforcement officials have announced the arrests of four people accused of taking part in a human sex-trafficking scheme involving a child.

Portland Police Bureau’s Human Trafficking Unit learned in July 2019 that a child was being “sold for sex” and, over the subsequent months, arrested four men, ages 19, 24, 51 and 51, the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office said Tuesday.

The office said it withheld all information about the case until this week’s announcement because there was still a warrant out for the arrest of