Category Archive for : ‘SENTENCING’

October 31, 2019
Melissa Leon
Fox News

Disgraced former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky is facing new allegations of sexual abuse, according to officials.
An unidentified person reported to university police Tuesday that Sandusky sexually assaulted them between June 2000 and September 2010, spokesman Wyatt DuBois told the Centre Daily Times.

“This incident report is the result of the university’s internal and external reporting procedures upon receipt of a new allegation of abuse by Jerry Sandusky,” DuBois said. “An investigation is ongoing and we have no further comment.”
Sandusky, 75, was convicted in

October 31, 2019
Raphael Minder
The New York Times

MADRID — A Spanish court on Thursday sentenced five men to prison terms in the sexual assault of an unconscious 14-year-old girl, but the men were convicted on a lesser charge of sexual abuse after the court ruled that they did not use violence during the attack.
The verdict is likely to intensify the debate over whether the country’s judiciary treats victims of sexual attacks fairly, coming after a 2018 court verdict in a gang rape in Pamplona had roiled the nation. Those men were

October 31, 2019
Chase Horn
KFOR

NORMAN, Okla. (KFOR) – In early September, Joseph Stephens took off before a Cleveland County jury found him guilty of two counts of forcible sodomy and one count of lewd acts with a child.

The jury recommended a 139-year sentence for Stephens. He was found a week later hiding with his wife in a hotel room, and Thursday, a judge agreed with the jury sentencing Stephens to the full 139 years in prison.

A decision his brother-in-law says was a long time coming.

“Justice was served today,” Thomas Steadham told

July 15, 2019
Chris Baynes
Independent

A paramedic who filmed himself raping his one-year-old daughter and distributed the videos over the dark web has been jailed for 70 years.
James Lockhart, 31, received the maximum possible sentence at a US District Court in Florida after pleading guilty to producing, distributing, and possessing child pornography.
Between March 2016 and February 2018 Lockhart uploaded four “sexually violent” videos in which he recorded himself raping his child, according to the US Attorney’s Office.
Lockhart displayed his online nicknames, “StrangeWood” and “HardWood,” in the videos “to gain notoriety” on the

October 23, 2019
Machenzie Wicker
Citizen Times

ASHEVILLE – A former Episcopal priest pleaded guilty to a multitude of child sex crimes in Western North Carolina, lending credence to allegations that span decades.

Howard White, 78, was indicted in Haywood County in 2016 on 15 charges including first-degree rape, second-degree forcible sex offense and indecent liberties with a child, District Attorney Ashley Welch told the Citizen Times.

White pleaded guilty Oct. 21 to all counts and, per a plea deal, the first-degree charges were reduced to second-degree ones. He was sentenced to 12 years in

October 23, 2019
Machenzie Wicker
Citizen Times

ASHEVILLE – A former Episcopal priest pleaded guilty to a multitude of child sex crimes in Western North Carolina, lending credence to allegations that span decades.

Howard White, 78, was indicted in Haywood County in 2016 on 15 charges including first-degree rape, second-degree forcible sex offense and indecent liberties with a child, District Attorney Ashley Welch told the Citizen Times.

White pleaded guilty Oct. 21 to all counts and, per a plea deal, the first-degree charges were reduced to second-degree ones. He was sentenced to 12 years