Category Archive for : ‘SENTENCING’

By RICHARD BAMMER | Vacaville Reporter

A 59-year-old man convicted last year of child sex crimes was sentenced Friday to 15 years to life, plus 12 years in state prison.

Darrell Michael Savelli, currently in custody at the Stanton Correctional Facility in Fairfield, is awaiting transfer to a state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation facility following the hearing in Judge Daniel Healy’s courtroom, Department 2, in the Justice Building in Vallejo.

A jury on Sept. 13 found Savelli guilty of oral copulation of a minor 10 years or younger; and four counts of

An 18-month investigation by the LaGrange Police Department, Athens-Clarke County Police Department, and the GBI revealed that Hogan Pendergraph’s crimes began as early as 2012 when he videotaped, photographed women he was dating without their permission.

An 18-month investigation by the LaGrange Police Department, Athens-Clarke County Police Department, and the GBI revealed that Hogan Pendergraph’s crimes began as early as 2012 when he videotaped, photographed women he was dating without their permission. (Shutterstock)

LAGRANGE, GA — A judge has sentenced a Georgia man to 50 years behind bars for sex crimes against

BERLIN (Reuters) – A German Catholic priest was sentenced to 12 years in prison for child sexual abuse, a German court said on Friday, the latest in a string of cases that have shaken the German Catholic Church.

The Cologne district court found the man, identified in court documents as Hans Ue., guilty in a total of 110 cases between 1993 and 2018, including 23 cases of serious sexual abuse of children.

The court ordered the defendant to pay compensation to three of the nine plaintiffs for their pain and suffering. German

A Big Stone Gap man must spend 15 years in prison after he was convicted of multiple child sex crimes this week, according to Wise County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steven Davis.

John Patton Hensley Head, 39, was convicted on multiple counts of aggravated sexual battery, indecent liberties with children, and sexual object penetration. Head entered an Alford plea. An Alford plea is when the suspect admits there is enough evidence to convict him at trial but does not admit guilt.

Head was sentenced to 60 years in prison, with 45 suspended, meaning he

Mar. 8—A Cobb man has been sentenced to two life sentences plus another five years in prison after being found guilty of multiple sex offenses against children.

Bennie Johnson, 66, of Mableton, was convicted of rape, aggravated child molestation, and two counts of child molestation against an eight-year-old child last month. His charges, the Cobb District Attorney’s Office said, stemmed from incidents that began in 2017.

The investigation also found Johnson had molested two additional victims.

“I am thankful for the hard work of our District Attorney’s Special Victims Unit, law enforcement partners,

As six distraught families looked on, the man accused of sexually assaulting their daughters was handed a 10-year prison sentence by the District Court in the city of Medan, Indonesia.

“Our children,” gasped one mother as she slumped in her chair, prompting fears she had fainted.

Benyamin Sitepu, a 37-year-old Christian priest who was also the principal of the Galilea Hosana School in Medan, had received five years less than the maximum 15-year sentence the prosecution had requested.

Judge said he gave Sitepu a shorter sentence because the priest had apologised for his crimes