Category Archive for : ‘SEX CRIMES COMMITTED IN SCHOOL’

November 6, 2019
Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
NY POST

A former Florida middle school assistant principal who molested at least one teenager — without revealing he was HIV-positive — has been sentenced to 35 years in federal prison.
Kyle Dale Ritsema, 36, was charged with producing, distributing and possessing child pornography for enticing a 14-year-old boy into unprotected sex five times, and is believed to have targeted other teens “and on several occasions sexually abused them,” federal prosecutors in Florida said.
“This criminal’s former position of trust makes this case all the more egregious and we hope

November 5, 2019
Steven Morris
The Guardian

A nursery in Devon has closed as part of a major police investigation into the alleged sexual assault of children as young as two at the centre.
Police have spoken to more than 100 families whose children attended Jack and Jill Childcare in Torquay and it is understood up to a dozen children may be suspected victims.
A male worker in his teens has been arrested on suspicion of carrying out sexual offences and is on police bail. He has moved out of the Devon and Cornwall police

November 9, 2019
Susan Edelman
NY POST

A Brooklyn man claims he was repeatedly raped as a child by two Hasidic rabbis, and beaten when he tried to report his Hebrew school “hell.”
“We do not discuss such things,” Yonah Kohn says a rabbi admonished after slapping him in the face when he desperately sought help.
Kohn, 37, is suing three Hasidic organizations where he says he suffered sexual molestation and brutal assault: Rabbinical College Bobover Yeshiva Bnei Zion and Congregation Shaarei Zion in Brooklyn, and Camp Shalva, a sleepaway camp in upstate South Fallsburg.
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November 6, 2019
Angela Ruggiero
Mercury News

HAYWARD — A man now in his 50s has filed lawsuit alleging that the Catholic church should have known about two clergymen who abused him as a high school student at Moreau Catholic High School in Hayward.
George Houle publicly stepped forward Wednesday and is alleging that two men during his time at Moreau in Hayward sexually abused him — Brother John Moriarty and the Rev. Gordon Wilcox, who was a priest and the principal at Moreau. Both men have since died: Moriarty in 2013 and Wilcox

October 30, 2019
Pantagraph

BLOOMINGTON — The state schools superintendent has suspended the teaching license of a McLean County Unit 5 teacher accused of sex crimes.
Jonathan Hovey, who formerly taught first grade at Glenn Elementary School in Normal, is accused of sexually assaulting two students since 2005. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Hovey, of Forsyth, is accused of two counts of predatory criminal sexual assault, both Class X felonies, and four counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse (Class 2).
In September, his attorney, Tristan Bullington, said, “Mr. Hovey is not guilty

October 30, 2019
DFW CBS

FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – A high school teacher in Fort Worth, accused of having a sexual relationship with a student, was arrested less than two weeks after trying to commit suicide.
Albert Robles, a teacher at Trimble Tech High School, is facing charges in both Fort Worth And Crowley for Sexual Assault of a Child Under 17, Improper Relationship Between Educator and Student and Indecency with a Child with Sexual Contact.
According to arrest affidavits, police were contacted by a school resource officer who said a student had told