Category Archive for : ‘SEX CRIMES STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS’

February 16, 2021
Bill Wyatt
Martinsville Bulletin

There is no statute of limitations in Virginia for felonies, meaning a criminal case can be filed at any time there is sufficient evidence.

Adrian James Ryan Orrell, 27, of Martinsville learned that the hard way on July 21, when he was arrested for rape, forcible sodomy and aggravated sexual battery of a victim younger than 13 years old on evidence that was more than 10 years ago.

As of this week, Orrell, facing possible decades in prison, reached a plea agreement that will basically leave him out

February 16, 2021
Anand Market

THENS – The Greek Olympic rowing champion has called for a national reckoning on a subject that has been banned for less than a month on charges of sexual harassment, after which the Greek art world came under a storm of accusations.
Many famous actors and directors have been accused of harassment or beatings and have been removed from high-profile productions. The director of the country’s prestigious National Theater had resigned amid allegations of sexual harassment and harassment.
Many allegations – from men as well as women – have

January 13, 2021
Kate Sweigart
ABC 27

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — More than a dozen pieces of legislation in Pennsylvania aimed at helping sexual assault victims are now law.
According to the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape, all of their legislative priorities for the 2019-2020 legislative session passed–something they say is unprecedented.
The 13 new laws include statute of limitations reform in sexual abuse cases, requiring colleges to establish online, anonymous reporting options for victims, and criminalizing sexual extortion.
“These are acts of exploitation and coercion that have happened for a very long time, but yet were

December 22, 2020
Nikki DeMentri
WKBW

HOLLAND, N.Y. — It’s a small, tight-knit community about 40 minutes south of the city.
But now Holland is under the microscope.
The Holland Central School District is facing seven lawsuits under the New York Child Victims Act. Filed in early summer, the lawsuits involve alleged sexual abuse during the late 1970s and early 1980s — all tied to former middle school math teacher Carl Penziul.
“There were so many red flags here,” said attorney Jeff Herman, who filed the lawsuits. “So many times that we believe it was known.

December 22, 2020
Allison Latos
WSOCTV

CHARLOTTE — There are new claims alleging that a former priest sexually abused a boy inside a Ballantyne church.

Former Catholic priest Robert Yurgel is a free man after he went to prison in 2009 for abusing an altar boy at St. Matthews in the late 1990s.

Another man now claims Yurgel abused him there when he was as young as five years old.

“It was all on the grounds on the church,” said Nate Foote, attorney for the victim, who is now in his late 20s. “Yurgel convinced

December 17, 2020
John Leicester
AP News

LE PECQ, France (AP) — A former model who testified to French police that she was drugged and raped as a teenager by an associate of disgraced late financer Jeffrey Epstein said she wept “tears of joy” Thursday after the modeling agent was taken into custody at Paris’ main airport for an array of suspected sex crimes.

The French agent, Jean-Luc Brunel, was detained Wednesday at Charles de Gaulle airport and was being held in police custody for questioning, the Paris prosecutors’ office said. Prosecutors didn’t