Category Archive for : ‘SEX CRIMES STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS’

September 12, 2019
Jeremy Childs
VCStar

An Oxnard man was convicted of multiple sex acts against juvenile family members, the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office said Thursday.

Salvador Banales, 69, was found guilty of seven counts, with five counts being lewd and lascivious acts upon a child under 14 and two counts upon a child age 14 or 15, according to prosecutors, The jury also found true the special allegations that Banales committed the crimes against multiple victims, engaged in substantial sexual conduct in two cases and that the statute of limitations had been

March 11, 2020
Pilar Melendez
The Daily Beast

More than two years after dozens of women bravely stepped forward to accuse Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct, the disgraced movie mogul has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault.
Weinstein, 67, was convicted last month of sexually assaulting former Project Runway production assistant Miriam Haleyi and raping former actress Jessica Mann. The Oscar-winner—who was handcuffed to his wheelchair as he was removed from the courtroom—faced a minimum of five years and as much as 29 years in prison.
“It is time

March 3, 2020
Aljazeera

The Vatican is sending its top two sex crimes investigators to Mexico on a fact-finding and assistance mission as the Catholic hierarchy in the world’s second-largest Catholic country begins to reckon with decades of clergy sex abuse and cover-up.
Archbishop Charles Scicluna and Monsignor Jordi Bertomeu teamed up in 2018 to investigate the Chilean church and its wretched record of protecting paedophile priests – a bombshell expose that resulted in every active Chilean bishop offering to resign.
Their new mission to Mexico, due to take place from March 20-27, is

February 4, 2020
Anna Staver, Randy Ludlow
Dispatch

As the Ohio House prepares to resume hearings on a bill to allow victims of deceased Ohio State University doctor Richard Strauss to sue the university, its fate remains unclear.
However, minority Democrats and the Republican governor are asking whether it’s time to end a separate statute of limitations on filing criminal charges in sexual assault cases.
House Bill 249 would suspend Ohio’s statute of limitations for civil cases stemming from sexual assaults, but only for Strauss’ victims.
Gov. Mike DeWine is leery of the legal concept of

February 1, 2020
Greta Jochem
Gazette Net

NORTHAMPTON — In recent weeks, Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. has faced calls to resign over what sexual assault survivors and their advocates say is lenient treatment of men accused of sexual assault.
Northampton resident Marissa Hoechstetter is helping lead the charge and formed Reform the Sex Crimes Unit, “a campaign for accountability and transparency in the Manhattan district attorney’s office,” she said.
Hoechstetter says she was sexually abused by her OB-GYN, Robert Hadden, at Columbia University and New York-Presbyterian hospital facilities in New York City. The

January 29, 2020
Ryan Laughlin
KOB

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—Lawmakers are trying to pass a bill that would close a gap in the statute of limitations for sex crimes against children.
According to the current law, cases must be brought to a judge within six years if the victim is between the ages of 13 and 17. There is no time limit for a case to be prosecuted if the child is under the age of 13.
“I feel really bad for the victims. I feel bad that we would set a time limit, a timer, on