Category Archive for : ‘VOLUNTEER’

March 30, 2021
Edward Lewis
Times Leader

SHICKSHINNY — A Hunlock Township man awaiting sentencing after admitting he sexually assaulted two girls nearly 40 years ago was arrested Tuesday on allegations he sexually abused a boy inside Roaring Brook Baptist Church.
Richard Garnett, 68, of Roaring Brook Drive, is accused of sexually assaulting a boy while he was a games director volunteer during AWANA classes inside the church, according to court records.
State police allege the assaults occurred between 2004 and 2006 in the basement of the church while other children participated in AWANA activities

November 8, 2019
Matt Dillane, Brodie Hart
ABC NEWS 4

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — A North Charleston church volunteer facing numerous charges after officials said he sexually abused children rejected a plea deal on Friday.
Jacop Hazlett, a former NewSpring Church children’s class volunteer, was first charged in November and December 2018 for incidents related to his time with the church.
“It’s a shame Mr. Hazlett is prolonging the inevitable,” said Josh Slavin, an attorney representing eight victim in the case.
On Friday morning, Hazlet took a shackled walk into court in front of about

October 14, 2019
BBC
 

Richard Huckle, 33, from Ashford, Kent, abused as many as 200 children.

In 2016, he was given 22 life sentences after admitting 71 charges of sex abuse of children aged between six months and 12 years, between 2006 and 2014.

It is understood he was attacked on Sunday in his cell at Full Sutton Prison, near York, with what was described as a makeshift knife.

Police were called shortly after 12:30pm and have launched an investigation into his death, which they are treating as suspicious.

Huckle’s trial at the Old Bailey in

September 3, 2019
Fox 2

WYANDOTTE, Mich. (FOX 2) – After a district volunteer has been charged with sex crimes, parents say Wyandotte schools violated their trust.

The volunteer is accused of assaulting a 3-year-old and an 8-year-old. On Tuesday, the school district announced it is making changes to its volunteer policy.

“The appeal process has been eliminated,” said Patrick Sutka, the school board president. “Any person with a felony or a domestic crime will not be allowed to volunteer in the schools.”

The changes come as Wyandotte resident Michael Beebe faces sex crimes charges involving at

Abclocal.com 2/19/14

When Los Angeles police were investigating allegations of child abuse by, Nicolas AguilarRivera, a Roman Catholic visiting Mexican priest in 1988, they asked for a list of altar boys atthe last parish where the priest worked.  According to a deposition made public on Wednesday,Mahoney told a subordinate not to give the list, saying he didn’t want to scare the boys who knewnothing about the investigation.  Detectives ultimately got the names from parishfamilies.  They determined Aguilar Rivera molested at least 26 boys during his 10 months inLA.  Before police were

Sfgate.com/Henry K. Lee 11/7/2000 LeRoy Marion Garcia, a 58 year old former Tri-Valley girls soccer coach, pleaded guilty infederal court in Oakland yesterday to one count of possessing child pornography images taken fromthe Internet.  As part of a plea agreement, the charge of receiving child pornography is beingdropped.  He also faces six felony counts of indecent exposure in state court for allegedlyexposing himself to schoolgirls in Livermore and Dublin earlier this year.  Garcia, the ownerof a Pleasanton plumbing store, is a registered sex offender who had most recently worked as