Category Archive for : ‘SEX OFFENDERS AND OTHERS TAKING RESPONSIBILITY’

March 23, 2021
DW

Archbishop of Cologne Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki said he bore some responsibility for the sexual abuse scandal that has rocked the German Catholic Church and that there was an effort in the Cologne diocese to cover up cases of sexual abuse. He did not, however, offer to resign, saying such a move would be a short-lived symbolic step. He instead vowed to do “everything humanly possible” to prevent sexual abuse in the Church.
An independent report released last week showed 314 people — mainly boys under the age of

February 22, 2021
Mary Schenk
News Gazette

URBANA — A former youth minister at a Champaign church who admitted repeatedly having sex with an underage teen parishioner faces up to 23 years in prison when he is sentenced.

Roger VanRaden, 49, whose last known address was on County Road 2900 North in rural Rantoul, pleaded guilty Monday to two counts of criminal sexual assault for having sex with a teenage girl who was in his congregation.

In a plea agreement negotiated by Assistant State’s Attorney Troy Lozar and Urbana attorney Evan Bruno, the state dismissed

January 6, 2021
Nancy Bowman
Daytona Daily News

TROY — A Piqua man who claimed he was mentoring young boys but was convicted of a sex offense was sentenced Wednesday to four years in prison by a Miami County judge who said the public needed to be protected from his behavior.
William T. Voris, 66, was sentenced in Common Pleas Court on a charge of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor. He pleaded guilty in a plea deal in which two rape charges and one of corrupting another with drugs were dismissed.
Judge Stacy Wall

January 4, 2021
Neil Docking
Daily Record

A dad-of-three was caught downloading child sexual abuse images when high on drink and drugs.
Gareth Sumner pleaded guilty before a court and claimed he “descended” into paedophilia after his wife died of cancer.
Sumner married his wife Laura Pemberton, 29, the day before she dies in June 2010, just six weeks after being told she had a rare and aggressive form of cancer.
Our sister title The Liverpool Echo report Sumner appeared in the dock at Liverpool Crown Court, having admitted downloading indecent images of children when high

December 16, 2020
Makenzie Koch
Fox 4 KC

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Park Hill High School’s football coach is now facing charges for multiple alleged sex crimes with a student that occurred more than a decade ago when he worked in Holden, Missouri.
Joshua Hood, 43, has been charged with five counts of statutory sodomy, second-degree attempted statutory rape, child molestation and second-degree statutory rape in Jackson County, prosecutors said.
The alleged crimes occurred when Hood was a high school coach in Holden during the 2003-04 school year, court records say. Prosecutors say he’s accused

December 15, 2020
Garrett Andrews
Bend Bulletin

A 74-year-old Central Oregon man with no criminal record was sentenced to 25 years in prison for sexually abusing two young neighbors over a six-year period.
Louis Taiyon Apo lived in La Pine from 2012 to 2018, when he repeatedly sodomized and sexually assaulted two girls living next door. Apo was living near Culver at the time of his arrest in October 2019.
“This family has been turned absolutely upside down,” said prosecutor Stacy Neil. “The victims continue to suffer and will likely suffer for the rest of