Category Archive for : ‘SEX OFFENDERS AND OTHERS WHO REOFFEND’

December 3, 2019
America Magazine

NEWARK, N.J. (CNS) — A day after a New Jersey victims’ rights law went into effect, a 37-year-old man represented by Minnesota attorney Jeff Anderson has filed a lawsuit against Theodore McCarrick, a former cardinal who was Newark’s archbishop from 1986 to 2000.
The suit also names the Archdiocese of Newark as a defendant and alleges Vatican officials were aware of McCarrick’s behavior over his more than 60 years as a cleric and yet continued to promote him as a church leader.
The plaintiff, John Bellocchio, alleges the now-laicized

November 14, 2019
Jenny Day
KYMA

News 11 investigates the sex offender next door:
Statistics show 99% of child sex offenders reoffend, yet they are still being released into our community.
We spoke to police, probation, victim advocates, lawmakers and even knocked on the doors, of those who have spent years in prison and now have to register as a sex offender for life.
Convicted sex offenders have to inform law enforcement of where they’ll be living, even if homeless these predators have to tell police something – even under the bridge off First Street is

November 15, 2019
Dunfermline Press

Today (Friday) at the High Court in Glasgow, 41-year-old James Kerr, from Dunfermline, admitted raping two schoolgirls and physically abusing two women.
The offences, which were committed a various address in Dunfermline, took place over a 28-year period from 1991 to 2019.
Prosecutor Shanti Maguire told the court when one of his child rape victims, who is now 37, went to the police in 2018 he sent a text message saying: “She is being a drama queen.”
Ms Maguire added: “The first time he raped her she was 10. He

November 10, 2019
May Bulman
Independent

A woman has admitted to sexually abusing a young girl in livestreamed videos for three years, as UK police warn they are seeing an increase in cyber-enabled offences against children.
Christine Callaghan, 33 from Bexhill-on-Sea in East Sussex, was paid £2,285 by Dean Petley, 30, to carry out the abuse on Skype. She admitted four charges at Isleworth Crown Court on Friday.
Petley, an automotive engineer from Leamington Spa, admitted 11 charges last month and was jailed at the same hearing for eight years.
The National Crime Agency (NCA) said

November 13, 2019
BBC

A manhunt was launched after a string of women and children were abducted and sexually assaulted over a two-week period, the Old Bailey was told.
Joseph McCann, of Harrow, is accused of 37 offences against 11 alleged victims in London and the North West.
The 34-year-old denies all charges.
On the second day of the trial, prosecutor John Price QC told the court how the net began to close on the defendant on 5 May after two 14-year-old girls were coerced into a stolen Fiat.
The car had been taken from a

November 14, 2019
Vikaas Shanker
Merced Sun-Star

A 65-year-old El Nido man was sentenced to 61 years to life in prison for sexually abusing four children under 14 years old, the Merced County District Attorney’s Office said Thursday.
Felipe Rubalcaba was sentenced Thursday after the four victims gave statements about how the abuse affected their lives, prosecutors said in a news release.
“He violated my sense of security, my sense of safety and my sense of self,” one of the victims told Merced County Judge Jeanne Schechter, who handed down the sentence.
One of the victims,