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

February 11, 2021
WPTA 21

AUBURN, Ind. (WPTA21) – An Auburn man is accused of having a sexual relationship with a young girl.
In October 2020, the Indiana Department of Child Services in Auburn contacted the Indiana State Police to investigate a tip about a sexual abuse case involving a minor.
Indiana State Police learned that Clint Daniel Hess, 30, had allegedly been engaging in sex acts with a 14-year-old girl.
Last week, detectives wrapped up their five-month long investigation and turned over the case to the DeKalb County Prosecutor’s Office.
The DeKalb County Superior Court

February 8, 2021
Rebekah Riess, Chris Boyette and Hollie Silverman
ABC 7 Chicago

Two men who appeared on the Netflix docuseries “Cheer” have been arrested and charged in separate sex crime cases involving minors, authorities said.

The arrests on Wednesday of Mitchell Ryan and Robert Joseph Scianna came nearly five months after federal prosecutors in Chicago accused “Cheer” star Jeremiah “Jerry” Harris of “enticing an underage boy to produce sexually explicit videos and photos of himself.” He was later indicted on additional charges.

The “Cheer” docuseries follows the cheerleading squad from Navarro College in Corsicana,

February 2, 2021
Rhonda Parker
Lost Coast Outpost

Bail was set at $1.5 million today for a former teaching assistant charged with sexually abusing a Fortuna middle school student in 2017 and 2018.

Judge Christopher Wilson advised Matthew Oliver Gibson, 29, that he has been charged with two counts of aggravated sexual assault on a child under 14, continuous sexual abuse of a child under 14 and having substantial sexual conduct with a child. Gibson, who was arrested Jan. 29 at his McKinleyville residence, appeared via videocamera from Humboldt County Correctional Facility.

Wilson appointed

February 4, 2021
WECT

FRANKLINTON, N.C. (WNCN) – A Granville County man wanted on child sex crime charges was shot and killed following an 18-hour standoff with law enforcement, the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation confirmed Wednesday.

SBI agents, along with the Granville County Sheriff’s Office, went to a residence located at 3147 Canady Mill Rd. in Franklinton around 5 p.m. Tuesday to serve an arrest warrant.

The SBI did not release the name of the person on the warrant but said he was facing charges of first-degree statutory sex offense, four counts

February 4, 2021
WHIO

A previously convicted sexual offender is now wanted on new child sex crimes in Warren County, according to a release from U.S. Marshal Pete Tobin.

The release stated that Shane Allen Burns, 41, of Miamisburg, is charged in Warren County Common Pleas Court with two counts of rape, two counts of sexual battery, eight counts of gross sexual imposition and once count of attempting to commit an offense.

All of the charges allegedly involve children and occurred between June 2015 and April 2019.

Burns, a licensed truck driver, was travelling from

February 4, 2021
WHIO

A previously convicted sexual offender is now wanted on new child sex crimes in Warren County, according to a release from U.S. Marshal Pete Tobin.

The release stated that Shane Allen Burns, 41, of Miamisburg, is charged in Warren County Common Pleas Court with two counts of rape, two counts of sexual battery, eight counts of gross sexual imposition and once count of attempting to commit an offense.

All of the charges allegedly involve children and occurred between June 2015 and April 2019.

Burns, a licensed truck driver, was travelling from