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

January 5, 2021
Drew Tripp
ABC News

BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C. (WCIV) — Two people were arrested and jailed January 1 after a juvenile told Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office investigators the couple sexually abused them for several years.
Brian Langevin, 33, and Amanda Langevin, 34, of Summerville, have been charged with second degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor, jail records show.
According to an arrest report provided by the sheriff’s office, the pair were charged after a person came forward on behalf of the minor victim to alert authorities of potential abuse.
The whistleblower told investigators

January 5, 2021
Sam Kelly, Elvia Malagón, Robert Herguth
Chicago Sun Times

Father Michael Pfleger, the longtime pastor at St. Sabina Church and one of the most prominent priests in Chicago, has been removed from the Auburn Gresham parish following revelations of a decades-old sexual abuse allegation against a minor.
Cardinal Blase Cupich announced “the difficult news” in a letter to the St. Sabina community Tuesday, saying he has “asked Father Pfleger to step aside from ministry following receipt by the Archdiocese of Chicago’s Office for Child Abuse Investigations and Review of an allegation

January 12, 2021
US News

BARNSTABLE, MASS. (AP) — A Roman Catholic priest who delivered the homily at U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy’s funeral in 2009 has pleaded not guilty to child sexual abuse.
The Rev. Mark Hession was released on $2,500 bail Monday after his arraignment in Barnstable Superior Court in Massachusetts on two counts of rape, indecent assault and battery on a child younger than 14 and witness intimidation, the Cape Cod Times reported.
His passport was confiscated, and he was ordered to stay away from the accuser.
One of Hession’s attorneys, Joseph Griffin,

January 11, 2021
Bismarck Tribune

A Mandan man pleaded guilty Monday to an accusation that he repeatedly forced himself on a young girl four years ago.
Vincy Smith, 74, faces the possibility of life in prison for continuous sexual abuse of a child. By state law he must receive at least a five-year prison sentence. A second sexual assault charge was dismissed under the terms of a plea agreement. Smith was charged in July and pleaded not guilty in September.
The girl told her mother about the incidents last June, according to a police

January 7, 2021
Kevin Shea
NJ

A law firm specializing in representing abuse victims has filed five additional lawsuits against the Archdiocese of Newark alleging priests sexuallly molested children going back decades.
Three of the priests have been credibly accused of abuse in the past, their names and allegations made public by Catholic dioceses in New Jersey. All five are deceased.
The suits were filed by Jeff Anderson & Associates, along with New Jersey attorney Greg Gianforcaro. They have filed numerous similar lawsuits in the Garden State since late 2019, when a new state law

January 11, 2021
Democrat Herald

A Harrisburg man was charged in Linn County Circuit Court on Monday afternoon with eight sex crimes against two girls.
Brian Douglas Nelson, 37, was accused of four counts of first-degree sexual abuse and four counts of first-degree unlawful sexual penetration.
The accusers in the case are both under the age of 12.
The crimes allegedly occurred between 2014 and Jan 4 of this year, according to the charging document, and the Linn County Sheriff’s Office investigated the case.
Nelson has no significant criminal history in Oregon.
Oregon’s online court database did