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

May 22, 2020
Pat Reavy
Deseret

SALT LAKE CITY — A Sandy man already charged in one case with sexually abusing a minor now faces new charges after prosecutors say his lewd behavior continued in another city.
Austin Eric Bashford, 20, was charged Thursday in Cache County’s 1st District Court with 10 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, a second-degree felony; dealing in harmful materials to a minor and 10 counts of enticing a minor, third-degree felonies.
Bashford met a 16-year-old girl on the website Omingle, according to the new charging documents.
“There were several

May 21, 2020
Argus Observer

PAYETTE — A former Fruitland Police Officer could be spending 10 years behind bars after a Friday sentencing hearing.
In front of Payette County Judge Susan Wiebe on Friday, Alexander Scott Plaza, who was born in 1994, was sentenced to a five-year fixed prison sentence, including five years indeterminate for each of his three counts of sexual battery of a minor and one count of sexual abuse of a minor. Those sentences will run concurrently.
Plaza entered a Rule 11 agreement on Jan. 17, changing his plea to guilty

May 20, 2020
Jackson Gardner
Chronline

A 74-year-old Onalaska man accused of sexually abusing two girls about two years ago made his preliminary appearance in Lewis County Superior Court on Monday.
The man was charged with third-degree rape of a child, first-degree child molestation, first-degree incest and second-degree incest.
The Chronicle is not naming the suspect in an effort to protect the identities of the victims.
Lewis County Deputy Prosecutor Will Halstead requested that bail be set at $100,000 per victim for a total of $200,000, and also asked for sexual assault protection orders to be

May 25, 2020
Alan Blinder
NY TIMES

For more than 40 years, Chuck Christian did not call himself a victim because he did not think he was one.
He was a muralist who had played tight end at Michigan. He grew up poor in Detroit but came to be a world traveler. He contracted prostate cancer and outlived his doctors’ predictions.
Then, in February, an old teammate called.
Remember Dr. Robert E. Anderson? The team doctor at Michigan who performed painful, unexplained rectal exams? Someone reported him, the former teammate said, and it turns out that

May 21, 2020
Garrett Andrews
The Bulletin

Michael Richard Tallman did seemingly everything he could to avoid Thursday afternoon in Deschutes County Circuit Court.
Three years after accusations of sexual abuse and two years after he fled Oregon in the family RV, Tallman, a onetime vice principal of Redmond High School and co-founder of the Redmond Proficiency Academy, was sentenced to 17 years in prison for having an inappropriate sexual relationship with a Redmond Proficiency Academy student from 2009-10. It was his third former student he’s been convicted of sexually abusing.
“The recurring theme in

May 22, 2020
WKRG

PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — A former Florida high school teacher was sentenced to 12 years in prison for sexually abusing students after the judge ignored his request to be castrated instead.
Mark Lua, 32, told Circuit Judge Thomas Dannheisser on Wednesday that he wanted to raise his daughter and would volunteer for castration if that would spare him a prison sentence, the Pensacola News Journal reported.
The former English teacher at Booker T. Washington High School in Pensacola pleaded guilty last year to promoting a sexual performance by a child,