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As six distraught families looked on, the man accused of sexually assaulting their daughters was handed a 10-year prison sentence by the District Court in the city of Medan, Indonesia.

“Our children,” gasped one mother as she slumped in her chair, prompting fears she had fainted.

Benyamin Sitepu, a 37-year-old Christian priest who was also the principal of the Galilea Hosana School in Medan, had received five years less than the maximum 15-year sentence the prosecution had requested.

Judge said he gave Sitepu a shorter sentence because the priest had apologised for his crimes

 The last of five criminal investigations into allegations of sexual misconduct against former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo ended on Monday with the Oswego County district attorney joining his peers in concluding that there were insufficient legal grounds to bring criminal charges.

The district attorney, Gregory S. Oakes, said in a statement that his decision was not a reflection on Virginia Limmiatis, the woman who had come forward, “or how harmful the acts she experienced were.”

Mr. Oakes’s reasoning mirrored similar language used by prosecutors in Albany, Westchester and Nassau Counties, who

April 18, 2021
Morgan Snook
North Central PA

Muncy, Pa. – A third case alleging child sexual abuse was filed on Friday against Jonathan Kula, 25, of Pennsdale. Kula’s bail is unsecured in all three felony cases against him, which means he’s free without needing to post any money.
Lycoming County Detective Calvin Irvin claims Kula twice solicited a sexual depiction of a child and twice attempted to induce child pornography on May 1, 2019. Kula’s also accused of furnishing alcohol to minors on that date. Kula’s bail was set at $50,000 unsecured at

April 19, 2021
Bradford Betz
Fox News

Stephen Broderick, the former sheriff’s detective charged with killing three people, including his estranged wife and teenage daughter in Austin, Texas Sunday, was accused by his wife in a protective order of raping their teenage daughter and she warned that he was dangerous and said the family did not feel safe, according to court documents obtained by Fox News.
The shocking allegations were outlined in a protective order that Amanda Broderick, 35, filed in a Travis County court on June 25, 2020 — about three weeks after

April 15, 2021
Stephanie Grindley
WTRF

MARSHALL COUNTY, W.Va. (WTRF) — Michael Daniel Bowman, serving 50-200 years for child sex crimes, walked out of the Marshall County Courthouse a free man Wednesday.
Mr. Bowman was just set free. His indictment case was just dismissed with prejudice which means at this point it cannot come back pending an investigation into other indictments from the July 2015 term of the Marshall County Grand Jury.
JOSEPH CANESTRARO, PROSECUTING ATTORNEY OF MARSHALL COUNTY
Marshall County Judge David Hummel Jr. was compelled to rule this way after hearing the court-ordered transcript

July 10, 2020
Haeryun Kang
Washington Post

 Son Jong-woo is the creator of “Welcome to Video,” once the world’s largest known child pornography website. In 2015, when he was 19, he started the website in the dark web, warning its members, “Do not upload adult porn.” Over the next three years, the site would balloon to more than 1 million downloads worldwide, trading in cryptocurrency and trafficking videos featuring the sexual assault, including rape, of minors. One of the site’s most popular searches was for “2-year-olds.” By the time Son was arrested and the website shut down in