Category Archive for : ‘THREE CHEERS FOR YOU’

November 26, 2019
Paolo Zialcita
NPR

Pennsylvania overhauled its child sexual abuse laws Tuesday, as Governor Tom Wolf signed three bills meant to protect sexual assault survivors. The reforms incorporate recommendations made by a grand jury after hundreds of cases of clergy abuse were uncovered in 2018.
Decades of alleged misconduct and cover-ups were outlined in the grand jury’s report, implicating more than 300 priests in a statewide sex scandal. Nearly every instance of abuse was too old to be prosecuted, a fault legislators said the new bills will repair.

“These reforms fundamentally change our

November 24, 2019
Chase Horn
KFOR

MOORE, Okla. (KFOR) – On Thursday, Moore police arrested 56-year-old William Zachary on felony charges of sexual abuse against a child.
Zachary is charged with two counts of first-degree rape of a child under 14, and six counts of child sexual abuse.
Police say a woman originally came to them with concerns about his relationship with a 13-year-old girl.
“Very quickly, I think within the next day, we were able to obtain a search warrant for the home,” Sgt. Jeremy Lewis with the Moore Police Department told News 4.

November 23, 2019
Alex Shabad
WCNC

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Two separate sex offenders were stopped by entering two Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools within 24 hours of each other this week.
The first happened Tuesday morning at Vance High School. The next morning, a sex offender was caught at University Meadows Elementary School. There have been several other similar cases over the past couple months.
CMS says their technology worked how it’s supposed to by alerting them to sex offenders in the front office, before they had any contact with students. School leaders credited the visitor tracking

November 18, 2019
Gilbert Baez
WRAL

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — A man wanted on sex charges dating to 2012 was in jail in Cumberland County Monday after an arrest that included law enforcement officers and bounty hunters from two counties.
Vinton John Huntley Nation, 30, is charged with statutory rape, indecent liberties with a child and sexual battery along with drug and fraud charges.
A group of Fayetteville-area Army veterans who find fugitives under the name B.E.A.S.T. (Bail Enforcement Apprehension & Surveillance Team) claimed credit for getting Nation into custody.
“We had to jump in a freezing

November 14, 2019
Andrew Kuhn
Merced Sun-Star

After asking the public to voice their opinion on placement of a convicted sexual predator, the Merced County District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday that he will not be released into Merced County.
The Superior Court of Ventura County has withdrawn its previous finding of ‘extraordinary circumstances’ governing the placement of Ross Wollschlager, according to a Merced County District Attorney’s Office news release.
The removal of the designation restricts Wollschalger’s placement to locations within Ventura County. As a result of the order, placement locations previously identified within Merced, Madera

November 13, 2019
AZ Family

PEORIA, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) – An arrest has been made in connection to an “extremely brazen” burglary and “sexual offense” that happened at a Peoria home Wednesday around 8 a.m. in the neighborhood of 97th and Olive avenues.
Peoria police said detectives and SWAT arrested 22-year-old Eniefiok Akpanikat around 8:15 p.m. Wednesday night at a Peoria home in the area of 97th Avenue and Mission Lane.
According to police, Akpanikat knocked on the door of a home and told the woman who answered that he would walk her dogs.