Category Archive for : ‘WORST OF THE WORST’

September 13, 2019
John Agar
Task & Purpose

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – A former Grand Rapids schools teacher was sentenced to 35 years in federal prison for persuading a Florida teen to produce and send him sexually explicit photographs.
Philip Paauwe, 33, earlier pleaded guilty to coercion or enticement of a minor – age 15 to 17 – for convincing the girl to send the photos, which constitute child pornography.
Paauwe was sentenced Thursday, Sept. 12, by U.S. District Judge Paul Maloney in Kalamazoo. The judge ordered Paauwe to serve 10 years on supervised release

September 21, 2019
MSN

A man and woman are facing 65 charges for alleged sexual abuse of 9 children in Chester, South Carolina, police announced Thursday.
Chester police began their investigation on August 22 when 34-year-old Sara Lacy reported she had been assaulted by 31-year-old Bradley Corlew, Sr. Further investigation uncovered 9 juvenile victims. The children are not being identified but police said they are relatives of Lacy and Corlew.
The alleged incidents span between December 2018 and August 2019.
Lacy and Corlew were charged with several counts of criminal sexual conduct with a minor.

September 14, 2019
Michael P. McKinney
USA Today

A Queens man has been sentenced to 17 years in federal prison for sex trafficking girls, including one from Hawthorne Cedar Knolls in Mount Pleasant.
Luidji Benjamin was sentenced Friday after he was found guilty in Manhattan federal court in May of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking and sex trafficking of a minor, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. A jury convicted him after a five-day trial.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s office, in late 2015 Benjamin engaged in sex trafficking, exploiting two girls for prostitution. He used

September 13, 2019
Mary Hudetz
MSN

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A former Roman Catholic priest is scheduled to be sentenced Friday in Santa Fe, where a jury found him guilty this year of sexually abusing an altar boy in the early 1990s before fleeing the country.
Federal prosecutors are requesting a sentence of more than 30 years in prison for 81-year-old Arthur Perrault, once a pastor at an Albuquerque parish and a chaplain at Kirtland Air Force Base.
Perrault — who pleaded not guilty to charges after he was returned to the United States from

September 14, 2019
Frank Fernandez
News-Journal

Former ERAU Professor Mark Fugler will be free while his case is appealed and Volusia Sheriff Mike Chitwood is outraged at the judge’s decision.
DAYTONA BEACH — A former Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University professor sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexual misconduct with a child was set free by a judge while the ex-educator appeals his sentence.
The decision by Senior Judge R. Michael Hutcheson to release Mark Fugler outraged Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood, who posted several critical tweets Friday.
“You have a 7-year-old victim whose childhood was stolen

September 17, 2019
Ashley Cole
MSN

Accused Catholic Supply Store killed Thomas Bruce appeared in court through video chat on Monday on separate charges out of Jefferson County.
Bruce entered a not guilty plea to five charges that stemmed from a home invasion in September 2018.
According to court documents, Bruce arrived at the woman’s door between 4 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. on Sept. 27, 2018. He told her he was with AMVETS and wants to ask a few questions. He then forced open the door, which knocked her to the floor. He went into