60 search results for: "2016 sex offender"

December 28, 2020
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A US judge has turned down a $28.5m (£21.4m) bail package by British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell who is awaiting trial on sex crime charges.
The New York ruling said the suspect, 59, poses a flight risk and the offer did not assure her appearance at future hearings.
She is accused of helping the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein groom young girls, which she denies.
It is the second time bail for Ms Maxwell has been denied.
She has been in jail in Brooklyn, New York City since she was arrested in

December 29, 2020
Stephanie Pagones
Fox News

California inmates convicted of nonviolent sex crimes may be eligible for early parole consideration as part of a ballot measure that nearly two-thirds of voters approved four years ago, the state’s Supreme Court recently ruled.
The 2016 initiative was never intended to cover sex offenders, former California Gov. Jerry Brown, who championed the effort, has said. But lower courts ruled that the plain language of the initiative means they cannot be excluded from consideration as nonviolent offenders, and the high court agreed on Monday.
“The initiative’s language provides

December 1, 2020
Mark Shenefelt
Standard

KAYSVILLE — A 56-year-old Kaysville man faces three child sexual abuse charges from alleged incidents that occurred a decade apart.
Kaysville police arrested Steven Louis Flocken on Sept. 13 after a couple reported the day before that they were at Flocken’s home for a barbecue when Flocken, their next-door neighbor, inappropriately touched their 5-year-old daughter.
A subsequent investigation of Flocken’s history resulted in allegations that in 2010-11, Flocken allegedly twice raped the 5-year-old daughter of the woman who cleaned his house.
The Davis County Attorney’s Office on Wednesday charged Flocken

August 21, 2020
Cliff Pinckard
Cleveland

BRYAN, Ohio — A former auxiliary police officer was sentenced to four years in prison Thursday after he was convicted on two felony charges in connection with the sexual assault of a minor.
Leslie R. Tietje, 40, of Napoleon, Ohio, pleaded guilty to two counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor on July 13, according to the Ohio Attorney General’s Office. He was sentenced in Williams County Court of Common Pleas to two years in prison on each count and also will have to register as a

August 18, 2020
Thomas Geyer
QC Times

A registered sex offender in Clinton County is facing life in prison after Clinton County authorities alleged he sexually abused four children — ages 4, 6, 7 and 9 — during a nearly three year period.
Todd William Adams, 53, of rural Clinton, is charged with five counts of second-degree sexual abuse. Each of the charges is a Class A felony under Iowa law that carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison.
Adams also is charged with two counts of indecent contact with a child, an aggravated

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