An Ohio man who pleaded guilty to arranging a sexual liaison with a 15-year-old boy was sentenced Friday to a seven-day stint behind bars. Police arrested Albert Maruna, IV, 23, in December, after it was revealed that the underage boy he was talking to was actually an undercover officer posing as a teen. According to KDKA, …
A San Antonio deputy is behind bars after police say he repeatedly molested a 4-year-old girl, then threatened her mother with deportation if she reported him. Star-Telegram reports 47-year-old Jose Nunez was arrested on Sunday and charged with super aggravated sexual assault. According to Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar, Nunez is a detention officer with Bexar County and …
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bill Cosby has ousted the high-powered defense team whose aggressive tactics failed to sway jurors from convicting him of sexual assault in April. Cosby’s spokesman Andrew Wyatt said Thursday that Tom Mesereau and the rest of the retrial team have been replaced by a Philadelphia-area defense attorney with experience handling sex crimes …
A Pennsylvania man is facing criminal charges for allegedly snatching a 4-year-old girl from her home in the middle of the night and sexually assaulting her. According to the WPVI, prosecutors said Humberto Guzman-Garcia, 35, knocked on the door of the victim’s Avondale apartment at around 3:30 a.m. on June 10. The girl slightly opened the door, …
Over 2,300 suspected online child sex offenders were arrested over the course of a “three-month, nationwide, operation conducted by Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task forces,” the Department of Justice announced Tuesday. The investigation identified 195 suspected offenders who allegedly produced child pornography or committed child sexual abuse, as well as 383 children who suffered …
Tennessee police say a man who tried to rape his friend’s mom at a sleepover was met with force, which they say in turn halted the brutal attack. Jordan Corter, 18, attended a sleepover at his friend’s home in Arlington, where his friend’s mother took the family’s alcohol supply into her room before locking the door …
Judge who sentenced swimmer recalled amid #MeToo movement By PAUL ELIAS, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The beginning of the end for the first California judge recalled since 1932 began almost exactly two years ago, when Santa Clara County Judge Aaron Persky sentenced a former Stanford swimmer convicted of sexual assault to six months in …
Police said that they found no sign of human trafficking at an abandoned Arizona campsite, contradicting explosive allegations levied by a local volunteer group. KVOA reported that the Tucson Police Department inspected a campsite off of I-19 and Valencia Road multiple times but didn’t find any evidence of illegal activity. Despite this, police reassured the …
A 30-year-old Louisiana man is accused of abducting a 9-year-old girl from her home Sunday and raping her. A warrant alleged that Denera Carter dropped off the victim at Livingston High School in New Orleans, where she was found walking barefoot at around 1:40 p.m. Sunday. NOLA.com reported that Carter left the girl at the …
NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein won’t testify before the New York grand jury that’s weighing whether to indict him on rape and other sex charges, according to a statement issued through a spokesman Wednesday. The statement said Weinstein’s lawyers decided there wasn’t enough time to prepare him to testify. They say he learned the …
A California businessman who pleaded no contest to raping a 5-year-old girl will not only never see the inside of a jail, but isn’t required to register as a sex offender. KMOV reported that Lyle Burgess, 79, was sentenced on Wednesday to 90 days of house arrest and five years probation for the 2016 incident involving a …
By COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Flinching when he heard himself described as a man who used power to prey on women, Harvey Weinstein was arraigned Friday on rape and other charges in the first criminal prosecution to result from the wave of allegations against him that sparked a national reckoning over sexual …
