A Florida man who was 21 when he repeatedly raped a 3-year-old child is challenging the constitutionality of his multiple life sentences on the basis that his age when he committed the transgressions wasn’t considered a mitigating factor at his trial. The Pensacola News Journal reported that Charles Hoyt McConnell III, 23, routinely recorded himself violating the toddler …
A 21-year-old Michigan woman who admitted to lying about being raped on her college campus was sentenced to 45 days in jail on Monday. Mary Zolkowski pleaded guilty to making a false report of a felony after claiming she was raped at Delta College on February 22. According to MLive, the ex-student told cops that she was …
A man who’s been on the run for nearly two decades after being charged with molesting multiple girls was apprehended in Maryland this month, California police said. Ventura County Star reported that Julio Anaya was 29 when he was arrested in December 1999 for molesting five girls who ranged in age from 6 to 11. Facing 15 counts …
Authorities in the D.C. area are hoping a digitally produced composite sketch will help identify and convict a suspect connected to at least six sexual assaults dating back two decades. According to WRC, federal authorities used DNA evidence to determine the suspect is a black male between 5’7″ and 5’10 with black hair, brown eyes …
A South Carolina teen is behind bars after police say a 16-year-old accused him of raping her at a Myrtle Beach home. News 13 NBC reports that Joshua Allen Hughes, 17, was arrested on June 12 and charged with several offenses after a 16-year-old teen accused him of rape. According to authorities, deputies responded to a …
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 …
