The Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that individuals considered “serious sex offenders” can attend church even if the facilities offer Sunday school or child care where minors are present. According to the CNHI Statehouse Reporter, the appellate court overturned a Boone Superior Court ruling that three sex offenders couldn’t attend churches that offered programs that …
A convicted rapist who police caught working as a security guard at a California rape counseling center was recently sentenced to five years behind bars on weapons charges. KFSN reported that Damon Rodgers served 13 years in prison for a series of rapes he committed in Madera County in the ’90s. Alarmingly, authorities discovered in late July …
Another woman has come forward to accuse director Roman Polanski of molesting her when she was a minor. Artist Marianne Barnard revealed to The Sun that Polanski, who fled the U.S. in 1978 after pleading guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl, allegedly assaulted her during a disturbing “photo shoot” in California in …
The editorial director of a large digital media company has been fired for misconduct, after a former employee published a viral blog post implicating him in sexually aggressive behavior. On Thursday, Vox Media reportedly announced in an internal statement that editorial director Lockhart Steele had been fired, effective immediately. The Awl obtained the statement sent to …
Woody Allen has spoken out about the accusations against producer Harvey Weinstein, telling the BBC that he was unaware of — or perhaps simply disbelieved — what many have described as an “open secret” in Hollywood. “No one ever came to me or told me horror stories with any real seriousness,” Allen told the BBC. …
A Georgia cop is on the wrong side of the law after he was busted as part of a sting set up to catch child predators. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, part-time Tunnel Hill police officer Abraham Flores Galvan was arrested Thursday on suspicion of traveling to a Roswell shopping center with the intent of …
A Florida man allegedly sexually assaulted a 2-year-old child in the bathroom of a Chick-fil-A restaurant and then threatened a witness with a stun gun, the Orlando Sentinel reports. Police on Friday morning arrested 35-year-old David Gray near the restaurant in connection with the incident. The witness told investigators that he thought there was a …
The trial started recently against an HIV-positive man accused of tampering with condoms prior to multiple sexual interactions. Prosecutors argued 26-year-old hairdresser Daryll Rowe of Edinburgh, Scotland, infected at least four men in an deliberate attempt to spread the potentially deadly virus. One victim reported finding a used condom in the sink after he had …
Anthony Weiner was sentenced on Monday to 21 months in prison for sexting with a 15-year-old girl. The disgraced former congressman has until November 6 to report for his prison sentence, handed down after Weiner pleaded guilty to exchanging sexually explicit messages with a North Carolina high school student. The judge was unmoved by Weiner’s …
By TOM HAYS and STEVE PEOPLES, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — It seemed as if Anthony Weiner had hit rock bottom when he resigned from Congress in 2011. “Bye-bye, pervert!” one heckler shouted as the Democrat quit amid revelations that he had sent graphic pictures of himself to women on social media. Time has shown …
Two Utah men allegedly raped a 14-year-old girl while a third captured the assault on video because he thought it was amusing, KSTU-TV reports. Leclair Dodjim and Richard Djassera face numerous sex crimes charges in connection with the case. Police were notified of the allegations September 9, when the girl’s father contacted police and told …
A North Carolina jury convicted a repeat sex offender on numerous charges on Wednesday, after he tied a little girl up to a tree in 2016, sexually assaulted her, and left her chained by her neck while he fled the scene. CBS reports that on Sept. 14, 2016, 47-year-old Douglas Nelson Edwards rode his moped down River …
