A Florida mother found guilty of producing sexually-explicit videos involving her 18-month-old son was sentenced to prison on Wednesday. Leigh Felten, 34, will spend 10 years behind bars for one count of lewd and lascivious exhibition. Felten was arrested in 2015 in connection with a series of videos where she’s seen inappropriately touching a child while …
Neighbors and lawmakers in Rhode Island are outraged that a man convicted of raping and sexually assaulted a child now lives less than a mile from where he abducted a 10-year-old boy. WJAR reports that Richard Garner now lives in Providence, less than a mile from the deli where he abducted the boy in 1988. …
One of seven Florida men arrested in a sex sting involving children reportedly told officers he knew it was an undercover operation and “thought it would be cool to see it in action,” according to police. The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office announced in a statement that seven men were arrested in parking lots across the …
A male cheerleader at the University of Central Florida in Orlando has been accused of putting a female teammate in a chokehold long enough for her to lose consciousness and collapse — in addition to allegedly sexually assaulting two other teammates. WKMG reports that Dawan Carter Jr., 22, has been arrested by campus police on charges …
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and TOM HAYS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Manhattan’s district attorney dropped part of the criminal sexual assault case against Harvey Weinstein on Thursday after evidence emerged that cast doubt on the account one of his three accusers provided to the grand jury. The development was announced in court Thursday with …
‘We believe he actually videotapes the sexual assaults while he commits them.’
Disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner will be released from prison ahead of his scheduled 21-month sentence. CBS News obtained records from the federal Bureau of Prison showing that Weiner is expected to be released May 14, 2019, 83 days ahead of his previously scheduled release date. The New York Daily News had first reported the news, …
An undercover online operation in Florida led to the arrest of 13 men accused of soliciting sex acts from children, including a man who worked as a cook at a Florida resort and an HIV positive paint store employee. ABC reports that the Polk County Sheriff’s Department (PCSO) announced that as part of an operation …
Four Navy sailors are expecting to be court martialed following allegations that they engaged in group sex with an underage girl. NBC News has obtained charge sheets showing that four sailors allegedly engaged in sex acts with a girl who is between 12 and 16 years old in September 2017. The alleged assault took place …
Moments after a judge ordered Bill Cosby to serve a minimum of three years in state prison for a sexual assault, the former TV sitcom star burst into laughter in the courtroom. Page Six reports that Cosby was seen joking and laughing with his legal team after Judge Steven O’Neill sentenced him to 3 to 10 …
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Bill Cosby’s sentencing hearing opened Monday with a debate over whether the 81-year-old comedian should be branded a “sexually violent predator” — a scarlet letter that would make him subject to mandatory lifetime counseling and community notification of his whereabouts. Cosby, who faces up to 30 years in prison for drugging …
The Tennessee girl who vanished earlier this year with former teacher Tad Cummins said that as she feared for her life while with him, the public perception of her became skewed, as people reportedly began forming opinions before truly understanding what happened. “[People] think they know what happened,” Elizabeth Thomas said in an exclusive interview …
