A Florida student who was 16 when she was raped by her high school geometry teacher was awarded $49.3 million in damages. According to the Miami Herald. the victim, now 20, accused Bresnniel Jansen Mones in a 2014 lawsuit that the South Dade Senior High School teacher sent her texts that originally were about school but escalated into conversations …
A British mother recalled being repeatedly raped by her long-term boyfriend who she said would also physically abuse her on a daily basis. Rebecca Bellenie, 33, talked about the harrowing ordeal with the Daily Mail after her ex-boyfriend, Neil Parrish, 33, was sentenced to 11 years in prison for repeatedly raping her. Bellenie said she and …
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 …
Police reportedly saved two teen runaways from a Brooklyn home where three alleged sex traffickers kept them against their will. According to the Poughkeepsie Journal, two Ulster County girls, ages 14 and 15, went with the suspects to Brooklyn on October 17. NYPD spokeswoman Sergeant Jessica McRorie said the teens heard the suspects talking about “prostituting …
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 …
A man who won one of New Jersey’s largest Powerball jackpots allegedly sexually assaulted a young girl for at least three years. Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes accused Pedro Quezada, 49, of sexually assaulting a girl between the ages of 11 and 13 when he lived in Passaic. NJ.com reports that Quezada is charged with …
A registered Missouri sex offender is behind bars after he allegedly raped and molested two young girls in August. Springfield News-Reader reports that Dave Saffeels, 57, spent eight years in prison for molesting a 2-year-old toddler in 2002. Saffels, now out of prison, is accused of raping an 11-year-old girl three times last month. Saffels attacked …
Police have arrested an accused sex offender wanted on multiple counts of solicitation of a minor at an Ohio fair. Investigators say Brandon Walsh, 30, faces charges in South Carolina for creating fake Facebook profiles to solicit girls, ranging in age from 13 to 16. Police say that if the girls would refuse to send more …
A 29-year-old Indiana man was arrested Monday for reportedly using GoFundMe to meet a 14-year-old girl in Montana. The Missoulian reported that William Eugene White Jr. of Montezuma, Indiana, is accused of starting an online crowdfunding campaign in efforts to meet his underage “fiancée.” A representative from GoFundMe told KGVO that the campaign was immediately removed, White …
A Catholic school teacher jailed on child rape charges was released from prison a decade early after a court threw out the conviction amid questions about the accuser’s credibility. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Bernard Shero, 54, a former teacher at St. Jerome school, pleaded no contest Monday to child rape and assault charges. In turn, …
An Indiana man was arrested last Tuesday after he reportedly met up with a 12-year-old boy to have sex on multiple occasions. FOX 59 reports that authorities arrested Ryan Bohl, 21, on August 8, after he allegedly found the victim on the site gay.com. According to the victim’s mother, the boy was curious about his sexuality …
Police have arrested a convicted sex offender after he allegedly tried to snatch a 4-year-old boy off his bike at an Illinois park, as reported by Northwest Herald. Woodstock police said that Kevin Sorensen, 39, pulled the child off his bike, picked him up, and tried to run off on Friday. Witnesses told WLS that yells from the boy …
