Montana Man Has to Wear Monitoring Bracelet at Wedding
A Montana man that is accused of having sexually assaulted a woman and head-butting a police officer at his bachelor party will be forced to wear a monitoring bracelet at his wedding. Twenty-four-year-old Jordan Iddings pleaded not guilty Wednesday to felony assault on a peace officer, misdemeanor counts of sexual assault, disorderly conduct and two [...]
Indiana Woman Gets 125 Years, Videotaped Molestation
A babysitter from Indiana has been sentenced to 125 years in prison for videotaping herself performing sexual acts with children as young as two months. Samantha Light, age twenty-six, pleaded guilty to three felony counts of child molestation last month. During her sentencing on Wednesday, Light apologized and said that she had been coerced by [...]
Evangelist Gets 175 in Prison for Sex Crimes
Evangelist Tony Alamo was sentenced to 175 years in prison on Friday for sex crimes. He was convicted of taking underage girls across state lines for sex, and is effectively serving a life sentence for molesting children he took as “brides” in his ministry. Several of Alamo’s victims testified in a hearing on Friday, telling [...]
Million Dollar Verdict Upheld For McDonald Employee who was Strip Searched
A Louisville Kentucky appellate court upheld a ruling that awarded a fast food employee $6 million dollars after she was wrongfully strip searched and sexually assaulted. Victim Louise Ogborn, then 18, was forced to strip naked when someoen called the McDonald’s she was working at pretending to be a police officer. Ogborn received the call [...]
Missouri Police Seek Child Abuse Clues
Authorities are planning to resume their search through a Missouri property where they plan to find bodies and jars with notes documenting sexual abuse. The property was at one point owned by two of the five family members arrested Tuesday. The five have been charged with several felonies, which include forcible sodomy, rape with a [...]
Five Charged for Child Sex Crimes
Five members of a Missouri family have been charged with sex crimes against children, including additional charges of bestiality and forcing an eleven-year-old to have an abortion. Five men were arrested Tuesday and are being charged with several felony-level crimes. These include forcible sodomy, rape with a child of less than twelve years of age, [...]
Polygamist Found Guilty
The state of Texas recently made its first criminal conviction in a series of trials for a polygamist sect. The convicted man, thirty-eight-year-old Raymond Jessop, was found guilty on charges of sexually assaulting an underage girl with whom he supposedly had a “spiritual marriage.” He faces up to twenty years in prison when sentenced. The [...]
Polygamist Trial Nearing End
Jurors will soon begin deliberation regarding the sexual assault case against a member of a polygamist sect in western Texas. Texas District Judge Barbara Walther said that jurors in the trial against thirty-eight-year-old Raymond Jessop that attorneys will be attempting to offer closing arguments on Thursday. Jessop is being tried for sexual assault of a [...]
Jessica’s Law Challenged in Calif. Court
A law that was enacted to protect children from sexual predators is set to be reviewed and challenged in the California Supreme Court. The legislation, called Jessica’s law, makes it illegal for registered sex offenders to live within 2,000 feet of a park or school. The law was put into affect after Jessica Lunsford, a [...]
Jury Selection in First Polygamist Trial
Members of the jury continue to be selected in the first criminal trial as a result of the raid of a polygamist cult’s ranch in Texas last year. Over one hundred potential jurors have been asked to come back on Tuesday. Lawyers are seeking twelve jurors and two alternates for the criminal trial of Raymond [...]