A Missouri grand jury on Thursday indicted a Tennessee man on multiple charges, including rape and incest. Jackson County court documents say that Justin L. Brown, 36, now faces charges of rape, statutory rape, incest, and domestic assault for crimes that took place between June 1, 2023, and November 30, 2023, when the victim was …
An Indiana man waited until after he’d won election to his local county commission to plead guilty in a sexual assault case against him in Nevada. John D. Jessup, 49, is now awaiting sentencing after his guilty plea to an attempted rape. He faces up to 20 years in prison, WXIN reported. Jessup was elected …
A 14-year-old Florida boy pleaded guilty this week to beating and raping a 91-year-old woman earlier this year. Jesse Stone initially pleaded not guilty to the charges in August, WKMG reported. He is to be sentenced as an adult on December 19. According to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office, the victim woke up around midnight …
A not-guilty plea was entered for a former college wrestler accused of shooting his champion gymnast girlfriend. On Friday, Chad T. Richards, 23, pleaded not guilty to fatally shooting his girlfriend, Kara Welsh, 21, during his arraignment at Walworth County Court. Richards’s attorney, Gibson D. Hatch of Middleton, entered the plea for his client, according …
A Florida man was arrested earlier this month after a woman made a 911 call and pretended to “order a pizza” until the dispatcher understood she was about to be raped. The pizza call came in to the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office at about 3:45 a.m. on October 19. The dispatcher asked further questions to …
An Arkansas man was charged with first-degree murder for fatally shooting a man who was reportedly found with his missing 14-year-old daughter earlier this month. On October 8, Lonoke County police responded to reports of a missing girl. Responding deputies then learned that the girl’s father, Aaron Spencer, discovered her in a vehicle with 67-year-old …
A Michigan man has been sentenced to life in prison after he was convicted on multiple federal charges that included kidnapping, coercion and enticemnt, and production of child pornography. Arisknight Winfree, 32, pleaded no content to five counts against him in April, according the US Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Michigan. Winfree was …
An Oklahoma pastor was arrested last week for sexually abusing his daughter since she was a child. Bertheophilus Maurice Bailey, a pastor at St. Andrew Christian Church in Tulsa, reportedly started sexually abusing his daughter when she was in the sixth grade. KTUL reported that weeks after Bailey’s adult daughter had a baby in 2021, …
On Thursday, a Florida judge denied bail for two suspects who allegedly trafficked two girls who vanished from a foster home last month. Palm Beach County police reportedly rescued the two girls on Wednesday after one of them was seen leaving the home with a suspected human trafficker. Faith Slayton and Michael Steinmetz were arrested …
A Pennsylvania couple was arrested earlier this month for allegedly filming themselves sexually abusing children. In June, state police were alerted to child pornography in a cloud storage device linked to Jamie Souders, 41. PennLive reported that the incidents occurred at Souders’ home, where he and Morgan Rothenhoefer, 24, abused boys and girls between the …
A good Samaritan foiled an assault on a Clemson University student last week before the attacker, a convicted sex offender, drove off in her stolen car. The Anderson County Sheriff’s Office said Darrell Scott Brooks drove into Seneca, South Carolina, where Oconee County deputies saw him crash the car and took him into custody. Brooks, …
A 65-year-old Long Island man has been arrested and charged with impersonating a social services employee to get into a Suffolk County shelter, where he molested a physically disabled patient. According to Newsday, Alfred Balcerak posed as an employee of the Suffolk Department of Social Services on September 6. He is accused of sexually abusing …
