A 30-year-old South Carolina man has been jailed on charges of kidnapping and criminal sexual conduct after he allegedly held a woman against her will for nearly week while repeatedly raping her and beating her, the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office said. The victim spoke with Charleston County deputies and Mount Pleasant police officers at East …
A statewide sting operation in Virginia resulted in the arrests of 30 men who allegedly used the Internet to solicit sex from children. Fairfax County police revealed in a statement that Operation COVID Crackdown targeted predators who used online platforms to engage in sexually-explicit conversations with children — who were actually undercover police officers. Detectives …
An Ohio man was arrested on Sunday for allegedly sexually assaulting an 8-month-old infant. In a statement posted to Facebook, the Morgan County Sheriff’s Office said Zachariah Wicker, 21, was arrested the same day they executed a search warrant at a residence in York Township. The warrant was reportedly part of an ongoing investigation into …
A level-three sex offender in Massachusetts was recently arrested for kidnapping at least one boy he met online. WBZ-TV reported that Charlese Horton, 42, friended one of the victims on Facebook. The victim claimed Horton repeatedly messaged him and demanded he remove certain people from his page, for unknown reasons. When the victim ignored Horton, …
An Illinois man is behind bars for sexual assault after allegedly abusing a child in his care for almost years, police say. NBC 5 reports that from June 1, 2016, until April 1, 2018, an unnamed child was temporarily living with Kevin Tayon, 46, at a home in Pontoon. The child was 7 and 8 …
An Illinois woman who sexually abused two children with her husband was sentenced late last month to 75 years in prison. On Tuesday, the Madison County State’s Attorney’s Office announced in a Facebook post that Andrea Leisgang, 38, pleaded guilty to criminal sexual assault and predatory criminal sexual assault. Along with her husband, Jeremy Leisgang, …
A US Border Patrol agent in Arizona has been charged with sexually abusing several children over a period of years after a lengthy investigation that ended with him barricading himself inside a church and holding police at bay for four hours. Dana Thornhill, 49, was arrested shortly before 8 p.m. on Thursday, AZCentral reported, when …
California prosecutors have charged convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein with an additional count of sexual assault by restraint for an alleged 2010 incident. In a statement, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said the newest charge against Weinstein, 68, stemmed from an assault in a Beverly Hills hotel room. While law enforcement reportedly first interviewed …
A sex offender set free by former Kentucky Gov Matt Bevin (R) after losing his re-election bid last fall has been arrested on a federal charge of producing child sex abuse material, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported. Bevin commuted Dayton Jones’s life sentence to time served in December, telling the Courier-Journal there was “zero, zero” evidence …
A sex offender who raped a child was released from custody this week because of concerns that he could become infected with coronavirus, WBUR reports. The Massachusetts Superior Court on Friday ordered that 54-year-old Glenn Christie be released from a state treatment facility, as long as he tests negative for COVID-19. According to the report, …
A New Jersey man was recently arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a 16-year-old while he was employed as her caretaker. Burlington County prosecutors said Edmondo DiPaolo’s arrest came after the victim’s family found an injury to the girl’s leg. KYW-TV reported that she has a degenerative brain disorder, is nonverbal and immobile, receives food and …
Embattled singer R. Kelly unsuccessfully sought his release from an Illinois prison amid the coronavirus pandemic. People reported that Kelly’s legal team filed a motion for bond on Thursday in U.S. District Court in Chicago. They claimed Kelly, 53, is at higher risk for contracting the virus and claimed that hand sanitizer and soap are in …
