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Seaside man gets 20 years for encouraging child sex abuse
SEASIDE, Ore. (AP) — A Seaside man was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday for encouraging child sex abuse. Joshua Allen Pickering, 36, pleaded guilty to eight counts of encouraging child sex abuse in the second degree. He was originally charged with 18 counts of possession of child pornography, The...
3 members of Blackfeet Nation sue IHS over sexual abuse
KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — Three members of the Blackfeet Nation have filed a civil lawsuit against the Indian Health Service and are seeking $9 million in damages, alleging the organization violated their treaty rights by failing to prevent a former IHS doctor from sexually abusing them. The lawsuit refers...
AP Exclusive: Feds plan to move Epstein warden to prison job
WASHINGTON (AP) — The warden in charge when Jeffrey Epstein ended his life in his jail cell is being moved to a leadership position at another federal correctional facility, putting him back in the field with inmates despite an ongoing investigation into the financier’s death, two people familiar...
Ex-gymnastics coach gets 50 years in prison for sex assaults
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A former gymnastics coach was sentenced Friday to 50 years in prison for sexually assaulting young female gymnasts in North Texas and Oklahoma. Skipper Crawley, 53, of Kemp, Texas, pleaded guilty in a Tarrant County state district court in Fort Worth to four counts of aggravated...
Parents held in death of baby that was found in trash bin
NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) — The parents of a 3-month-old baby found dead last weekend in a North Las Vegas trash bin have been arrested on felony child abuse and destroying evidence charges, police said Friday. Raul Ramos, 52, and Adriana Hernandez, 32, were found living in a short-stay apartment after...
NFL’s Saints fight to shield emails in Catholic abuse crisis
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans Saints are going to court to keep the public from seeing hundreds of emails that allegedly show team executives doing public relations damage control for the area's Roman Catholic archdiocese to help it contain the fallout from a burgeoning sexual abuse crisis. Attorneys...
W.Va. father charged with murder in strangling death of baby
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia man who strangled his infant daughter has been charged with murder following her death after more than a year on life support, authorities said Friday. Jeffrey Hoskins, 26, is facing first degree murder, fatal child abuse and strangulation charges for choking his...
Amish man sentenced to prison for sexually abusing girls
LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — An elderly Amish man who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing four girls for years is facing 38 to 76 years in prison in Pennsyvlania, even though the judge acknowledged Friday that the length of the sentence is largely symbolic given the man's age. David Stoltzfus Smucker, 75, pleaded...
Jury convicts ex-religious leader of child sexual abuse
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A jury on Friday found a disgraced religious leader guilty of sexually abusing a former church member when she was a child. The Multnomah County District Attorney's Office said 69-year-old Michael Sperou was convicted of two counts of first-degree sexual penetration of a person under...
Man charged with child rape, investigation continues
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A grand jury has indicted a Beaverton man on child sex abuse charges including rape and investigators believe there are more victims. Ricardo Infante-Perez has been under investigation since September by the Washington County Sheriff’s Office, KOIN-TV reported. The 32-year-old...
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