Joe Harvey Jr of Illinois Has Raped an Infant

Authorities say a 27-year-old suburban Chicago man has been charged with sexual assault and abuse of an infant.

The Kendall County Sheriff's office says Joe Harvey Jr. was charged after the mother noticed injuries to the child last week and went to an Aurora hospital.

Other details aren't available, including the gender and age of the infant.

Harvey's a former boyfriend of the 20-year-old mother. On Saturday night, the Montgomery man was still in jail on a $250,000 bond. His arraignment's Monday...

Local Attorney Sentenced in Sexual Abuse Case

A local attorney was sentenced Friday for his involvement in a sexual abuse case. The hearing was very heated.

John Hamilton McLain had a chance to apologize to the family of the victims, and started to cry as he pleaded with them and the judge that he only get probation because of his family situation at home.

The girls' parents told McLain he put the girls through hell the night he kept them for 12 hours. In the end, Madison County Circuit Court Judge Jim Smith sentenced McLain to six years in the state penitentiary and 14 years of probation.

McLain will also have to go through a sex offenders treatment program and pay several fines...

Pedophiles find Ukraine a good place to roam

Nobody knows the depth of the problem, but nation is seen as a hotbed of child pornography, sexual abuse.

Pedophiles roam where they can sexually abuse children with impunity. Unfortunately, Ukraine – with its lax law enforcement, shaky economy and endemic corruption – may provide just the haven they seek.

“It’s very widespread,” said Walid Harfouch, publisher of Kyiv’s Paparazzi magazine and a leading socialite.

The depth of the problem, however, is hard to gauge. From time to time, stories emerge that hint at a strong appetite among adults – including some members of the nation’s political elite -- for sex with children...

New sentencing deal in Mt. Vernon sex-abuse case; New Rochelle man going to prison

A judge today withdrew his promise to send a Level 3 sex offender to the county jail for groping a Mount Vernon Public Library employee last fall, and will sentence him to state prison on Monday.

Westchester County Judge Jeffrey A. Cohen said 31-year-old Christopher Welch's lengthy rap sheet deserved a prison sentence for his guilty plea to forcible touching as a felony.

Welch, who is from New Rochelle, has 22 prior criminal convictions for misdemeanors. They include sexual abuse and seven counts of public lewdness...

Man faces 55 counts of assault, abuse

A Sandwich man has been charged with 19 counts of felony criminal sexual assault and 36 counts of felony aggravated criminal sexual abuse after a three-month-long Oswego Police Department investigation involving the suspect's relationship with a minor.

Bryan E. Kerber, 27, of the 200 block of South Wells, Sandwich, has been under investigation since December, when police were alerted by a concerned employee at a business on Orchard Road who believed that Kerber, a manager, was having an inappropriate relationship with the minor, also an employee...

Man Convicted on 48 Sex Abuse Counts; Sentencing Thursday

Sentencing is set for Thursday for a Mason County man found guilty on multiple charges of sexual abuse.

A jury found 49-year-old Dennis Knopp of Leon guilty Friday evening after a three-day trial.

Knopp was charged with 64 counts of sexual abuse against three minor females. He was convicted on 48 of those counts. The victims are are Knopp's two biological daughters and his stepdaughter...

Peekskill man sentenced for sexual abuse of six-year-old girl

A Peekskill man was sentenced in Westchester County Court on Tuesday to 10 years in state and 15 years of parole on his guilty plea to one count of course of sexual conduct against a child in the first degree.

For nearly a two year period from September 2005 to June 2007 at a location in the City of Peekskill, Steven LaFuente, 23, engaged in several sex acts with his victim, a six-year-old girl...

Ex-school bus driver admits to abuse charge

Former school bus driver Alan A. Hamann admitted in Wyoming County Court Tuesday that he attempted to molest a Warsaw Central student on his bus.

Hamann, 64, of Gainesville, as part of a plea agreement reached by the attorneys in the case, pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree attempted sexual abuse of a girl less than 11 years old. The charge is a Class E felony.

Hamann, answering questions from Wyoming County Judge Michael F. Griffith, said "I plead guilty" to attempted sexual abuse for his own gratification, for an incident that occurred in the period between September 2007 and April 2008. Several members of Hamann's family accompanied him to court Tuesday...

30 Claim Abuse By Tracy Plastic Surgeon

Thirty alleged victims are now involved in a sexual abuse case involving a Tracy doctor, the lead investigator said Thursday.

Authorities said Wednesday that 47-year-old Dr. Peter Chi is facing 11 felony counts pertaining to the alleged abuse of eight adult female cosmetic surgery patients between September 2007 and December 2008.

More patients have since come forward in the investigation, investigators said...

Guilty plea to child sexual abuse charges

A 46-year-old Scranton man has entered a guilty plea to charges stemming from the sexual abuse of a child. John J. Rodney Sr. plead guilty to charges of Involuntary Sexual Intercourse with a child and Corruption of a Minor...

50 children a day suffering sexual abuse, says NSPCC

Children are subjected to more than 50 sex attacks every day, figures obtained by the NSPCC reveal today.

In almost a quarter of cases uncovered by the charity, the victims were ten or younger. The number of crimes against girls was six times higher than against boys.

There were 20,758 sex crimes against under-18s reported to police in 2008, including rape, gross indecency and incest, the children's charity said...

Sex abuse brothers jailed for life

TWO brothers have been jailed for life today for a horrific catalogue of sexual abuse of children. Colin and Lee Wicks, both from Gillingham, were charged with 31 counts including rape, sexual assault of a child under 13 and indecent assault. They related to the abuse of five children, one as young as four, over an 11-year period from 1994 to 2005. One of the counts involved Lee, formerly of Chapel Street, Minster, sexually assaulting a child at Sheerness pier...

Detective accused of fondling a girl

A nine-year veteran of the Murray police department was charged Tuesday with one count of first-degree felony aggravated sexual abuse of a child for allegedly fondling a girl.

West Valley City police arrested Murray detective Michael D. Spilman, 35, after a 17-year-old girl alleged he fondled her, over and under her clothes, on several occasions between March 2004 and Jan. 8, 2008, court documents state. The alleged sexual abuse occurred at Spilman's home in Salt Lake County...

Man, 61, Is Charged With Sex Abuse of Autistic Boy

A 61-year-old Montgomery County man was charged with sexual abuse of an 11-year-old autistic child whom police said he fondled and photographed, authorities said yesterday.

Abdul Mohamed Kudsy of the 3200 block of Hewitt Avenue in Silver Spring was being held in the county jail and faces two counts of third-degree sexual offense and one count of sexual abuse, according to District Court records. Records say he fondled the 11-year-old more than once and took a picture of him with his camera phone while the boy's pants and underwear were at his knees...

Teenager shot stepfather to put end to sexual abuse, court told

A Victorian teenager has been ordered to stand trial for the murder of her stepfather who allegedly took nearly 10,000 pornographic pictures of her in four years.

The Shepparton Magistrates Court was told that on March 13 last year, the stepdaughter shot the 34-year-old in the back of the head to put an end to daily sexual abuse that began when she was 14. The teenager, now 19, has pleaded not guilty to murder.

Defence barrister Peter Chadwick told the court on the night of his death, the woman's stepfather ordered her to go to a shed behind their home where he demanded she perform oral sex on him...

Man convicted of sexual abuse of minor

Wearing a pink sweater and clutching a stuffed bunny rabbit, the 7-year-old girl spoke in a quavering voice as she answered the prosecutor's questions. The man she knew as "Mr. Mike" had kissed and fondled her numerous times, she told the jury, when her baby sitter left them alone.

The second-grader wiggled in her chair and colored furiously with markers as she told how the man had warned her to not to tell anyone. She put her hand up as if blocking from view the white-haired man sitting at the defense table.

That man, Michael Phillip Hein Sr., 62, was convicted of the sexual abuse of a minor, a third-degree sex offense, and two counts of second-degree assault by an Anne Arundel County Circuit jury in Judge J. Michael Wachs' courtroom yesterday...

Marietta Man in Custody For Sexual Abuse Charges

Last night Marietta police were searching the home of a man accused of sexual abuse.

Officers say not only did they find evidence of sexual abuse but they also found two young boys inside the home.

The investigation started last night, after a victim contacted police....

Incidents of child sexual abuse increasing; counties trying to cope

As many as one in four girls and one in six boys are sexually abused before their 18th birthday, according to Darkness to Light, a national non-profit organization dealing with child sexual abuse.

"We can no longer put our head in the sand," said Billie Jo Weyant, director of Citizens Against Physical, Sexual and Emotional Abuse. "Until people face the reality, we need to bring abuse of all sorts to the forefront. If it's kept a secret and if it's kept under wraps, it gives the perpetrators every right to keep doing what they're doing. We need, as a society, to talk about it, realize this is going on and take care of it."...