元体操コーチのショーン・ガードナー被告は月曜日、ミシシッピ州の連邦裁判所において、児童性的虐待の罪3件について有罪を認めた。この起訴内容は、2017年から2018年にかけて隠しカメラで若い体操選手を盗撮していた疑いに関するものである。
ガードナー被告は、ミシシッピ州パービスの施設や、後にアイオワ州ウェストデモインの「チャウズ・ジムナスティックス・アンド・ダンス」で、エリートを目指す若い選手を指導していた。10月に予定されている量刑言い渡しでは、各罪状につき15年から30年の禁錮刑が言い渡される可能性がある。
Mary Tracy Morrison, founder of a school for children with autism in Jonesboro, Arkansas, pleaded guilty to permitting child abuse and related charges. She received probation and a ban from working with children after leading what prosecutors called a 'makeshift child fight club.' The case stemmed from a 30-minute beating of a 13-year-old boy captured on surveillance video.
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A 23-year-old Canton man pleaded guilty to multiple charges including kidnapping and rape after attacking a woman he hired to clean his apartment.
Katelyn Strohacker, the 23-year-old former daycare worker at Over the Rainbow Children's Center in Pataskala, Ohio, was sentenced Friday to 8-12 years in prison for abusing multiple children, including taping a 1-year-old girl's eyes, hands, and feet. Following her earlier no contest plea to 31 counts of kidnapping and child endangerment—as covered in prior reporting—parents expressed outrage at the Licking County sentencing hearing.
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Dustin Joel Walker was sentenced to life in prison plus 42 years for sexually abusing his 11-year-old stepdaughter and forcing her to give birth at home without medical care.