Attorneys suing the Diocese of San Bernardino on behalf of a man who claims he was sexually abused as a child by a priest in Hemet alleged Monday that the clergyman was one of dozens permitted to have a free hand with children for decades. During a news briefing in Riverside, attorney Mike Reck said […]
A sentencing hearing was rescheduled Thursday to Dec. 20 for a 30-year-old man who pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the beating death of his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son in Thermal. Prosecutors are expected to drop an assault count against Daniel Valenzuela Rodriguez, who is facing a sentence of 25 years to life in state prison, […]
A 31-year-old Florida man has been sentenced to 70 years in federal prison for recording himself raping a 1-year-old child and distributing the videos on the dark web. Chief U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday sentenced James Lockhart on July 11 to the maximum penalty allowed. The U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a news release […]
A 72-year-old convicted sex offender who exposed himself to a 5-year-old girl in a Palm Desert store was sentenced Friday to more than 13 years in state prison. Roger David Faber of Sky Valley exposed himself to the girl at Dick’s Sporting Goods at the Westfield Palm Desert mall on Aug. 17, 2017, about one […]
A 57-year-old youth pastor at a baptist church in Santa Ana was arrested in connection with the rape of a 13-year-old girl in a restroom during services, police said. Jonathan Lamont Jenkins, of Riverside, was arrested Tuesday as he walked out of a liquor store in Santa Ana, officials said. He was booked into jail […]
A Tennessee man is facing charges after video surveillance showed him hitting his 6-year-old son. WZTV reports Randy Dickens is jailed on a child abuse/neglect charge. Wilson County deputies were called to a Mt. Juliet home Sunday after the child’s mother, Nia Snow, told police she had surveillance video of Dickens striking the boy multiple times. […]
