Choir volunteer charged with rape
A 30-year-old youth choir volunteer from Bear was arrested Thursday for allegedly engaging in a sexual relationship with a choirboy half her age. That relationship has left Zipporah Holland-Samuels pregnant and the teenager identified as the prospective father, according to court records. New Castle County police charged Holland-Samuels, of the 100
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Boy raped, church member jailed
A 15-year-old boy was invited out of the rain and into a church van for a ride to school Monday morning but was kidnapped and raped instead, according to the Caddo sheriff’s office. Robert James Washington Jr., a member of New Beginnings Faith Tabernacle Baptist Church, was arrested today. The
Del. woman charged with raping teen in church choir
NEW CASTLE — Police have charged a Newark woman with raping a boy who was a member of her church youth choir. Thirty-year-old Zipporah Holland-Samuels was arrested Thursday and taken into custody after failing to post $55,000 secured bail. She is charged with nine counts of fourth-degree rape
Caddo church volunteer face kidnapping/rape charges
CADDO PARISH, LA (KSLA) – The Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office reportedly arrested a Shreveport church volunteer Friday for alleged kidnapping and rape. 34-year-old Robert Washington Jr., was arrested by deputies after a 15-year-old male victim reported the crime to deputies. According to deputies,
Orlando Colon Jr. pleads not guilty to molesting child in synagogue
A Rochester man pleaded not guilty today to charges alleging that he sexually assaulted a girl in an Irondequoit synagogue and exposed himself to four other children. Orlando Colon Jr., 25, is charged in an indictment with a felony of first-degree sexual abuse and four misdemeanor counts of endangering
Temple works on being secure, but welcoming
IRONDEQUOIT — The community at Temple Beth David is trying to use a bad experience to bring about positive change, the temple's president said Friday. Since a man entered the temple Feb. 6 and allegedly exposed himself to several children and sexually abused a 9-year-old girl, the community
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Rapist gets life sentence for attack in Lakewood church
A Lakewood man who beat and sexually assaulted a choir director inside her church has been sentenced to 228-years-to-life in prison. Linwood Richard Halliburton, 45, was sentenced Friday in Golden for the February 2008 attack, according to a media release from the Jefferson County District Attorney's
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Washington Bible school teacher charged with rape
AUBURN, Wash. – A Bible teacher at an Auburn school has been charged with having sex with a 15-year-old student. Auburn Adventist Academy Principal Marvin Mitchell calls it a tragedy. "The situation escalated into something that was unacceptable," he said. Mitchell says the now 16-year-old
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Police: Woman choked, tied to pipe, raped in church basement
SPOKANE — Police are investigating an alleged rape that occurred in the basement of an East Spokane church early Saturday morning. Officers arrested Michael Bosch, 47, around 5:00 a.m. Saturday. He is currently in the Spokane County Jail on First Degree Rape charges. Police say Bosch brought
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Rape alleged at Spokane church
A man is accused of raping a woman early Saturday at a Spokane church where he works. Police arrested Michael J. Bosch, 47, early Saturday after a woman said he attacked her in the basement of Mending Fences Ministry, 1906 E. Sprague, according to court documents. Bosch met the woman on East Sprague
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Investigation continues after church youth volunteer arrested; ex-wife ’shocked’
DOUGLAS COUNTY – Authorities in Douglas County are looking for children who may have had contact with a former youth volunteer accused of having a sexual relationship with a child at his church. Sheriff's deputies say William "Bill" McLaughlin, 45, was arrested in December 2009 and
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Lakeport church youth leader admits sexual battery
A Lake County church youth counselor has pleaded guilty to sexual battery on a 14-year-old girl. Christopher Andrew Puryear, 23, of Kelseyville, faces a sentence that ranges from probation to five years in prison, said Lake County Deputy District Attorney Ed Borg. Puryear was arrested in December after
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Sheriff: Teen Taped Women In Church, Restaurant Bathrooms
DAWSON COUNTY, Ga. — A metro Atlanta teenager is accused of using his cell phone to videotape women in area restrooms, said investigators with the Dawson County Sheriff’s Office. Investigators said David Gormley, 17, simply hit the record button and then hid the phone in at least three women’s
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Church volunteer suspected of voyeurism
EDMONDS, Wash. – A church volunteer is under investigation for voyeurism at one of the north end's largest churches. A person attending Westgate Chapel claims a volunteer had been taking potentially compromising photos. "They were very distraught. Their hearts were broken and they believed
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Sex offender charged with fondling girl, 11, at church
A sex offender who was released from prison in April has been charged with fondling an 11-year-old girl in a Southwest Baltimore church, according to court records. Police said Rodney Earl Key, 46, was in St. James Church's sanctuary in the 200 block of S. Augusta Ave. on Sunday when he put the
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