Articles Tagged: Sexual abuse

An Iowa State University student is accused of cyberstalking and soliciting others online to “rape and stalk” UI students, other women and teens. He faces three federal charges and will remain in jail pending trial.

The 81-year-old man who sexually abused two children, ages 5 and 6, pleaded to lesser charges.

A Waterloo man was arrested this week in Johnson County on charges that he sexually abused a child 13 years ago, when he was a teen.

An Iowa City couple and their son have been arrested after a police investigation into two massage parlors owned by the couple, where police say employees were providing sex acts to clients.

A Linn County jury deliberated over two hours before convicting an 18-year-old of sexually abusing three children over the course of two years. The three girls, who are sisters, testified he threatened to kill them and another of their siblings if they disclosed the abuse.

A Marion man was arrested Friday on charges that he sexually abused a 12-year-old child in the parking lot of Westfield Elementary School in Robins in July.

A Dubuque teen said her being held against her will and being repeatedly sexually assaulted by various men will “leave my memory and haunt me day and night.” Her statement was read during her abuser’s sentencing. Jarod Anderson was sentenced to life in prison for human trafficking a minor in 2024.

A Cedar Rapids man was convicted Tuesday for sexually abusing a teen 19 years ago. Sex abuse cases have no statute of limitations in Iowa. The woman, as a 30-year-old, reported the repeated abuse to police in 2022.

A former Marion man, set to go to trial last month, pleaded to lesser charges in sexually abusing a child for over three years. His trial had been continued 11 times since 2021.

A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Thursday on charges that he sexually abused a five-year-old child.

Long before his banishment from gymnastics and arrest in Iowa after accusations he abused girls he coached, warning signs about Sean Gardner were coming from several directions — his former boss, his gymnasts and their parents.

The 18-year-old is heading into her freshman year at Iowa State University, where she’ll be a member of the Cyclones gymnastics team. She spoke with the AP on Wednesday, less than a week after Sean Gardner was arrested on a child sexual exploitation charge.

The U.S. gymnastics world was only just recovering from a devastating sexual abuse scandal when a promising young coach moved from Mississippi to Iowa to take a job in 2018 at an elite academy known for training Olympic champions.

A serial sexual abuse convict from Cedar Rapids, who in 2021 was sentenced to 12 years in prison after convictions in two sexual abuse cases, has now been charged with sexually assaulting a child back in 2014.

A Cedar Rapids man was charged last week with multiple counts of sexual abuse after police say he sexually abused a girl when she was younger than 12 and again when she was 13.