Articles Tagged: Sexual abuse

U.S. marshals arrested a 27-year-old man wanted in Johnson and Mitchell counties on charges of third-degree sexual abuse. He is jailed in Chicago, awaiting extradition to Iowa.

Judge: Victim and her family favored that plea

A West Liberty School District guidance counselor has been charged with sexually abusing a minor student.

Judge lowers bail for a former Linn-Mar track coach charged with sexually abusing two male students. Bail was lowered from $65,000 to $30,000 and only 10 percent has to be paid to be released.

After at least six incidents of misconduct since the fall of 2017 – including two this academic year – the University of Iowa has suspended its campus chapter of the popular Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity for at least four academic years.

FERTILITY FRAUD: The House voted 90-5 to approve HF 2160 to establish a crime of fourth-degree sexual abuse when a …

A proposal to create up to 48 psychiatric residencies at state institutions as part of a large package of legislation to increase mental health access across Iowa was unanimously approved by the House Appropriations Committee Tuesday.

The three proposed bills by the Iowa County Attorneys Association will close “loopholes” in existing laws and provide more protection for adult and child sex abuse victims, Linn County Attorney Nick Maybanks said.

A federal judge’s ruling makes it easier for potential victims to join a class-action lawsuit against the Iowa Barnstormers and a former youth basketball coach convicted of secretly recording naked players.

A Coralville man was convicted Monday of sexually abusing a 15-year-old girl. He faces up to 10 years in prison. He plans to ask for a deferred judgment - meaning no prison time, only probation.

Judge denies new lawyer for Logan Isaac, 30, charged with kidnapping, sex assault after he doesn’t show up for hearing. Isaac also faces assault charges for resisting and punching police officers.

Robin Alejandro Castillo Fuentes of Coralville was sentenced to five years in prison for molesting a 12-year-old for over a year. The child and her mother gave statements during the sentencing.

After a 30-minute conversation about work, when the woman turned to exit, Shannon Siems reached out and flicked her breast, the complaint stated. She then yelled at him and tried to walk out but he grabbed her from behind in a bear hug and tried to spin her "onto a nearby dirty futon."

Iowa City man who sexually assaulted two girls, ages 9 and 12, in 2019 was sentenced to life in prison without parole. He cursed at the judge and threatened the girls’ mother during the hearing.

A former Four Oaks counselor sentenced for sex abuse of 14-year-old boy will also be on the sex offender registry for 10 years and serve a lifetime sentence on parole.