Articles Tagged: Sexual abuse

A judge sentenced a Cedar Rapids man to 30 years for sexually assaulting two children and molesting another child. One girl was under 12 when the abuse started and the others were 12 or 13 years old.

A Cedar Rapids man faces 10 years in prison for sexually abusing a teen over the course of two years. He repeatedly forced himself on her, starting when she was 13-years-old. He pleaded last week before his trial was set to start.

A Cedar Rapids man was sentenced to 22 years for sexually assaulting a child over the course of six years. The child was 6 years old when the abuse started and didn’t end until she was 12 years old.

An Iowa City man was arrested Thursday on a charge of second-degree sexual abuse.

An Oxford, Iowa man has been charged with kidnapping after police say he threatened an Iowa City woman, who had a no contact order against him related to previous charges of assault and sexual abuse, with a knife and forced her to get in her car drive him toward Cedar Rapids on Thursday.

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.