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.
An Iowa City man, who was previously convicted for enticing a minor, was sentenced to 10 years for enticing minors and sexually abusing one girl under the age of 13. The judge ran the recent sentence consecutively to his previous five-year sentence.
A North Liberty man was arrested Monday on charges that he sexually abused a 15-year-old.
The trial of a former Marion man accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting a child between 2018 and 2021 has been bumped for the 11th time. This case is one of numerous Linn County sexual abuse cases that have been lingering in the system for more than a year.
An 18-year-old from Des Moines was arrested Friday in Linn County on charges that he abused two children while he was living in Cedar Rapids a few years ago.
A 23-year-old Cedar Rapids man pleaded to lesser charges for sexually abusing a girl since she was 6 years old. The abuse continued until she was 12 years old. He faces up to 22 years in prison.
A Chicago man was sentenced in Johnson County court Tuesday to 10 years in prison on a charge of third-degree sexual assault.
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