Articles Tagged: Sexual abuse

An Iowa City man was arrested Wednesday on a charge that he sexually abused an 8-year-old child.

An Iowa City man was arrested Wednesday on a charge of third-degree sexual abuse of a child, coerced by a person in authority.

Linn County Attorney Nick Maybanks knew the sex abuse cases usually took longer to move through the system, but when he started looking at the data it was more “compelling” than he thought. There are 80 open cases - four have been pending since 2021 and 12 since 2023. He asked the court if they could work together to speed up the process.

A Cedar Rapids man who was charged in 2022 with multiple charges of sexual abuse of three children pleaded Friday and faces up to 30 years in prison.

The father of a woman, who was sexually assaulted in her home in Iowa City three years ago, spoke to her attacker Monday as the man was sentenced to 50 years in prison, on top of the 100 years he is already serving for similar attacks in Black Hawk County.

A Hiawatha man was convicted this week on five charges involving molesting and assaulting a female teen. He faces up to 13 years in prison.

An Iowa City charged earlier this week is now accused in another sex abuse, but this time of a 5-year-old girl. He sexually abused the child in his car. On Tuesday, he was charged with sexually abusing a juvenile in his car.

An Iowa City man contacted a social media account set up by police and pursued a “girl” he believed was 15 years old to meet him for sex. He also sent sexually explicit photos of himself to the account.

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

A Johnson County jury deliberated for two hours Friday before convicting a Chicago man of sexually assaulting an Iowa City woman in 2018. He faces 10 years in prison.

The parents, who set up a video call app on a phone to watch their infant as they went outside, had no idea they would catch a predator sexually abusing their 3-month-old. The abuser was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years in prison.

Iowa House and Senate lawmakers Tuesday advanced bills aiming to — among other things — increase intellectual diversity on the University of Iowa campus and sexual abuse awareness and prevention education in schools, restrict state funds to libraries that are American Library Association members, and allow public schools to offer an elective social studies course on the Bible.

Erin Merryn, who has worked to get similar laws passed in 38 states, testified this week at the Iowa Capitol during a legislative hearing on an Iowa bill

An Iowa City man was arrested Tuesday on charges that he repeatedly paid a 14-year-old girl to meet him for sexual acts.

A Linn County jury took only 90 minutes to convict a Hiawatha man of human trafficking a 17-year-old Dubuque girl. The teen testified last week Jarod Anderson, 35, of Hiawatha, had forced her to have sex with multiple men in May 2024 and also sexually abused her.