Articles Tagged: Sexual abuse

A Hiawatha man was arrested Sunday on charges that he sexually abused a 9-year-old child at his residence in Hiawatha.

An Anamosa man was arrested Thursday in Linn County, accused of sexually abusing a child while living in Cedar Rapids in 2017.

A judge ruled to move a teen, accused of sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl, to the Johnson County Jail, pending a bed becoming available at the Linn County Juvenile Center. He will be kept away from the adult inmates. He was moved from the juvenile facility in Cherokee because of “assaultive” behavior.

A Des Moines man was sentenced to 20 years for sexually abusing a 4-year-old girl between 2021 and 2023. Her parents gave heart-wrenching statements, telling the judge of the long-lasting harm he caused.

Delbert Dean Grimm, 80, faces two counts of second-degree sexual abuse.

A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Sunday on charges that he sexually abused a 4-year-old girl in June.

An Iowa City man has been charged with second-degree sexual abuse after police say he enticed two girls under age 13 into a residence and sexually abused one of them.

An Anamosa Middle School gym teacher resigned last week after being charged with sexual exploitation of a 15-year-old student in 2014. The district’s superintendent said his resignation was accepted by the board Monday.

Linn and Johnson county prosecutors say the Iowa Supreme Court’s ruling that defendants must be able to confront witnesses face-to-face may impact some sexual abuse cases involving kids because they may no longer be allowed to testify outside of the courtroom.

“You are not the victim here,” a judge told a former Linn-Mar assistant track coach after Kameron Beets said his life had been “shattered.” by the sex abuse charges against him. Beets was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

A Cedar Rapids man, charged in four separate Iowa City sexual assaults, pleaded to a lesser charge in one, with another charge dropped along with a drug charge, as part of plea agreement. He pleaded to a second drug charge and faces another five years in prison. He was previously sentenced to 44 years for two other sexual assaults.

A Marion man was arrested last week on charges that he sexually abused a child continually between September 2020 and May 2023.

Two people were arrested Thursday on human trafficking charges after police say they brought a minor from Dubuque to Cedar Rapids and forced her into prostitution.

An Iowa City man was arrested Monday on charges that he sexually abused a child at least fifteen times between December 2021 and February 2023.

A Cedar Rapids man was arrested this weekend on charges that he sexually abused a 10-year-old in April.