Articles Tagged: Sexual abuse

Lawmakers face April 19 deadline to change the law

The bill, which would temporarily lift limits that would apply to the Boy Scouts, now heads to the Iowa House for consideration. Lawmakers face an April 19 deadline.

Cedar Rapids man, previously convicted for sexual assault in 2021, was sentenced to another 10 years for a 2017 sex assault in Iowa City. He faces two more sex assault trials in June and July.

A Clermont man was arrested Friday on charges that he sexually abused multiple coworkers, including a minor, at a Casey’s in Clermont.

Senate lawmakers advanced a bill Wednesday that would lift Iowa’s statute of limitations on civil claims on sexual abuse to allow survivors of sexual abuse in the Boy Scouts of America to take full advantage of bankruptcy proceedings against the organization.

Unless legislators take action this year to change Iowa law, the estimated roughly 300 to 350 Iowans involved in the settlement will receive a fraction of the awards they would be entitled to.

A Coralville man who was arrested in April 2022 on charges that he sexually abused a 4-year-old child was found not guilty by a jury Monday.

An Iowa City man was arrested over the weekend on a sexual abuse charge after police say he sexually abused a 9-year-old child.

A Cedar Rapids man, already serving 34 years for sexual assault, was convicted Friday for another offense, where he lured or physically took a woman up to a roof of a bar and sexually assaulted her. He faces another 10 years in prison.

A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Thursday on charges that he sexually abused a three-month old child.

A Johnson County jury convicted a North Liberty man of sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl in 2017. He was 16 at the time, but according to court documents, he may have sexually abused the child from the time she was 8 years old.

A Cedar Rapids man, who sexually abused an 11-year-old girl for months in 2020, was sentenced to 25 years in prison. He preyed upon her vulnerabilities and tried to turn her against her parents.

An Iowa Athletics assistant IT director was charged with sending pornographic photos and videos to a girl under 16, along with ‘hundreds’ of messages telling her he wanted to have sex with her.

A woman who is suing two former FIJI members is asking the court to drop a separate lawsuit against a former UI student she accused of video recording the alleged sexual attack.

A judge set a competency hearing for a 4-year-old child who a Coralville man is accused of sexually abusing. Jeffrey Dodds’ trial is set for March 19.