Articles Tagged: Sexual abuse

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.

According to a criminal complaint, the child reported that the 17-year-old took the child to a residence in Iowa City where they engaged in a sex act.

Chemical castration uses medications that block testosterone production to decrease sex drive. Surgical castration is a much more invasive procedure.

A former assistant Linn-Mar track coach pleaded Thursday to sexually abusing a 17-year-old male student and a 15-year-old male student in 2021. He faces up to 14 years in prison.

An Iowa City man was charged this week with sexually abusing multiple children between 2021 and 2023.