Articles Tagged: Sexual abuse

A Cedar Rapids man was convicted of sexually assaulting a child over the course of three months in 2020. His brother was convicted in August of sexually abusing same victim and a teen.

An Iowa City police sexual assault detective makes victim priority and tries to get best resolution for them, even if an arrest isn’t possible. She wants victims to feel they have been heard and believed.

A Coralville man was arrested Wednesday on charges that he repeatedly sexually abused a 6-year-old child.

The man, who held a knife to a woman’s neck, choked her and tried to smother her with a pillow as he sexually assaulted her, pleaded to third-degree sex abuse and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

A Des Moines man has been charged in Johnson County with third-degree sexual abuse.

A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Saturday on charges that he sexually abused a 14-year-old girl.

Katy Rasmussen took on the role as the sexual assault nurse examiner coordinator to give back to the community and support sexual assault survivors. She leads the UI SANE program, which includes 15 other nurse examiners in Johnson County.

Allen Reynolds, 35, of Harvey, Ill., is accused of twice sexually abusing a woman at a Cedar Rapids apartment when the woman was “unable to give consent due to being asleep and/or intoxicated,” a criminal complaint states.

A 17-year-old from Coralville has been charged with sexual abuse after an Iowa City police officer reportedly witnessed him performing a sexual act in a car with a 13-year-old.

Matthew Jason Manos, 39, also is charged with sexually abusing an adult woman.

A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Thursday on charges that he sexually abused a child multiple times while the child was between 5 and 8 years old.

Criminal penalties increase for several charges that involve Iowa’s most vulnerable — pregnant women and children.

A North Liberty man who was charged in Black Hawk County in May with multiple counts of sexual assault and burglary is now facing similar charges in Johnson County after police say he broke into women’s residences in Cedar Falls, Waterloo and Iowa City and sexually assaulted them, according to a news release from the Iowa City Police Department.

A judge sentenced a North Liberty man to 80 years in prison for 41 counts of sex abuse. The state asked for 125 years in prison but the judge ran some of the 25 year sentences concurrently.

Cedar Rapids man sentenced to 25 years for sexually abusing child when she was 4- and 5-year-old.