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CPS worker choked, beaten while checking on infant
   HOUSTON - A Child Protective Services case worker remains hospitalized after she was attacked while investigating a report of an abused baby. The baby's parents and a friend beat and choked the 23 year old woman until she lost consciousness. Case worker Stephanie Vera went to the Somerset Apartments check on the well being of a one year old infant. Vera was trying to arrange to have a relative take custody of the baby while the parents were being evaluated. During that discussion, the baby's father, identified as Troy Davis, 21, became angry, grabbed Vera and locked the apartment's front door. Davis punched Vera in the head, then grabbed her by the throat, and slammed her against a wall. During the struggle, Vera managed to dial 911, but the call was cut short when Davis grabbed the phone. Davis continued to choke her until she lost consciousness, while Davis’s friend, Shane Hensworth Douglas, 21 allegedly threatened Vera with a knife. The baby's mother, Karissa Marie Ferringno, 19, allegedly looked on during the confrontation. Vera was rescued by Houston Police officers who responded to her 911 call. They arrested Davis, Douglas and Ferrigno. All three were charged with aggravated assault and aggravated kidnapping. Vera remains hospitalized with injuries to her head and neck. |
A judge sentenced Mohammed Mukhtar on Tuesday to serve eight years in prison for breaking into a Portland woman’s apartment as she slept and raping her, saying the 18-year-old shows “no prospect for rehabilitation.” “This was a terrible assault on a sleeping, helpless victim,” Judge Richard Mulhern said. Mukhtar, who had sought to be tried as a juvenile rather than an adult, listened to the judge’s words through a Somali interpreter. He showed no reaction other than occasionally wiping his hands over his face as a photographer tried to take his picture. Mukhtar came to the U.S. as a boy from war-torn Somalia and now faces deportation after his release. The judge also ordered him to register as a lifetime sex offender.
A 19-year-old man has been arrested for raping two young girls, according to police documents. Larry Baymon was arrested Monday and charged with rape of a child and statutory rape. According to the police affidavit, Baymon raped a 
GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- Rederick Melton, one of five people charged in last year's brutal rape of one college student and beating of others, has pleaded guilty to multiple charges. The plea, made on the day Melton was set for trial, marks the last suspect in the case to admit guilt. Now, all four adults -- Melton, 21; Dorian Jones, 21: James Hodges, 20; and Brandon Towns, 26 -- are set to be sentenced May 29. Like the other suspects, Melton pleaded guilty to multiple counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and armed robbery, as well as home invasion.
A former Providence Police officer convicted of rape in 2010 will appeal his sentence before the Rhode Island Supreme Court Tuesday. Marcus Huffman, 40, was convicted in 2010 of raping a woman he picked up outside a Providence Club while on duty. A Judge sentenced Huffman to 40-years in prison for his actions. Huffman picked up the woman who was intoxicated and physically helpless and offered her a ride home. Instead he brought her to a police substation and raped her on the bathroom floor. 
A Gainesville man was being held in jail without bond following his arrest by police on charges including rape. Oakwood Police Investigator Danny Sridej said "He's facing a rape charge and multiple charges that have been added on," Sridej added. 32 year old Ramon Morgan also faces charges of aggravated sodomy, misdemeanor sexual battery and exploitation of an elderly person, according to jail records.
Indicted Assemblyman Eric Stevenson rode off from court in a shiny black Mercedes-Benz sedan yesterday — after telling a judge he didn’t have enough money to defend himself against bribery charges. The Bronx Democrat didn’t detail his finances in Manhattan federal court but later said he was strapped for cash, despite getting paid a base salary of $79,500 a year to represent the impoverished Morrisania section. He’s accused of pocketing more than $20,000 in cash and campaign contributions.
With “extreme arrogance and hubris,” a Brooklyn state senator who held one of the most powerful posts in Albany embezzled nearly half a million dollars of escrow money he was entrusted to safeguard — and then used a mole inside the US Attorney’s Office to keep tabs on witnesses who threatened to expose his scheme, authorities said yesterday. Sen. John Sampson (D-Canarsie) turned himself in to feds in Brooklyn yesterday and was charged with embezzlement, obstruction of justice and witness tampering, among other charges that could put him away for up to 120 years. 
Chicago police are investigating a reported rape that happened in broad daylight on the North Side last week. A 22-year-old woman says she was waiting in a bus shelter on Clark Street near Devon Avenue last Thursday afternoon when a man grabbed her by the neck, forced her into a nearby alley and sexually attacked her. Police have issued a community alert with a sketch of the suspect, who was a male black, 35-40 years old, 5 feet, 8 inches and 300 pounds. 
Opening arguments are expected to begin Monday morning in the trial of a Mason man accused of raping a young child with a screwdriver. Patrick Parker, 49, is charged with two first-degree felony counts of rape and two counts of gross sexual imposition, third-degree felonies. Prosecutors say Parker used a screwdriver and his fingers to sexually assault a child he was acquainted with under the age of 10 between July 2007 and June 2009. The alleged crimes were reported about a year later, according to court documents.
A woman who found a naked man holding a crack pipe in her apartment was brutally attacked and repeatedly bitten late last week, authorities say. Ronald McGruder, 55, is being held on $1 million bail in jail in connection with the attack last Thursday. McGruder, was charged with home invasion, aggravated battery, unlawful restraint and unlawful possession of a controlled substance. His victim is a woman in her early 60s. She fought off her attacker and managed to run out of her apartment. She was treated at a hospital for numerous bite wounds. 
An HIV-positive Chicago man was ordered held in lieu of $5 million bail Sunday for allegedly sodomizing a male teenager after the victim refused to have sex for money. Kevin T. Miller, 48, was charged with criminal sexual assault in the incident, which took place Saturday. Miller and a 16-year-old were at a mutual acquaintance's home Saturday in the same building where Miller lives. Miller offered the teen $100 for sex but the teen refused and went to the bathroom. He followed the victim into the bathroom and grabbed him, Dibler said. They struggled, Miller pulled down the victim's pants and sodomized him.
Just after a family speaks out about the gruesome murder of a loved one, a suspect is arrested. Olmsted Township Police report that one arrest has been made in connection with the murder of 
A Des Moines woman is accused of hiring out a 16-year-old girl in a prostitution business. Twenty-year-old Brittany Lanier is charged with pimping, pandering, prostitution and human trafficking. Police say the 16-year-old offered an undercover officer sexual services. Lanier was previously convicted of prostitution in 2011 and earlier this year.
CINCINNATI - A man already serving time for the death of his girlfriend, could face 40 more years in prison, if convicted of raping a 
A 47-year-old Hastings man pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a St. Catherine’s student last November. Louis Richard Oliver pleaded guilty to first-degree sexual conduct in Hennepin County District Court. He is expected to be sentenced to more than 21 years in prison as part of a plea agreement. The sexual assault happened on Nov. 19, 2012, when the student was walking to a St. Catherine’s building near Minneapolis’ Riverside Park. Oliver approached the student, demanded money and took her to a wooded area, claiming he had a gun. Oliver stole the student’s backpack, wallet, credit cards, hit her in the face, and sexually assaulted her before she could escape and get help.
A trail of blood down a sidewalk, in a lobby and elevator led Detroit police to the doorstep of an elderly, disabled man who was charged in connection with a grisly dismemberment. Alphonso Douglas Jackson, 72, of Detroit, was charged with disinterment of a body, tampering with evidence and concealing the death of a person. When the police entered his apartment it is alleged the dismembered body of a woman was found in Jackson’s bathroom. Jackson, who reportedly uses a wheelchair, was placed under arrest. 
44 year old Clifford Smith was arrested last Sunday for allegedly attacking a woman after she ate the last piece of chicken at a dinner. Smith became extremely upset after the woman, who was in fact, wheelchair-bound, ate the last piece of chicken.Several people were in attendance at the dinner where the incident took place in Pacolet, South Carolina. After Smith yelled that he wanted the last piece of chicken, hit the woman, smashed a beer bottle against the wall, then proceeded to choke her. The woman attempted to call 911, but Smith took her cell phone and smashed it.
An officer responding to a call about a suspicious person at a 7-Eleven on Wednesday about 12:30 a.m. later identified as Daylen E. Holloman. The cop asked the man, "What do you know?' To which Hollomon replied, "I know I'm a monkey." Hollomon continued to undress until he was naked as a jaybird in the presence of customers at the convenience store, the report stated. The cop grew weary of Holloman's monkey business and took him into custody.
Ga. — Police say an attack that left three men battered was racially motivated. John Willis appears before a judge to face charges of aggravated assault and armed robbery, but detectives said the reason for the attack was not the money in the victims’ wallets. The men were walking last month when they were attacked. “I think they were very lucky that one or more of them did not end up getting killed,” Sgt. John Sweat of the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office said. “They instantly saw three white guys and started yelling,” the victim said. He said he and two friends had just cut through a woodline and were walking when they heard insults from a nearby duplex. “They were yelling that this was their street, ‘This is our street, crackers. What do you have in your pockets, crackers? This is our street,’” the victim said. The victim said the group just kept on walking until they got to the end of the street and they were attacked. A fugitive taskforce arrested Willis, 32, at the duplex. Investigators said they found a shotgun and evidence linking Willis to the crime when they arrested him. Deputies said at least one more arrest is expected. 
NASHVILLE, TN - A jury has convicted the man accused of killing an elderly woman in her home in 1979. Freddie Lee Johnson, 61, was indicted in February 2012 on a charge of first-degree murder in the death of 
A 34-year-old Milford man wanted in connection with a February 2012 sexual assault turned himself in on Friday, Milford police said in a release this morning. Emanus Dieudonne was charged with first-degree rape, first-degree unlawful imprisonment, third-degree assault and offensive touching in connection with the incident on Feb. 22, 2012. Detective Dwight young said that during the investigation, detectives discovered that Dieudonne had held the 25-year-old female victim against her will in a Milford residence and had forced her to engage in sexual acts before allowing her to leave.
PORTLAND, Ore. - A 63-year-old man is accused of sexually assaulting two homeless women in downtown Portland and police want to know if there are more victims who haven't come forward. Ladell Hill was taken into custody and is scheduled to be in court on charges of first-degree rape and first-degree sodomy. The trouble for Hill began when officers responded to a report of a sexual assault. The victim, a 22-year-old woman, had locked herself in a Portland Loo. Investigators quickly determined that Ladell Hill was their suspect and they arrested him in the area the same day. They believe he also sexually assaulted a 27-year-old woman.
EAST HARTFORD, CT - A man was arrested after he was accused of offering a 13-year-old $20 for sex. Police received a complaint that a man tried to solicit sex from child. After an investigation by police, Rodney Hicks, 63, was arrested and was charged with risk of injury to a minor and disorderly conduct.
Lamar Fields was convicted in March of the rape and robbery of a 17-year-old girl and her 65-year-old mother, was sentenced to life in prison plus 40 years. Fields, 42, was found guilty of aggravated sexual assault, criminal sexual contact, child abuse, terroristic threats, burglary, robbery and weapons offenses relating to the early morning attack. On the morning of Sept. 24, 2010, Fields entered the victims' home through the back door and brutally assaulted the daughter and her mother for roughly 30 minutes. Fields was given a life sentence and two consecutive 20-year sentences in the crime. 
A man is arrested after barricading himself in an apartment and attempting to rape a woman, Oklahoma City police said. Officers rushed to an apartment complex early Friday morning to find a woman screaming for help.
According to police, a man burst into her apartment, barricaded the door, then attacked the woman with a knife. He then attempted to rape her, investigators said. Officers said they saw Dominic Fitzgerald Polk, 39, and the victim through a hole in the wall.
A cab driver has been charged with raping a 23-year-old woman he picked up. 
Ore. – A Salem man walked into the Marion County Jail on Thursday morning and confessed to sexually abusing a young girl. Eddie Luter, 35, told a deputy at the jail that he had been sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl who lived with him and his wife. The girl had been staying with Luter and his wife since 2010 while her parents live and work in Micronesia. Luter told deputies that the assaults began in January of this year and continued through March. Luter confessed that the assaults happened while his wife was at work and that she was not aware of his actions. After the confession, deputies tracked down the girl who confirmed the abuse and provided more details. The victim said she didn’t report anything because she feared for her own safety. Luter was arrested on six counts of rape and six counts of sexual abuse 
A mother-of-six charged with murder in her baby's starvation death at a Philadelphia homeless shelter has become "a scapegoat" for the alleged failings of social workers, doctors and city officials, a defense lawyer told jurors Thursday. Tanya Williams, 34, is charged in the death of two-month-old twin 
Krystina Woods and Jakita Hollins have been arrested and are facing felony charges for encouraging the children they take care of to beat another small child, video tape and then aledgely publish it on the internet. The suspects video taped a small toddler approximately 2 years old being beat up by other children at the day care center. In that video it shows multiple children stomping on the victim, hitting, slapping, kicking and jumping on the victim. Based on the video you can hear the suspects laughing and encouraging the children along. The victim was not seriously injured during this and was taken in for medical treatment.
A St. Louis judge issued a life sentence to a 20-year-old man for the April 2011 death of a Vietnamese immigrant, who died as a result of injuries sustained in an unprovoked attack authorities called the "knockout game." Elex Murphy was convicted of second-degree murder, first-degree assault and two counts of armed criminal action for the attack on 
A man is arrested after barricading himself in an apartment and attempting to rape a woman, Oklahoma City police said. Officers rushed to an apartment complex in the 900 block of North Kentucky Avenue early Friday morning to find a woman screaming for help. According to police, a man burst into her apartment, barricaded the door, then attacked the woman with a knife. He then attempted to rape her, investigators said. Officers said they saw Dominique Fitzgerald Polk, 39, and the victim through a hole in the wall.
A grand jury has added to the legal woes of a former football standout at Spanish Fort High School. Deon "D.J." Johnson, 19, was arrested in 2012 on charges in two rape cases. The grand jury indicted Johnson earlier this month on charges in those two cases and in a third case in which he is charged with first-degree rape. Johnson's legal troubles began Sept. 6 when he was arrested on charges of second-degree rape and second-degree sodomy. He is accused of having sex with the girls by "forcible compulsion". 
A nursing home resident with an extensive criminal history is accused of raping another resident inside her room this week. Edward C. White, 57, was booked into the Hamilton County jail Thursday night on one count of rape. White has an extensive criminal record dating back at least 30 years in Hamilton County. He has been charged with four violent felonies including attempted murder, four other felonies and 13 misdemeanors, court records show.
A 23-year-old Gwinnett County man is accused of luring women into a vacant apartment, where he sexually assaults them at gunpoint. Police know who the suspect is and where he lives. But so far, they haven’t been able to find him. Sivonda allegedly hires female escorts online and then arranges the meetings. “When these escorts show up at the designated location, he produces a hand gun and immediately holds them at gun point, robs them and sexually assaults them.” . “He’s done that in three cases that we know about. We suspect that he’s done it even more than this.” The latest victim came forward Monday, according to police. 
A birthday celebration gone horribly wrong resulted in a Poinciana man being jailed on rape and other charges, the Osceola County Sheriff's Office said Thursday. Matthew Ramos said he and a woman got into an argument Wednesday, his 24th birthday, and she threw his birthday cake at him. He also said he held her down to get her to stop hitting him, deputies said.
Wake County sheriff's deputies have charged a 23-year-old Raleigh resident with first-degree rape and taking indecent liberties with a child in incidents stemming from 2011 and 2012. William Reginald Durham was arrested at his home Thursday afternoon, an online arrest report states. According to arrest warrants, the rape charge and one of the counts of indecent liberties involved a girl under 13 and happened in March and April 2011. The other charge of taking indecent liberties involved a girl under 16 last November, a warrant says. 
INDIANAPOLIS - A former assistant principal at Washington Community High School is set to be released from jail Friday, the same day he was sentenced to 30 days in jail after an inappropriate relationship with a 16-year-old girl. Corey Greenwood, 41, who also served as the district's athletic director, pleaded guilty two weeks ago to one count of child seduction and one count of obstruction of justice. Greenwood was originally charged with five counts of child seduction and two counts of obstruction of justice after police said he had five sexual encounters with the victim over a two-week period last year, including one in his school office. 
Police are looking for a man who allegedly assaulted two young girls in separate incidents in Queens. Both attacks happened in South Ozone Park within a few hours of each other. In the first incident, the suspect followed two sisters, ages 7 and 12, as they walked home from school, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said. When the younger girl bent down to tie her shoe, the suspect grabbed her buttocks and walked off mumbling. Around 6 p.m. Wednesday, a man fitting the same denoscription of the suspect in the earlier incident forced a 7-year-old girl, who had hopped over a fence to retrieve a basketball, to commit a sex act.
A total of four Morehouse College athletes have been arrested and charged in connection with two separate sexual assaults. Report of the incidents – and the possibility that one involved the illicit party drug, “Molly” – cast a cloud over a prestigious college set to host President Barack Obama as its graduation speaker later this month. Three of the students were charged in an alleged on-campus incident prior to spring break. The fourth was charged in a different case off campus that was reported in March. According to Fulton County Jail records,
DNA evidence helped catch him, and now Lonnie White admitted he snatched a woman off the street in the middle of the day and raped her. White pleaded guilty to rape and robbery and was immediately sentenced to 18 years. In exchange, the prosecutor dropped 6 other charges. In January, White attacked a woman as she walked to a bus stop in the West End. He got out of prison three weeks before that, after serving a two year robbery sentence. Gloves which White left at the scene linked him to the victim. 
A Jacksonville man has been accused of multiple rapes in the area and is a suspect in several more. Willie Abner Brown, 36, a custodian, was charged with six counts of first-degree rape, five counts of robbery with a dangerous weapon, four counts of first-degree sexual offense, three counts of first-degree burglary, two counts of second-degree kidnapping and one count each of first-degree kidnapping, attempted first-degree rape, felony breaking and entering, and assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury. Brown is also accused of using a knife to threaten a woman occupying the residence, kidnapping her and raping her more than once. He’s also accused of breaking into a residence near Louise Avenue and raping a woman more than once. Brown is also accused of kidnapping and raping a third woman more than once. . 
A judge on Tuesday scheduled a hearing April 29 to determine whether a man is mentally fit to stand trial. He is accused of beating a married couple and raping their
Police accuse a 40-year-old man of breaking into a house and sexually assaulting a 64-year-old woman, a police spokesman said. 
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A Lindenwold man convicted of murder after he admitted to killing his ex-girlfriend and leaving their young son alone with the body must receive a new trial, an appellate court ruled Friday. Troy Whye, 42, has been serving a life sentence for the slaying of 22-year-old 
St. Petersburg, Florida -- Police have finally caught the man wanted in connection with a drug deal gone bad that resulted in a woman -- caught in the crossfire -- being dropped off at the hospital where she later died. Detectives have been looking for Morris Hires since March 18 when they identified him as a suspect in the shooting that led to 
A 39-year-old man is accused of recruiting three teenagers and forcing them to have sex for money over a three-day period in April. Anton Morris was charged with two counts of sexual trafficking of a child and sexual exploitation. On April 15 Morris met a 16-year-old girl online and lured her into prostitution. Police said he then advertised sex with the girl through various social media outlets. Later he talked the teen into recruiting a 19-year-old girl into prostitution. The next day Morris convinced the 19-year-old to recruit a 17-year-old into joining them. Morris took them to a motel and, after three days of performing sex acts for money, he brought the girls to his home. When Morris later fell asleep, the 17-year-old and 19-year-old escaped through a bedroom window and called police. Authorities responded and found the two girls, who said they had been held by Morris against their will. Police said officers went to Morris’ home and arrested him. They also found the 16-year-old, who had still been in his house. 
A man is accused of hitting a woman with a hammer and trying to rape her during a burglary. Daniel Lee, 34, was charged with first-degree burglary, attempted forcible rape, first-degree assault, armed criminal action, felonious restraint, stealing a motor vehicle and second-degree attempted assault on a law enforcement officer. Lee went to the victim’s home and stole an unknown number of coins. Police said during the burglary, Lee hit her with a hammer, causing facial and head injuries. Authorities said he also attempted to rape the victim. Authorities said Lee then fled the home in the victim’s 2007 Buick LaCrosse. Police said Lee was apprehended on April 26. During the arrest, authorities said he attempted to grab a firearm from an officer’s holster.
The Williamson County Fugitive Task Force has arrested a Mark Anthony Rabadan, who was wanted on multiple counts of sexually assaulting a child. The task force arrested Rabadan early Wednesday at the Super 8 Motel at I-35 and Rundberg Ln after receiving a tip. Rabadan was taken into custody without incident. Rabadan is charged with continuous sexual abuse of a child, a 1st degree felony and sexual assault of a child, 2nd degree felony. 
A heartless coward threw his girlfriend’s dachshund puppy to its death out of their sixth-story window after an argument in their West 129th Street apartment. “I don’t care about the dog,” Keith Rogers, a 27-year-old violent felon, told cops, according to a criminal complaint charging him with aggravated cruelty to animals. “It’s $1,300. I’ll buy a new one,” he allegedly told cops. “I don’t give a f--k about the dog.” Rogers was ordered held in lieu of $25,000 bail yesterday after prosecutors detailed the case against him, which includes a witness’s 911 call. Witnesses told cops they saw the 6-month-old dog lying dead in a pool of blood.