On Monday November 19, 32-year-old Bowen Wall, a former Albion music teacher, was sentenced to a minimum of two years in prison on a charge of third-degree criminal sexual conduct. Wall allegedly had sex with a 15-year-old student between May 12 and May 19, and was charged in September. Wall…
Manual Antonio Alvarado-Espino, a 32-year-old El Salvador man, has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman at Charlie Kang’s Restaurant in East Lansing. Police were dispatched to the restaurant, located at 127 E. Grand River Avenue, at about 10:50 p.m. on Sunday, November 4th after receiving a 911 call…
Leonard Richey, a 51-year-old Kalamazoo County resident, was arrested on Thursday October 25th by Michigan State Police, who say he committed sex crimes in Forest Township in 1990 and 1991. Richey was charged with four counts of criminal sexual conduct. Police began investigating Richey in early 2010, after one of…
William Begley, a Michigan man who is a registered sex offender and who has been behind bars for the majority of the last 18 years on sex charges, is causing a stir in his Edgewood, Kentucky neighborhood. It seems that Begley lives in close proximity to a park and a…
A former Lansing pediatric dentist, 65-year-old Dr. Wendell Racette, was convicted on August 24 on 15 counts of criminal sexual conduct for the sexual assault of a child who was a patient more than 10 years ago. Racette was found guilty of 10 counts of second degree CSC and 5…
In May of this year, 22-year-old Luciano Martinez pleaded guilty to two charges of criminal sexual conduct in the third degree. Martinez, an illegal immigrant, will likely be deported after he was convicted of the charges in a Cass County court. The charges were filed after it was revealed that…
Michigan news reports that a Saginaw County criminal sexual misconduct preliminary hearing has been delayed. The case involves two teenaged boys arrested for allegedly engaging in sexual activity with a 14-year-old girl while the three were in highschool together at Saginaw Township’s Heritage Highschool. The two are charged with third…
The Michigan Senate has just approved a new teacher/student sex provision aimed at expanding prohibitions against sex between school employees and students. The legislation passed by the Senate in a 36-2 vote Tuesday makes it a crime for school employees such as administrators and teachers to have sex with students,…
Michigan news reports that a Berrien Springs massage therapist and former pastor has pleaded guilty to two counts of fourth-degree sexual assault. The Berrien County sex crime charges stem from an incident where Johan Albert Abrahams of St Joseph allegedly inappropriately touched a woman’s breast and thigh. WSBT news reveals…
Central Michigan Life news reports that the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Uniform Crime Unit has recently changed its definition of forcible rape to include males as victims, updating the definition and bringing it more in line with Michigan’s model law. The new law does not distinguish between genders and…