On January 17, 22-year-old Brandon W. Payne was arraigned on charges of sexual assault. Payne pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct against someone under the age of 13 and against a relative according to news reports at Mlive.com. He is accused of sexually assaulting a…
On Friday January 17, Alfidio Benitez Cruz was arrested for alleged sexual assault after his own 4-year-old son was found wandering alone in his Grand Rapids neighborhood. Police responded to Cruz’s home after a passing motorist found his son in the area of Buchanan Avenue and Griggs Street SW, crying…
In October of this year, Bradley Aldrich was charged with multiple sex offenses according to Examiner.com. Aldrich, who is 30 years old, was a volunteer coach for the Houghton High School hockey team according to Uppermichiganssource.com. The Examiner claims Aldrich was the assistant coach, and that he was suspended indefinitely…
Ashley Poe, a 19-year-old Ann Arbor resident, was recently sentenced in the Washtenaw County Trial Court to 10 to 15 years in prison for allegedly sexually assaulting an “at-risk runaway,” according to news reports at Mlive.com. Poe pleaded guilty; she allegedly assaulted the boy just two weeks after her release…
Derrick Conway, a 50-year-old Saginaw man, has been charged with sexually assaulting a mentally handicapped woman from April to June of this year, according to a news article at Mlive.com. Conway, who was charged with five counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, underwent examination to determine if he is mentally…
On Tuesday December 3, 38-year-old Thabet Mahdi Saleh of Grand Rapids pleaded guilty to soliciting young girls for sex using Facebook, according to a news article at Mlive.com. Because of his guilty plea, Saleh could escape serving prison time. Saleh agreed to a plea deal in which two charges would…
In September, we wrote about 44-year-old William Meni, a Gwinn man who had been charged with eight counts for the alleged sexual abuse of three children who were younger than 13 years old at the time the sexual abuse occurred. The alleged sexual assaults took place in 1995 & 1996,…
Robert Messer, a 37-year-old father of two, was recently charged with numerous counts of criminal sexual conduct in connection with a 15-year-old Plymouth girl who went missing in October. Messer, of Salem Township, is divorced from his wife, who testified at a probable cause hearing on Friday. Messer and the…
Kevin Eugene Dengel is a man called “arrogant” in news articles, a former paraprofessional for Grand Rapids Public Schools accused of six counts of criminal sexual conduct. Dengel allegedly touched the buttocks and breasts of two 13-year-old eighth graders during his tenure at Sherwood Park Global Studies Academy, according to…
In June of this year, 47-year-old William P. Reehl of Bay City allegedly raped a woman after the two, who had met a couple of days earlier, went to a Monitor Township motel to get high on crack. The alleged victim said that she had been “clean” for several months,…