Victim, advocates didn’t stay quiet by Christine Ledbetter Quincy, the county seat of Adams County in downstate Illinois, is a quiet town. Here residents vote conservative, prize neighborliness and don’t raise voices. Controversy isn’t courted. But that changed when a ...
A Morgantown man who pleaded guilty of sexual assault and burglary was sentenced today in Monongalia County Circuit Court. Gerald Thomas McCarthy, 58, was sentenced by Circuit Court Judge Cindy Scott to three consecutive 1-to-5-year sentences and a 1-to-15-year sentence. He previously pled ...
A man was charged with second degree sexual assault after he allegedly drugged and assaulted a woman at a residence in Morgantown on Dec. 20. According to a criminal complaint, on Dec. 21, West Virginia State Police Trooper C.E. Smith responded to J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital for a sexual ...
A couple of decades have passed since the girls and women abused by billionaire Jeffrey Epstein went unheard and unheeded. It’s been 10 years since his accusers began a campaign to reopen the case against him. Three years ago, the Miami Herald published its series, Perversion of Justice, ...
MORGANTOWN -- A Morgantown man faces sexual abuse charges after allegedly touching a teenage girl staying the night at his residence. Henry Lee Yoho, 47, has been charged with sexual abuse in the first degree and sexual abuse by a parent, guardian, custodian, or person in a position of ...
by Laura Nielsen How does an adult man who is 6-foot-3, 203 pounds, a first-round NHL draft pick and Stanley Cup winner become a victim of alleged sexual assault by another man? But Kyle Beach’s story shows that physical power does not always prevent sexual assault. The ...