Sexual Offenses

Rape prosecution story: Denver DA, 7News trade inaccuracy charges

Yesterday, we reported about 7News' story on the rate of sex-assault prosecutions under Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey, whose on-camera ripping of reporter Keli Rabon was included online; see our original coverage below. Since then, the tensions between the DA's office and the station hav ... More >>

Richard Howard Craft, ex-pastor and current schmuck, sentenced for child porn

In some ways, it's appropriate that Richard Howard Craft, a disgraced former Greeley pastor, was sentenced to federal prison on April Fools' Day. Then again, "fool" is too mild a term for Craft given what he's admitted to doing. And frankly, "schmuck" doesn't really cut it, either, although it'll d ... More >>

Lynne Freeman, school volunteer, sentenced for sexually assaulting daughter's teen pal in a closet

What the hell's going on in Weld County? The same week teacher Rhonda Eisenberg pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting an underage student, and bearing his child, Greeley mom Lynne Freeman has been sentenced for the sexual assault of not one but two teens. Scene of the first incident that came to th ... More >>

Diamond Lucero allegedly celebrated his birthday by molesting two kids

This month, Greeley's Diamond Lucero turned twenty -- and if police reports are accurate, the event marking that milestone was memorable in all the wrong ways. Lucero is accused of molesting two children under age ten during a party in his honor.

Richard Holman gets 48 years after giving hickeys and worse to ten-year-old boy

Richard Holman's August 2011 arrest wasn't the first in which he was accused of sexually assaulting a child -- but it may be his last. The 51 year old seen in this ultra-disturbing mug shot (a larger version is below) has been sentenced to 48 years behind bars for a crime that started with hickeys ... More >>

Jon Christopher Baker's alleged child porn stash: 30,000 photos, 1,400 videos

A lot of us have hard drives crammed to bursting with photos and videos. But even by those standards, Jon Christopher Baker's array of images stands out. One computer apparently stored 30,000 photos and 1,400 videos. Oh yeah: The collection allegedly consisted of child pornography.

Cody Charlton sentenced for improperly touching kids at his mom's home daycare

The Facebook page for Lakewood's Cody Charlton features a single like: Big Brother, a TV show in which bad things often happen to people confined in a house. Which is appropriate given that he's just been sentenced for improperly touching at least ten kids at the home where his mother ran a daycare ... More >>

Inmate rape resolution to be shared over objections of private prison giant

A former prisoner, now a shareholder in the country's largest for-profit prison operator, has won a battle with company management over his campaign to hold the Corrections Corporation of America accountable for reducing sexual abuse at its facilities. The Securities and Exchange Commission has rule ... More >>

Charles Farrar: Appeal denied in sex-abuse case despite "victim" recanting

Charles Farrar. ​"My options are narrowing," says Charles Farrar, phoning from the Sterling Correctional Facility. And so they are. Farrar has just learned that his handwritten appeal of his 145-year sentence for child sexual abuse -- a series of crimes that his accuser now insists never hap ... More >>

15-year-old Sacha's tale of sexual abuse in Charles Farrar case: Do you believe her? (VIDEO)

​This week's cover story, "Beyond Belief," tracks the nightmare journey of Charles Farrar, serving what amounts to a life sentence in prison for sexually assaulting his 15-year-old stepdaughter, Sacha -- even though his alleged victim came forward after trial and admitted that she'd fabricated ... More >>

Charles Farrar on being denied new trial despite victim recanting in sex abuse case (VIDEO)

​This week's cover story, "Beyond Belief," examines the devastating, long-term impact of a false report of sexual abuse made by a fifteen-year-old Aurora girl -- allegations against her mother and stepfather that were aggressively prosecuted despite the lack of any supporting evidence and plen ... More >>

Yukari Miyamae: Felony charge dropped against woman accused of grabbing TSA agent's breast

Miyamae.​Update: Judd Golden, attorney for Yukari Miyamae, accused of grabbing and twisting a TSA agent's breast at Phoenix's Sky Harbor Airport, reveals that felony sex abuse charges against her have been dropped. But that doesn't mean Miyamae is entirely off the hook.

Jesse Hodgson: Firefighter guilty of forcing 11-year-old to watch him urinate in diaper

Hodgson.​ Jesse Hodgson, a former firefighter for Mountain View Fire Rescue in Longmont, will have to register as a sex offender. The 37-year-old has pleaded guilty to instructing his 11-year-old stepdaughter to wear an adult diaper as punishment. Authorities say he also asked her to watch him ... More >>

Ryan Wappel: Convicted teen sex offender caught supposedly teaching kids "dance moves"

Ryan Wappel.​Ryan Wappel may have a baby face, but in December, the Longmont eighteen-year-old was convicted of an innocence-robbing sex crime and sentenced to eight years of sex-offender probation. Which he allegedly broke while teaching "dance moves" to two kids, age seven and nine.

Marc O'Leary, accused serial rapist, held on $5 million bond as cops search for more victims

Fox31​It's an indication of just how dangerous authorities consider Marc Patrick O'Leary, 32, that he's being held on a $5 million bond. That's a $5 million cash bond. And while he's been charged with sex assault, kidnapping and more in two incidents, the cops fear he may have left more victi ... More >>

Frances Woodke & Shakiel Madden-Vaughn: Latest on hooker with AIDS, teen sex assaulter

Big pics below.​The latest high-profile cases to pass through the Denver District Attorney's Office are quite different in terms of their specifics but similar when it comes to shock value. One woman has been accused (again) of prostitution with knowledge she has AIDS, while a teenager was con ... More >>

Roohallah Mobarez, Highlands Ranch dental assistant, charged with sex assault on four kids

Big pic below.​The last thing a parent wants to worry about when sending a child to the dentist is that an assistant will do terribly inappropriate things while the young patient is drugged or defenseless. But that's one possible interpretation of info released thus far about Roohallah Mobarez ... More >>

Philip Greaves: Amazon removes other titles by Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure author

Philip Greaves.​A torrid blast of publicity hasn't exactly boosted sales for Pueblo author Philip R. Greaves II, whose e-book The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-lover's Code of Conduct has drawn death threats and compelled Amazon to remove the book from its site. And now other ... More >>

Timothy Layne Martinez gets 32 years for sex assault on two sleeping women he videotaped

Large photos below.​Last December, we shared the startling post "Wake Up: You May Have Just Been Sexually Assaulted by Timothy Layne Martinez." At the time, Jefferson County officials were reluctant to provide too many details about Martinez, who faced nineteen counts of sexual assault against ... More >>

Kenneth Lee charged with being door-to-door child groper claiming to be immigration doctor

Large photo below.​We've told you about a search for a door-to-door groper who allegedly molested a child after claiming to be an immigration doctor. Now, Aurora Police believe they've got their man -- 54-year-old Kenneth Lee, whose mug shot resembles a sketch and computer-generated graphic of ... More >>

Anthony Ganter, babysitter from hell, accused of sexually assaulting fourteen male children

Large photo below.​Beware the single guy who's a little too eager to babysit your male children -- at least if he resembles the description emerging of Anthony Ganter. Colorado Springs authorities have charged Ganter with sexual assault on a child, plus failure to register as a sex offender, i ... More >>

Ken Buck's refusal to prosecute alleged rape an effort to make him seem insensitive to women

Ken Buck.​Late last month, Colorado GOP boss Dick Wadhams said Democrats' decision to attack Ken Buck with ads on issues like abortion shows that they're "intellectually bankrupt," since the voting public is clearly more interested in "the economy and taxes and spending." But Buck opponents a ... More >>

Alleged daycare molester Ben Janicki charged with assault on fourth child

​As we suspected last week, more charges have been filed against alleged pedophile Benjamin Janicki. The nineteen-year-old Janicki had already been arrested and accused with sexual assault on three little girls at the Park Hill United Methodist Church Children's Center, and today the DA's offi ... More >>

Bill Ritter did the right thing by vetoing sex offender bill

​Governor Bill Ritter will sign a slew of bills this week -- the deadline for action on all legislation coming out of this past session is June 11 -- but he put HB 1364 on a fast track, Vetoing the bill Friday afternoon. He did the right thing. As the longtime Denver District Attorney, Ritter ... More >>

Sex offender issue goes to the Supreme Court

​The controversy continues to grow over last-minute changes in HB 1364. The measure extends the life of the Colorado Sex Offender Management Board for five years, but removes the words "no known cure" -- as originally presented, the measure included those words and charged the board to study w ... More >>

Report: 12 percent of youth report sexual abuse at youth corrections facility in Golden

Image from cdhs.state.co.usLookout Mountain Youth Services Center​Nearly one in eight youth in juvenile corrections facilities nationwide report having been sexually assaulted, according to a report released today by the U.S. Department of Justice. There are other shocking statistics, too: 80 ... More >>

Vance Fulkerson: UNC prof pleads guilty to charges of being a child-exploiting creepazoid

This photo of Vance Fulkerson is from a Facebook page that's no longer accessible -- but it's still scary.​Former UNC professor Vance Fulkerson once taught a class called "Self-Defense Singing" -- and among the folks from whom his students needed protection was him. In July, Fulkerson was cha ... More >>

James C. Bird and young boys allegedly a very bad combination

James C. Bird has at least temporarily flown the coop.​It's a sad truth that sexual abuse and assault sometimes goes unreported for years. That's reportedly the case with 62-year-old James C. Bird -- and while there are currently four counts of sexual assault on a child pending against him, th ... More >>

Judge to DA Carol Chambers: Get cracking

18th Judicial District Attorney Carol Chambers Julie Stene has waited nine years for her day in court, and Arapahoe County District Judge Carlos Samour Jr. figures that's long enough. Denying a reluctant district attorney's effort to further delay filing charges in a 2000 rape investigation that t ... More >>

Male guards and female prisoners -- a brilliant idea!

Photo by John Johnston There's plenty to get disgusted about in the story of a Colorado female inmate who was awarded $1.3 million in damages for two years' worth of sexual assaults by a male guard. As this report in the Denver Post recounts, federal judge David Ebel blasted the Colorado Department ... More >>

Vlog the Impaler, Numero Tres

Letters to the Editor

From the week of 8/16/2007

The Psychology of Pain

More Messages: When Elves Go Bad

Greatest Hits

Colorado's ailing, but the good doctor doesn't have a cure.

CSI: Denver

DPD's crime lab makes TV reality.

Follow That Story

Oops, He Did It Again

Follow That Story

The Accused

Follow That Story

Taco's New Tone

Shades of Black

Defense attorneys fight to save their clients by comparing them to current residents of death row.

Judge and Jury

With several controversial cases coming up, Colorado's death-penalty decision moves to a three-judge panel.

They're Not Columbine Knolls

Jefferson County struggles to find a place for its sex offenders.

Boy Wonder

Raoul Wuthrich caught the Jeffco Juvenile Justice System with its pants down.

A Date With Rape

The Killer Inside Him

The twisted life--and lethal secrets--of Gary Davis.

Raised From the Dead

END OF AN ERROR

CONTROVERSIAL THERAPIST CLARE HAYNES-SEMAN IS OUT AT THE KEMPE CENTER.

FACING THE MONSTER

A WEALTH OF TROUBLE

HOW THE WORLD TURNED UGLY FOR A CHERRY HILLS VILLAGE BEAUTY QUEEN.TO GRANDMOTHER'S HOUSE WE GO WHEN A THREE-YEAR-OLD BOY SAID SHE TOUCHED HIS "TUSHIE," THE GOOD LIFE ENDED FOR BARBARA HUTTNER.