A Douglas County judge on Wednesday again considered — and again denied — a defendant’s motion to have his confession to child sex crimes suppressed from ever being heard by a jury of his peers.
Hatem Chahine, the attorney for 22-year-old defendant Mateo Clavel Wills, a former Raintree Montessori School employee accused of sexually abusing a 3- and 4-year-old more than three years ago, asked Judge Sally ...
The Bureau of Indian Education has remained silent on a federal investigation that found an athletic trainer sexually harassed student-athletes on the women’s basketball team at Haskell Indian Nations University.
According to the Office of the Inspector General in the U.S. Department of the Interior, the OIG report found that the trainer made crude jokes and comments of a sexual nature to students and engaged ...
A Douglas County judge on Wednesday sentenced a Lawrence man to nearly five years in prison for attempted rape of a child in a case that dates back nearly two decades.
The defendant, Lance Lee Yoder, 55, was convicted on April 1 after pleading no contest as part of a deal with the state that dropped more serious charges.
Yoder originally faced three counts of rape, but one count had been dismissed earlier ...
A Bureau of Indian Education employee sexually harassed student-athletes on the women’s basketball team at Haskell Indian Nations University, according to an investigation by the Office of the Inspector General in the U.S. Department of the Interior.
The OIG investigation found that the employee, an athletic trainer, made crude jokes and comments of a sexual nature to students and engaged in unwelcome ...
The cellphone of a man charged in Douglas County with raping a 9-year-old contained explicit videos of the child and more than 175 internet searches related to pornography of grown men abusing children, according to the recently released arrest affidavit in the case.
The man, Tyrone Gipson Jr., 42, was arrested in Topeka on Feb. 21 on charges of rape and aggravated criminal sodomy for incidents that allegedly ...
The Lawrence Police Department is asking a Douglas County district judge to quash a subpoena for its investigative file on a speech pathologist accused of child molestation at a Lawrence elementary school.
LPD says, in a motion filed Wednesday, that releasing its full file on Mark Gridley to parties in a civil lawsuit would potentially interfere with the current criminal prosecution of Gridley by the Douglas ...
