Sexual Offenses

MPD releases photos of Chicago Avenue sexual assault suspect; suspect arrested [UPDATE]

:::: ORIGINAL POST PUBLISHED MORNING OF DECEMBER 12 ::::This morning, the Minneapolis Police Department released photos of a man wanted in connection with an early Saturday morning sexual assault that took place at East 34th Street and Chicago Avenue.SEE ALSO: Woman sexually assaulted after exiting ... More >>

Woman sexually assaulted after exiting bus on Chicago Ave.; third incident in three weeks

Early Saturday morning, a woman was sexually assaulted after exiting a bus at East 34th Street and Chicago Avenue. The incident was the third reported sexual assault against a woman walking by herself at night in the last three weeks.SEE ALSO:-- Guns make you safer? Minneapolis gun permit holder rob ... More >>

St. Kate's sexual assault: Suspect arrested

This afternoon, Minneapolis police announced they have arrested the man they believe is responsible for a sexual assault that happened in Riverside Park near St. Kate's campus earlier this month.SEE ALSO: Minneapolis police release sketch of suspect in St. Kate's sexual assault Louis Oliver, 48, was ... More >>

Todd Hoffner child porn scandal: Videos of his children aren't pornographic, expert says

More than two months after Mankato State head football coach Todd Hoffner was arrested for allegedly shooting pornographic videos of his own children, a sex offender expert has gone on the record to say he thinks Hoffner is innocent.SEE ALSO:-- Todd Hoffner's wife says her husband is innocent of chi ... More >>

Bradlee Dean's attorney, Larry Klayman, allegedly sexually abused his own children

Bradlee Dean has long linked homosexuality and child sexual abuse. For instance, in a blog post from June about Larry Brinken's child porn arrest, Dean wrote, "The news about Brinken's horrific child-pornography crimes followed the conclusion of 'Pride Week,' yet again puling off the mask of the rad ... More >>

GOP Reps. Erik Paulsen and John Kline taking heat for supporting "forcible rape" language

SEE ALSO:-- Todd Akin's "legitimate rape" belief likely stems from University of Minnesota paper-- Iowa Rep. Steve King: Another GOPer hopelessly out of touch about rape, conception [VIDEO]Republican U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin's troubling "legitimate rape" comments have created an opening for D ... More >>

Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch: "There is a way to have a more 'forcible rape'" [VIDEO]

SEE ALSO:-- Mary Hoglund, 83, spits in Romney supporter's face during Wisconsin event [VIDEO]-- GOP Reps. Erik Paulsen and John Kline taking heat for supporting "forcible rape" language-- Paul Ryan's Iowa State Fair speech gets messy as protesters are hauled away [VIDEO]In a clip that is the epitome ... More >>

Wright County's handling of Brooklyn Park murder suspect "insane," says Ron Rosenbaum

Wright County's controversial handling of Eddie Mosley's rape charge may have had deadly consequences.Last month, Mosley, 34, received a summons in the mail at his St. Louis home informing him he'd been charged with raping a 15-year-old relative in Minnesota last October and would have to appear in ... More >>

Paul Zunker, ex-Carver County GOP chair, guilty of molesting minor

​Former Carver County Republican Party chairman Paul Zunker pled guilty this week to second-degree criminal sexual conduct. Zunker was charged with two counts of criminal sexual conduct with a minor last fall. Zunker allegedly groped his victim's chest and "laughed" when she asked him to stop, w ... More >>

John Heuer pleads guilty to kidnap, assault of 8-year-old girl he called a hooker

Heuer pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal sexual conduct and one kidnapping charge.​John Heuer, the Spring Lake Park resident who kidnapped and sexually assaulted an 8-year-old girl, pleaded guilty yesterday to the facts of the case, WCCO reports. Heuer was arrested in May for kidnapping a gi ... More >>

Jeffrey Anderson wonders if Milwaukee Archdiocese is hiding $75 million

Archbishop Listecki announced the Milwaukee Archdiocese bankruptcy in January.​The Archdiocese of Milwaukee says it's broke, and it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in January "because priest-perpetrators sexually abused minors." It then hoped that a website offering some transparency o ... More >>

Peter Robert Stibal, accused Boy Scout molester, now faces child porn charges

Stibal faces new charges.​Peter Robert Stibal is accused of being every parent's worst nightmare, a Boy Scout troop leader who sexually assaulted the boys they trusted to his care. Originally arrested in October 2009 and chargd with six counts of criminal sexual conduct involving four minors, th ... More >>

Vatican refuses to be served Jeffrey Anderson's sex abuse lawsuit

WikiPope Benedict: Return to sender.​Twin Cities attorney Jeffrey Anderson's attempt to serve Pope Benedict and other high church officials with a sex abuse lawsuit has failed -- for now. The Vatican more or less scrawled "return to sender" on the envelope, threw it in a Fed Ex box and said, ... More >>

John Bullock and Domonta Jones plead not guilty in snake sex assault

John D. Bullock and Damonta D. Jones are charged with first-degree sexual assault.​John Bullock and Domonta Jones say that they didn't sexually assault a woman with a live snake. Instead, they said, the sex was consensual. And the snake? Quite real, evidently. Police say the 32-year-old wom ... More >>

Milwaukee archdiocese declares bankruptcy and blames priest sexual predators

Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome E. Listecki​The Archdiocese of Milwaukee has been beset in recent years by its connections to pedophile priests who sexually abused children left in their safe keeping. Now it's paying the price. Today, the archdiocese declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and flatly laid th ... More >>

Powderhorn Park sex assault suspect severs ankle monitor but later surrenders (UPDATE)

fibonaccibluePowderhorn Park neighbors gathered for a vigil after the attacks.​Four teenage boys were arrested after Thanksgiving Eve sex assaults in and near Powderhorn Park. Then came news that one of the boys, 15 years old, was on the lose. He'd cut off his ankle bracelet monitor and disa ... More >>

Jeremy Giefer timeline shows warning signs missed by Pawlenty's Pardon Board

Pawlenty Pardongate: The governor missed many red flags in clearing Jeremy Giefer's record.​Jeremy Giefer just can't seem to leave his daughter alone.Giefer had his criminal sex conviction cleared by the Board of Pardons in 2008 only to be charged last month with sexually abusing his daughter ... More >>

Jeremy Giefer, accused child molester, got Pawlenty pardon to open childcare center

City PagesJeremy Giefer, the sex offender now accused of molesting his daughter, was pardoned by Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty.​Jeremy Giefer served time in jail in 1994 for having sex with a 14-year-old girl. But you wouldn't know it to look at the record of the man now charged with sexually mo ... More >>

No charges filed in sexual assault at Delta Kappa Epsilon

Cops close the book on DKE sexual assault.​Another frat rape case bites the dust. Minneapolis police will not file charges in a sexual assault that occurred at Delta Kappa Epsilon on the U of M's fraternity row. It's been over a month since a 20-year-old woman was trapped in a bathroom by a m ... More >>

Minnesota Daily publishes creepy rape cartoon

Maybe satire isn't the best way to comment on rape...​Reports of sexual assaults at fraternities near the University of Minnesota have made for big headlines in all the local newspapers these past few days. In Tuesday's paper, the Minnesota Daily's editorial board decided to attack the controv ... More >>

Delta Kappa Epsilon frat house suspended after sex assault

DKE was the site of the first of three U of M sexual assaults.​The new booze ban for guests at University of Minnesota frat houses made headlines yesterday, as the campus reacts to three sexual assaults at different fraternity houses in as many weeks. But there's more fallout: Delta Kappa Eps ... More >>

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Chi Psi and Delta Kappa Epsilon frats in sex assault investigations

Two sex assaults in two weekends put the U of M on alert.​Two University of Minnesota fraternity houses are now under the microscope after separate reports of booze-related sexual assaults on consecutive weekends, and drawing media attention for the wrong reasons as campus parties crank up ahe ... More >>

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Peter Rickmyer, Level 3 sex offender, hollers discrimination

The perpetual Jordan neighborhood gadfly has filed a complaint with the Minneapolis Department of Human Rights claiming he's being discriminated against for his sexual orientation.

Supreme Court OKs detaining sex criminals indefinitely

​Minnesota's controversial Minnesota Sex Offender Program, and 19 others like it around the country, will remain unaffected by yesterday's U.S. Supreme Court  ruling, which allows the federal government to keep people locked up indefinitely if they are considered sexually dangerous, even afte ... More >>

Jeff Anderson targets St. John's, monk in latest sex abuse lawsuit

Photo: romana kleeIt can't hurt​Jeff Anderson, the St. Paul attorney who has cut a wide swath of controversy as he files lawsuits against alleged sexually abusive priests in the Catholic Church all over the world, has now trained his sites on the monks of St. John's Abbey in Collegeville. On ... More >>

William Jacobs gets court date in child sex assault

​William Allan Jacobs, the 66-year-old former captain of the Minneapolis Park Police charged in January with sexually abusing a 15-year-old boy, learned today that he will stand trial on Oct. 25. Jacobs was arrested in January after the teenager gave police a detailed written account of his a ... More >>

Michael Campion confronted William Jacobs in 1993

​Back in January, former Minneapolis Park Police Capt. William Jacobs was charged with criminal sexual conduct after what a 15-year-old boy described to police as three years of escalating sexual assaults that included anal penetration and oral sex. At the time, court documents said the Deep ... More >>

Brandon Anthony Buchanan paying $1,000 porn restitution

Photo by mandyxclear​A Duluth man who pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography last year will now have another bill to pay: $1,000 in restitution to the victim in some of those photos. Brandon Anthony Buchanan is serving more than seven years in prison and is considered penniless without a ... More >>

Porn allegations added to Jacobs' child sex abuse charges

A retired Minneapolis Park Police captain, already charged with sexually abusing a teen boy, is now charged with possession of child pornography.

Wisconsin Facebook sex scammer guilty on two felony counts

Anthony Stancl faces up to thirty years behind bars after pleading no contest on Tuesday to two sexual assault charges.

Republicans still steamed over Franken's rape amendment

A two-month-old vote on a bill to protect rape victims still ties Republican senators in knots.

Wis. man built child porn shrine, included Hannah Montana, Olsen twins

A 53-year-old Kenosha man has been charged with 20 counts of child pornography possession after police found a child porn shrine in his apartment.

Boy Scout leader accused of molesting three troop members

Peter Robert Stibal Jr., 44, is now charged with six counts of criminal sexual conduct for incidents that happened between 2002 and 2008.

Minn. high school streakers could be charged as sex offenders

He could be charged with fifth degree criminal sexual conduct for exposing himself to a minor under the age of 16. He would have to register as a sex offender for 10 years.

Arsonist caught after purchasing Wal-Mart gas can

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Minneapolis woman sexually assaulted twice in two weeks

The 32-year-old south Minneapolis woman who was sexually assaulted and beaten in her detached garage less than two weeks ago was sexually assaulted again. Police believe it was the same man.

It's Wisconsin: Pastor, parishioner cited for shooting arrow during church

It only happens in Wisconsin.

Schools and church hired sex offender to work with children

How does a registered sex offender end up working in schools and churches? He's been a registered sex offender since 2003, KSTP says.

What's Wrong with Wisconsin?

Man admits to home-invasion and horrific rape near U of M

The 'Gentle Jailer' on the myths of prostitution

America's Most Wanted Dad

When a serial rapist escaped from Minnesota's state mental hospital last April, someone had to take a perp walk sooner rather than later. So why not arrest the escapee's father?

Capitol Offenses

State legislators are poised for a spending spree--on stadiums and prisons

Lifetime Commitment

Two lawyers challenge the governor's new policy on sex offenders

The Gene Sifters

Never mind fingerprints--state law-enforcement officials want blood

No Offense

The First Cut

With lean budget times in the forecast, Hennepin County prepares to kill "optional" programs like sexual-violence prevention. But is it just a case of bad management?

In the Name of the Father