Man gets 115-year sentence in
2nd child sex abuse conviction
by Associated PressOGDEN -- A man is going to prison after his second conviction for child sex abuse landed him a 115-year sentence.
The Standard-Examiner reports 34-year-old Richard Drew Rhodes was convicted by a jury in November and received five back-to-back prison terms this month.
Court records say a boy under the age of 12 was abused by Rhodes in 2013.
The boy told investigators the abuse occurred more often than he could count.
Rhodes took a plea deal in 2003 for the sexual abuse of a 13-year-old boy.
He received a five-year prison sentence in May 2006 for a probation violation and was released in 2010.
Ogden man accused of sexual abuse of a child, other sex crimes
OGDEN, Utah — An Ogden man was arrested Thursday after police received reports of sexual abuse in late November.
John Schneidewend was taken into custody and booked into jail for four counts of forcible sodomy, two counts of forcible sex abuse and one count of sexual abuse of a child – all felonies.
Special Victim Unit detectives seized computers and cellphones from Schneidewend’s apartment. Police said the seized items will be analyzed at Intermountain West’s Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory.
The police investigation is ongoing and Schneidewend could face additional charges.
School choir director sentenced for child sex abuse
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) - A former middle-school choir director has been sentenced to 17 years in prison for repeatedly raping a female student over a period of more than two years.
The Delaware Attorney General's office announced Friday that 44-year-old Gary Smith of Newark was sentenced recently after pleading guilty in September.
Prosecutors say that while working at H.B. DuPont School in Hockessin, Smith repeatedly engaged in sex acts with a student starting in 2010, when she was 13.
Smith pleaded guilty to sexual abuse by a person in position of trust, authority or supervision and two counts of fourth-degree rape. He had been charged with 27 counts of rape, continuous sexual abuse of a child, sexual abuse of a child by a person of trust, and sexual solicitation of a child.
Hockessin, Delaware
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