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Cal State agreed to keep sexual harassment findings
against two professors under wraps
LA Times Headlines
Investigations conducted by Cal State San Marcos found that Roger Morrissette and David Bwambok engaged in egregious sexual harassment and misconduct, in violation of university policy. The professors’ accounts of the events were found not to be credible.
Instead of pursuing disciplinary action, however, the university agreed to generous settlements, which included voluntary resignations, paid administrative leave and, in one case, expunging records of disciplinary action from a personnel file, according to university reports obtained by The Times that detail the investigations and settlements. Both Morrissette and Bwambok have denied the harassment and misconduct claims.
A university spokeswoman said the “most assured route to these individuals no longer working for the campus was via settlements.” The revelations are the latest jolt to the Cal State system, where a series of scandals have called into question its handling of sexual harassment and other misconduct claims.
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Illegal immigrant is charged with kidnap of 12-yo girl who escaped and led police to decomposing and chopped up bodies of his girlfriend and her 14-year-old son
The illegal immigrant has also been charged with three counts of capital murder and two counts of abuse on a corpse.
A motorist spotted the girl on the side of the road and immediately called 911 after picking her up.
She was allegedly assaulted, drugged with alcohol, and tied to bedposts by Reyes during her week-long captivity
After authorities arrived at Reyes' mobile home on Tuesday, police discovered two decomposing bodies inside
By EMMA JAMES FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 13:33 EDT, 4 August 2022 | UPDATED: 13:40 EDT, 4 August 2022
The details of this horror story can be found at The Daily Mail.
Dadeville, Ala
Gay Georgia couple accused of producing child sex abuse images
using adoptive children
Aug. 7, 2022, 11:43 AM PDT
By Mirna Alsharif
NBC News
A Georgia couple face charges in connection with allegations that they were "engaging in sexually abusive acts and video documenting the abuse" with their two adoptive children, the Walton County Sheriff's Office said.
William and Zachary Zulock were booked into the Walton County Jail. Charges of aggravated child molestation and sexual exploitation of children are pending, officials said.
Should gay couples be allowed to adopt children?
There is more on this story at NBC News.
Walton Co., Ga
Thousand Oaks man accused of sexual abuse, soliciting child porn
and domestic violence with multiple underage girls: VCSO
by: Cameron Kiszla, KTLA
Posted: Aug 5, 2022 / 08:35 PM PDT
Updated: Aug 6, 2022 / 06:44 PM PDT
A Thousand Oaks man was arrested after he sexually abused multiple underaged girls in Ventura County and obtained child pornography from them, according to the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office.
“Detectives authored numerous search warrants during this investigation and discovered Joelson had been communicating with numerous juvenile females via social media platforms. A review of these conversations showed Joelson solicited [child sexual abuse material] from many of the juvenile females and also solicited to meet up with some of the juvenile females,” the release said.
The Sheriff’s Office highlighted Joelson’s interactions with two victims in particular.
Authorities said they learned in March that Joelson targeted a 14-year-old Camarillo girl who was “conned” into meeting him at a local park, “where he attempted to sexually abuse her.” Joelson also solicited child pornography from the girl, whom he met on social media, the Sheriff’s Office said.
The second girl, a 16-year-old from Thousand Oaks, was not only sexually abused by Joelson, but was also the victim of a domestic violence incident at his home, authorities said. Joelson was arrested for domestic violence and released on bail, after which he “attempted to recontact” the girl, the release added.
Joelson is being held in the Todd Road Jail in Santa Paula in lieu of $1 million bail, jail records show. He faces a litany of charges, many of which are felonies, and he is due to appear in Ventura County Superior Court on Monday.
This investigation is ongoing, and investigators believe there could be more victims.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Larrs Johnson at 805-388-5120.
Another gay couple appear to be prolific child sex abusers
Man tied to former North Dakota lawmaker sexually abused children with former US senator aide
The U.S. Attorney's Office alleged Nicholas Morgan-Derosier sexually abused 20 to 21 children since 2011, including some with James McHaney, who worked for U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell.
By April Baumgarten
August 07, 2022 06:00 AM
Inforum
FARGO — Federal prosecutors want to use evidence that suggests a man tied to a former North Dakota state senator sexually abused multiple children, sometimes with a former aide to a U.S. senator.
Morgan-Derosier was charged in January with receiving and distributing child porn, traveling with intent to engage in illicit sexual activity, transporting child porn, transporting a minor and possessing child porn. He faces life in prison if convicted.
The defendant has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Prosecutors alleged he brought two children from their Twin Cities-area home to his Grand Forks residence in March 2020 without getting permission from the children’s mother. The U.S. Attorney’s Office also claims he planned to sexually abuse the children.
Prosecutors must prove intent, which they plan to do by introducing evidence that Morgan-Derosier sexually abused other minors, according to court documents filed this month. Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer Puhl previously said during a court hearing that Morgan-Derosier sexually abused 20 or 21 children since 2011.
Underaged males
Court documents filed Monday provide more specifics on those claims. Some of the children ranged in age from 15 to 17 years old, while others were identified only as underage males. Most of the instances allegedly happened in Minnesota, and prosecutors cited one case in Wisconsin.
James McHaney, Minnesota Department of Corrections
Prosecutors also claimed Morgan-Derosier sexually abused several children together with James Michael McHaney, 42, of Minneapolis. It’s unclear when those alleged incidents happened.
Morgan-Derosier has not been charged in Minnesota in connection to the allegations. A message left for the federal public defender's office was not returned Friday.
McHaney was an aide for Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Washington, but she fired him after he was arrested in 2007 during a sex sting. Federal prosecutors in that case alleged McHaney tried to arrange sex with an unidentified person posing as a 13-year-old boy.
Cantwell, who has represented Washington in Congress since 2001, did not return messages left by The Forum at her press office.
McHaney pleaded guilty to possessing child porn. He eventually moved to Minnesota, but it’s unclear when he became acquainted with Morgan-Derosier.
McHaney pleaded guilty Thursday to criminal sexual conduct in Minnesota’s Hennepin County District Court. The charge alleged he sexually abused a 15-year-old in 2016. He was sentenced to three years in prison.
Puhl told a federal judge the 77-year-old asked or told Morgan-Derosier that he wanted the jailed man to bring Morgan-Derosier’s 19- or 20-year-old boyfriend over for a massage, according to court transcripts.
The Forum was unable to confirm the contents of the text messages, but it did confirm the phone number Morgan-Derosier texted belonged to Holmberg. Holmberg claimed the messages were related to “a variety of things,” including patio work Morgan-Derosier did for him.
When asked in April where the messages were, Holmberg said, “They’re just gone.”
The Forum later reported federal agents searched Holmberg’s home and seized several items in November. Electronics and storage devices, including some issued to Holmberg by the state, were among the items seized, Holmberg’s attorney Mark Friese confirmed to The Forum.
Holmberg has not been charged with any crime in connection to this case.
First elected in 1976, Holmberg was the longest-serving state senator in the U.S. when he announced in March that he planned not to seek reelection this year. Shortly after The Forum ran its story on his connection to Morgan-Derosier, Holmberg said he would step down six months early.
His last day in office was June 1.
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