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Michigan Couple Sentenced In Horrific Child And Sexual Abuse Case
By Caitlin Schunn
DECEMBER 7, 2022, 2:55 PM ET
Jeremiah Page and Kristina Sterly Photo: Emmet County Sheriff's Office
A Michigan couple at the center of a years-long sexual and child abuse case will spend more than a decade behind bars. On Monday, a judge sentenced Jeremiah Page and Kristina Sterly, both 37 years old, in a case where two teenage girls were repeatedly sexually assaulted and impregnated on three separate occasions, according to Law&Crime.
Page was sentenced to a minimum of 62 years on two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and first-degree child abuse, according to CBS station WWTV/WWUP-TV in Cadillac, Michigan. Sterly was sentenced to 10 to 15 years on two counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct and second-degree child abuse.
The Emmet County Sheriff told the station Page and Sterly were involved in one of the worst cases of child abuse he’d ever seen. Both pleaded guilty back in October.
Child protective services and the Emmet County Sheriff’s office began investigating the possibility that two underage girls were the victims of sex crimes back in February, according to WWTV/WWUP-TV.
When detectives contacted Sterly about a teenage girl who lived with her and Page, who was pregnant, Sterly denied the pregnancy, before later admitting it, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by the station. A jailhouse phone call later that month revealed Page raped the teenager, causing her pregnancy. Detectives later learned Page raped another girl who lived with him and Sterly and got that girl pregnant at least twice. That girl told detectives Page punched her in the stomach to end the pregnancies, but she ended up giving birth.
Sterly and Page made this arrangement in 2018, the affidavit said. Page admitted to sexual intercourse with one victim on three separate occasions. Page admitted to intercourse with a second victim 12 to 13 times.
Page was asked if the second victim had children during the two pregnancies, according to the affidavit from the Emmet County District Court, obtained by Traverse City NBC/ABC station WPBN/WGTU.
"Page said 'yes,'" according to the documents from that station. "Page was asked if that meant they would find a skeleton and Page said 'no' because Sterly threw the bodies into a fire pit and burned them up."
It’s unclear what happened with the third child, according to WPBN/WGTU.
Investigators told WPBN/WGTU they searched the couple's property, but tests did not identify any human remains.
So, we have 3 missing children who are probably dead and no-one has been charged or convicted of kidnapping or murder, or perhaps trafficking the babies.
This seems like a major fail for Emmet Co., Sherriff's Office.
Karlsruhe man sentenced to 60 years for child sex crimes
TRAVIS SVIHOVEC
Bismarck Tribune
Dec 7, 2022
A Karlsruhe man who pleaded guilty to the repeated sexual abuse of two children has been sentenced to 60 years in prison.
Dwayne Gerard Sr., 63, at the Tuesday sentencing hearing was referred to by U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland as “a parent’s worst nightmare.”
“You unquestionably are a threat to any minor child,” Hovland said. “A pedophile extraordinaire.”
Gerard in August pleaded guilty to eight counts of sexual exploitation of minors. Investigators found more than 1,700 images and several videos of his abuse of the children on Gerard’s electronic devices. Victim family members testified about the impact Gerard’s actions had on them and their children.
“This is truly a case that required a sentence sufficient enough to ensure the defendant never harms another child again,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Gary Delorme.
Gerard at sentencing said he was a victim of sexual abuse as a child, falling prey to older men he trusted. He said he couldn’t explain why he forced the children into similar acts.
“I do know the pain involved because it happened to me,” Gerard said.
And yet you chose to inflict it upon others.
Hovland noted that Gerard had two prior sex crime convictions against children. The 20-year sentence sought by Gerard through his attorney, Assistant Federal Public Defender Erin Bolinger, was “not enough,” the judge said. Hovland also went beyond the 30-year sentence sought by Delorme. He sentenced Gerard to 30 years on the first count, followed by a combined 30 years for the remaining seven counts.
Gerard asked Hovland to reconsider the consecutive sentence and allow him to serve all the time at once, in effect making the term 30 years. Hovland said that if he were to reconsider, he would more likely sentence Gerard to consecutive 30-year terms on each count.
“Your life will end in prison, which is where it should end,” Hovland said.
God bless you, Judge Hovland!
The case was investigated by the Department of Homeland Security Investigations, North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigations, Minot Police Department and McHenry County Sheriff’s Office. It was prosecuted as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative designed to protect children from online exploitation and abuse.
Karlsruhe, ND
Portland man pleads guilty to 27 child sex abuse charges
John Thomas Damron III.(Multnomah County Sheriff's Office)
By FOX 12 Staff
Published: Dec. 9, 2022 at 5:32 PM PST|
PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) – A Portland man was sentenced to 22 years in prison after pleading guilty to 27 child sex abuse charges on Friday.
John Thomas Damron III, 36, pled guilty to the charges stemming from incidents between 2018 and 2021 involving eight girls between 14 and 17 years old, the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office said.
Damron would use social media to target and groom his victims, the D.A.’s Office said, luring them with vape products, marijuana, alcohol, food and money.
“He sent instructions and scripts for the victims to act out and read as they provided him sexual images and videos,” the D.A.’s Office said. “He used common applications such as Snapchat and Instagram to identify and contact his victims.”
The D.A.’s Office said Damron would then lure victims to his home in NE Portland and to hotel rooms where he would offer money, alcohol, marijuana and other products to perform sex acts on camera.
A search at his home by the Portland Police Bureau found multiple electronic devices with “hundreds” of images and videos collected by Damron.
On Friday, Damron pleaded guilty to the following:
14 counts of Using a Child in Display
Sex Abuse in the Third Degree
Online Sexual Corruption
Encouraging Child Sex Abuse in the First Degree
9 counts of Sodomy in the Third Degree
Rape in the Third Degree
Damron was sentenced to 22 years in prison with post-prison supervision and sex offender registration.
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