Man accused of sexually assaulting three-year-old boy at Brampton, Ont., hospital
Man accused of sexually assaulting 3yo at hospital
BRAMPTON, Ont. - Police say a 31-year-old man has been charged in the alleged sexual assault of a three-year-old boy at a Brampton, Ont., hospital.
Peel Region police say the boy was in a stroller inside the hospital when the man allegedly approached him Sunday afternoon.
They say the man allegedly touched the boy and then went to another area of the hospital, where he allegedly committed an indecent act that was witnessed by adult visitors.
It sounds like a 'sexual emergency' to me.
Police say the man has been charged with sexual assault, sexual interference and committing an indecent act in a public place.
They say he's been held for a bail hearing.
Investigators say they are looking to speak to anyone who witnesses the alleged sexual assault.
Drugs and kids do not mix, ever. Not even in the Ozarks.
Missouri woman charged with
child sex trafficking
VERSAILLES, Mo. (KMIZ)
A Versailles woman was charged on Thursday with first-degree child sex trafficking of a youth younger than 12 years old.
Stacy Schumacher, 48, is being held at the Morgan County Jail on a $50,000 bond. A court date has not been set.
According to the probable cause statement, law enforcement was informed on April 1 by a child who claimed they were routinely sexually assaulted between Nov. 1, 2018-Dec. 31, 2019. The statement claims that Schumacher would allow men to sexually abuse the youth in exchange for drugs.
The child gave several details about the assaults and descriptions of the drugs used, the statement says. Court documents say Schumacher would also hit the child.
There seems to be some element of caregiver in this relationship, but it's not explained.
Good news for Louisiana's historical child sex victims.
Louisiana Supreme Court reopens window for lawsuits
by adult victims of childhood sex abuse
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Officially reversing a controversial March ruling, Louisiana’s highest court Wednesday gave childhood victims of sexual abuse a renewed opportunity to file damage lawsuits.
The state Supreme Court's 5-2 ruling Wednesday upholds a so-called look-back law that was passed in 2021 and amended in 2022. The law gave victims of past abuse, whose deadlines for filing civil lawsuits had expired, renewed opportunities to file lawsuits. The original legislation set a deadline of June 14 of this year. That deadline was later extended until June 2027.
Wednesday’s move had been expected. The court had ruled 4-3 in March that the law couldn’t stand because it conflicted with due process rights in the state constitution. But the court agreed last month to reconsider the case.
Justices Scott Crichton and Piper Griffin, part of the majority in March, joined justices joined Chief Justice John Weimer and justices Jay McCallum and William Crain to revive the law.
“For many victims of child sexual abuse, the revival provision represents their first and only opportunity to bring suit," Weimer wrote in the new ruling. “Providing that opportunity to those victims is a legitimate legislative purpose.”
Justices James Genovese and Jefferson Hughes dissented. Genovese wrote that the new ruling “obliterates” decades of precedent and “elevates a legislative act over a constitutional right.”
The ruling comes as the Catholic Church continues to deal with the ramifications of a decades-old sex scandal. The ruling arose from a case filed against the Catholic Diocese of Lafayette by plaintiffs who said they were molested by a priest in the 1970s while they ranged in age from 8 to 14, according to the Supreme Court record.
Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill hailed the court's reversal, as did advocates for abuse victims.
“We are elated that victims of sexual abuse who have been time barred from justice will have their day in court,” Mike McDonnell, of the advocacy group Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, said in an emailed statement.
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