Will County Sheriff’s employee charged with sexual assault of a child
An deputy correctional officer at the Will County Sheriff’s office has been arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a child.
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An deputy correctional officer at the Will County Sheriff’s office has been arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a child.
An employee in the Will County Sheriff's Office was arrested by agents from the Department of Homeland Security and charged with two counts of child sex assault, officials said Friday.
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Chicago police are searching for the man behind a shocking crime in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood, after he climbed through a window and sexually assaulted an 82-year-old woman in her home.
Michael Farris is accused of committing the sexual abuse between January 2008 and July 2022.
Michael Farris is accused of committing the sexual abuse between January 2008 and July 2022.
The incident happened just before 7 p.m. at an apartment in the 1600 block of West 82nd Street in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood.
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Police said a man approached the women from behind, armed with what is described as a sharp object in two attacks. Tara Molina reports.
Three women were sexually assaulted in the past couple weeks, and the neighborhood was on edge Monday. Tara Molina reports.
In each attack, the attacker approached his victims from behind — and he was armed with a sharp object in two of the three attacks, police said.
The man was armed with a sharp object in two of the three attacks, police said.
The bill was introduced last year after a state senator found that a student in his district was allowed to stay in class after sexually assaulting another student.
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