Posted By: Jacob Martinez
Category: Sex Crimes | Sexual Assault
When Colorado authorities uncovered a relationship between a 34-year-old man and a 14-year-old girl, they charged him with child molestation. Even though the relationship was reportedly consensual, it has been considered a felony offense. This is because in Colorado to … Continue reading
Tagged child sex crimes/age of consent |Posted By: Jacob Martinez
Category: Sex Crimes | Sexual Assault
While there are a number of specific offenses defined within Colorado sex crime laws, two of the most common offenses committed across this state are sexual assault and illegal sexual contact. We want to focus on these two crimes today … Continue reading
Tagged Sex Crimes |Posted By: Jacob Martinez
Category: Sex Crimes
In January 2020, the Colorado Springs court sentenced a 40-year-old man to five years in prison for sexual exploitation of a child. Police arrested him in September 2019 and charged him with possessing child pornography and failing to register email … Continue reading
Tagged child sex crime |Posted By: Jacob Martinez
Category: Sex Crimes | Sex Offender Registry
The justice system is founded on the premise of rehabilitating offenders. Individuals are sentenced to punishments deemed to fit the crime. Once a sentence is carried out, offenders are said to have paid their dues. Yet there are some crimes … Continue reading
Tagged sex crime |Posted By: Jacob Martinez
Category: Sex Crimes | Sex Trafficking
While awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges, millionaire financier Jefferey Epstein is believed to have committed suicide in his jail cell at New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Center on August 10. Epstein, aged 66, had been incarcerated since early July when he … Continue reading
Posted By: Jacob Martinez
Category: Internet Crimes | Internet Luring of Child | Sex Crimes
Members of the Cherry Creek School District have read unsettling headlines in the past few weeks. A bus driver in the community was charged with internet luring of a child. The man is currently on administrative leave. An undercover officer … Continue reading
Tagged Sex Crimes |Posted By: Jacob Martinez
Category: Sex Crimes | Sexual Assault
A Colorado man was convicted of sexual assault of a child and sexual assault of a child by a person in a position of trust in 2016. Why? Because he ordered his 4-year-old foster child to approach him, removed his … Continue reading
Posted By: Jacob Martinez
Category: Rape | Sex Crimes | Statutory Rape
Statutory rape laws are based on the premise that minor children are incapable of informed consent to sex acts. The inability of minors to form consent is written in the statutes – hence the term “statutory rape.” In statutory rape, … Continue reading
Posted By: Jacob Martinez
Category: Sex Crimes
Generally speaking, the overall crime rate on college campus has dropped substantially — except for one important area. Reports of sex crimes increased by an astounding 205% between 2001 and 2015. This probably sounds terrifying – and it should. However, … Continue reading
Posted By: Jacob Martinez
Category: Sex Crimes
Sex crime consequences are some of the most severe in the Colorado criminal statutes – and for good reason. Sex crimes have long-lasting psychological impacts on survivors, and are a threat to society. To protect potential victims, convicted sex offenders … Continue reading
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