The Difference Between Sexual Assault and Illegal Sexual Contact in CO
May 8
2020

Posted by: Jacob E. 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 because they are not only some of the most common offenses prosecuted, they are also commonly mixed up.

Yes, sexual assault involves illegal sexual contact. However, Colorado law outlines it as a completely separate charge all on its own. Learn [...]

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CO Man Gets 5 Years for Child Sex Crime… But It Could Have Been More
Feb 12
2020

Posted by: Jacob E. 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 accounts. He subsequently pled guilty to the charges. At the time, he was already serving a four-year sentence of intense, supervised probation relating to charges of downloading child porn just one year earlier.

Colorado laws are very strict regarding child [...]

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What It’s Like to Be on the Sex Offender Registry in Colorado
Nov 8
2019

Posted by: Jacob E. 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 that continue to cause harm to ex-offenders long after their sentence is over. Sex crimes are one of them.

Unique because offenders may be sentenced to register on the sex offender registry, the handling has come under some controversy. The [...]

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Epstein May Be Dead, but Sex Trafficking Is Alive and Well in Colorado
Aug 29
2019

Posted by: Jacob E. 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 was arrested on charges of operating a sex trafficking ring of teenage girls – some as young as 14 years old. He allegedly sexually abused dozens of young girls in New York, Florida, and other locations.

Officials report Epstein committed [...]

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Your Guide to Internet Luring Charges in Colorado
Jun 29
2019

Posted by: Jacob E. 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 posing as a 14-year-old girl connected with the bus driver on the Whisper app. In addition to sending sexual messages to the supposed teenager, he agreed to pick her up from school and “see where it goes from there.” He [...]

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