Darrin Shipley Arrested for Sexually Assaulting 4-year-old

PEKIN, Ill.

A Pekin man was charged Friday in 10th Judicial Circuit Court with sexually assaulting a 4-year-old girl.

Darrin S. Shipley, 42, of 208 Parkway Drive, Pekin, was charged with predatory criminal sexual assault, a Class X felony, and aggravated criminal sexual abuse, a Class 2 felony.

According to court records, the victim told her mother on June 2 that the man had been showing her pornographic pictures on the Internet on May 22. The mother had noticed her daughter exhibiting strange behavior. The child’s brothers, ages 6 and 8, told their mother that they had seen the man assault the child.

The child was interviewed at the Champaign County Children’s Advocacy Center where she showed what had happened to her with an anatomically correct doll, court records said.

One of the victim’s brothers was also interviewed at the advocacy center. He said he saw the man show the pornography to the victim and sexually assaulting her.

Shipley denied the allegations when interviewed by Pekin police, but stated that the girl is “trustworthy and a 4-year-old would not just make this up.”

Shipley was arrested and taken to the Tazewell County Justice Center where he remains under a $250,000 bond.

Seven-year-old Nathaniel Turner Dies after Being Abused

Seven-year-old Nathaniel Turner was taken off life support and died early today at UMass Memorial Medical Center, the Worcester Telegram & Gazette reported.

The boy had been declared brain-dead Tuesday. His father, Leslie G. Schuler, 36, and his father's girlfriend, Tiffany Hyman, both of Worcester, have pleaded not guilty to multiple assault charges in connection with the boy's fatal injuries. District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr. has said he expects Schuler will be prosecuted for homicide.

Police said the boy was the victim of emotional and physical abuse beginning May 19 that culminated in the fatal beating on Father’s Day.

Keven Grisham Sentenced to 229 Years for Sexual Assault

A man convicted of sexually assaulting three Porterville-area girls, one of him his stepdaughter, faces a prison term of up to 229 years when sentenced next month, the Tulare County District Attorney's office announced Friday.

Keven Grisham, 52, of Santa Maria was convicted June 18 by a Tulare County Superior Court jury. He was found guilty on 21 counts of sexual assault, including child molestation, forcible rape and sodomy, and unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, according to the press release.

Prosecutors said the offenses occurred between 1996 and 2003, when Grisham was living in the Porterville area and when the three victims, now in their early- to mid-20s, were minors.

Grisham's arrest, in Santa Maria in October last year, followed a monthlong investigation that began after a then-23 year-old woman told Tulare County sheriff's deputies that Grisham, her stepfather, had sexually assaulted her between the ages of 11 and 18, according to a sheriff's report.

During the investigation, two other victims approached the sheriff's department and told deputies they had been sexually assaulted by Grisham when they were minors, said Deputy District Attorney Mikki Verissimo, who prosecuted the case.

The assaults occurred in the Porterville area, Verissimo said.

"I'm very happy with the verdict and I'm happy that we got justice for the three victims," she said.

Grisham will be sentenced July 22 in Tulare County Superior Court.

Officer Joseph Holman Charged with Sexual Exploitation of Child

An Aspen police officer accused of putting a camera in the shower of a teenager living at his home has resigned and faces a court hearing July 20.

Court records show 38-year-old Joseph Holman faces charges of two counts of attempted sexual exploitation of a child, tampering with evidence, child abuse and attempted criminal invasion of privacy. A phone message left for a Joe Holman in Aspen was not returned Friday.

Holman was placed on paid administrative leave May 29 but has since resigned.

He is free after posting an $11,000 bond.

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Duke University Director Frank Lombard Charged with Offering Son For Sex

A Duke University official has been charged in federal court with offering his 5-year-old adopted son up for sex. Frank Lombard, associate director at the university's Global Health Institute, was arrested Wednesday in Raleigh, the FBI said.

In an undated photo provided by the Durham County Sheriff's Office, Frank Lombard is shown. The Duke University official has been arrested and charged with offering his adopted 5-year-old son for sex. Authorities said that Lombard tried to persuade a person,who he did not know was a police officer,to travel to North Carolina to have sex with Lombard's child.

An unidentified informant who already faces child porn charges in a different child sex case pointed investigators to Lombard, according to court documents. The informant told investigators he had met Lombard on the Internet four years ago. The informant described in graphic detail how he allegedly observed Lombard molesting an African-American child on four occasions over an Internet video chat service called ICUii.

The informant said, according to court papers, that Lombard, who is white, said that he lived in the Raleigh-Durham area of North Carolina and that the child was one of two adopted African-Americans in his custody.

Lombard has been charged with attempting to induce someone to cross state lines to engage in sex with a child, punishable by a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.

Lombard allegedly used the adult Internet service to conduct his video chats. According to an affidavit in support of the arrest warrant, the Internet service indicated that Lombard's profile "stated he was interested in "perv fam fun," a reference to "incestuous child molestation." The service also told investigators that a customer service complaint had been sent to the company in January 2007. A customer who had chatted with Lombard complained to the company that Lombard said he was "into incest" and had adopted two African-American children, court records said.

A Washington, D.C., police detective who was investigating the case set up undercover chats with someone matching Lombard's description during which the detective says he was invited to fly to Raleigh to have sex with the person's 5- year-old adopted child. In his affidavit, Det. Timothy Palchak wrote that he engaged in a chat with someone using the screen name "FL" who provided nude pictures of himself. The pictures matched Lombard's North Carolina driver's license photo, according to the affidavit.

During the chats, according to the affidavit, "FL" told undercover investigators that he had himself molested his child, whom he adopted as an infant, and that he had allowed others to molest his child. "FL" stated that "the abuse of the child was easier when the child was too young to talk or know what was happening, but that he had drugged the child with Benadryl during the molestation," Palchak wrote in his affidavit.