Kingston man admits raping 13-year-old

A registered sex offender from Kingston has pleaded guilty to raping a 13-year-old girl, the Ulster County District Attorney’s Office said Wednesday.

Jerome Fischer, 27, formerly of 81 Cedar St., pleaded guilty Tuesday in Ulster County Court before County Judge J. Michael Bruhn to charges of felony rape and violating the conditions of his probation.

Fischer was arrested Dec. 22, 2008, by Kingston police on charges he supplied the 13-year-old victim with liquor and beer during the evening of Dec. 21 until she became unconscious, according to a press release from the Ulster County District Attorney’s Office. The release said the victim awoke sometime later in the early morning hours of Dec. 22 as Fischer was raping her…

Teens arrested on sexual assault charges

A 16-year-old male and a 15-year-old male were arrested Sunday on sexual assault charges involving an intoxicated 14-year-old female.

According to Sgt. Dave Thompson, with the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department Domestic Violence and sexual Assault Unit, at about 2:23 a.m. Sunday, deputies from the Sonoma Valley sheriff’s substation stopped a vehicle at Verano Avenue and Riverside Drive for suspected drunk driving. Three juvenile males, all Agua Caliente residents ranging in age from 12 to 16, and a juvenile female, age 14, also a Sonoma Valley resident, were in the vehicle.

The female told deputies that she had been sexually assaulted by at least one of the males in the car. The female was transported to Sonoma Valley Hospital where she was treated for heavy alcohol intoxication and later released. Thompson said the juveniles had been drinking wine at El Verano Elementary School on Riverside Drive from about 12:30 to about 2:25 a.m…

Girl: I was fed up with father’s abuse of sister

The sister of a girl who was allegedly molested and impregnated four times by their father says she waited until she turned 18 to come forward because she was afraid of being placed in state custody. “My dad was doing all this crazy stuff,” the 18-year-old told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday. “I got fed up with it until I finally ran my mouth. … I couldn’t see my sister suffer anymore. That’s why I wanted her out.”

She said her sister, now 19, was 13 when their father started molesting her. The 18-year-old said her sibling confided in her about the abuse after becoming pregnant the first time.

“But I already knew,” she said…

Man ordered to prison for sexual assault of child

A Madison County man has been ordered to spend eight years in prison in the 2005 sexual attack of a 13-year-old girl.

Thirty-nine-year-old Anson Carr declined to address the judge before being sentenced Wednesday in Edwardsville in southwestern Illinois.

Jurors convicted Carr in October of aggravated criminal sexual assault…

SJAFB airman will face sexual assault charge

A U.S. Air Force technical sergeant has been charged in connection with the sexual assault of a 13-year-old boy and with allegedly showing him pornographic material, the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday.

An investigation was launched after family members alleged that Jeremiah Williams Powers, 32, of Country Acres Road, had sexually assaulted the boy, investigators said.

Powers is a member of the 4th Fighter Wing’s Equip-ment Maintenance Squad-ron, and because of that affiliation with Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, the base’s Office of Special Investigation was contacted, Sheriff’s Office Capt. Tom Effler said…