Empowering Voices, Ensuring Justice: Insights and Updates on Sexual Abuse Legal Battles
Gerardo Regalado, a former varsity boys volleyball coach and math teacher at Perris High School who recently resigned was arrested on Thursday, Feb. 18, and accused of sexually assaulting two students.
A commitment to stop child sexual abuse requires a willingness to seek professional help when necessary. If a child sexual abuse victim needs your help, you can turn to many organizations and programs in Los Angeles to connect you to the right people.
Sexual abuse is a rampant crime that affects millions of people around the world. As a parent, you may never think your teenager could be one of them.
Sexual abuse is a highly faceted crime with many definitions. Many people don’t realize that sexual abuse does not have to involve physical touching.
Ian Charles Schenkel, 59, of Newport Beach, was charged Tuesday with six felony counts of unlawful sex with a minor and two misdemeanor counts of soliciting prostitution of a minor involving two girls, ages 15 and 16. A 22-year-old Huntington Beach woman, Amanda Emilia Perez, has also been charged with pimping and pandering for arranging to bring the underage girls to him for sex, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office. Schenkel is the CEO of Halliburton International Foods, a multi- million dollar corporation.
Jose Andres Lopez, of Mission Viejo, was arrested Wednesday, Aug. 26 at a home in San Juan Capistrano and was booked on suspicion of committing lewd acts on a girl.
U.S. Forest Service firefighter Jacob Daniel Carothers, 38 was arrested on charges of possession of child pornography and groping a 12-year-old girl in Newport Beach.
Child sexual abuse is a tragedy that affects tens of thousands of children around the US annually. Sadly, it is a widely underreported crime.
Child Protective Services finds evidence of child sexual abuse during a claim every nine minutes in the US. About 1 in 9 girls and 1 in 53 boys under the age of 18 are victims of sexual abuse at the hands of adults.
On March 13, 2020 Orange County Sheriff’s Department Special Victims Detail investigators arrested 34 year old Lake Forest resident Michael Medeiros on suspicion of two counts of felony child molestation. Medeiros previously worked for the Archdiocese Orange County and was fired in February 2020 after the church was notified about the allegations.
