child rape

A Grant County man is behind bars after police say he sexually assaulted a juvenile. Grant County Sheriff's Office spokesperson, Kyle Foreman, says deputies arrested 34-year-old Jason Klein at his Moses Lake home this week. "Detectives were notified by the 15-year-old victim on November 1...

A Chelan man convicted of sexually abusing multiple children over four decades will spend the rest of his life in prison. Judge Travis Brandt handed down the sentence of 59 years (714 months) in prison to 76-year-old Wesley A. Cheney in Chelan County Superior Court on Friday (Oct...

A Douglas County judge has sentenced a convicted child rapist to 26 years-to-life in prison. Superior Court Judge Brian Huber handed down the sentence to 42-year-old Michael Joshua Berggren on Tuesday. In May, a jury found Berggren guilty of first- and second-degree child rape for repeatedly committing the crimes against his victim over a period of several years, starting when they were six years

Trial is set for June 24 in Yakima County Superior Court.

A jury convicted Michael Berggren Friday of two counts of child rape and two counts of child molestation.

Kenneth Crisp entered a plea Tuesday in Douglas County Superior Court to two counts of second-degree assault.

Police say Abraham Escalera enticed two teenage girls into having sex and submitting to compromising photographs in exchange for drugs, including fentanyl.

Court documents filed Tuesday say the now-15-year-old girl told investigators about being raped by Nicholas Joseph Turner in October 2011.

Suspect found in bed with 11-year-old

The suspect is one of six similar cases being handled by the WA State Attorney General's office. Yakima man arrested as part of a sting operation 24-year-old Kendrick Yallup-Littlebull was arrested in 2019 during a 'net nanny' sting operation being conducted by state and local authorities along with the Washington State Patrol Missing and Exploited Children Task Force. Accor...