by admin | May 3, 2003 | Crime / Courts
A judge in St. Louis has ordered the release of a man from a mental hospital for sexually violent predators. Eddie J. Thomas had pleaded guilty in 1982 and was sentenced to 23 years in prison for raping and sodomizing two female family members. Thomas, now 50, was...
by admin | Mar 26, 2003 | Crime / Courts
The State Supreme Court has decided not to hear oral arguments on a challenge to the state law that lets the state hold sexual predators indefinitely, even after they’ve finished their prison terms. Lawyers for the state and for James Francis will submit written...
by admin | Mar 19, 2003 | Crime / Courts
A former Catholic priest has been found guilty in federal court of possession of child pornography. 60-year-old James Beine – also known as Mar James – was convicted after a two-hour jury deliberation. According to the testimony, Beine – who had been...
by admin | Feb 20, 2003 | Crime / Courts
A former priest who left the St. Louis Archdiocese more than seven years ago has been sued by a south St. Louis County resident who accuses him of sexual misconduct in the 1980s. The Reverend Robert Yim is accused in a lawsuit filed by a person only identified as John...
by admin | Feb 11, 2003 | Crime / Courts
A sex offender who failed to register with authorities in Platte County has been sent to prison for three years. Charles Riley Burge had moved into the area in 1997, a year after being convicted of a Marion County rape. He was charged two years ago with failing to...
