Then preyed on the children. Tonight i spoke with the mother , of one of the victims. She was too devastated to talk to us on camera. But she says she never wants this to happen anyone s child again. There are seven kids here who have been victimized in the worst way you can imagine as a parent. Tammy prosecutors say the crimes are horrific. But adding to the outrage, Steven Rekowski is accused of videotaping attacks on innocent girls between four and 10yearsold while they slept. Beyond disturbing. Tammy in some cases, investigators say he made a young victim watch while he molested another. I think we ve only touched the tip of the iceburg as far as the mountain of evidence we ve already seen. Tammy rekowski is already in jail, accused of taking sexual abuse images on his cell phone. That girl in the images is four years old. Now investigators say six more children have been victimized. All these parents were unsuspecting. Tammy prosecutors say, at one point, he drugged a 10yearold detectives say they found muscle relaxers in rekowski s house. It s pretty clear from the video itself that there is a kid who that there is more than just a kid who is falling asleep. Tammy a lawrenceburg mom set off this investigation on new year s day, saying a friend found pictures of her daughter on rekowski s phone. The mom then locked rekowski in the laundry room until investigators put him behind bars. Those actions of those two women were instrumental in bringing this guy to justice. Tammy investigators are not even done digging through the cell phone. They also found laptops and computers, which are still being analyzed. Tammy mutasa, wlwt news 5. Mike rekowski is expected to face a judge tomorrow morning. He s been convicted of public indecency, but prosecutors say he wasn t required to register as a sex offender. Sheree putting a stop to a dangerous trend cincinnati s new police chief front and session to curb violent crime. Wlwt news 5 s emily wood was at the Public Meeting in front of a packed house in evanston. Emily . Emily the message here tonight from citizens is they want drugs and guns off the streets. They also made a point that they want the city to play a role in engaging young men and women to prevent violence from ever happening. A steady round of applause for our police. Applause for cincinnati s finest wrapped up the first of five roundtable discussions with police and the neighborhoods they protect. More than 100 people packed the Community Room at the Evanston Center tonight citizens from all , over district two, college hill, mount washington, and madisonville, many concerned with the increased use of semiautomatic guns, shootings, and unsolved murders. Tonight, nearly three dozen people took the mic to discuss a variety of problems and solutions. Violence was engaging our youth, giving them another option before picking up a gun. If our kids want to go and hang out, they don t have anywhere to hang out. They have to hang out on the corner. What i m asking is, where s the funding at . I just talked to multiple people. I m trying to put a boxing gym in avondale. Boxing changed my life. Our citizens are eager to be involved. They do care about their community, and i think it shows. Those communities where we have this involvment, you see a difference. Emily tonight the mayor and , chief say there are big things coming, but they would not release any of the specific details until all five districts meetings are complete. Reporting live in evanston, emily wood, wlwt news 5. Sheree thank you. The next Community Roundtable meeting is one week from today on february 1. It will be held in district from 6 30 to 8 30. A call to End Gun Violence tonight in Winton Terrace after a man was shot in his home this weekend. The group, ceasefire, held a prayer vigil tonight. Faith leaders say they go out into the community to show kids and teenagers there s more to life than violence. They say they didn t have it easy either, but they got help. We were able to overcome, because we had people like ourselves coming to them, telling them, look, that ain t the way you want to go. You know two things are going to , happen you going to go to prison or you re going to get killed. And that s not what we want for you. We want to see our young kids grow up, just grow up. Sheree ceasefire says it wants to pray with kids and show them other options, like sports at local rec centers. Mike rolling closures are set to begin soon along i75 near the norwood lateral. Crews are moving equipment from mitchell avenue to state route 562. The northbound lanes will be completely shut down several the rolling closures will happen again in the northbound lanes tomorrow night and southbound lanes wednesday through friday. A saint x standout is ready for profootball s biggest stage. Probowl linebacker luke kuechly is one of the biggest reasons the Carolina Panthers are one game away from nfl glory. Scored a touchdown, by the way, in each of the two playoff games so far. But what you may not know is he isn t the only local player putting on the pads for the panthers super bowl sunday. Tonight, wlwt news 5 s Derek Forrest introduces us to the anderson grad who will play a key role for carolina s offense. Derek Carolina Panthers guard and cincinnati native Andrew Norwell will make his super bowl debut, and unlike many who play the game, he s reached the pinnacle in just two seasons. Norwell is not only the first Anderson High School grad to play in the nfl, he is now the first one to make it to the norwell signed with the Carolina Panthers as an undrafted free agent. In two seasons with the panthers, norwell has already played in 23 games, starting in 22 of them. Monday, i caught up with his brother, chris norwell, who is also a football coach at thomas more, as he describes the phone call he and his brother shared monday. The first thing that came out of his mouth was, are you ready to go to the super bowl . He was jacked up. Andrew is a quiet guy, so it was nice to see that emotion. He cannot wait. He is so excited. Derek we tried catching up with andrew s parents, but they are currently on their way back from carolina as they watched andrew play in the nfc championship game chris tells me everyone is sunday. Jacked up for andrew and excited about the opportunity. Derek forrest, wlwt news 5 sports. Sheree pretty exciting. Thank you. New tonight the group behind the , Ark Encounter in grant county a legal battle over tax incentives. Answers in genesis will open the country s largest timberframe structure in july. Today a federal judge ruled state officials violated the ark builders First Amendment protections. Kentucky blocked a sales tax tourism incentive, which would have been worth 18 million. Mike new insight tonight on Human Trafficking in ohio. The state s top cop is out with a report detailing Law Enforcement efforts to combat the problem. Across the state there were more , than 100 investigations last of the more than 200 potential victims the most common age 17yearolds girls. Drug and alcohol addiction two the number of Human Trafficking alltime high. Sheree east coast states are s blizzard. Mike while new york nicely, it is a different story about washington, d. C. Schools in the nation s capitol will be closed again tomorrow. Federal buildings remain shut down. The main roads are mostly clear , but secondary and residential streets are still an issue. Plus, there s the issue of a possible refreeze across the entire region tonight. Sheree an apology tonight to all the stranded drivers on the pennsylvania turnpike this weekend, including some gets kids from the segment, indiana, area. The turnpike s Commission Chairman apologized to the more than 500 drivers stranded on a 16mile stretch of the highway. City leaders now want a full review of the situation. Meanwhile, air travelers are feeling the pain as airports slowly return to normal. But they have to make up for the 12,000 flights that have been canceled, including about 1800 today alone. Mike Central Indiana will soon help the east coast dig out. The socalled snow dragon machine can melt a ton of snow a minute. Indianapolis this morning headed to washington, d. C. The department of Homeland Security requested the snow melter for the massive cleanup on the coast. Sheree people in a northeast ohio town are buying up bottled water. The epa could revoke the license of the Water Treatment operator in sebring. Five people tested positive for elevated levels of lead in the village. Right now officials are testing , the water supply to see if that is the problem. The epa says it would provide up to 25,000 for water filtration. Mike an ohio deputy is lucky to be alive after being slammed into by a semi. It is a miracle. I mean, it really is. It makes you think a lot. Sheree more of the dramatic video of the incident that sent him flying and what he says saved his life. Kevin mainly light rain showers scooting across the area tonight. I will let you know if this rain morning commute. Mike and pillow case controversy the penalties handed out at one of america s most well known military re watching mike happening right now, a car a medical helicopter is headed to the scene. It is a single car wreck. We will try to give you an update before the end of the newscast. Wow, some scary moments for a southwest ohio sheriff s deputy caught on camera. Sheree dashcam video shows the moment a Preble County captain was hit by a semi. Amazingly, he survived. I remember seeing the train hit the trailer. Then i felt the impact of the semi, rolled up in the bush. Sheree this is the instant that landed captain brad moore in the hospital. I think i m standing in a safe area, because i m hard right to the semi. You can see it kind of jack nice about the video and shoots hard it kind of jackknifes and shoots hard left, almost at a 90degree angle, into me. Sheree you re onboard his cruiser the afternoon of january 8. His dashcam is recording as he s sent flying violently off to the right side of your screen. My left hand and arm got caught up in the right front tire, and that shot me out. Sheree medics surround him in minutes and rush him to the hospital. But to understand how all of this was set into motion, we have to rewind the video just a few minutes. Captain moore is on a minor car crash right outside of dayton. As he s directing traffic, a semi drives over the train tracks but stops. When moore waves him on, the Railroad Track arms come down. The truck is pinned in and a train is coming. As moore tells the driver to steer right around the arms, the train slams into the semi. And in the video, it almost looks like i m going to be ran over a second time. Sheree but moore says a small incline near that bush sends him rolling to safety, downhill and away from the semi s back wheels. The only injuries he s left with 25 stitches for two gashes on his head and a broken left hand. It s a miracle. I mean, it really is. I mean, it s very makes you think a lot. It s one of those that a foot bush, it could have been really bad. So i m very lucky. Very fortunate. Sheree understatement, right . Captain moore says he s looking forward to getting back to work and hopes to get a doctor s approval to return to light duty next week. Mike in commitment 2016, the democratic president ial candidates took the stage together tonight a week before the iowa caucuses. Cnn hosted a town hall at Drake University in des moines with Hillary Clinton, martin o malley, and bernie sanders. Sanders hit home tonight that he could accomplish his goals as president by working with republicans. Senator sanders in a dysfunctional congress, i worked with people like john mccain, people like jeff miller , most comprehensive Veterans Health care legislation in the modern history of the United States of america. I have worked with republicans when there is Common Ground throughout my career. Mike Hillary Clinton is getting support from her husband here in cincinnati. Will host a fundraiser for her sometime next month. The fundraiser is set for february 12 downtown. It will be from 11 30 in the morning until 1 30 in the afternoon the campaign has not the event. Sheree planned parenthood cleared of wrongdoing from a texas pot grand jury check from a texas grand jury over video that suggested the group illegally sold fetal tissue and organs. Instead, the grand jury indicted two antiabortion activists. David daleiden and Sandra Merritt are charged with tampering of a governmental record. The two are part of the group. The group that released the videos. Planned parenthood alleges the group edited the footage to for profit. Something the group has denied all along. 14 cadets at the citadel mike Military College are suspended for a photo showing them wearing pillow cases on outrage for its resemblance to kkk members. The group claims upper class cadets directed the freshman to sing Christmas Carols while dressed as ghosts of christmas past. Leaders say some cadets did recognize the possible misinterpretation and did not report it. In the end, it was extremely poor judgment, violating those rules as well as bad leadership. , some failures in leadership. Mike the school says it s also expanding its racial sensitivity and ethical training. Sheree a win for teachers in detroit. A judge there has denied an order to stop teacher sickouts. That is when a group decides to call in sick in protest of an issue. For detroit teachers, it s in response to poor conditions, class sizes and pay issues. , several schools in the district have been shut down because of the number of teacher absences. While the temporary restraining order was denied, there s another hearing next month. Announcer cincinnati s kevin we have got a little bit of light rain tonight. Emphasis on rain, because temperatures are way too warm for anything frozen. From wilmington towards lanchester, a few showers going to the Greater Cincinnati area. They are all very light, but they are enough to wet roadways. Batavia, clermont county, alexandria, to will and stem to williamstown. Temperatures did not do the job in terms of whatever was left over of the snow, so some of these showers tonight certainly will. Tuesday morning, gloomy skies when you wake up. It is my old right now. Step outside for some mild weather, close to 50. Tomorrow morning. It will be blustery and colder, down into the 30 will stay in top the 30 day long. Very chilly tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow evening. Do not expect to see any of the sun. Temperatures will hold steady or probably fall into late evening. Tonight, we have balmy breezes out. Look at the temperature map, compared to 20 for hours ago, the rangers are running 20 and in some cases, 30 degrees warmer temperatures are running 20 and, in some cases, 30 degrees warmer than it was last night. Relatively mild tonight. But a different story tomorrow morning. A balmy breeze. 37 right now at the airport. A south wind at 15 at this time. We have overnight showers tonight. It will not amount to do much. Gone by the morning commute. Tomorrow, tomorrow night, wednesday will be cold. And then a january thaw, and i m tonight, we are on the warm side of that system. 47 in dayton. After about eight inches of snow in louisville, up to 52. Around the mississippi river, back into the 30 s. We are on the warm side of this system. Tomorrow, we will be on the backside to colder air will be moving into the area. Showers overnight tonight, nothing terribly heavy. This should be out of here by the morning commute. Looks like we will have cloudy and blustery, cold conditions for tomorrow afternoon. Back to january weather. I would not rule out a passing flurry or two tomorrow evening, but it will not be a big deal. Starting cloudy on wednesday, another chilly day. Sounds to start up to it we might get into some sun Late Wednesday afternoon for a 34 for a low tonight was showers moving in. Happen here in about the next 30 minutes, at midnight, midtoupper 40 s or temperatures will fall during the debut at we will have her in the mid30 s throughout the afternoon. Seven day forecast down to 25 tomorrow night. Only 36 on wednesday. Then up, up, and away with those temperatures. Low 40 s on friday. Mid50 s on saturday. A nice stretch taking us into the weekend. Maybe some showers as we close it out sunday night. Sheree thank you. Best story of the night here. A canadian boy is getting a puppy, all thanks to an ottawa hockey player. Mike i knew you would like this. Cole jansen bet his dad that if senators player bobby ryan scored a goal he would get a , puppy. He even had a sign for sunday s game. Late in the second, that is a ryan scored. Puppy goal. Ryan scored. While the jansen kids were happy, their dad wasn t thrilled. He said he thought he was going sheree i like that even mom is cheering. Mike dad will be won over and bob about two days with that puppy. Well, recognition for a selfless basketball standout. Sheree still ahead in sports, a betterthanexpected season just George Xavier has taken off for providence, where tomorrow night the musketeers get a big test on the road. Welcome back, everyone. It will be two top 10 teams going at it, both coming off nice wins at home. While xavier beat seton hall saturday, providence took down villanova yesterday in overtime. Kris dunn is the friars big gun, but ben bentil went off for 31 points against the wildcats. As i said, both are top 10 teams. The new ap poll still has oklahoma on top, followed by north carolina. Xavier is 7th, providence 10th. Louisville is now 16th, indiana 19th, and kentucky is 20th. In Columbus Ohio state in a big , 10 matchup with penn state. The buckeyes allow just 46 6646 is the final. The buckeyes snap a short twogame skid. Finally, preseason Football Tickets that are priced lower than regular season tickets. Bengals season Ticket Holders have suffered through that scam for years. But now comes a twotier model for tickets with preseason games 12 to 33 dollars cheaper than the regular season. The bengals say they re following a trend other nfl teams practice returning season Ticket Holders will pay a little more for regular season games in 2016, but the total package costs less, because there is one less home game with the bengals scheduled to play a game in london, england. We now introduce you to our latest beacon orthopaedics and Sports Medicine primetime performer of the week, noah kappers of monroe. As Derek Forrest tells us, noah has been delivering big performances all season long. Quickly realize about noah is how selfless he is about as a player, always caring about his teammate spirit while his play versus eaton was impressive, it is what he has done all season long. It is hard for me to say that any game is different with him, because he consistently brings the same effort, energy, and intensity. Derek noah kappers picks up the award after grabbing over 28,000 votes on our online poll, and he is extremely happy for all the support. Noah the support was huge. My mom was calling people. All my teammates were doing it. Everyone in the community was helping me out. I have a great community. Likes this is the coach of the monroe performance, and i am giving noah kappers the begin orthopedics player of the week award. George that young man knows how to score points on the basketball point, and he scored votes on the almighty voting with over 28,000. Mike they were excited about that. George he had [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] sheree happening right now a car crash shuts down Ronald Reagan highway in both directions in finneytown. A medical helicopter is headed to that accident scene near galbraith. It is a single car crash. No word on the severity of the injuries. Again, a medical helicopter headed to the scene. Mike a much different story than friday with all that snow. Now we re getting warmer temperatures and rain. Kevin showers overnight. Not much of a problem for the morning commute. Mid40 s. And dropping into the 20 s tomorrow night. It will be cold tomorrow and
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