The alleged abuser, James Franklin Sapp, lived next door to the victim on top of Jeter Mountain. The child was 12 years old when she and her mother, Carol Lynn Owenby Siebert, met with a Henderson County sheriff’s deputy at the Waffle House on Upward Road to report “a statutory rape that had occurred over several years at the Sapp residence,” a search warrant application said.
Four days later, on June 16, 2014, the girl told detective Tonya Reeves during a lengthier interview that Sapp had started molesting her at age 5 and had raped her repeatedly over the next seven years. The girl told Reeves that “there was about 40 occurrences when something happened.”
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A Nevada County jury didn’t buy a defense argument that a 62-year-old man believed a BDSM contract meant he had his victim’s consent, finding him guilty Tuesday on all counts.
Wesley Panighetti erupted while the verdict was being read guilty on three counts of sodomy by use of force, two counts of oral copulation by use of force, and one count each of criminal threats, first-degree burglary, attempting to dissuade a victim or witness, and misdemeanor battery and was removed from court.
The jury also found true allegations of two prior violent felony convictions, in 1996 and 2015. Panighetti is set for sentencing on May 14 and is facing multiple 25-year-to-life terms, said Assistant District Attorney Chris Walsh.
PROVIDENCE A Providence County grand jury has indicted a Boston man already serving time for a double homicide in the 2011 cold case death of 23-year-old Steven Latimer.
Nigel A. Nichols, 35, formerly of Boston s Mattapan neighborhood, is facing 10 counts related to the fatal shooting of Latimer and wounding of several others early Oct. 2, 2011, outside a Providence nightclub.
Nichols is charged with one count each of of murder, discharging a firearm while committing a crime of violence resulting in death, discharging a firearm from a motor vehicle, and illegal possession of a firearm. In addition, he faces three counts each of assault with a dangerous weapon and discharging a firearm while committing a crime of violence resulting in injury.