Top U.S. scientist gets 14 years for child sex abuse
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A U.S. scientist known as the  "father of gene therapy" was sentenced on Friday to 14 years in  prison for molesting a girl to whom he taught karate.
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A 29-year-old sex offender spent four months at a US school passing for a 12-year-old, officials say.
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Fourteen workers at a juvenile detention center were convicted and sentenced to up to 87 years in prison for beating inmates with iron bars and wood to find out who organized an escape attempt, court officials said Wednesday.
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A Russian court Wednesday convicted scientist Valentin Danilov of spying for China and sentenced him to a 14-year jail term in a closely-watched case, Interfax reported.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Staff Sgt. Ivan &quot;Chip&quot; Frederick, the highest-ranking US soldier charged in the Abu Ghraib prisoner-abuse scandal, was sentenced to eight years in prison Thursday, a day after he pleaded guilty to abusing Iraqi detainees.
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An Army specialist who admitted that he and a group of other U.S. soldiers raped a 14-year-old girl and killed her and her family in an Iraqi village was sentenced to 90 years in prison yesterday, by far the longest sentence for a U.S. soldier in connection with the death of an Iraqi civilian since...
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A prison sentence of more than 24 years is not excessive for a man who used the Internet to seduce an FBI agent who portrayed herself as a 14-year-old girl, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday.
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Defrocked priest Paul Shanley, whose crimes shook the Roman Catholic Church, was sentenced to 12 to 15 years in prison on child rape charges Tuesday to a burst of applause from some of the many who accused him of molesting them.
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By Allen Salkin  Happy Blitt contributed research.  *  Last month, the Web site Perverted-Justice.com posted news of the conviction of Sean Young, a Wisconsin man sentenced to 10 years in state prison for soliciting sex online from a 14-year-old girl.
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LAFAYETTE - A DeRidder man was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison on federal child pornography charges.  Jeffrey Johnson, 37, was convicted in August after a one-day trial.
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A computer technician who prosecutors say touched off the largest identity theft in U.S. history was sentenced to 14 years in prison Tuesday by a judge who said the damage he caused was "almost unimaginable."
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Two paedophiles have been jailed for a total of 15 years after a court heard how a 14-year-old boy was &quot;groomed&quot; for sex then abducted and sold into a week-long &quot;blur&quot; of abuse.
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A former gynecologist accused of sexual abuse by dozens of women he treated in suburban clinics was charged Wednesday with rape and insurance fraud. Charles Momah, 48, faces a maximum 23 years in prison if convicted of seven felony counts against him. He surrendered to police in suburban Federal Way and was to be arraigned Thursday.
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A Romanian priest who led a dayslong exorcism ritual for a young nun that ended with the woman's death was sentenced Monday to 14 years in prison.
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A former coach at an elite gymnastics academy was sentenced to 15 years in prison Tuesday after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl.
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A British man accused of sex attacks in two countries is jailed for 150 years in the United States.
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A Russian physicist convicted of passing space technology to China is jailed for 14 years by a court in Siberia.