In the state of Indiana, if an individual commits the act of child molesting before their 18th birthday but charges aren’t filed until after they turn 21, the offender is essentially off the hook. According to the state’s highest court, there’s a “jurisdictional gap” in the law making that possible.
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A bill that would have done away with the statute of limitations for certain child sex abuse crimes is making headway in the 2020 Indiana General Assembly. But some advocates are disappointed in how the bill has panned out.
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The Indiana Supreme Court will hold oral arguments Oct. 10 for a case involving a dispute over a used car sale in Porter County and one where the Indiana Court Appeals vacated a Marion County man’s child molesting conviction.
Several Hoosier women on Tuesday detailed horrific cases of rape and child molestation as they asked lawmakers to take up legislation ending the statute of limitations for some sexual assault offenses.
A Vanderburgh County judge has sentenced a man to 50 years in prison, the maximum allowable sentence, for two felony child molesting convictions.
An Allen County man’s child molesting convictions and 45-year prison sentence will stand, after the Indiana Court Appeals ruled a trial court did not err in giving jury instructions or denying the man’s motions for a directed verdic
A Vanderburgh County jury found a man guilty Tuesday of two counts of child molesting The jury found Oscar Rax Xi guilty of two counts of child molesting, a Level 1 and Level 4 Felony.
A man could face decades in prison after he was found guilty of child molesting and incest by a Vanderburgh County jury.
The parents of a Johnson County juvenile accused of child molestation owed a duty to the “foreseeable victim of a foreseeable harm” that was allegedly molested in the case, the Court of Appeals of Indiana ruled in reversing a trial court’s grant of summary judgment on a negligent parental supervision claim.
A woman with intellectual disabilities whose sentence for child molesting was already cut in half failed in her bid to convince the Court of Appeals of Indiana that she was entitled to post-conviction relief.
A Greenwood police detective sufficiently established probable cause for a search warrant for a man’s home where the man was suspected of downloading child pornography, the Court of Appeals of Indiana affirmed Friday.
A trial court properly denied a juvenile’s motion for relief from judgment on two delinquencies adjudications that he admitted to, the Court of Appeals of Indiana has affirmed.
A man whose attorney failed to call two key experts in his child molesting trial failed to convince the Court of Appeals of Indiana that his attorney performed deficiently.
A man whose child molesting sentence was handed down while he was in the hospital did not waive his right to be present at sentencing, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Thursday in vacating the sentence and ordering a new hearing.
Indiana law didn’t back up a man’s contention that a trial court should expunge Indiana Department of Child Services records substantiating his molestation of his sisters, the Court of Appeals of Indiana affirmed Wednesday.
A trial court did not violate a convicted child molester’s rights with its jury instructions or abuse its discretion by imposing probation conditions that limit the man’s contact with children, the Court of Appeals of Indiana affirmed Thursday.
A man’s convictions on five felony counts of child molesting will stand, the Court of Appeals of Indiana affirmed Thursday, but the court reversed a 102-year sentence and remanded for resentencing.
A unanimous Indiana Supreme Court agreed that a trial court erred in not admitting testimony about the character of a man’s daughter in a child molestation case. However, justices also ruled the error was harmless.
A man challenging his child molesting convictions and 41-year sentence found no relief at the Court of Appeals of Indiana.
The Indiana Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Thursday in cases involving a couple’s negligence lawsuit against the town they live in and a man’s challenge to the exclusion of evidence in his child molesting case.
A trial court committed fundamental error when it allowed a videotaped interview to be entered into evidence in a delinquency case against a 15-year-old boy, the Court of Appeals of Indiana has ruled.
The July 2014 revision to Indiana’s criminal code has resulted in the Court of Appeals of Indiana vacating a child molesting conviction after finding that a jury instruction straddling both sides of the date of the revision could have confused jurors.