Iowa Lewd Molestation Law
STATE OF IOWA vs. PERRY DALE VANDEKIEFT <table> <td>
Perry and Tari VanDekieft2 married in September 2009. She called him her <br> “best friend,” and he considered her the same. In August 2014, the couple moved <br> into a home in rural Inwood located in the salvage yard where they worked. The <br> 1 The capitalization and spacing of the Defendant–Appellant’s last name is inconsistent throughout... More...
$0 (06-08-2018 - IA)Kirsten Anderson v. State of Iowa
Des Moines, IA - Former Iowa State Staffer Sues For Wrongful Termination<br> <br> Kirsten Anderson, age 39, sued the State of Iowa on sexual harassment and retaliatory discharge for being fired for complaining of about being sexually harassed. <br> <br> Anderson was the communications directory for the Republican caucus. She was fired just hours after complaining in May 2013 after turning in a me... More...
$0 (01-01-2017 - IA)<b> STATE OF IOWA vs. NICHOLAS S. BLAUFUSS</b>
D.J. was twelve years old in August 2014 when her family fell on hard times. Her mother suffered a series of strokes and lost her job at the convenience store. Her stepfather could not afford the contract payments on their house with just his earnings, so the parents, D.J., and her two younger stepbrothers moved in with family friend Donald Chipman in Burlington. Chipman’s house had thre... More...
$0 (10-28-2016 - IA)<b> STATE OF IOWA vs. ROBERT JOHN THEDE</b>
Sixty-year-old Thede started to spend more time with his teenaged <br> granddaughter in the summer of 2013. She sometimes stayed overnight at his <br> house, and he provided her gifts, including a laptop, clothes, and a dog. He also <br> bought her lingerie, a vibrator, and “orgasmic gel” from Spencer’s Gifts. Thede <br> freely discussed sexual matters with his granddaughter, suggesting s... More...
$0 (10-13-2016 - IA)<b>KRISTINE SINK vs. STATE of IOWA and IOWA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS</b>
<br> Sink began working as a correctional officer for the DOC at the Iowa State <br> Penitentiary (ISP) in Fort Madison in May 2003. ISP is a maximum-security, all<br> male prison. Sink was assigned to the Clinical Care Unit (CCU), in which <br> inmates with mental illness and/or severe behavioral problems were housed. <br> Many of the inmates she supervised were sex offenders. The record make... More...
$0 (10-13-2016 - IA)STATE OF IOWA vs. DANIEL LOGAN WALDEN
In this appeal, we must decide which statute of limitations governs a charge of kidnapping to commit sexual abuse of a minor under Iowa Code section 710.2 (2007), a class “A” felony with a mandatory sentence of life in prison. In 2014, a teenage girl reported the defendant had locked her in his bedroom and molested her eight years earlier when she was six years old. He was arrested the day a... More...
$0 (10-26-2015 - IA)Jeannie Schlichte v. William Schlichte
On the day her father died, Jeannie Schlichte finally felt free. Six months after his death she sued his estate, alleging he sexually abused her across three decades and asking for one million dollars in damages. The estate moved for summary judgment, arguing the suit was barred by the statute of limitations. The district court granted summary judgment, finding Jeannie knew of the abuse and was aw... More...
$0 (01-24-2013 - IA)Gail Bierman v. Scott Weier
This defamation case concerns Mind, Body and Soul, a book written by Scott Weier. In the author's words, the book is "based on my life.†It discusses Scott's personal transformation, largely through his relationship with God, following his divorce "on bad terms†from his first wife. Scott's ex-wife and her father concluded the book falsely accused them of lying, abuse, and suffering fr... More...
$0 (01-18-2013 - IA)D. Michl Uhde v. Davenport Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church
<P>D. Michl Uhde sued Davenport Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church on a negligence theory claiming that it negligently allowed one of its priests for sexually abuse him 50 years ago. Uhde claimed that Monsignor Thomas Feeney began to abuse him in 1957 when he was the youngest altar boy at Sacred Heart Cathedral in Davenport. He said the molestation, which included forced oral sex, did not... More...
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