child abuse

36-year-old Ryan Weaver was sentenced to between 44 months and 20 years in prison on Thursday. In September, the Calhoun County Sheriff’s Office found Weaver having sex with the 14-year-old victim in a soybean field in Homer Township.

The Calhoun County Sheriff’s Office says that detectives from their office as well as the Marshall Police Department began investigating sexual assaults against a 16-year-old girl that allegedly occurred in both Marshall, and Bedford Township.

The investigation began after a complaint was received regarding the suspect’s conduct on a cell phone messaging app; a search warrant was executed to the 23-year-old’s residence on Wednesday, and the suspect allegedly confessed to molesting an elementary school aged girl.

Dr. Lukasz Niec was picked up by ICE at his Kalamazoo area home last week, and has been lodged at the Calhoun County Jail ever since. Allegations of child abuse were raised during a custody dispute with the mother of his daughter.

UPDATE: 24-year-old Candice Diaz and her boyfriend, 28-year-old Brad Fields were located and arrested in Georgia.

A Calhoun County man is awaiting arraignment on several charges after he allegedly became sexually involved with a 14-year-old, and fought with police. The Calhoun County Sheriff’s Office says that around 10am December 4, deputies were notified that a 14-year-old girl had gone missing from her home in Homer Township.

Kalamazoo police are attempting to track down a man who allegedly grabbed at a young girl while he was riding a bike Wednesday. The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety says in a release that around 7am Wednesday, two middle school girls had been walking on Konkle St. near Cork, when a man on a bike came up behind them on the sidewalk.

The Emmett Township Department of Public Safety says they were called Thursday to the Harper Village shopping area off Beckley Rd, where they found a 3-year-old child locked inside a vehicle by themselves. Officers did manage to break into the vehicle, and get the child out unharmed.

A former teacher and high school basketball coach at the Portage Public Schools has now been sentenced to probation for misconduct with a student. Cory McNeal appeared in Kalamazoo County Court Wednesday, and was sentenced to two years after pleading guilty to felonious assault.

In a post to their website Saturday, The Homer Schools superintendent says that the district learned last week of allegations against a female teacher, and quickly put her on administrative leave; less than 24 hours later, the teacher resigned from her position.