Joël Le Scouarnec is charged with raping or sexually assaulting 299 people, mostly his young patients. His family’s testimony suggested a culture of silence around sexual abuse by him and others.

A Michigan man was sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison for distributing child pornography online. Ethan Eversman, 25, of Ionia, was accused of requesting explicit videos from a 15-year-old in New York and sharing the videos with another person,

A man who pleaded guilty to four felony charges related to possessing child pornography will serve four to seven years in prison. Zachary Champine Kratz was sentenced to a little more than four years in prison and five years of probation after he pleaded guilty to two counts each of aggravated possession of child sexually abusive material and using a computer to commit a crime.

A Huntingdon County man could spend the next 16 years in prison for producing child pornography, Acting United States Attorney John C. Gurganus announced. Gage Wagner, 32, previously of Shade Gap, was sentenced to 200 months — 16.

A Cape Girardeau man, Steven Lee Brown, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for producing child pornography. The case involved the sexual abuse of a 10-year-old, with evidence found on Brown's phone.