Lauren Prescia, 23, accused of driving under the influence at the time of a crash that killed her 1-year-old son appears in court at the Regional Justice Center on Tuesday, July 14, 2020, in Las Vegas. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfaye
A woman accused of trafficking an 11-year-old girl on the Strip agreed to plead guilty to a child abuse charge, her attorney said. Gigi Mitchell, 40, faces several counts of child abuse and one count of child sex trafficking. The 11-year-old girl told social worker Felicia Tucker that she was a “hustler” and entered nightclubs where she drank and flirted with men.
Christopher Sena, who was found guilty in February of multiple counts of sexual assault with a minor, incest, use of a minor in the production of pornography, lewdness with a child younger than 14 and child abuse, was sentenced to over 337 years behind bars.
An investigation is currently underway by the Nye County Sheriff’s Office at Northwest Academy for child abuse.
Thursday’s headlines: prostitutes may co-own brothel, child with history of being abused dies, thunderstorm rolls through Las Vegas valley. Elaine Wilson/Las Vegas Review-Journal
Fausto Barraza-Balcazar faces four counts of lewdness with a child under 14 in connection with acts involving two students at Mack Middle School.
Jondrew Lachaux, the man charged with sexual assault and kidnapping after police said he impregnated his 17-year-old stepdaughter and abandoned her with her toddler sister, who later died, appeared in court Thursday.
Judge Melissa A. Saragosa ruled that a jury must decide on 28 charges against Deborah Sena which include sexual assault, incest, child abuse, open or gross lewdness and use of a minor in the production of pornography, involving multiple children over the span of several years.
Markiece Palmer, the man convicted of beating seven-year-old Roderick
“RJ” Arrington to death in November of 2012, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the charge of first-degree murder as well as two 8-to-20 year sentences to run consecutively for each of two counts of child abuse in connection with the boy’s death.
Deborah Sena and Terrie Sena, two of the three defendants who face multiple charges including child abuse and neglect, sexual assault of a minor and incest, appeared before Judge Nancy C. Oesterle on Monday.
