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Friday, January 04, 2013  Updated with video; Dougherty County Police say they have arrested a man after making continual sexual advances on a woman Thursday after midnight.

Friday, November 16, 2012  Updated with video; A man accused of aggravated child molestation and rape was sentenced Friday and will spend decades in prison.

Wednesday, July 13, 2011  Montrevious Spurlin, 20, allegedly molested his seven-year-old cousin and was convicted in court on numerous charges relating to the case.

Tuesday, November 23, 2010  Crimes known as the ‘Seven Deadly Sins’ automatically earn juveniles in Georgia a date in criminal court as an adult. Convictions carry mandatory sentences, forcing children as young as 13 to live among hardened, career criminals for 10 to 25 years  - and sometimes for the rest of their lives.

Thursday, October 07, 2010  A Georgia death row inmate from Crisp County is asking the Georgia Supreme Court to overturn his conviction because his lawyers say he was "stressed out," at the time he confessed.  48-year-old Roger Lynn Loyd pleaded guilty in 1999 to sexually assaulting and fatally strangling a 3-year-old boy.

Tuesday, October 05, 2010  Law enforcement officials in Paulding County say a convicted sex offender has been sentenced to life plus 20 years in prison, reported WAGA FOX 5 in Atlanta.

Thursday, September 24, 2009  19-year-old Stacey Sims and 22-year-old Jamie Underwood are indicted on charges of rape, aggravated sodomy, aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during a felony.