sexual battery by an authority figure

Man offers 13-year-old $10 for obscene photos, leaves money in strangest place

10/07/201910/07/2019 Jason Steen

59-year-old Stephenson Belgrave, of Antioch, is jailed in lieu of a $75,000 bond after he admitted his crimes to a Youth Services Sex Crimes Detective. Metro Nashville Police say Belgrave, 59, admitted that he offered to pay his 13-year-old step-granddaughter $10 to take a nude photo of her vagina and send it to him. He then also admitted to patting her vagina on the outside of her clothing. He additionally admitted to placing a $10 bill under the child’s breast as she slept at his home. Police were made aware…

Man admits to sexually assaulting step-daughter; says “unsure of why” he did it

02/14/2019 Jason Steen

37-year-old Gerber Garcia admitted that he came into the bedroom of his then 13-14 year old daughter, and touched her inappropriately on multiple occasions. He is free on $20,000 bond.

Grand Jury adds new charges to Nashville Monk accused in sex abuse of 16-year-old boy

12/27/2018 Jason Steen

Sayasith Sitthipanyo, a 58-year-old Nashville Monk at the Wat Lao Xaoput Buddhist Temple, now faces 22 felony charges after he was arrested in June and charged with several counts of sexual battery by an authority figure and displaying sex acts to a minor, who was a then 16-year-old boy who the monk sometimes paid for work around the temple.