Child Sexual Abuse

The Missoula Police Department has arrested a teacher at Hellgate Elementary School on sexual abuse of children charges, however, Hellgate Elementary Superintendent Doug Reisig says no children at the school were involved or affected by the alleged behavior.

Governor Steve Bullock spoke yesterday at Community Medical Center to a group of healthcare workers to promote the passage of I-185 to fund Medicaid expansion.

23 year-old Johndar Barnes traveled from Indiana to Missoula to pursue a sexual relationship with a minor, and is now in the Missoula County Jail on $50,000 bond.

48 year-old Eric Nugent was convicted on Wednesday in Missoula for drugging and sexually assaulting young girls over an eight year period.

48 year-old Erik Nugent bragged to friends and coworkers that he had drugged and had sex with underage girls for years, until he was arrested in 2016 and convicted on multiple felonies on Monday.

Missoula police responded to shots fired early Wednesday morning. With one suspect in custody, a 17 year-old girl is still missing.

Earlier this week, Montana Governor Steve Bullock signed a bill to protect kids from adults who may be 'grooming' them for sexual exploitation, accompanied by Missoula Legislator Kimberly Dudik and Missoula City Police Detective Katie Peterson.

36 year-old Kaill Vincent Simpson appeared in Missoula Justice Court on Tuesday charged with three felony counts of sexual intercourse without consent after allegedly raping a child over several years..

A 50 year-old Nevada man is being held in the Missoula County Jail on a $1.5 million fugitive warrant out of Elko, Nevada on nine counts of sexual abuse of children.

Convicted child sex offender Donald Gary Town appeared in Missoula Justice Court on Wednesday via video from the Missoula County Jail to hear charges that he attempted to lure who he thought was a 14 year-old boy for sex.