Sex Crimes

Kevin Spacey pleads not guilty to 7 sex offenses in Britain, bringing the total charges the Hollywood star faces in the U.K. to 12. More

January 13, 2023

Eric Montgomery, charged with raping and furnishing alcohol to an Indiana University student found dead in his home, is charged in another rape. More

January 11, 2023

Los Angeles prosecutors will retry “That ’70s Show” actor Danny Masterson on 3 rape counts after a deadlocked jury led to a mistrial in his first trial. More

January 10, 2023

Fresh off a second rape conviction, Harvey Weinstein asked New York’s highest court Tuesday to overturn his first one. More

January 10, 2023

Retired St. Louis Catholic priest James T. Beighlie, who used images of child pornography to make PowerPoint presentations, was sentenced to prison. More

January 10, 2023

South Carolina priest Jaime Adolfo Gonzalez-Farias is charged with federal sex crimes stemming from allegations he abused an 11-year-old. More

January 9, 2023

Jurors acquitted Harvey Weinstein of 1 count of sexual battery & failed to reach verdicts after 9 days of deliberations on 3 other sexual assault counts. More

January 9, 2023

The indictment said the abuse took place at medical offices and Manhattan hospitals while Robert Hadden worked as a physician. More

January 9, 2023

Howard Jackson Bradberry received a 25-year prison sentence in the cold case Maryland kidnapping, rape and murder of Laney McGadney. More

January 6, 2023

BYRON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (Scripps News Detroit) — Orthodontist, Dr. Thomas Patrick Shannon, is facing criminal charges after investigators say he was found to have solicited sexually explicit photos and videos from a minor in North Carolina through social media. The Kent County Sheriffs Detective Bureau received a tip about Shannon’s online communications with a 17-year-old […] More

January 6, 2023

Convicted sex offender Isaac T. Outten turned himself in after he was seen helping a high school girls' basketball team during games and practices. More

January 4, 2023

A judge declared a mistrial in Danny Masterson's case after the jury said they were 'not even close' to coming to a decision on any of the counts. More

January 4, 2023

Stars of 1968's “Romeo and Juliet” sue Paramount Pictures for over $500 million over a nude scene in the film shot when they were teens. More

January 3, 2023

Andrew Tate was detained in Romania late Thursday on charges of human trafficking and rape, according to police. More

December 30, 2022

The women said they were plied with alcohol and marijuana before being rushed through signing a contract, which they weren't allowed to read. More

December 27, 2022

Kansas City man Brian K. Keeling, a repeat sex-offender, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for sexually abusing 2 girls. More

December 21, 2022

The jury voted unanimously to convict Harvey Weinstein of crimes against only one: a Russian-born model and actor known as Jane Doe 1. More

December 21, 2022

Once he’s back in the U.S., Sam Bankman-Fried’s attorney will be able to request that he be released on bail. More

December 20, 2022

Harvey Weinstein was found guilty of rape at a Los Angeles trial. A reached the verdict at the 70-year-old ex-movie mogul's second criminal trial. More

December 19, 2022

Ex-R. Kelly manager Donnell Russell sentenced to a year in prison for calling in a shooting threat that halted a screening of a documentary about Kally. More

December 19, 2022

Former Boy Scout troop leader Mark Chapman sentenced to 12 to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of criminal sexual conduct. More

December 14, 2022

Appeals court decision that revived unsettled federal lawsuits against Ohio State Univ. over past sexual abuse by a team doctor won’t be reconsidered. More

December 14, 2022

John Griffin met a woman on a website in 2020 and persuaded her to bring her 9-year-old daughter to his Vermont home for illegal sexual activity. More

December 14, 2022

4 upstate New York men -- Scott Wood, Jr., Domenic Licata, Matthew Koons and Leonard Sawyer -- were arrested for sex crimes against children. More

December 13, 2022

3 women sue Univ. of Vermont saying it didn't adequately respond after they reported they'd been sexually assaulted as students on the Burlington campus. More

December 9, 2022

Shannon Ruth accuses Nick Carter of raping her at a concert in Washington State in 2001 when she was 17 and Carter was 21. More

December 9, 2022

Michigan doctor Zvi Levran, jailed on criminal sexual conduct charges connected to work with youth hockey organizations, is charged in 2 more cases. More

December 8, 2022

The decision followed an investigation involving more than 35 witness interviews and evidence derived from 10 search warrants. More

December 8, 2022

The lawsuit alleges that each woman was abused or assaulted by Bill Cosby after meeting him on set or social circles in the late 1960s-1990s. More

December 8, 2022

Samuel Bateman was a former member of the FLDS until he left to start his own small offshoot group. More

December 7, 2022