Sex Crimes

Utah elementary school teacher Dale L. Andreason, 70, faces four first-degree felony charges of aggravated sexual abuse of a child. More

September 26, 2022

Colorado investigators need help in identifying victims of Joseph Spector, a man accused of sexually assaulting children across the Denver metro region. More

September 22, 2022

Prosecutors need more evidence before considering criminal charges against Marilyn Manson, who faces sexual assault and domestic violence allegations. More

September 20, 2022

Rapper Mystikal, real name Michael Tyler, pleaded not guilty to charges of raping and choking a woman at his Louisiana home and of drug possession. More

September 19, 2022

Grammy-nominated rapper and hip-hop performer Mystikal will be arraigned on charges of raping and choking a woman, and illegal drug possession. More

September 16, 2022

Samuel Bateman, polygamous group leader on Arizona-Utah line, plead not guilty to tampering with evidence; he was stopped with young girls in a trailer. More

September 16, 2022

Federal prosecutors scored multiple convictions against R. Kelly in Chicago but lost on the charge Kelly obstructed justice in his 2008 child porn case. More

September 16, 2022

Cleotha Henderson pleaded not guilty to raping a woman before he was charged with kidnapping and killing teacher Eliza Fletcher in Tennessee. More

September 15, 2022

According to the student, Hoover allegedly pressured him to drink alcohol and "twerked" on him at the school's prom in April. More

September 15, 2022

A Chicago federal jury convicted R. Kelly on three counts of child pornography and three counts of child enticement but acquitted him on a fourth count. More

September 14, 2022

Chicago jurors deliberate at R. Kelly’s federal trial. He's accused of producing child porn, enticing minors for sex and rigging his child porn trial. More

September 14, 2022

R&B superstar R. Kelly’s musical accomplishments have long been shadowed by allegations that he sexually abused women and children. More

September 14, 2022

Taylor Cruze, a former 5th grade teacher at John Coleman Elementary School in Tennessee, was indicted for sex crimes including exploitation of a minor. More

September 13, 2022

Teen human trafficking victim Pieper Lewis -- who stabbed her accused rapist, Zachary Brooks, to death -- was ordered to pay $150K to the man’s family. More

September 13, 2022

R. Kelly’s attorney told jurors the case accusing him of producing child porn, enticing minors and rigging his trial rests on blackmailers' testimony. More

September 13, 2022

Closing arguments began Monday for R. Kelly and two co-defendants on federal charges of trial-fixing, child pornography and enticing minors for sex. More

September 12, 2022

At R. Kelly's Chicago federal trial, ex business manager Derrell McDavid expressed doubts about Kelly’s insistence he never sexually abused minors. More

September 9, 2022

Kevin Thomas Ryan, a 43-year-old Estes park, Colorado man, was arrested on multiple felony allegations related to child sex crimes. More

September 8, 2022

Lawrence Costella, special education teacher at Atholton High School in Maryland, is charged with possession and distribution of child pornography. More

September 8, 2022

Derrell McDavid, a co-defendant at Kelly’s trial in federal court in Chicago, said he saw no early signs Kelly sought minors for sex. More

September 8, 2022

In Michigan, an Oakland County Sheriff's Office deputy is accused of trying to have sex with a 15-year-old girl. More

September 7, 2022

Virginia man Hector Rojo will spend 36 years behind bars for rape of a child. The victim told detectives Rojo sexually abused her for nearly two years. More

September 7, 2022

Music writer Jim DeRogatis is fighting a bid to force him to testify at R&B singer R. Kelly's's federal trial on child pornography and trial-fixing charges. More

September 6, 2022

Colby Ryan, 26, was booked into the Maricopa County Jail on Sept. 3 on two counts of domestic violence sexual assault. More

September 6, 2022

An indictment said Jordan kept a roster of women who lived across the U.S. and performed sexual acts for his clients in exchange for money. More

September 2, 2022

Sexual encounters were touted to members as a form of “healing” and offered a path to scaling the seven levels of the school’s strict hierarchy. according to charging documents. More

September 2, 2022

Authorities released video and documents related to charges against Gary Busey, accused of inappropriately touching at least three women. More

September 1, 2022

Singer R. Kelly told a federal judge Thursday that he won't testify at his ongoing trial in Chicago on charges that accuse him of child pornography, enticement of minors for sex and fixing his 2008 state trial. More

September 1, 2022

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A former Idaho lawmaker convicted of raping a 19-year-old legislative intern has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the crime. Aaron von Ehlinger must serve at least eight years before he will be eligible for parole, 4th District Judge Michael Reardon said during the […] More

August 31, 2022

Prosecutors rested their case Tuesday at R. Kelly’s federal trial in Chicago after presenting two weeks of testimony, including from four Kelly accusers, in their bid to prove the singer enticed underage girls for sex, produced child pornography and successfully rigged his 2008 state trial. More

August 30, 2022