Sex Crimes

Jury selection begins Monday at R. Kelly’s federal trial in his hometown of Chicago, where he faces charges that he rigged his 2008 state child pornography trial. More

August 15, 2022

Soon, it will be Cruz's attorneys arguing why he should be spared, hoping to convince at least one juror their mitigating factors outweigh the prosecution's aggravating circumstances — a death sentence must be unanimous. More

August 15, 2022

Denver Police Dept. Sgt. Timothy Hyatt was arrested in Colorado for investigation of internet luring of a child after he allegedly made “explicit advances” on a person online who he thought was a 14-year-old girl. More

August 11, 2022

Daniel Boerner, 37, was sentenced to 16 years to life in prison after he was convicted of two counts of sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust; two counts of sexual assault on a child; one county of sexual assault on a child—pattern of abuse; and one count of aggravated incest. More

August 11, 2022

An employee and former coach at a Colorado soccer club has been arrested on 17 counts of of sexual exploitation of children. The Internet Crimes Against Children unit identified the suspect as Howard "Bud" Harper, 63. More

August 11, 2022

Layton, Utah Police and family members are asking the public for help in locating 16-year-old Natalee, who ran away from a treatment facility and is a survivor of human trafficking. More

August 9, 2022

Jordan Jago has been arrested in Colorado Springs for the human trafficking of a minor for sexual servitude and several other felony sexual offenses involving a minor. More

August 8, 2022

The Utah State Senate has launched an investigation into accusations of sexual harassment against Sen. Gene Davis, D-Salt Lake City. More

August 5, 2022

A judge on Thursday ruled that Kevin Spacey and his production companies must pay the makers of “House of Cards” nearly $31 million. More

August 5, 2022

According to police reports, James Weems, 57, was shot by his wife, 50-year-old Shanteari Weems, after at least three children said he molested them at her child daycare facility - Lil' Kidz Kastle Daycare Center. More

August 2, 2022

The 51-year-old hip-hop legend is being held without bond on 10 charges, according to the sheriff's office inmate lookup. More

August 2, 2022

By TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A once-prominent neurologist was found guilty Friday on charges of sexually abusing patients while treating them with pain medications. A New York City jury reached the verdict after deliberating for about three days at the trial of Dr. Ricardo Cruciani. Cruciani, 68, was convicted of five […] More

July 29, 2022

The FBI has reached out to attorneys representing Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles and other women who were sexually assaulted by Larry Nassar to begin settlement talks in the $1 billion claim they brought against the federal government. More

July 28, 2022

Gerson Fuentes, 27, faces two counts of raping the girl, who turned 10 before having the abortion. He has pleaded not guilty. More

July 28, 2022

Prosecutors said the harassment campaign stretched from November 2018 to February 2020 after the woman filed a civil lawsuit against Kelly. More

July 27, 2022

A 76-year-old man suspected of a 2021 rape has been arrested in the killings of two women that had been unsolved for decades, authorities said. More

July 26, 2022

A Baltimore man pleaded guilty to creating child pornography by pretending to be a teen girl online, and getting teen boys to send him sexually explicit images. Matthew K. Walsh, 24, targeted more than 40 boys, ages 12 to 17. More

July 25, 2022

Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has been moved to a Florida federal prison to continue serving her 20-year sentence. More

July 25, 2022

The Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office has arrested Maryland chiropractor Blake Kalkstein after he traveled to Texas to sexually assault a child he met through an online video gaming platform. More

July 25, 2022

R. Kelly’s manager Donnell Russell was convicted of making a phone threat that gunfire was about to occur at a crowded Manhattan theater preparing to show a documentary about the singer’s sexual abuse of women and girls. More

July 22, 2022

A grand jury in Ohio has indicted the man accused of raping and impregnating a 10-year-old girl who traveled to Indiana for an abortion. More

July 21, 2022

NEW YORK (AP) — The trial of R. Kelly’s manager has opened on charges that he forced the cancellation of a screening of a documentary about the singer’s sexual abuse of women and girls by calling in a threat to the crowded Manhattan theater. Prosecutor Lara Pomerantz told federal court jurors Tuesday that Donnell Russell claimed in his December 2018 phone call that someone with a gun was planning to fire on the crowd. More

July 20, 2022

Dr. Caitlin Bernard, an Indianapolis obstetrician-gynecologist who gave the girl a medication-induced abortion on June 30, filed a tort claim notice over what she says are false statements that Attorney General Todd Rokita has made about her and her work. More

July 19, 2022

A Los Angeles judge privately told lawyers he would renege on a promise and imprison Roman Polanski for sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl in 1977, a former prosecutor testified, setting the stage for the renowned director to flee the U.S. as a fugitive. More

July 18, 2022

A California appeals court on ordered the unsealing of some documents in the criminal case against renowned director Roman Polanski, who has been a fugitive since pleading guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl decades ago. More

July 15, 2022

The lawyer for an Indiana doctor who has found herself at the center of a political firestorm after revealing the story of a 10-year-old girl who traveled from Ohio for an abortion says her client provided proper treatment. More

July 14, 2022

An Ohio man has been charged with raping a 10-year-old girl whose case drew national attention following a doctor’s comments that the child had to travel to Indiana for an abortion. More

July 13, 2022

R. Kelly has been returned to the federal jail in downtown Chicago ahead of his trial on child pornography and obstruction-of-justice charges. More

July 13, 2022

Georgia man Eric Tuininga sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a girl while a missionary in Uganda. More

July 12, 2022

31-year-old Colorado woman arrested for sexual assault of 13-year-old boy is pregnant. More

July 11, 2022