Rape, sexual assault and molestation are some of the violent ways offenders commit these heinous crimes.
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
A judge has consolidated hundreds of lawsuits alleging physical and sexual abuse at New Hampshire’s youth detention center, more than two years after the first case was filed. More
July 11, 2022
Prosecutors say Chrystul Kizer traveled to Randall Volar's home in Kenosha in June 2018 and killed him. More
July 6, 2022
R. Kelly is no longer on suicide watch following the jailed R&B singer's sentencing in a federal sex abuse case. More
July 6, 2022
R. Kelly could be in his 80s before the singer is free again, based on a 30-year prison term imposed this week by a New York federal judge. More
July 1, 2022
Cristiano Ronaldo is asking a U.S. judge to order a woman’s lawyer to pay the international soccer star more than $626,000. More
June 30, 2022
Joseph Gabriel Van Eck, 33, was sentenced Friday for the sex assaults of four women from a vulnerable community between April and September 2020. More
June 29, 2022
A jury found Kelly, 55, guilty of racketeering and other counts last year at a trial that was seen as a signature moment in the #MeToo movement. More
June 29, 2022
“Ghislaine, like a wolf in sheep’s clothing, you used your femininity to betray us, and you led us all through it," said accuser Virginia Giuffre. More
June 27, 2022
Two of four women who testified at Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial that she had a role in their sexual abuse at the hands of financier Jeffrey Epstein may be speaking at her sentencing or have their statements read aloud. More
June 24, 2022
A former coach at a competitive cheerleading organization has been charged with sexually assaulting a student over a two-year period. More
June 23, 2022
Prosecutors said she should serve between 30 years and 55 years in prison, reflecting the federal sentencing guidelines. More
June 23, 2022
