Rape, sexual assault and molestation are some of the violent ways offenders commit these heinous crimes.
Military veteran Jacob Blair Scott, who once faked his own death to try to avoid criminal charges, has been convicted of sexually assaulting a girl and impregnating her when he was 40 and she was 14. More
June 3, 2022
A New York appellate court has upheld Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction, rejecting the disgraced movie mogul’s claims that the judge at the landmark #MeToo trial prejudiced him by allowing women to testify about allegations that weren’t part of the criminal case. More
June 2, 2022
“She said Bill Cosby had tried to have sex with her,” said the first witness in a Los Angeles County civil trial stemming from Judy Huth's lawsuit against Cosby. More
June 2, 2022
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — Bill Cosby is again facing sex abuse allegations in court as a civil trial begins in California. More
June 1, 2022
Bill Cosby will again be the defendant in a sexual assault proceeding, this time a civil case in California. Judy Huth alleges that in 1975 when she was 16, Cosby sexually assaulted her at the Playboy Mansion. More
May 31, 2022
British prosecutors said Thursday they have charged actor Kevin Spacey with four counts of sexual assault against three men. More
May 26, 2022
Former reality TV star Josh Duggar was sentenced Wednesday to about 12 1/2 years in prison after he was convicted of receiving and possessing child pornography. More
May 25, 2022
In seeking a 20-year sentence, prosecutors cited the graphic images — and the ages of the children involved — as well as court testimony about the alleged abuse of Duggar's sisters. More
May 25, 2022
Maryland man Matthew Ryan Miller, who was draped in a Confederate flag when he stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced to 33 months in prison for assaulting police officers and obstructing an official proceeding. More
May 24, 2022
The seven-month investigation was conducted by Guidepost Solutions, an independent firm contracted by the Executive Committee after delegates to last year’s national meeting pressed for a probe by outsiders. More
May 23, 2022
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (Scripps News West Michigan) — Investigators with Homeland Security arrested a registered sex offender from South Carolina Tuesday, after they say he traveled to Michigan to sexually assault a teenage girl he had been communicating with online and over the phone with for years. Christopher James Masterson, who is currently 35 […] More
May 19, 2022
Surgical assistant Mir Asadullah Naqvi has been arrested in Montgomery County, Maryland for allegedly sexually assaulting a patient. More
May 19, 2022
Amber Heard's sister, Whitney Heard Henriquez, testified that she found herself in the middle of fights between her sister and Johnny Depp. More
May 18, 2022
Brittanee Drexel was last seen April 2009 when she was walking between hotels in Myrtle Beach. More
May 17, 2022
A Palm Beach County teacher is under arrest after authorities said he committed sex crimes with a minor two years ago. According to the School District of Palm Beach County, Daniel Norment, 41, is a math teacher at Independence Middle School in Jupiter. More
May 11, 2022
By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Mario Batali was found not guilty of indecent assault and battery on Tuesday, following a swift trial in which the celebrity chef waived his right to have a jury decide his fate. The 61-year-old former Food Network personality quickly strode out of the courtroom with his lawyers […] More
May 10, 2022
FROM THE BENCH MA v. Mario Batali – Where’s the jury? By: Judge Ashley Willcott BOSTON (Court TV) — A judge found former celebrity chef Mario Batali NOT GUILTY of indecent assault and battery after hearing testimony in a criminal case involving a woman who accused Batali of forcibly kissing and groping her as they […] More
May 10, 2022
Lawyers for both the defense and prosecution rested Tuesday in celebrity chef Mario Batali’s sexual misconduct trial in Boston. More
May 10, 2022
Maryland substitute teacher and head varsity volleyball coach Evan Thomas Harris Frock, 32, was arrested for child pornography. More
May 9, 2022
Terrance Diggs appeared in a Maryland court to plead guilty to the sexual abuse of a minor and second-degree sex offense. The 64-year-old admitted he sexually abused his stepdaughter. More
May 9, 2022
Celebrity chef Mario Batali’s pandemic-delayed trial on sexual misconduct allegations opens Monday in Boston. More
May 9, 2022
Chef Mario Batali is accused of forcibly kissing and groping a woman as she took selfies with him in March 2017. More
May 6, 2022
Heard was back on the witness stand to defend herself against her ex-husband's libel allegations. More
May 5, 2022
Amber Heard told jurors how difficult it has been for her to relive her troubled marriage to Johnny Depp as part of a libel lawsuit he filed against her. More
May 4, 2022
A judge on Tuesday let Johnny Depp move forward with his libel suit against his ex-wife, Amber Heard, after the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star rested his case. More
May 3, 2022
A judge concluded there was enough evidence to convict Ghislaine Maxwell of sex trafficking girls for financier Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse, but gave Maxwell a legal victory by concluding that three conspiracy counts charged the same crime and she can only be sentenced for one. More
April 29, 2022
Former Idaho lawmaker Aaron von Ehlinger has pleaded not guilty to felony charges of rape and sexual penetration with a foreign object and maintains he had consensual sex with the 19-year-old legislative intern. A jury is now weighing his fate. More
April 28, 2022
A former Idaho state lawmaker accused of raping a Statehouse intern last year took the stand Thursday to testify in his defense. More
April 28, 2022
Doe was a 19-year-old intern when she told her supervisors that then-Rep. Aaron von Ehlinger raped her at his Boise apartment after the two had dinner at a restaurant. More
April 28, 2022
A 14-year-old boy accused of killing 10-year-old Wisconsin girl Illiana "Lily" Peters knew her and planned the attack, knocking her down and choking her before sexually assaulting her. More
April 27, 2022
