Sex Crimes

Former Franciscan friar Paul West was convicted of sexually abusing a grade school student during the 1990s at a Mississippi Catholic school. More

April 13, 2022

Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. pleaded guilty to forcibly touching a woman at a New York nightclub in 2018. More

April 13, 2022

NOVI, Mich. (Scripps News Detroit) — Police in Novi, Michigan have arrested a woman who they say came from California to Detroit to meet a 15-year-old boy. 33-year-old Stephanie Sin has been charged with one count of child sexually abusive activity and another count of using a computer to commit a crime. Sin reportedly rented […] More

April 12, 2022

Howard County, Maryland police arrested Richard Morgan who they say offered two 14-year-old girls money for sex. More

April 11, 2022

Detectives with the Palm Beach County Sheriff's detectives are investigating a former camp counselor on more than 30 child pornography charges. Isaac Gabriel Yunes was a counselor with YMCA of South Palm Beach County from 2017 to 2019. More

April 11, 2022

The student fled the classroom after the attack, police said. Another employee found the injured teacher and called 911. More

April 11, 2022

Kevin Spacey asked a judge to throw out actor Anthony Rapp's sex abuse lawsuit, saying allegations that he abused the teen at a 1980s party are false. More

April 8, 2022

Former Louisiana sheriff Rodney J. "Jack" Strain was sentenced to 10 years in prison for a federal bribery conviction, to be served at the same as his four life sentences for earlier convictions for raping boys. More

April 6, 2022

Federal prosecutors said Ray started by charming his young victims, then turned to physical abuse and psychological torment to extort money, sex and other favors. More

April 6, 2022

The siblings of Ghislaine Maxwell said Tuesday they are "profoundly shocked and troubled" that a judge rejected a new trial for the British socialite on sex trafficking charges despite revelations that a juror who helped to convict her failed to disclose he was sexually abused as a child. More

April 5, 2022

BALTIMORE (Scripps News Baltimore) — A 73-year-old former wrestling coach at Mount Saint Joseph High School in Baltimore has been charged in the alleged sexual assault of a minor. Neil Adleberg, 73, coached the school wrestling team in the 1970’s and returned as an assistant during the 2014-2015 season. It was sometime during that second […] More

April 5, 2022

He had been accused of raping girls between 11 and 14 years old from 2016 to 2021. At least nine babies reportedly were born as a result of the rapes. More

April 5, 2022

Chelsea Crossland is accused of killing her 5-year-old son and sexually abusing a young girl for years. More

April 4, 2022

U.S. judge refused to throw out Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking conviction Friday, despite a juror's failure to disclose before the trial began that he'd been a victim of childhood sexual abuse. More

April 1, 2022

Frodsham pleaded guilty to sex abuse charges in 2016 and is serving a 17-year sentence. More

March 29, 2022

Mark Chapman is charged with 10 counts of criminal sex conduct allegedly carried out against 2 children while he was serving as a Boy Scout leader in Michigan. More

March 28, 2022

Rhode Island middle school custodian Michael Macari arraigned on child pornography charges. More

March 25, 2022

University of Michigan reaches agreement to settle lawsuit brought by students who sought to force changes in how the school protects the campus from sexual misconduct. More

March 24, 2022

Utah man previously arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a child, voyeurism and lewdness arrested again for possession of child pornography. Jonathan Soberanis now faces 21 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor. More

March 23, 2022

Marine Corporal Royal Denson II, a Camp Pendleton marine charged with nine counts of sex assault, faced a judge in a military courtroom. More

March 23, 2022

Matthew Muller, a Harvard-trained attorney and ex-Marine, concocted a plan so elaborate and bizarre that at first police accused the couple of lying. More

March 21, 2022

A Tennessee high school teacher and football coach has been accused of having a sexual relationship with a student. More

March 17, 2022

A federal magistrate is recommending that U.S. District Judge Jennifer Dorsey transfer to a Nevada judge the newspaper’s open-records request for documents that Dorsey has deemed confidential under a hush-money agreement the woman signed more than a decade ago. More

March 15, 2022

Grand jury declines to indict Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson following police investigation sparked by lawsuits filed by 22 women who accused him of sexual assault and harassment. More

March 11, 2022

Former police chief Brent Getz was jailed after a jury convicted him of raping a child; codefendant Gregory Wagner Jr. pleaded guilty to child rape in 2020 and agreed to testify against Getz. More

March 11, 2022

Donald Trump's legal moves aimed at delaying rape accuser E. Jean Carroll's defamation claims from reaching trial are in bad faith, judge said as he rejected an attempt by Trump to countersue. More

March 11, 2022

The woman has filed notice of a possible federal lawsuit because she feels betrayed by police officers who broke her trust and violated her rights, said her attorney. More

March 11, 2022

A prosecutor cast an ex-convict Thursday as a mobster-like figure who coerced his daughter’s college friends to join his “family” as he accumulated power, sex and money, forcing one woman into a sex work enterprise so lucrative that she gave him $1 million in a single year. More

March 10, 2022

Lawyers for Prince Andrew and American woman Virginia Giuffre, who accused him of sexually abusing her when she was 17, formally asked a judge to dismiss her lawsuit. More

March 8, 2022

Maxwell's lawyers say the verdict should be thrown out over the juror's apparent failure to disclose before the trial began that he’d been a victim of childhood sexual abuse. More

March 8, 2022