Sex Crimes

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

In a matter of weeks, Michigan will provide a child abuse offender registry that will be open to the public. It has been years in the making, and two metro Detroit moms made it happen. More

April 26, 2022

HANSON, Mass. (AP) — A Rhode Island man was arrested and charged with child rape over the weekend after police received a tip about a video posted on social media, police said. Jared Soltys, 23, of Providence, is scheduled to be arraigned Monday on charges of statutory child rape and procuring liquor for someone under […] More

April 25, 2022

Las Vegas elementary special ed teacher Alfred Carcena arrested for lewdness with child. More

April 22, 2022

Albert Wilson, a 26-year-old Wichita man who spent two years in prison before a rape case against him was dismissed, is suing the state of Kansas for wrongful conviction and imprisonment. More

April 22, 2022

An Indiana youth is facing rape charges for allegedly assaulting a classmate during a school active shooter drill. The 17-year-old Hammond Morton High School student was charged as an adult with rape, criminal confinement and sexual battery. More

April 21, 2022

William Ushler, director of upper school admissions at Delaware prep school Tower Hill, is charged with five counts of dealing in child pornography. More

April 21, 2022

Thirteen sexual assault victims of Larry Nassar are seeking $10 million each from the FBI, claiming a bungled investigation by agents led to more abuse by the sports doctor, lawyers said Thursday. More

April 21, 2022

A Virginia contractor has been sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of a woman he did work for weeks before her death. More

April 19, 2022

Former University of Michigan violin professor Stephen Shipps sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to transporting a girl across states lines for sex. He must also pay $120,000 in restitution to his victim. More

April 15, 2022

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