Sex Crimes

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

The high court declined prosecutors' request to hear the case and reinstate Cosby's conviction. More

March 7, 2022

A former nursing assistant is accused of sexually assaulting multiple elderly residents at an assisted living facility in Ohio. More

March 7, 2022

Rocker Marilyn Manson sued his former fiancee, “Westworld" actor Evan Rachel Wood, on Wednesday over her allegations that he sexually and physically abused her during their relationship. More

March 3, 2022

A Ghislaine Maxwell trial juror whose post-verdict revelation that he had suffered child sex abuse has jeopardized Maxwell's conviction may receive immunity to testify before the judge mulling whether the verdict will stand. More

March 2, 2022

Prosecutors allege Chrystul Kizer shot Randall Volar in the head at his Kenosha home, burned his house down and stole his BMW in 2018. More

March 1, 2022

A rape survivor is suing the city of Albuquerque over its backlog of untested rape kits, alleging a nearly decade-long delay allowed her rapist to freely attack other women. More

February 28, 2022

The high court isn't being asked to decide whether Chrystul Kizer is guilty, only if she can argue at trial that the law protects her from criminal liability. More

February 28, 2022

In interviews with news outlets, the juror described a moment during the deliberations when he told fellow jurors that, like some of the victims of Epstein, he had been sexually abused as a child. More

February 24, 2022

Melissa Blair is charged with 18 counts of aggravated statutory rape, four counts of human trafficking by patronizing prostitution and one count of solicitation of a minor. More

February 18, 2022

A sheriff's office in South Florida has named a deceased deputy as the only probable suspect in the sexual assault and murder of an 11-year-old girl in 1983. Now, cold-case detectives believe he could be responsible for other sexual assault cases across the state. Lora Ann Huizar, 11, was abducted, sexually assaulted, and murdered by former St. Lucie County Sheriff Deputy James Howard Harrison. More

February 17, 2022

District Attorney Chesa Boudin said someone at the crime lab told his office the practice was a standard procedure. More

February 17, 2022

A Colorado man was sentenced to several years in prison after he was found guilty of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old who was working for him.Bobby Lee Fox, 73, of Aurora was sentenced Monday to eight years to life in the Colorado Department of Corrections with mandatory five years parole. More

February 16, 2022

A judge has set an April sentencing date for former reality TV star Josh Duggar, who was convicted last year of federal child pornography charges. More

February 15, 2022

Virginia Giuffre sued Prince Andrew in August. The American accused the British royal of sexually abusing her when she was 17 while she traveled with financier Jeffrey Epstein. More

February 15, 2022