Sex Crimes

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

ANGELES (Court TV) — Hip-hop superstar Snoop Dogg, scheduled to perform at Sunday’s Super Bowl LVI halftime show, is being sued for the alleged sexual assault of a woman in California in 2013. More

February 11, 2022

DENVER (Scripps News Denver) – A former paraeducator at Quist Middle School in Thornton has been charged with sexual assault on a child after allegedly sexually assaulting a student at the school, according to prosecutors. Cathia Covarrubias Ruiz, 24, faces counts of sexual assault on a child, sexual assault on a child – pattern of […] More

February 10, 2022

DNA and a 20-year-old genealogy expert helped state police identify the man who abducted, raped and murdered a young girl in a case that rattled a Pennsylvania coal town nearly six decades ago. State police exhumed the long-dead assailant's body last month and said his DNA precisely matched DNA left on the jacket of the victim, 9-year-old Marise Ann Chiverella, who was snatched on the morning of March 18, 1964, as she walked to school in Hazleton, about 80 miles (129 kilometers) north of Philadelphia. Her body was found that afternoon in a nearby waste coal pit. More

February 10, 2022

A Maryland man has pleaded guilty in federal court to kidnapping a woman he trafficked for sex. In October of 2018, Joshua Lankford, 33, allegedly recruited a young woman to prostitute. Lanford apparently knew she was addicted to heroin and withheld drugs from her if she didn't make enough money for him . More

February 10, 2022

A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit four sisters of Josh Duggar filed over the release of records from a police investigation that concluded the former reality television star fondled them. More

February 9, 2022

A Maryland man who was draped in a Confederate flag when he stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, pleaded guilty Wednesday to joining the attack as a mob disrupted Congress from certifying Joe Biden's election as president. More

February 9, 2022

REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — A former member of the USA Climbing team has been arrested on investigation of three counts of third-degree child rape, officials said. Alexander Fritz, 28, of Seattle was booked into Snohomish County Jail last week where he remains on $500,000 bail, Redmond police said Tuesday in a statement. Fritz worked with […] More

February 9, 2022