Rape, sexual assault and molestation are some of the violent ways offenders commit these heinous crimes.
Oregon man who repeatedly raped and abused a child in Oregon and Washington state and placed a hidden camera to capture video of another child using a bathroom has been sentenced to 27 years in prison. More
January 26, 2022
Former Iowa high school teacher Justin David Rapier has been charged with sexual exploitation by a school employee after police say he sexually abused an underage girl who was a student at the school. More
January 21, 2022
Former reality TV star Josh Duggar has asked a federal judge for a new trial or an acquittal, a little over a month after he was convicted of receiving and possessing child pornography. More
January 21, 2022
A Rhode Island man who authorities say fled the U.S. and faked his death to evade prosecution for rape and financial fraud has been arrested after skipping his court date in Scotland, police said Thursday. Police in Scotland said officers arrested Nicholas Alahverdian in the Woodlands area of Glasgow after a warrant was issued by the Edinburgh Sheriff Court earlier in the day. More
January 20, 2022
A 35-year-old Everett bar owner has pleaded not guilty to 10 counts of felony sexual assault. A judge on Tuesday maintained bail at $1 million for Christian Sayre, who has owned The Anchor Pub since 2014, The Everett Herald reported. He remained in Snohomish County Jail as of Tuesday evening. More
January 20, 2022
Ghislaine Maxwell has formally requested a new trial, less than a month after her conviction on sex trafficking charges. More
January 20, 2022
A late-June sentencing date was set Friday for British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell after her conviction last month on charges including sex trafficking and conspiracy relating to the recruitment of teenage girls for financier Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse. More
January 14, 2022
Rhode Island man believed to have faked his death and fled the U.S. to evade prosecution. Nicholas Alahverdian apprehended in Scotland hospitalized with COVID-19 in Glasgow. More
January 14, 2022
Missouri's highest court reversed the conviction of Rodney Smith, finding that an investigator’s video testimony violated his Sixth Amendment right. More
January 14, 2022
The judge presiding over Michael Avenatti's trial on charges he cheated porn star Stormy Daniels of book deal proceeds twice warned prospective jurors Thursday that perjury charges could result if they don't honestly fill out a written questionnaire, after a recent trial verdict was jeopardized by a juror's comments about his questionnaire. More
January 13, 2022
A man who raped and attacked a woman in the parking lot of Loch Raven High School in 2019 has been sentenced to 40 years in prison. More
January 13, 2022
New Yorkers who were sexually abused as adults could sue abusers in civil court under a bill that supporters are again urging the state to pass. More
January 13, 2022
LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace said on Thursday that Prince Andrew’s honorary military titles and royal patronages have been returned to Queen Elizabeth II with her “approval and agreement.” More than 150 navy and army veterans had written to the queen asking her to strip Andrew of all his military ranks and titles after a […] More
January 13, 2022
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Scripps News Nashville) — The 1988 murder and rape convictions of both Joyce Watkins and the late Charlie Dunn have been vacated almost 34 years later, according to a court order issued by Judge Angelita Blackshear Dalton. >>>READ COURT ORDER DOCUMENTS<<< A court date is scheduled for Wednesday, January 12 at 9 a.m., […] More
January 12, 2022
A Fitchburg man has pleaded not guilty to 14 charges, including multiple counts of child rape and assault and battery on a child under age 14, according to authorities. Stephen R. Goodsell, 32, was held on $5,000 bail at his arraignment Monday in Worcester Superior Court More
January 11, 2022
The U.S. government will agree to drop pending perjury charges against British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell if her sex trafficking case goes to sentencing later this year, prosecutors said. More
January 11, 2022
Alabama man accused of trying to hire someone on an app to kidnap and rape a Wisconsin woman he met online.. Matthias Jacob Edward Mann was arrested on charges of attempted kidnapping and attempted coercion after a person he believed was willing to assault a woman turned out to be a police officer working undercover. More
January 10, 2022
A man arrested on child rape charges last month in Tennessee could have victims in nine other states, a prosecutor said Monday .Ryan Andrew Meyung, 30, was charged in December with child rape, aggravated kidnapping and other related counts, Hamilton County District Attorney Neal Pinkston said in a statement. More
January 10, 2022
A Connecticut man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for sex trafficking at the 2020 Super Bowl in South Florida. Edward Walker, 48, of New Haven, Connecticut, was sentenced Thursday in Fort Lauderdale federal court, according to court records. More
January 7, 2022
A man has been arrested in connection to the 2019 sexual assault of a 16-year-old. In Nov. 2019, a 16-year-old student told a Fort Collins Police Services school resource officer that she was the victim of a sexual assault in September 2019. According to the sheriff's office, the victim said she met a man named Andrew Koprowski via Snapchat. More
January 6, 2022
A juror at the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell who told reporters he was sexually abused as a child has retained a lawyer, the trial judge said Thursday. More
January 6, 2022
IUKA, Miss. (AP) — A former social worker with the Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services has received eight years in prison for sex crimes involving two teenage boys under her care. Lauren Rose Cavness, 27, of Tishomingo, appeared Wednesday before Tishomingo County Circuit Judge Kelly Mims, the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reported. He sentenced […] More
January 5, 2022
Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted last week of conspiring to recruit and groom teenage girls to be abused by Jeffrey Epstein, intends to request a new trial after revelations by one of the jurors in her case that he was a victim of sexual abuse, her defense lawyers said Wednesday. More
January 5, 2022
As Ghislaine Maxwell strode into the courtroom for the first day of her sex-trafficking trial, no photographer was allowed to catch it. Courtroom artist Elizabeth Williams, however, was at the ready and before the hour was up, the curtain-raising scene was transmitted to news outlets around the world. More
January 5, 2022
A judge was mostly dismissive Tuesday of oral arguments by a lawyer for Prince Andrew who wants to win fast dismissal of a lawsuit alleging that the prince two decades ago sexually assaulted a 17-year-old American who was trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein. More
January 4, 2022
The private 2009 legal deal resolved Giuffre's allegations that Epstein had hired her as a teenager to be a sexual servant at his estate in Palm Beach, Florida. More
January 3, 2022
Prince Andrew's effort to immediately block the progression of a lawsuit by a woman who says he sexually assaulted her when she was 17 — on the grounds that she no longer lives in the U.S. — was rejected by a federal judge as oral arguments were set to proceed Monday on the prince's request to dismiss the lawsuit. More
January 3, 2022
The sex-trafficking trial of Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, ended with a guilty verdict, but that hasn’t stopped the flow of false news that has swirled around the case. On Thursday, posts emerged falsely claiming that trial documents were sealed to protect Epstein — who died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial for sex crimes […] More
December 31, 2021
By MALLIKA SEN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — With Wednesday’s guilty verdict in the sex-trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, here’s a look at what the once high-flying Jeffrey Epstein confidante was accused of and what’s next for her: WHO WERE GHISLAINE MAXWELL’S ACCUSERS? The prosecution hinged on the accusations of four women — Annie Farmer and the […] More
December 30, 2021
LONDON (AP) — Prince Andrew wasn’t on trial in the Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficking case but her conviction is bad news for the man who is ninth in line to the British throne. With the conclusion of the Maxwell case, attention will now turn to a U.S. civil suit in which the plaintiff alleges Maxwell […] More
December 30, 2021
