Rape, sexual assault and molestation are some of the violent ways offenders commit these heinous crimes.
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
The judge presiding over the sex trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell cited an “astronomical spike” in the number of coronavirus cases in New York City as she explained Tuesday why she was urging jurors to work longer hours. More
December 28, 2021
The jury deliberating the fate of Ghislaine Maxwell at her sex trafficking trial requested a white board and different colored sticky notes Monday as it signaled that it had plenty of work to do after a long holiday weekend. More
December 27, 2021
Ghislaine Maxwell reached her 60th birthday behind bars Saturday as she awaited the outcome of her sex trafficking trial. More
December 27, 2021
Four years after Kim Bryant was abducted, a nearly identical crime was committed against Clark High School graduate Diana Hanson. More
December 27, 2021
A television producer has pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges in connection with paying a Nevada woman to bring her 9-year-old daughter to Vermont to engage in illegal sexual activity at a Ludlow ski house. More
December 22, 2021
The Pinal County Sheriff's Office is investigating the sexual assault of a child. On Nov. 14, deputies were contacted by a Queen Creek urgent care clinic after a 6-year-old child reportedly tested positive for a sexually transmitted diseased, according to PCSO. Jacob Sullivan (Pinal County Sheriff's Office)Through further investigation, the child disclosed to authorities that her father's roommate had sexually assaulted her. On Dec. 20, a warrant was issued for 26-year-old Jacob Sullivan. More
December 22, 2021
State prosecutors lost their bid to reinstate charges against the former president of Michigan State University who was accused of lying to investigators in 2018 when they tried to learn what she knew years earlier about sexual assault complaints involving Larry Nassar. More
December 22, 2021
Ghislaine Maxwell will spend Christmas — and her 60th birthday — in jail without a resolution to her sex trafficking trial as a jury ended an abbreviated first week of deliberations Wednesday without reaching a verdict. More
December 22, 2021
By ANNA LIZ NICHOLS Associated Press / Report for America LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Court of Appeals on Tuesday overturned the conviction of a former Michigan State University gymnastics coach who was accused of lying to investigators about her knowledge of sexual abuse complaints against Larry Nassar in the 1990s. In a 2-1 […] More
December 21, 2021
A longtime Iowa business owner convicted of using his diner in sex trafficking and drug crimes has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison. More
December 21, 2021
The jury deliberating at Ghislaine Maxwell's trial finished its first full day of deliberations Tuesday without reaching a verdict, having asked to review the testimony of three of four women who said they were teens when the British socialite aided financier Jeffrey Epstein in sexually abusing them. More
December 21, 2021
BALTIMORE (Scripps News Baltimore) — A former child protective officer has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison for the receipt and possession of child pornography. According to testimony presented at his trial, 40-year-old Jean Buteau Remarque, who previously held positions at the International Bureau of Children’s Rights in Montreal, Canada, and as […] More
December 20, 2021
The man accused of kidnapping, raping and holding a Snow College student against her will for several days in his basement had a warrants out for his arrest issued in 2018. More
December 20, 2021
The parents of a missing Snow College student who was found alive Saturday night expressed their gratitude for everyone who helped bring their daughter home. More
December 20, 2021
