Sex Crimes

The first week of the sex-abuse trial of Ghislaine Maxwell saw the first of her four main accusers taking the witness stand. More

December 4, 2021

By TOM HAYS NEW YORK (AP) — A green, folding massage table used by financier Jeffrey Epstein was brought into a Manhattan courtroom and set up in front of a jury on Friday to bolster allegations he teamed up with British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell to sexually exploit underage victims.    The theatrical flourish in […] More

December 3, 2021

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana prison inmate serving a 100-year sentence for killing his wife in 1983 has confessed to strangling, sexually assaulting and dismembering a 19-year-old Helena woman 15 years earlier, authorities said Friday. Courtney Brooke Atlas, 79, confessed to killing Pamela Ann Dorrington, who disappeared in […] More

December 3, 2021

Federal appeals judges ask whether president's every remark is part of the job - can former President Trump can be held liable in defamation case concerning his response to rape allegation. More

December 3, 2021

Nathan Sutherland has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, with lifetime probation, in connection to the 2018 Hacienda rape case. More

December 3, 2021

Ghislaine Maxwell defense attorneys sought to undermine key accuser's allegation British socialite helped Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse the woman for years starting when she was 14. More

December 1, 2021

A jury was seated in the case Tuesday, which is being tried in Fayetteville in northwest Arkansas. More

December 1, 2021

Lawrence Paul Visoski Jr., the trial’s first witness, acknowledged that he never encountered sexual activity aboard two jets he piloted for roughly 1,000 trips between 1991 and 2019. More

November 30, 2021

Prosecutors urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction. More

November 30, 2021

“She was in on it from the start. The defendant and Epstein lured their victims with a promise of a bright future, only to sexually exploit them,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Lara Pomerantz said. More

November 30, 2021

NEW YORK (AP) — Two years after Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide behind bars, a jury was selected Monday in New York City to determine a central question in the long-running sex trafficking case: Was his longtime companion, Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s puppet or accomplice? Twelve jurors and six alternates will hear Maxwell’s case, starting with opening statements expected […] More

November 29, 2021

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press A rape conviction at the center of a memoir by award-winning author Alice Sebold has been overturned because of what authorities determined were serious flaws with the 1982 prosecution and concerns the wrong man had been sent to jail. Anthony Broadwater, who spent 16 years in prison, was cleared Monday […] More

November 23, 2021

A judge on Monday officially exonerated four young African American men of the false accusation that they raped a white woman seven decades ago. More

November 23, 2021

Kevin Spacey and his production companies must pay the studio behind "House of Cards" more than $30 million because of losses brought on by his firing for sexual misconduct. More

November 22, 2021

NEW YORK (AP) — Prospective jurors got their first glimpse of Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite charged with helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse girls and women, when a judge began questioning them individually Tuesday. Wearing a black suit, Maxwell hugged her lawyers when she entered the courtroom and briefly sketched a courtroom artist who was drawing her. […] More

November 16, 2021

William Looper told investigators he beat and abused the boy for two weeks and couldn't explain why, Solicitor David Stumbo said. More

November 12, 2021

Judge refused to let British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell home detention citing charges alleging Maxwell recruited TEEN girls for Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse and her ability to flee. More

November 9, 2021

Kansas woman who used 134-year-old law to convene citizen grand jury after prosecutor declined to file rape charges against man she accused of attack said she was angry but not surprised. More

November 3, 2021

A trial resulting from an American woman's claims that Prince Andrew sexually abused her when she was 17 would probably occur late next year, a judge said. More

November 3, 2021

Buffalo N.Y. man Keenen M. LaValley sentenced to prison for sexually abusing child victims. District attorney said he sexually abused victims 13-years-old or younger between 2010 and 2017. More

November 2, 2021

Celebrity chef Mario Batali's sexual misconduct trial is set to take place April 11 2022 in Boston Municipal Court in Suffolk County Massachusetts. More

November 2, 2021

The Rev. James Jackson -- Roman Catholic priest who had been serving as pastor at a church in Providence -- is facing child pornography charges according to Rhode Island State Police. More

November 1, 2021

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo accused in a criminal complaint Thursday of committing a misdemeanor sex crime two months after he resigned under pressure in a sexual harassment scandal. More

October 29, 2021

2008 settlement agreement that a lawyer for Prince Andrew says would protect him against claims he sexually abused an American when she was 17 can remain secret. More

October 27, 2021

Chicago Blackhawks mishandled allegations assistant coach sexually assaulted player during team's Stanley Cup run in 2010 according to investigation cast shadow over NHL. More

October 26, 2021

Prince Andrew's lawyer asks New York judge to keep sealed 2009 legal agreement he says protects the prince against a lawsuit's claims he sexually assaulted an American woman under age 18. More

October 26, 2021

A local prosecutor has filed a motion to clear the names of four young African American men who were wrongly accused of raping a white woman more than seven decades ago in what is considered one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in Jim Crow-era Florida. More

October 26, 2021

Narrative that passengers watched a man rape a woman on a train in suburban Philadelphia last week and "filmed it for their own gratification instead of calling the police" is false. More

October 21, 2021

Neurologist Dr. Ricardo Cruciani pleaded not guilty Thursday to federal charges alleging he was a serial sexual abuser of women who had gone to him for help with debilitating chronic pain. More

October 21, 2021

Judge rejects Ghislaine Maxwell's bid to block public and media from jury selection in her New York City trial on charges she recruited teenage girls for Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse. More

October 21, 2021