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Rape, sexual assault and molestation are some of the violent ways offenders commit these heinous crimes.

Prosecution rests in sex-abuse trial of Ghislaine Maxwell
Prosecution rests in sex-abuse trial of Ghislaine Maxwell

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors completed presenting their case against Ghislaine Maxwell on Friday, after a key accuser at the British socialite’s sex-abuse trial testified that Maxwell and her companion, Jeffrey Epstein, forced themselves on her when she was just 16.    Annie Farmer told jurors […] More

December 10, 2021

Woman says Maxwell abused her at age 14
Woman says Maxwell abused her at age 14

Carolyn offered some of the most explicit descriptions so far at the New York trial of Maxwell’s alleged grooming of underage victims, who prosecutors say were lured into “a pyramid scheme of abuse.” More

December 8, 2021

Evidence at Maxwell trial: massage table, unfolded in court
Evidence at Maxwell trial: massage table, unfolded in court

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

Montana inmate confesses to 1968 slaying, dismemberment
Montana inmate confesses to 1968 slaying, dismemberment

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

Jury picked for Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking trial
Jury picked for Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking trial

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

Potential jurors get first glimpse of Ghislaine Maxwell in court
Potential jurors get first glimpse of Ghislaine Maxwell in court

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