A month before the start of Harvey Weinstein’s felony sex crime trial, prosecutors urged a judge Friday to quintuple his cash bond to $5 million, citing more than 50 ankle-bracelet violations.
Read moreUber, as part of a long anticipated safety report, revealed that more than 3,000 sexual assaults were reported during its U.S. rides in 2018.
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Police on Friday shot to death four men being held on suspicion of raping and killing a woman in southern India after investigators took them to the crime scene, drawing praise and condemnation in a case that sparked protests across the country.
Read moreA Texas appeals court on Friday stayed the execution of a black man who has been on death row for more than 20 years for the rape and murder of a white woman. His attorneys say it is “scientifically impossible” to pin the killing on him based on new evidence.
Read moreThe Supreme Court took up three overturned rape convictions Friday, agreeing to decide whether the military properly limits the prosecution of rapes that occurred before 2006.
Read moreA federal judge in Brooklyn Wednesday said he wouldn’t let author Stephen Elliott dig deeper into the potential contributors to a #MeToo-era Google spreadsheet that accused him of rape and other sexual misconduct.
Read moreA Jane Doe claims that Eagle Quest of Nevada counselor Marcelo Gellert “repeatedly raped” her and her two sisters while allegedly giving them counseling when they were minors, in Clark County Court.
Read moreFormer NFL player Kellen Winslow Jr. pleaded guilty Monday to raping an unconscious teen in 2003 and to sexual battery involving a 54-year-old hitchhiker in a deal that spared him the possibility of life in prison.
Read moreWith President Donald Trump denying that he ever met her, the journalist who says he raped her two decades ago in the dressing room of Bergdorf Goodman brought a federal complaint Monday for defamation.
Read moreFive months after a jury convicted Kellen Winslow Jr. of raping a homeless woman, the former NFL player is returning to court to be retried on rape charges involving other women, including a 54-year-old hitchhiker and an unconscious teen in 2003.
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Actress Rose McGowan filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday claiming that Harvey Weinstein and two of his former attorneys, including well-known David Boies, engaged in racketeering to silence her and derail her career before she accused him of rape.
Read moreA woman claims in federal court that when she delivered an order of cookies to a fire station in Kanosh Town, Utah, co-defendant Assistant Fire Chief Austin James Corry “ripped off (her) pants and raped her.”
Read moreAn inmate claims in federal court that a prison guard at the Houston Federal Detention Center “forcibly raped” her “on multiple occasions.”
Read moreAt least six women told authorities that deputies raped and trafficked them to male inmates inside a long-troubled jail in southwestern Louisiana, according to newly unearthed state and FBI records.
Read moreTwo years after Matt Lauer was fired by NBC News for sexual misconduct, more questions are emerging about the former “Today” show host’s behavior and whether bosses looked the other way at problems involving one of the network’s biggest stars.
Read moreThe International Criminal Court said Tuesday it will move forward with a trial against an accused Islamic militant charged with committing war crimes in the ancient Malian city of Timbuktu.
Read moreNew England Patriots wide receiver Antonio Brown is facing claims that he sexually assaulted and raped his personal trainer, just days after he made headlines for demanding his release from another team.
Read moreRoman Polanski, whose new film on the persecution of the French Jewish army officer Alfred Dreyfus is premiering at the Venice Film Festival, is still dogged by a rape case that continues to polarize opinion. Here is a recap of the four-decade affair.
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