Police Assault
Jane Doe sued San Bernardino County and the probation officer whom she accuses of using “torture, rape, and excessive force” upon her after she reported his improper advances to the county, in federal court.
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Title IX Practices
A federal court in Texas ordered Baylor University to produce thousands of documents from a law firm’s internal investigation on the university’s policies on student sexual assault cases in a suit in which multiple students accuse the university of mishandling their claims that they were raped.
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Woman Says She Was Raped at Private Prison on Eve of Deportation
A Mexican woman sued prison contractor CoreCivic on Wednesday, claiming a man in street clothes beat and raped her in its Houston detention center and she gave birth to his daughter after she was deported.
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Rights Court Backs Trial Where Public Access Took Back Seat
In a rape case that sparked outrage over the ruling that a finger in the anus is no more sexual than a handshake, Croatia won a bit of save-face for protecting the victim’s privacy.
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Justices Hear Fight Over Tribal Land in Criminal Appeal
The Supreme Court appeared unwilling Monday to side with a Native American convict who argued that most of eastern Oklahoma should be classified as protected tribal land.
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Supreme Court Will Hear Challenge to Split Jury Verdicts
Guilty verdicts from split juries will face a Supreme Court reckoning after the justices agreed Monday to hear an appeal by a Louisiana man sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping, rape and robbery.
Read moreBorder Agent Attack
In an appeal stemming from “a horrific day from hell,” when a Border Patrol agent tortured and raped three immigrants, the Fifth Circuit ruled the government cannot be held liable for the agent’s conduct, finding that it was “plainly outside the scope of his employment with the United States.”
Read moreAdoption Gone Wrong
A federal judge in Colorado dismissed, without prejudice, a negligence and fraud suit against a Chinese adoption agency brought by parents who adopted a mentally ill teenager who raped their other kids. The parents’ claims are “too conclusory” to prove the agency breached a duty to “reasonably investigate” the teenager’s health.
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Child-Rape Charges Against Mexican Megachurch Leader Tossed on Technicality
A state appeals court tossed on procedural grounds a case involving charges of child rape and human trafficking against the leader of a Mexican megachurch who lived in Southern California.
Read moreGender Violence
A woman claims in federal court that Kentucky-based Paschall Truck Lines refused to provide a female on-the-road trainer for her, but assigned her a trainer with an “extensive criminal history” and he “forcibly raped and sodomized” her repeatedly on the road, and when she reported it, it fired her.
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Convicted Smuggler Tied to Two Killings Appeals 15-Year Sentence
A Colombian human smuggler linked to the rape and murder of a Cuban woman and the murder of a Cuban man during a migrant smuggling operation has asked the 11th Circuit to overturn his sentence for conspiracy charges.
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Ex-Scottish Leader Acquitted on All Sex Crimes Charges
Former Scottish leader Alex Salmond was acquitted Monday of a series of sexual offenses, including one of attempted rape.
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India Hangs Four for Delhi Bus Gang-Rape
India executed four men Friday for the gang-rape and murder of a woman on a Delhi bus in 2012 that sparked huge nationwide protests and international revulsion.
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Linda Fairstein, former head of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Sex Crimes Unit, claims Netflix and Ava DuVernay defamed her in the movie “When They See Us,” about the prosecution of the Central Park Five rape and assault case, in federal court.
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Judge OKs More DNA Samples From Accused Golden State Killer
A California judge on Thursday ordered Golden State Killer suspect Joseph James DeAngelo to submit new DNA samples to prosecutors pursuing dozens of rape and murder charges, nearly two years after the man’s arrest.
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Harvey Weinstein Sentenced to 23 Years for Rape, Forced Sex Act
A New York judge sentenced ex-Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein to 23 years in prison Wednesday for two forced sex acts perpetrated against women in the entertainment business in 2006 and 2013.
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Former Scotch Leader Faces Sex Charges
Scotland’s former first minister Alex Salmond arrived in court Monday for the start of his trial for a string of alleged sexual offenses, including an attempted rape at his official residence in 2014.
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Trump Lawyers Push for Delay of Rape Accuser’s Suit
Author and columnist E. Jean Carroll appeared in court Wednesday as lawyers for President Donald Trump tried to delay her suit that casts Trump’s rape denials as defamatory.
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Civil Rights Commission Takes Stand for Female Inmates
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights issued a report Wednesday that condemned how state and federal prisons treat female inmates, saying a broad range of disparities in areas from medical care to discipline show that correctional facilities are not designed for or tailored to women’s needs.
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