A previously unnamed victim was revealed Wednesday as oral arguments kicked off in Harvey Weinstein’s long-awaited criminal trial in New York Supreme Court on rape and sexual assault charges.
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Illinois prosecutors said Wednesday that the first of four Chicago sexual abuse cases against R. Kelly that they’ll take to trial involves a hairdresser who says the R&B singer forced himself on her during a 2003 appointment.
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The wife of Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang says she was sexually assaulted by an obstetrician while she was pregnant with the couple’s first child.
Read moreA federal court in Alabama ruled that a tort case brought by the parents of a woman who died by suicide against the man who allegedly sexually assaulted her should be stayed pending certification to the Alabama Supreme Court the question of whether “suicide is an intervening cause that breaks the chain of causation stemming from a defendant’s intentional tort.”
Read moreA woman claims in federal court that hip-hop producer Jamal Rashid aka Molly Mall drugged and sexually assaulted her at his house, giving her what doctors called “injuries consistent with a rape;” Rashid pleaded guilty to prostitution-related charges last year.
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The judge overseeing Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial denied Thursday that his recent terse admonishment of the producer requires him to step aside from the long-delayed prosecution.
Read moreFour more former residents of The Glen Mills (reform) Schools claim they were assaulted by staff members, and three say they were sexually assaulted by them, bringing to five the number of such lawsuits this week, in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas.
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President Donald Trump got a reprieve Tuesday in a former “Apprentice” contestant’s lawsuit over his response to her sexual assault allegations, when appeals judges gave him permission to appeal to New York’s highest court and put proceedings on hold in the meantime.
Read moreNew rape charges against Harvey Weinstein in California are “next to meaningless” in his Manhattan criminal trial, a judge with the latter court ruled Tuesday, moving the long-delayed case into its next stage, jury selection.
Read moreAhead of a criminal trial on similar charges that begins this week, prosecutors in Los Angeles charged fallen Hollywood film executive Harvey Weinstein on Monday with rape and other sex charges stemming from a 2013 incident.
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Harvey Weinstein is expected to be in a New York court Monday as his attorneys and a judge handle the final preparation for his trial on charges of rape and sexual assault.
Read moreA woman claims in Multnomah County Court that Dr. George Solomon Allen raped her while she was under sedation at Nu U Laser Centers in Beaverton, Ore.; he was arrested twice after numerous other women claimed he sexually assaulted them, according to Oregon news reports.
Read moreThe estate of a masseur who accused Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey of sexual touching dropped a lawsuit after the masseur died and the Los Angeles County District Attorney declined to pursue criminal charges against Spacey.
Read moreJane Doe sued Eman A. Shirazi, DDS, and Water Tower Family Dental, of Algonquin, Ill., claiming he sexually assaulted her on an office visit; he pleaded guilty to sexual assault and was sentenced to 144 days in jail.
Read moreA photographer claims Damon Dash, a co-founder of (nonparty) Roc-A-Fella Records, sexually assaulted her at his home during a photo shoot, in federal court.
Read moreA woman accused San Diego County and its former sheriff’s Officer Richard Fischer of sexual assault in superior court; Fischer has pleaded guilty to assaulting 16 women while on duty and in uniform.
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Prosecutors in Los Angeles are reviewing eight cases accusing disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault, an official said Thursday.
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The two cops — the cold case detective from Virginia and the evidence technician from Alaska — had a mission. Sift through more than a decade of grim stories from this small city set between the Bering Strait and Alaska’s western tundra.
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The Sixth Circuit ruled unanimously Wednesday that a muddled grievance process prevented minor inmates in Michigan from filing claims of sexual assault by adult prisoners.
Read moreA young woman claims the Chicago Board of Education and its Legal Prep Charter Academies hired Jamel M. Helaire-Jones as girls’ basketball coach, despite his previous arrest on charges of abduction and attempted sexual assault, whereupon he made her “acts of sexual contact and penetration with him in the locker room and gymnasium.”
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