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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The en banc Seventh Circuit appeared divided at oral arguments Thursday over whether a Wisconsin county can be held liable for failing to supervise a male guard in charge of female inmates, leading him to commit hundreds of sexual assaults over three years.
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Friends and family of Cayley Mandadi filled a San Antonio, Texas, courtroom during opening arguments Tuesday in the trial of Mark Howerton, who is charged with murdering his 19-year-old girlfriend in October 2017.
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Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was resentenced Friday to 30 to 60 years in prison, the same penalty as before, for sexually abusing children.
Read moreSinger R. Kelly will invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in a civil lawsuit filed against him in Illinois, while also facing criminal sexual-abuse charges in three different states.
Read moreA Cochise County, Arizona jail inmate claims in state court that a jail chaplain forced her to give him oral sex in the jail.
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.
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Donald Trump’s cellphone records show a call to a former “Apprentice” contestant on a day when she says he subjected her to unwanted groping, according to a court filing.
Read moreA federal judge on Friday struck down a lawsuit challenging Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ revised guidelines for handling on campus sexual assault, which opponents say weaken protections for victims.
Read moreA former softball player at Kent State University urged the Sixth Circuit on Wednesday to revive her case against the school and officials she accuses of covering up her alleged rape at the hands of a baseball player who was also the son of the softball coach.
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 moreA woman sued Monmouth County, the state of New Jersey and its Office of Probation Services and her former probation officer, who has been criminally charged, whom she says sexually assaulted her repeatedly under threat of returning her to jail, in Monmouth County Court.
Read moreA parolee claims her parole agent in Sacramento sexually assaulted her repeatedly under threat of sending her back to prison if she refused, in federal court.
Read moreA class action accuses Dr. Zouhair Kabbara, then of co-defendant Raleigh (W.Va.) General Hospital, of sexual assault; a second, individual complaint also accuses Kabbara of sexual assault, both in Raleigh County Court.
Read moreA mother sued Conroe (Texas) Independent School District in federal court on behalf of her 11th grade daughter, seeking $15,870 for the private school tuition she paid after the public school district allegedly failed to “properly respond” to her daughter being sexually assaulted on campus.
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Two women who say they were victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s underage sex ring lost a decade-long battle in Florida federal court Monday when a judge shot down their demand to punish prosecutors for keeping them in the dark about the wealthy money manager’s favorable plea deal.
Read moreAt least two Democratic presidential candidates are calling for the impeachment of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in the face of a new, uninvestigated, allegation of sexual impropriety when he was in college.
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