sexual assault

A New Hampshire cold case has finally been solved, with the murderer being identified as one of the original suspects, who escaped justice due to a flawed FBI report.

Arizona laws that distance sex offenders from schools didn’t stop a felon just released from prison from entering a Phoenix elementary and posing as a doctor so he could allegedly sexually assault a 10-year-old girl.

Actor Mike Smith, most famous for his role as Bubbles on “Trailer Park Boys,” has stepped away from the long-running show after a sexual assault lawsuit was filed against him.

A 43-year-old Illinois mother is accused of getting pregnant and having a child with a 14-year-old boy her daughter took as a date to a junior high dance.

The Sudanese insurgent militia known as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) overran the city of al-Fashir and raided its last functioning hospital this week, reportedly killing hundreds of people and displacing thousands of others.

Boat migrant convicted for child sex assault, caused nationwide protests, and who was sought in farcical police manhunt has been deported.

NEW YORK — Prosecutors urged a New York federal judge Tuesday to send Sean “Diddy” Combs to prison for over 11 years following his conviction on prostitution-related charges, citing one of his accusers who said she lives in fear of the music mogul’s release from detention.

A former New Jersey high school teacher confessed to sexually assaulting two of her students and is now facing ten years in prison.

The Ethiopian illegal alien who sparked nationwide anti-migrant hotel protests has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl.

French movie star Gérard Depardieu was summoned to trial before a criminal court in Paris over allegations of rape and sexual assault against actor Charlotte Arnould.

Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan had his appeal against a rape conviction dismissed Thursday by Switzerland’s supreme court. Ramadan is the grandson of Hassan Al Banna who founded the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.

A 17-year-old migrant allegedly of Libyan nationality has been arrested in Paris over the suspected rape of a woman near the Eiffel Tower.

Police in Arkansas City, Kansas, responded to a reported sighting of a woman allegedly kidnapped from an Oklahoma casino and taken across state lines to the small Kansas town. Authorities discovered the woman after stopping a vehicle shortly after 1:00 a.m. on Sunday and arrested two men, police officers believe, who kidnapped and sexually assaulted the woman.

Police in Friendswood, Texas, have arrested a migrant Uber driver for “aggravated kidnapping” of a female passenger.

Uber, which has a major sexual assault problem that becomes worse late at night and on weekends — when women typically use the service in an effort to be safe — has reportedly averaged a sexual assault or sexual misconduct report in the United States every eight minutes over the course of five years.

LONDON (AP) — Mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor on Thursday lost his legal appeal against a civil court’s finding that he sexually assaulted a woman at a Dublin hotel.

Former Kansas Jayhawk and NBA player Ben McLemore has been sentenced to eight years in prison for raping a 21-year-old woman in 2021.

Buffalo Bills first-round draft pick Maxwell Hairston has been named in a civil suit claiming he sexually assaulted a woman while at the University of Kentucky in 2021.

Four Syrian nationals have been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting nine underage girls at a swimming pool in a small German town.

Wander Franco, shortstop for the Tampa Bay Rays, was found guilty on charges of sexual abuse on Thursday with a suspended sentence.

The increasingly multicultural ‘Fête de la Musique’ festival in France was marred by wanton violence, clashes with police, looting, and hundreds of people believed to have been victims of the growing trend of non-consensual injections otherwise known as “evening bites”.

Unrest following the alleged attempted rape of a teenage girl entered its third night on Wednesday with continued clashes with police.

Pandemonium broke out in the Northern Irish town of Ballymena on Monday evening as clashes with police and fires were set after reports emerged that two Romanian teens had been charged with sexual assault.

A judge has ordered the woman who accused former Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer of sexual assault to pay damages for violating the settlement agreement terms. 

NEW YORK — Sean “Diddy” Combs ’ former personal assistant testified Thursday that the hip-hop mogul sexually assaulted her, threw her into a swimming pool, dumped a bucket of ice on her and slammed a door against her arm during a torturous eight-year tenure.

A mother in Indianapolis shot a man on May 24, 2025, who was allegedly trying to rape her 12-year-old daughter in a hotel room.

CANNES, France — The Cannes Film Festival barred French actor Théo Navarro-Mussy from attending the premiere of the competition entry “Case 137,” in what’s believed to be a first for the festival in the #MeToo era.

NEW YORK — The R&B singer Cassie could testify as soon as Tuesday in Sean “Diddy” Combs sex trafficking trial, as the Bad Boy Records founder faces charges that he orchestrated a deviant empire of exploitation that forced women into drugged-up sex parties called “freak-offs.”

Crime rates have grown in Italy to such an extent that around seven in ten women in the country report that they are afraid to walk outside alone at night.

A woman has filed a lawsuit against former Los Angeles Lakers star and coach Byron Scott, alleging he sexually assaulted her in 1987.

An illegal migrant has been sentenced to 25 years in prison after raping a woman at a restaurant in Madison, Mississippi.

A man applying to for a job with the Chicago Police Dept. apparently accidentally admitted to his part in a kidnapping and sexual assault

Bond has been reduced for a man in Nashville, Tennessee, who was charged with raping two teenage girls at gunpoint in 2024, a move that brought heavy criticism.

Isaiah Bond, the former Texas wide receiver projected as a likely second-day pick in this month’s NFL draft, surrendered on an outstanding  sexual assault warrant Thursday morning.

A now former special education teacher allegedly bombarded the boy she is accused of sexually assaulting with thousands of text messages.

PARIS — Prosecutors in the sexual abuse trial of Gerard Depardieu on Thursday recommended a suspended jail sentence of 18 months for the French star actor.