New York City police are searching for a man who was allegedly caught inappropriately touching himself twice on Manhattan subways last month. WNBC reported that a woman saw the suspect masturbating on a northbound E train during the morning rush on September 29. He was allegedly caught less than two weeks later doing the same …
Former President George H.W. Bush has apologized following sexual assault allegations from actress Heather Lind, with his spokesperson calling the incident an “attempt at humor.” In a now-deleted Instagram post, Lind, 34, reportedly accused Bush, 93, of groping her in 2014 in during a Houston screening for the AMC series Turn: Washington’s Spies. She claimed Bush …
The brother of the gunman who killed 58 people in a deadly shooting massacre earlier this month has been arrested on suspicion of possessing child pornography. TMZ reports that Bruce Paddock was arrested in North Hollywood, California, on Wednesday after investigator found child pornography on his computer. According to the breaking report, authorities had been …
A convicted rapist who police caught working as a security guard at a California rape counseling center was recently sentenced to five years behind bars on weapons charges. KFSN reported that Damon Rodgers served 13 years in prison for a series of rapes he committed in Madera County in the ’90s. Alarmingly, authorities discovered in late July …
“I would not have wanted anyone to do that to me, even if that person had been a romantic partner.”
A man allegedly raped a woman near a busy Indian roadway—all while dozens of onlookers recorded the ordeal on cellphones instead of coming to the woman’s rescue. According to the Hindustan Times, Ganji Siva, 23, is accused of carrying out the violent attack in Visakhapatnam around 2:30 p.m. Sunday. The victim, a 43-year-old woman, left her home two days …
Police reportedly saved two teen runaways from a Brooklyn home where three alleged sex traffickers kept them against their will. According to the Poughkeepsie Journal, two Ulster County girls, ages 14 and 15, went with the suspects to Brooklyn on October 17. NYPD spokeswoman Sergeant Jessica McRorie said the teens heard the suspects talking about “prostituting …
Another woman has come forward to accuse director Roman Polanski of molesting her when she was a minor. Artist Marianne Barnard revealed to The Sun that Polanski, who fled the U.S. in 1978 after pleading guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl, allegedly assaulted her during a disturbing “photo shoot” in California in …
The editorial director of a large digital media company has been fired for misconduct, after a former employee published a viral blog post implicating him in sexually aggressive behavior. On Thursday, Vox Media reportedly announced in an internal statement that editorial director Lockhart Steele had been fired, effective immediately. The Awl obtained the statement sent to …
The youngest sex trafficking victim a 3-month-old girl, the agency says
Woody Allen has spoken out about the accusations against producer Harvey Weinstein, telling the BBC that he was unaware of — or perhaps simply disbelieved — what many have described as an “open secret” in Hollywood. “No one ever came to me or told me horror stories with any real seriousness,” Allen told the BBC. …
New Zealand model Zoë Brock has come forward to say that movie mogul Harvey Weinstein harassed and intimidated her when she was 23 years old. The Guardian reports that Brock has accused Weinstein of removing his clothes and asking for a massage during the Cannes Film Festival 20 years ago, after she joined him for an …
