Authorities in Virginia say a former police chief was arrested on suspicion of abduction and rape in connection with two separate incidents involving the same alleged victim. According to Fox News, 46-year-old Kevin Matthew Buckland had been appointed the head of the Rich Creek Police Department in 2003. Three years later, he was fired following …
A Missouri woman was charged Tuesday after authorities accused her of allowing men to have sex with her 14-year-old disabled daughter, who police say has the mental capacity of a 2- to 3-year-old child, in exchange for cash and drugs. Renee Collins, 49, is facing charges of sex trafficking and child endangerment. Her boyfriend, 44-year-old …
A former official in the Obama administration is facing charges related to groping, as described in a woman’s testimony to police earlier this year. As the New York Times reported, former Center for Disease Control and Prevention head Dr. Thomas R. Frieden is accused of squeezing a 55-year-old woman’s posterior in October. The alleged victim …
Police in North Carolina said they’ve arrested a man in connection with a series of six unsolved rapes committed more than a decade ago. According to a statement issued to ABC News, Darold Wayne Bowden, 43, is believed to have tortured and raped five women and one child between March 2006 and January 2008. The …
A New York man who was convicted of killing a suspected child rapist recently had his 2016 first-degree manslaughter conviction overturned and was granted a new trial. The Times Herald-Record reported that David Carlson was found guilty of the 2013 fatal shooting of Norris Acosta-Sanchez. Acosta-Sanchez, 35, (pictured right) was wanted in Rockland County on second-degree rape charges …
A Texas sheriff’s deputy who has been jailed since June for allegedly sexually assaulting a 4-year-old girl was found dead in his jail cell Monday of an apparent suicide. According to The New York Times, former Bexar County Deputy Jose S. Nunez, 37, was found dead in his cell at Karnes County Correctional Center at 5:45 …
A Texas priest who stands accused of molesting teen boys and embezzling from his own parish has gone missing, the Dallas Morning News reports. Church officials from St. Cecilia Catholic Church in Dallas believe Rev. Edumundo Paredes may have fled to his native country of the Philippines, after serving as a pastor at the parish …
A former Texas doctor convicted Thursday of raping an incapacitated patient will serve no prison time after insisting that the sex with his patient was consensual. Shafeeq Sheikh, 46, a physician at Baylor College of Medicine was found guilty of second-degree sexual assault last month. But as CrimeOnline previously reported, a jury recommended no jail …
Asia Argento, an actress who helped amplify the numerous sexual assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein, was reportedly accused of sexually assaulting a minor herself, and allegedly paid her accuser hundreds of thousands in hush money. The New York Times published a report on Sunday citing court documents the paper had received, via encrypted email from an anonymous …
A jury found 35-year-old Prabhu Ramamoorthy guilty of federal sexual assault charged in connection with an incident aboard a Spirit Airlines flight earlier this year. According to Fox News, the Rochester Hills, Michigan, man was a traveling on the jet in January when he attacked a fellow passenger while she was sleeping. A native of …
A former physician was convicted earlier this month for the 2013 rape of a patient at Ben Taub Hospital in Houston. Despite their finding, jurors recommended no jail time for the defendant, who admitted having sex with the woman but claims it was consensual. According to the Houston Chronicle, Dr. Shafeeq Sheikh was found guilty …
Police in Florida have released surveillance footage apparently showing a 23-year-old man following a teen girl around a Daytona Beach Shores hotel before he allegedly tailed the girl to her room and raped her. According to WKMG, Daytona Beach Beach Shores police released two videos they say catches Nelson Hernandez-Garcia stalking the 14-year-old victim from the pool deck, …
