Judge who sentenced swimmer recalled amid #MeToo movement By PAUL ELIAS, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The beginning of the end for the first California judge recalled since 1932 began almost exactly two years ago, when Santa Clara County Judge Aaron Persky sentenced a former Stanford swimmer convicted of sexual assault to six months in …
Police said that they found no sign of human trafficking at an abandoned Arizona campsite, contradicting explosive allegations levied by a local volunteer group. KVOA reported that the Tucson Police Department inspected a campsite off of I-19 and Valencia Road multiple times but didn’t find any evidence of illegal activity. Despite this, police reassured the …
A 30-year-old Louisiana man is accused of abducting a 9-year-old girl from her home Sunday and raping her. A warrant alleged that Denera Carter dropped off the victim at Livingston High School in New Orleans, where she was found walking barefoot at around 1:40 p.m. Sunday. NOLA.com reported that Carter left the girl at the …
NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein won’t testify before the New York grand jury that’s weighing whether to indict him on rape and other sex charges, according to a statement issued through a spokesman Wednesday. The statement said Weinstein’s lawyers decided there wasn’t enough time to prepare him to testify. They say he learned the …
A California businessman who pleaded no contest to raping a 5-year-old girl will not only never see the inside of a jail, but isn’t required to register as a sex offender. KMOV reported that Lyle Burgess, 79, was sentenced on Wednesday to 90 days of house arrest and five years probation for the 2016 incident involving a …
By COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Flinching when he heard himself described as a man who used power to prey on women, Harvey Weinstein was arraigned Friday on rape and other charges in the first criminal prosecution to result from the wave of allegations against him that sparked a national reckoning over sexual …
Authorities in North Carolina have arrested a woman on suspicion of sexual battery among other criminal counts after she allegedly assaulted a cable repairman dispatched to her home earlier this year. According to the Fayetteville Observer, 47-year-old Mildred Newsome was arrested last week and charged on Saturday with two counts of second-degree forced sex offense …
A former star of ABC’s “The Bachelorette” recently alleged that a female masseuse had drugged and sexually assaulted her during production of the show in 2003. Meredith Phillips, who starred in the reality show’s second cycle, made the accusations during an appearance on the Reality Steve podcast. Phillips said she was staying in the mansion …
NEW YORK (AP) — Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein is expected to surrender to authorities Friday to face charges involving at least one of the women who have accused him of sexual assault, two law enforcement officials told The Associated Press. It would be the first criminal case against Weinstein to come out of the barrage …
Court documents allege 22-year-old Dashawn Webster videotaped himself molesting a 2-year-old boy in 2016, and then posted photos from the scene online, The Virginian-Pilot reports. In a perplexing twist, authorities say the alleged pedophile, who babysat children at his home, watermarked the video and images with a screen name he used online, and included the …
A New York man who previously served 13 years in prison for sodomizing a 5-year-old girl was recently jailed for allegedly posting an ad on Craigslist, a violation of his parole. A Level 3 sex offender, Terri Havens 49, was placed on parole last September but reportedly violated it by breaking his curfew and using …
A former Cub Scout leader in Texas is facing indecency charges that allegedly involved an 8-year-old girl. The Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office has accused Clifton Ray Poe, 52, of victimizing the young family acquaintance multiple times. KTRK reported that Poe was the Den Leader for Cub Scout Pack 820; the alleged victim is a sibling of …
