A Milwaukee teen believed to have been abducted by sex traffickers in May was found safe Wednesday in Chicago by her mother and activists who reportedly spearheaded the missing persons case. The girl’s mother, Bonnie Bruno, said she suspects sex traffickers lured Armoni Chambers, 16, to Chicago after connecting with her online. Though Chambers was last …
Disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein is facing new rape charges in Manhattan, and the latest indictments could find him facing the rest of his life behind bars. The New York Post reports that a new accuser testified before a grand jury on Friday that Weinstein had sexually assaulted her in 2006. The unidentified accuser, the …
Authorities in Missouri say an Ohio professor traveled hundreds of miles on the promise of engaging in sex with an underage girl. According to the New York Post, 52-year-old Kevin Armitage was a Miami University professor when he began communicating online with a user who identified herself as a 14-year-old girl. Armitage used a website …
A Montana teen is behind bars after she allegedly forced her ex-boyfriend to have sex with her while wielding a machete. KFBB reports that Samantha Mears is facing numerous charges, including assault with a weapon, after she allegedly broke in to her ex-boyfriend’s home in Great Falls on June 22, essentially holding him captive while …
A Maryland man is facing criminal charges for allegedly raping and impregnating a 13-year-old with special needs. Reynaldo Mora, 41, an undocumented immigrant, is accused of carrying out the assault in February after the victim’s family asked him to watch the teen at their Kensington home. It was then that he took the girl to a …
An Ohio woman will spend 12 years behind bars for allowing her boyfriend to sexually abuse her three young daughters—starting when they were between the ages of 7 and 9. According to the Cincinnati Enquirer, Elizabeth Smith, 32, gave Nicholas White, 29, “permission to engage in this activity and set parameters on the scope of the abuse,” which …
A Texas man who admitted to purposefully infecting his girlfriend with HIV was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Wednesday. The Fort Worth Star Telegram reported that Karim “Tyson” Zakikhani, 34, pleaded guilty to aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury for infecting then-girlfriend Sarita Anderson with the virus. The pair had started dating in 2013; Zakikhani was diagnosed …
A Florida man who was 21 when he repeatedly raped a 3-year-old child is challenging the constitutionality of his multiple life sentences on the basis that his age when he committed the transgressions wasn’t considered a mitigating factor at his trial. The Pensacola News Journal reported that Charles Hoyt McConnell III, 23, routinely recorded himself violating the toddler …
A 21-year-old Michigan woman who admitted to lying about being raped on her college campus was sentenced to 45 days in jail on Monday. Mary Zolkowski pleaded guilty to making a false report of a felony after claiming she was raped at Delta College on February 22. According to MLive, the ex-student told cops that she was …
A man who’s been on the run for nearly two decades after being charged with molesting multiple girls was apprehended in Maryland this month, California police said. Ventura County Star reported that Julio Anaya was 29 when he was arrested in December 1999 for molesting five girls who ranged in age from 6 to 11. Facing 15 counts …
Authorities in the D.C. area are hoping a digitally produced composite sketch will help identify and convict a suspect connected to at least six sexual assaults dating back two decades. According to WRC, federal authorities used DNA evidence to determine the suspect is a black male between 5’7″ and 5’10 with black hair, brown eyes …
A South Carolina teen is behind bars after police say a 16-year-old accused him of raping her at a Myrtle Beach home. News 13 NBC reports that Joshua Allen Hughes, 17, was arrested on June 12 and charged with several offenses after a 16-year-old teen accused him of rape. According to authorities, deputies responded to a …
