An Ohio judge this week set bail at $1 million in the case against a man accused of the brutal rape and murder of a 13-month-old girl. According to WKYC, He was in court Friday for arraignment and pleaded not guilty to multiple felony counts. Joshua Gurto, 37, faces charges of aggravated murder, murder, rape, …
A British mother recalled being repeatedly raped by her long-term boyfriend who she said would also physically abuse her on a daily basis. Rebecca Bellenie, 33, talked about the harrowing ordeal with the Daily Mail after her ex-boyfriend, Neil Parrish, 33, was sentenced to 11 years in prison for repeatedly raping her. Bellenie said she and …
A California teenager will stand trial as an adult for charges related to the 2015 rape and murder of his 8-year-old neighbor. Although he was only 15 years old at the time of the attack, a judge sided with prosecutors who argued the graphic nature of the crime and the level of planning that went …
Prosecutors say it was an argument over money that led an Ohio man to assault his mother earlier this year in a brutal attack that included rape and an array of physical injuries. The Cincinnati Enquirer reported the 46-year-old defendant’s trial began this week with opening statements delivered Tuesday in a Hamilton County court. Police …
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 …
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 …
A University of Southern California linebacker accused of sexually assaulting a woman last year accepted a plea deal that will spare him from prison. ESPN reported that Osa Masina, 20, pleaded guilty to three counts of sexual battery in a Utah court on Thursday. The deal means that Masina faces up to three years in …
SEATTLE (AP) — A woman who said the rapper Nelly raped her on his tour bus in a Seattle suburb last weekend is dropping her pursuit of criminal charges. News outlets report that lawyer Karen Koehler said in a statement Friday that her client wanted to stop the investigation and would refuse to testify in …
Three suspected gang members face an array of criminal charges after what authorities say was a brutal attack on a total of three victims recently in Cleveland, Ohio. The men, believed to be members of the Heartless Felons gang, are suspected of torturing two residents of an apartment early Thursday morning before shooting a third …
An Illinois man allegedly posed as an Uber driver so he could pick up women outside bars and rape them. The Chicago Sun-Times reported that Musaab Afandi, 33, would drive to secluded alleys to commit multiple sexual assaults. Police arrested Afandi in March, after two women claimed he picked them up from Skokie bars and attacked …
A Minshull Street Crown Court jury in Manchester, England, cleared all charges against an accountant trainee accused of raping a teen girl after they reviewed the teen’s Facebook messages. The Telegraph reports that a 19-year-old girl accused George Owen, 21, of forcing himself on her and raping her on April 5, 2016, after they left …
Ohio police have arrested a middle school football coach and accused him of providing a minor with alcohol before raping them, as reported by 10TV. The Newark Advocate reports that Gary Stratford, 36, of Thornville, was charged Monday with first-degree rape. Court records indicate that Statford is accused of giving a juvenile alcohol before having …
