DETROIT (AP) — A prosecutor announced murder charges Wednesday against a 34-year-old man in the slayings of four women whose deaths Detroit police have characterized as the work of a serial killer. Deangelo Martin is charged with four counts of first-degree murder and four counts of felony murder in the killings of the women whose […]
Cyntoia Brown on was sentenced to life as a teen for murdering a man she said had paid her for sex. Now 31, she was released from a Tennessee prison on Aug. 7 and she says “loving every single thing” about life as a free woman. As we previously reported, Brown was released from the Tennessee […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Former Wisconsin receiver Quintez Cephus was cleared Monday to return to school after a jury acquitted him of sexual assault charges, though it was unclear when he will be eligible to play in a game. The school announced Chancellor Rebecca Blank’s decision in a statement that said the university had obtained […]
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Bill Cosby‘s lawyers will fight to overturn his sexual assault conviction Monday as the 82-year-old comedian serves a three- to 10-year prison term in Pennsylvania. Cosby was the first celebrity tried and convicted in the #MeToo era. He insists the sexual encounter with a young woman seeking career advice was consensual. […]
A father and daughter from St. Thomas, Pennsylvania are facing a slew of charges after allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting two teen-aged girls inside a motel room, according to a criminal complaint affidavit filed by police. As reported by the Herald Mail Media, Alonzo B. Craig and Aloni Ragene Craig are accused of loading the teens up with […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Disgraced NFL star Darren Sharper’s attempt to get out of a 2016 plea deal and 18-year prison sentence in a sexual assault case has been rejected by a federal judge. Attorneys for Sharper argued in a motion filed last year that he was not adequately advised by his previous lawyers on […]
CHICAGO (AP) — A 15-year-old “special needs” Chicago girl who was beaten by a group of people in a video posted online may also have been sexually assaulted off camera at some other point in time, police said Wednesday. Detectives are trying to piece together basic facts about the “sick and disgusting crimes” committed against […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — More former football players and other ex-athletes are suing Ohio State over allegations that they were sexual assaulted by a university doctor during exams decades ago. Like at least six other pending federal lawsuits , the case filed Monday says school officials knew about concerns but failed to stop Richard Strauss. The 30 […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Two women have confirmed that the writer E. Jean Carroll told them in the 1990s that she’d been sexually assaulted by Donald Trump in the dressing room of a New York City department store. The women, both journalists who were friends with Carroll, spoke publicly for the first time to The […]
Drake and the woman who accused him of sexual assault previously agreed to a private settlement of $350,000 — but now, Laquana Morris aka Layla Lace, has filed a complaint against her own attorney over how he handled the matter with the Canadian singer. Below are some of the graphic details of her alleged assault. Meanwhile, […]
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Former NFL star Kellen Winslow Jr. has been convicted of raping a 58-year-old homeless woman last year in San Diego County. A jury returned the verdict Monday in San Diego Superior Court in Vista but was continuing to deliberate on two more counts of rape involving a hitchhiker and an unconscious […]
An 18-year-old man is accused of grabbing a woman who was walking to a Georgia bus stop and sexually assaulting her in a nearby wooded area. According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, the woman managed to fight her way free and called police as she ran away Wednesday morning, according to authorities. Anthony Bernard Thomas […]
