Three Leicestershire Police officers are under investigation for misconduct over their inquiries into an assault carried out by the Nottingham attacker the month before he killed three people. Valdo Calocane took the lives of university students Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, both 19, and caretaker Ian Coates, 65, in a series of violent attacks in […]
Jul. 1—ANDERSON — An Anderson man has been arrested on charges of child molesting and sexual misconduct involving two children under the age of 15. Kevin E. Germain Jr., 41, 200 block of West Ninth Street, was arrested by Anderson police Saturday on two felony counts of child molesting and two counts of sexual misconduct. […]
Disclaimer: All persons are presumed innocent until proven guilty. SLIDELL, La. (WGNO) — A second Slidell high school teacher accused of sexual misconduct with a student was arrested on Wednesday, June 26, following the continued investigation of another teacher. According to the Slidell Police Department, 35-year-old Alexa Wingerter has been the subject of an investigation […]
WASHINGTON — The House Ethics Committee said Tuesday it is continuing to review several allegations against Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., including that he engaged in sexual misconduct and illegal drug use. The bipartisan panel, which investigates ethics complaints, said in a lengthy statement that it is also examining whether Gaetz “accepted improper gifts, dispensed special […]
A woman — who had to be duct taped to her seat because she had allegedly been assaulting flight attendants on a flight from the Dallas Fort Worth Airport — is being sued by the Federal Aviation Administration. The lawsuit was filed on June 3 in a San Antonio district court. On July 7, 2021, […]
Two Denville Police officers are suing the township and its top ranking officers in two lawsuits, peppered with allegations they were retaliated against for reporting other officers’ misconduct that involved “double dipping” and theft of time. Sgt. Richard Duda, hired in 2004 as a patrol officer and promoted in 2019, and Patrolman Christopher Ordway, hired […]
Gibson County Sheriff Paul Thomas was indicted in May on 18 counts of official misconduct following a search warrant issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Thomas’s home and other locations in September 2022. The indictment was returned on May 6 to the Gibson County Circuit Court but remained sealed until Tuesday. Gibson County […]
Jun. 11—A federal magistrate judge has slashed the $44 million jury award to a former female Las Cruces high school student who was the victim of sexual misconduct by her agricultural teacher. Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Gregory Wormuth ruled that the young woman, identified as T.R., can either collect a total of $6.5 million in […]
A dean at Vanguard High School in Ocala is under arrest, accused of having inappropriate sexual relationships with students over several years. Gregory Ramputi, 42, was arrested on May 31 after Ocala detectives said a student came forward. The high school senior reportedly told a school resource officer that Ramputi had inappropriate sexual contact with […]
OCALA, Fla. – A former high school dean in Marion County was arrested for alleged sexual misconduct with students, police said. Gregory Ramputi, 42, was a dean at Vanguard High School when he allegedly committed sexual misconduct over several years on and off the school campus, police said. In early May, a senior student told […]
Warning: Contains descriptions of abuse and self-harm. U.S. Olympic pairs figure skating coach Dalilah Sappenfield, under investigation for 2½ years, was banned for life Wednesday afternoon by the U.S. Center for SafeSport for violations including physical and emotional misconduct, retaliation, abuse of process and failure to report a potential SafeSport violation. “Culture change is happening,” […]
EAST LANSING — The investigation into whether Michigan State University trustees bullied each other and broke codes of ethics and conduct has surpassed the $2 million mark. That’s in addition to the approximately $325,000 the university has paid so far to cover the legal fees of trustees during and after the investigation. This investigation by […]