A Daytona Beach man invited a woman waiting for a friend at a park to his apartment and then raped her, police said. Harold Fletcher, 66, told the woman at Joe Harris Park on Pearl Street that she could come to his apartment and wait there until her friend got off work, Daytona Beach police […]
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Florida prosecutors knew Epstein raped teenage girls 2 years before cutting deal, transcript shows
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida prosecutors knew the late millionaire and financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually assaulted teenage girls two years before they cut a plea deal that has long been criticized as too lenient and a missed opportunity to imprison him a decade earlier, according to transcripts released Monday. The 2006 grand jury investigation […]
Prosecutors knew Epstein raped teenagers two years before deal, transcript shows
Florida prosecutors heard graphic testimony about how the late millionaire and financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually assaulted teenage girls two years before they agreed a plea deal, according to transcripts released on Monday of the 2006 grand jury investigation. The transcripts were at the centre of a court battle for about a decade after media investigations […]
Texas executes Ramiro Gonzales on birthday of 18-year-old he raped and killed
A Texas man was executed Wednesday for the murder of an 18-year-old woman who was raped, fatally shot and dumped in a field. He used his dying words to apologize to the young woman’s family. Ramiro Gonzales, 41, was executed by lethal injection at 6:50 p.m. CT, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. […]
Dutch volleyball player who raped 12-year-old British girl qualifies for Paris Olympics
A Dutch beach volleyball player who raped a 12-year-old British girl has qualified for next month’s Paris Olympics, despite being told by a judge that his hopes of representing the Netherlands was a “shattered dream”. Steven van de Velde was sentenced in March 2016 to four years in prison after admitting three counts of rape […]
Margaritaville at Sea passenger files lawsuit saying she was raped in Bahamas hotel
A Margaritaville at Sea passenger is suing the cruise line’s parent company Classica Cruise Operator claiming she was sexually assaulted by an employee of the hotel booked by the company, according to the lawsuit filed last week. The hotel has a history of sexual assault allegations, and the cruise line was liable to warn about […]
Raped by Russian soldiers, Ukraine women speak out to erase stigma
When invading Russian troops advanced towards Kyiv and the first explosions rang out in the suburbs, Daria Zymenko took refuge in Gavronshchyna, her parents’ village near the Ukrainian capital. The Russians took control of Gavronshchyna soon after. One day several soldiers, drunk and armed, burst into the family’s home, saying that Zymenko, an illustrator, must […]
Man was out on bail when he raped a Fresno teen, prosecutors say. He’s been sentenced
A Fresno man was sentenced Monday for raping a minor while he was out on bail after attempting to coerce a minor, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Christopher Contreras, 36, was sentenced to 15 years and nine months in prison for coercion and attempted coercion of minors, prosecutors said in a news release. He […]
The British Army trains in Kenya. Many women say soldiers raped them and abandoned children they fathered
Seventeen-year-old Marian Pannalossy cuts a striking figure wherever she goes in Archer’s Post, a small town 200 miles north of Nairobi. She lives alone and is light-skinned in a place where mixed-race people are a rarity and therefore ostracized. “They call me ‘mzungu maskini,’ or a poor white girl,” she told CNN at her single-room […]
Family sues after their 8-year-old son was allegedly raped at an Independence summer camp
The family of a 9-year-old boy is suing the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Kansas City, alleging that the boy was raped by another child while attending a summer camp in Independence in 2023. The boy, who was not named in the lawsuit due to his age, attended a BGC summer camp focused on […]
Woman alleges she was raped by worker at drug treatment center
May 24—A mother of three is suing a substance abuse treatment center in Rio Arriba County, alleging the company employed a man with a criminal history who raped her there in 2022. The civil complaint, filed recently in the state’s First Judicial District Court, accuses the Española-based Hoy Recovery Program of negligent hiring, premises liability […]
‘So I Raped You.’ After 3-Year Search, Suspect Is Arrested Overseas
While a freshman at Gettysburg College in 2013, Shannon Keeler says she was raped by Ian Cleary, who she says followed her home AP Photo, U.S. Marshals via AP Shannon Keeler, Ian Cleary Shannon Keeler was floored when she read a Facebook message from a man she had accused of sexually assaulting her in 2013 […]