A 16-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of sexually sexually assaulting a woman as she jogged in a park. Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said she was jogging with another woman in Queen’s Park in Bolton on Friday morning when she was “dragged away”. The victim’s friend was also assaulted as she tried to intervene, […]
Two decades before pastor Robert Morris publicly confessed last week to engaging in “sexual behavior” with a child and resigned from Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, his accuser had confronted him and sought compensation, according to copies of emails obtained by NBC News. “Twenty-three years after you began destroying my life, I am still dealing […]
GRANDVILLE, Mich. (WOOD) — Police say a teacher at Calvin Christian High School in Grandville has been charged with criminal sexual conduct. The Grandville Police Department says it learned early Thursday morning of “an incident of improper touching between a teacher and student.” The suspect was taken into custody that day, according to a release […]
In a landmark ruling for gay rights campaigners, laws banning same-sex acts between men have been ruled unconstitutional in Namibia. Convictions for the colonial-era offences of “sodomy” and “unnatural sexual offences” were rare but fuelled discrimination against gay men who lived in fear of arrest. No laws exist prohibiting sex between between women in Namibia. […]
An associate pastor at St. Philip Catholic Church who was indicted earlier this year on sexual abuse charges is facing more charges in a new indictment. A Williamson County grand jury returned a superseding indictment on June 5 charging Rev. Juan Carlos Garcia- Mendoza with two additional counts of sexual battery. Garcia- Mendoza was originally […]
UPSHUR COUNTY, Texas (KETK) — An Upshur County man was sentenced to life in prison for aggravated sexual assault of a 10-year-old and 13-year-old in Pritchett. OFFICIALS: 65-year-old man attempts to steal 21 guns from a Lake Cherokee house According to a release, the trial began on Tuesday where the jury learned that one of […]
BALTIMORE — A woman is suing the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales, a Catholic order based in Delaware, for sexual abuse she says she suffered as a young girl at the hands of a priest on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Joyce Harper, 74, who now lives in Florida, alleges in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that […]
SACRAMENTO, California — Snapchat’s parent company agreed to a $15 million settlement on Wednesday following a three-year investigation into allegations of discrimination, retaliation and sexual harassment by its female employees. The probe, conducted by the California Civil Rights Department, found that Snap Inc. — the tech firm behind the popular social media app — failed […]
LOGAN, Utah (ABC4) — A Cache County woman faces 18 felony child sex abuse charges from incidents dating back over the last 30 years, according to court documents. Ruth Zurcher Worthen, 75, was arrested Tuesday, June 18, on 15 felony counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child and three felony counts of object rape […]
A witness has told the House Ethics Committee that Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz paid her for sex, a report alleges. Investigators with the committee have conducted a number of interviews behind closed doors with women who were witnesses in the sex trafficking investigation conducted by the Department of Justice, according to ABC News. The […]
A Greenville man who pleaded guilty to charges that he forced women to engage in a sex trafficking operation in South Carolina is going to prison for 30 years. Aaron T. Simmons was sentenced Tuesday in federal court following last November’s guilty plea. The 26-year-old Simmons used physical beatings, threats, intimidation and psychological manipulation to […]
Robert Morris should resign from his job as the leader of North Texas megachurch Gateway Church in response to allegations of child sexual abuse, former Southlake mayor John Huffman said in a statement he shared on social media. Morris, the founder and senior pastor of Gateway Church in Southlake, admitted to sexual contact with a […]