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Crime and Justice News
Nov 15, 20222 min read
Ex-KS Police Detective Indicted For Sex Assaults On Teen Girls
A former police detective in Kansas City, Ks. faces federal charges of conspiring with local drug dealers to force underage girls into...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 14, 20222 min read
NYPD Criticized For Not Quickly Arresting Repeat Sex Offender
Before dawn in March, a man on a bicycle rode up behind a woman running on a path alongside the Hudson River in New York City, tackled...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 9, 20221 min read
Epstein Victim Retracts Sex Abuse Claim Against Alan Dershowitz
Virginia Guiffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse victims, settled a defamation lawsuit with famed defense attorney Alan...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 3, 20222 min read
LAPD Captain Helped CBS' Moonves Cover Up Sex Assault Allegation
A Los Angeles police captain tipped off former CBS chief executive Leslie Moonves after a woman filed a confidential criminal sexual...
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By Kathryn Tapp
Oct 26, 20222 min read
Do New Laws On 'Revenge Porn' Serve The Needs Of All Victims?
Sweeping reform in the last decade criminalized the nonconsensual distribution of intimate images (NCDII), better known as “revenge...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 21, 20222 min read
Former UCLA Gynecologist Found Guilty in Sex Abuse Case
Dr. James Heaps, a former gynecologist at the University of California Los Angeles, was found guilty Thursday of five counts of sexually...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 21, 20221 min read
Jury Clears Kevin Spacey Of Sex-Abuse Charge Dating From 1980s
A jury found that actor Kevin Spacey did not sexually abuse Anthony Rapp, then 14, while both were unknown actors in Broadway plays in...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 14, 20222 min read
Cuba Gooding Jr. Avoids Jail in Sex Harassment Case
Cuba Gooding Jr.'s forcible touching case faded away with no jail time, but many of those that accused him of groping, unwanted kissing,...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 13, 20221 min read
U.S. Will Pay $14.5M For Sex Abuse By Indian Health Service Doctor
The U.S. government reached a deal with victims of a pedophile doctor who sexually assaulted Native American boys for decades at federal...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 10, 20222 min read
Second Harvey Weinstein Trial Set in L.A. This Week
Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein's second criminal trial over the alleged sexual assaults of women, at least one occurring 18...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 4, 20222 min read
Women's Soccer Sex Abuse Problem: Their Coaches
An investigation into U.S. women’s professional soccer paints a picture of systemic abuse across the sport, in which reports from players...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 23, 20222 min read
'Incels' Seeking to Normalize Child Rape, Digital Hate Group Says
Men who consider themselves involuntarily celibate or “incels” have become significantly more radicalized over the past year and a half...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 22, 20222 min read
How Indiana Welder Works As Child Predator Vigilante
A 37-year-old veteran named Joshua Clark who was charged with child solicitation didn’t know the 14-year-old girl he thought he was...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 15, 20221 min read
Sex Violence Survivors Get Huge Hospital Bills for Visiting ERs
A new study found uninsured victims of sexual violence were charged an average of $3,673 for visiting the emergency room, reports Vox....
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 15, 20222 min read
R. Kelly Convicted Of Producing Child Porn, Enticing Girls For Sex
R. Kelly (born Robert Sylvester Kelly) was convicted Wednesday of producing child pornography and enticing girls for sex after a month...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 14, 20222 min read
Teen Gets 'Second Chance' After Fatally Stabbing Her Rapist
An Iowa teen who pleaded guilty in the fatal stabbing of her alleged rapist was given a "second chance" by a judge who allowed her to...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 9, 20222 min read
Judge OKs $2.46 Billion Boy Scouts Plan To Pay Sex Abuse Victims
A a $2.46 billion reorganization plan proposed by the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) was approved by bankruptcy Judge Laurie Selber...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 2, 20221 min read
Oakland PD Sex-Crime Probe Backfires
The Oakland Police Department faced blowback after publicizing a surveillance image of two people, their faces clearly identifiable, who...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 1, 20221 min read
Lyft Accused of Ignoring Rider, Driver Safety
In 17 new lawsuits by passengers and drivers of the ridesharing company Lyft, the San Francisco-based company is accused of doing...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 1, 20221 min read
Ex-Prison Chaplain Gets 7 Years for Abusing Inmates
A former chaplain in a California women's prison, the first of five workers charged in the last 14 months with sexually abusing inmates...
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