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September 8, 2021

SC sheriff warns child predators after 5 sting arrests: 'If you hunt our children you will become the hunted'

South Carolina authorities announced Tuesday that five more people have been arrested as part of a sex crime sting operation targeting those who seek out children over the internet.

September 7, 2021

Boston DA charges convicted sex offender in 1988 cold case murder, rape of Judy Chamberlain

Massachusetts prosecutors announced Monday that a convicted sex offender in state custody has been charged with the rape and murder of a Boston woman in a cold case that went unsolved for 33 years.

September 3, 2021

Defrocked Cardinal Theodore McCarrick pleads not guilty to sexually assaulting teen 50+ years ago

Once-powerful former Roman Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who is now 91, pleaded not guilty on Friday to sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy during a wedding reception in Massachusetts nearly 50 years ago.

September 3, 2021

Arizona male nurse gets 'slap on the wrist' plea deal in rape of incapacitated patient who later bore child

A former Arizona male nurse pleaded guilty Thursday to sexually assaulting an incapacitated woman roughly three years ago at Hacienda Healthcare, a long-term care facility in Phoenix, where she later gave birth.

September 1, 2021

Protesters at Iowa fraternity demand it be abolished after sexual assault allegation emerges

Between hundreds and thousands of protesters gathered outside of a fraternity in Iowa Tuesday night to demonstrate against an alleged sexual assault that took place at the house a year ago.

August 31, 2021

Epstein victim challenges the sex offender's non-prosecution agreement: 'The government badly mistreated me'

Lawyers for Courtney Wild, one of many alleged victims of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, filed a petition with the Supreme Court on Tuesday, asking it to rule on whether prosecutors have to confer with victims before arranging a non-prosecution agreement, such as the widely criticized non-prosecution agreement that Epstein struck in 2008.

August 31, 2021

Subpoenas issued as Cuomo mansion ‘grope’ accuser meets with investigators: sheriff

The state worker who’s accused disgraced ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo of groping her inside the Executive Mansion met with criminal investigators Monday morning — and authorities are using subpoenas to gather additional evidence, Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple said.

August 31, 2021

Ex-gov Andrew Cuomo has been hiding out at pal’s Hamptons home

Speculation is swirling that former Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been holed up in the Hamptons after leaving the Executive Mansion in Albany.

August 30, 2021

R. Kelly accused of sexually exploiting 17-year-old boy in sex-trafficking trial

"I Believe I Can Fly" singer R. Kelly has been accused of performing unwanted oral sex on a 17-year-old boy.

August 28, 2021

Scenes from Week 2 of the R. Kelly sex trafficking trial

The second week of the R. Kelly sex-trafficking trial in New York City proved to be an exercise by prosecutors to paint the “I Believe I Can Fly” R&B star as a man-child control freak and a compulsive sex offender who exploited vulnerable victims way less than half his age while ordering them to call him “Daddy.”