June 4, 2022 Former Maryland high school teacher pleads guilty to sexually abusing a student Kirkland Shipley, 48, pleaded guilty to two charges of sexual misconduct with juvenile students while he was a teacher at Walt Whitman High School in Montgomery County, Maryland.
June 2, 2022 Harvey Weinstein loses appeal of rape conviction in NY case Harvey Weinstein lost his appeal Thursday on a 2020 rape conviction and prison sentence related to a New York case whose milestone verdict shaped the #MeToo movement.
June 2, 2022 Rolling Stone piece slamming Depp-Heard verdict prompts Twitter outrage: ‘Sickening’ A senior writer for Rolling Stone spoke with victims of domestic abuse that were disturbed by the verdict in the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial.
June 2, 2022 Seattle police memo shows defunded force stopped investigating new adult sexual assaults this year An internal memo from the Seattle Police Department said it stopped assigning new adult sexual assaults, as staffing issues forced investigators to prioritize the uptick in cases involving children and teenagers.
June 2, 2022 South Carolina undercover sex sting busts 11 men accused of targeting minors on social media An undercover operation in South Carolina busted 11 men accused of targeting minors on social media and arranging to meet them for sexual activity.
June 1, 2022 Ex-Virginia Tech football player acquitted of murder in beating of gay man who posed as woman during sex act Former Virginia Tech football player Isimemen Etute was acquitted of a second degree murder charge in the 2021 deadly beating of 40-year-old Jerry Smith, who allegedly posed as a woman in his Tinder profile.
June 1, 2022 Bill Cosby facing latest sexual abuse accusations in California civil trial In a California civil lawsuit, Judy Huth alleges that now-disgraced actor Bill Cosby sexually abused her at the Playboy Mansion in 1975 when she was just 16.
June 1, 2022 BBC edited alleged rape victim's quotes about trans attacker to get their pronouns right: Report The BBC changed the quote of a woman who told the news outlet she was raped by a biological male in order to use "they" pronouns, according to a report.
May 31, 2022 Kevin Spacey will 'voluntarily appear' in UK court after being slapped with 4 sexual assault charges: Report Kevin Spacey has reportedly said he is confident "he will prove his innocence" of charges that he sexually assaulted three men in separate incidents in the U.K.
May 27, 2022 Kevin Spacey film producers react to UK sexual assault charges: 'There are those who wish for him not to act' The Oscar winner has a new film titled “Peter Five Eight” that's being shopped around in Cannes.
