May 3, 2016 Former Vanderbilt football players could be released after mistrial declared in rape case Two former Vanderbilt football players convicted in January of raping a fellow student could be out of jail as early as Wednesday afternoon.
May 3, 2016 Doctor who got Md. license despite Fla. rape conviction settles sex assault civil lawsuit A doctor who got a Maryland medical license despite a 1987 Florida rape conviction has settled a civil lawsuit alleging he molested a female patient.
May 3, 2016 West Point cadet guilty of owning, distributing child porn A West Point cadet has been convicted in New York of collecting and distributing child pornography.
May 3, 2016 Arizona family wins case over toy contaminated with chemical that turned into date-rape drug An Arizona family won a $435,000 judgment in federal court after a child swallowed a decorative bead coated with a chemical that metabolized into a date-rape drug when ingested, marking the first verdict of its kind in the nation over the toy.
May 3, 2016 Northeast Ohio man pleads not guilty to arson fire that killed 3 before his rape trial A northeast Ohio man has pleaded not guilty to setting a house fire that killed a 10-year-old girl who accused him of sexual assault and her grandparents.
May 3, 2016 Jury to resume deliberations in trial of Oklahoma man accused of abusing Kenyan orphans A federal jury is scheduled to begin a second day of deliberations in the trial of an Oklahoma man charged with sexually abusing children at a Kenyan orphanage.
May 3, 2016 Appeals Court revives lawsuit from worker fired by half brother of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis The Oregon Court of Appeals revived a lawsuit filed by the man who alerted police that the half brother of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis had a collection of child pornography.
May 3, 2016 Victim in Jesse Matthew attack testifies about effect assault had on her life A woman who was sexually assaulted by Jesse Matthew nearly a decade before he was charged with abducting and killing University of Virginia student Hannah Graham says that testifying about her ordeal forced her to relive an experience she had put into emotional "cold storage." She testified Thursday in Fairfax County about the effect the attack had on her life.
May 3, 2016 Prosecutor: Oklahoma man accused in Kenya orphanage sex abuse case 'wolf in sheep's clothing' Prosecutors say an Oklahoma man charged with sexually abusing children at a Kenya orphanage was a "wolf in sheep's clothing." But attorneys for Matthew Lane Durham told a federal jury Thursday that the 20-year-old was coerced into confessing after he was held in isolation and his passport was taken by officials at the Upendo Children's Home in Nairobi.
May 3, 2016 Oklahoma man charged with sexually abusing children at a Kenyan orphanage to testify at trial A 20-year-old Oklahoma man accused of sexually abusing children at a Kenyan orphanage is set to testify in his own defense.