January 8, 2015 Prosecutors: New DNA testing differentiates between identical twins; some question reliability Prosecutors in Boston were forced to put a rape suspect on trial three times before jurors were willing to convict him a decade ago.
January 8, 2015 Washington teen charged with sex assault on football team bus trip; parents call it horseplay A 14-year-old boy in Washington state has been charged with second-degree rape after prosecutors say he sexually assaulted three students on a football team bus trip.
January 8, 2015 Mexican man pleads guilty to having sexual contact with girl as he smuggled her into US A Mexican man accused of sexually attacking a 14-year-old girl as he smuggled a group of people into the U.S. has pleaded guilty to having sexual contact with a minor.
January 8, 2015 Oklahoma state trooper arrested on complaints of rape, kidnapping connected to traffic stop The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says a state trooper has been arrested on complaints of kidnapping, rape and other sexual-assault crimes.
January 8, 2015 17-year-old accused in Washington girl's death charged as an adult with murder, rape The teenager accused of sexually assaulting and killing a 6-year-old Washington girl has been charged with aggravated murder and aggravated rape.
January 8, 2015 Police charge Pennsylvania woman, 40, with having sex with 13-year-old, using him to get drugs Police have charged a 40-year-old Pennsylvania woman with having sex with a 13-year-old boy and then making him fake a toothache so he could get painkillers for her.
January 8, 2015 Defense lawyer suggests client didn't act alone in Philadelphia school abduction, sex assault A defense lawyer has suggested to jurors that his client helped someone else in the sexual assault of a 5-year-old girl kidnapped from a Philadelphia school.
January 8, 2015 DA agrees to hearing on evidence in NY abuse case portrayed in 'Capturing the Friedmans' Prosecutors have agreed to an evidence hearing in a 1980s sex abuse case that was the subject of an Oscar-nominated documentary.
January 8, 2015 Deputies find 50 dead cats in freezer of Florida man charged with child porn Detectives found 50 dead cats in four freezers at the home of a South Florida man while serving a warrant for child pornography.
January 8, 2015 NCAA says in filing that Pennsylvania can keep $60 million Penn St. fine over Sandusky scandal College sports' governing body said in a new court filing that it is willing to let Pennsylvania control the $60 million fine Penn State is paying over its handling of the Jerry Sandusky molestation scandal.
