LOS ANGELES—A coroner’s investigation into the death of a man in Los Angeles last month revealed that he was a suspect in a 2008 Washington state child rape who was believed to have jumped to his death from a bridge on Puget Sound years ago, authorities said. Christian Robert Basham was living under the alias […]
Seven men are now in custody in India for the alleged gang-rape of a tourist and assault on her husband, authorities said, in a case that has shone a new spotlight on the endemic problem of sexual violence against women in the country. On Saturday, police announced that three men had been arrested in connection […]
KREMS, Austria—An Austrian man who had kept his daughter captive for 24 years and raped her thousands of times, fathering seven children with her, can be moved from psychiatric detention to a regular prison, a court ruled on Thursday. The decision, however, stipulates that Josef Fritzl, 88, will have to attend regular psychotherapy and undergo […]
The mother of an intellectually disabled girl who was allegedly led from school grounds by three male students and sexually assaulted in a Starbucks bathroom and a nearby empty building filed a lawsuit Wednesday accusing Starbucks, Pittsburgh Public Schools, and a property management company of negligence. The lawsuit alleges that school personnel at Taylor Allderdice […]
SALT LAKE CITY—A man accused of faking his death and fleeing the U.S. to avoid rape charges in Utah denied at a court appearance Tuesday that he is the suspect and, in an apparent British accent, called allegations that he wasn’t giving his true name “complete hearsay.” Nicholas Rossi, whose legal name is Nicholas Alahverdian, […]
PERRY, Ga.—A man imprisoned for concealing the death of Georgia teacher Tara Grinstead has pleaded guilty to reduced charges in two unrelated rape cases in a deal that lets him avoid additional prison time. Houston County Superior Court records show that Bo Dukes agreed to plea deals Nov. 13 to settle charges that he had […]
BOSTON—A man has been charged with raping a woman who thought he was the driver she requested after leaving a Boston nightclub. The woman told police she left the nightclub early Saturday and got into the car, believing it to be an Uber she had requested for the ride home. But after she got in, […]
NEW ORLEANS—A man arrested after a weekend police chase and motorcycle crash in Georgia turned out to be fugitive accused of avoiding a child rape charge by faking his own drowning death last month in a Mississippi River kayaking accident, according to a Louisiana sheriff. Melvin Emde, 41, of Talihina, Oklahoma, had been reported missing […]
A billionaire raped a teenager inside Jeffrey Epstein’s mansion in New York City, according to a new lawsuit. Leon Black, the billionaire, raped the girl when she was just 16 inside Mr. Epstein’s residence on the Upper East Side, the civil suit alleges. The girl, whose name has not been made public and is using […]
BEIJING—Canadian diplomats were denied access to the start of Canadian pop star Kris Wu’s appeal trial in Beijing, the Canadian government said, following his sentencing in 2022 to more than a decade in prison for crimes including rape. The Canadian embassy in Beijing had been notified of the appeal trial in advance, which was not […]
FRANKLIN, Tenn.—A Tennessee soccer coach is accused of drugging and raping at least 10 boys after photos and videos of the children were discovered on his cell phone, police said. Police were contacted by a local restaurant on June 22 after staff found a cell phone left behind by a customer. Workers looked through it […]
BUCHAREST, Romania—Social media influencer Andrew Tate appeared Wednesday at a court in Romania, where prosecutors have charged him with rape, human trafficking, and forming a criminal gang to exploit women. Tate and his brother, Tristan, who is also charged with the offenses, arrived Wednesday at a court in the capital Bucharest, flanked by six bodyguards. […]
Japan’s parliament on Friday passed new legislation that redefines nonconsensual sex as rape and raises the age of sexual consent from 13 to 16 in a major revamp of the country’s century-old sex crime laws. The new laws outline eight acts that constitute a victim’s lack of sexual consent, including being assaulted while under the […]
PHOENIX—An Arizona woman has accused former major league pitcher Trevor Bauer of sexual assault, alleging in a lawsuit updated this week that he held a knife at her throat and choked her until she passed out during a rape that left her pregnant in late 2020. Bauer was never arrested or charged and he has […]
LOS ANGELES—A Los Angeles jury on May 31 convicted actor Danny Masterson of two counts of rape in a retrial that focused on allegations the “That ‘70s Show’ star raped three women between 2001 and 2003. The verdict sided with two of Masterson’s accusers, but the panel was unable to reach a verdict on similar […]
SALT LAKE CITY—A University of Utah diver has been arrested and charged with raping a young woman in her dorm room during the first week of the school year last fall. Prosecutors have charged Ben Smyth, a Canadian diver in his second year at Utah, with sodomy, sexual abuse, and rape. In an indictment filed […]
WICHITA, Kan.—Police in Kansas have arrested and charged a man in a 2007 sexual assault by matching a DNA sample to data submitted to genealogy websites. Ted Foy, 52, of Augusta, is jailed on $500,000 bond after he was charged last week with rape, aggravated sexual battery, and aggravated criminal sodomy. His attorney, public defender […]
An Oklahoma sex offender who was released from prison early shot his wife, her three children, and their two friends in the head and then killed himself, authorities confirmed Wednesday as concerns grew about why he was free as his trial on new sex charges loomed. Okmulgee Police Chief Joe Prentice said that the victims […]
A woman said Tuesday that her daughter and three grandchildren were among the seven people found dead at a rural Oklahoma property during a search for two missing teens and a convicted sex offender. Janette Mayo, 59, of Westville, Oklahoma, said the Okmulgee County Sheriff’s Office notified her late Monday that the other four victims […]
A former Massachusetts deputy police chief is being charged with the rape of a child that occurred when he was a school resource officer nearly 20 years ago, the Middlesex County District Attorney’s office announced Monday. Former Hopkinton Deputy Chief of Police, John “Jay” Porter, 54, has been indicted by a grand jury on three […]
