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Crime and Justice News
May 23, 20222 min read
Report Finds Southern Baptist Convention Hid Clergy Abuse
Leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), the largest U.S. Protestant denomination, stonewalled and denigrated survivors of...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 25, 20221 min read
Air Force Major General Found Guilty in Sexual Abuse Case
An Air Force major general was found guilty by a military judge of one of three abusive sexual contact specifications in Ohio, Axios...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 14, 20221 min read
'Celebrity Figure' Gooding Gets Plea Deal in Fondling Cases
Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. pleaded guilty to forcibly kissing a worker at a New York nightclub in 2018 in a deal that is likely to keep him...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 30, 20222 min read
For MT Ex-Student Guilty Of Rape, 'Incredible' Chance of Probation
Derek Nygaard wanted to go into his ex-girlfriend’s Butte, Mt., home in 2020. Because he was drunk and struggling to walk, she let him...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 29, 20222 min read
Army Missed Red Flags, Put Child Sex Abuser In Sensitive Jobs
David Frodsham was a top civilian commander at a U.S. air base in Afghanistan. Frodsham told one woman that he hired her because he...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 7, 20221 min read
Supreme Court Refuses to Reinstate Cosby's Sex Assault Case
Bill Cosby avoided renewed legal jeopardy on Monday as the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a bid by prosecutors to undo last year's...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 7, 20221 min read
NY Sex Offender Served Two Years Extra For Lack of Suitable Housing
New York inmate Angel Ortiz did his time for robbery and attempted sexual abuse. Before he could go free, a judge wrote said he faced “an...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 18, 20221 min read
Sexual Assault Reports Reach Record High at Service Academies
More sexual assault complaints were made at of the three principal U.S. service academies in 2021 than in any year since such statistics...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 18, 20221 min read
Boudin Drops Property Crime Case Based on Victim's Rape Kit DNA
San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin dismissed charges brought against a woman whose DNA collected in a rape medical exam was...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 15, 20222 min read
Ex-Marine Gets 210-Year Sentence For Sex Abuse in Cambodia
Michael Pepe, a retired U.S. Marine captain, was sentenced to 210 years in prison for drugging and raping underage girls as young as nine...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 15, 20221 min read
San Francisco DA Says Rape Victims Identified as Criminals via DNA
San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin says the San Francisco Police Department has been using DNA collected from rape victims as...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 11, 20222 min read
Congress OK's Bill Allowing Sex Harassment Victims To Sue
Congress approved legislation guaranteeing that people who experience sexual harassment at work can seek recourse in the courts, a...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 9, 20221 min read
UCLA To Pay $243M in Settlement For Sex Abuse By Doctor
The University of California has agreed to pay $243.6 million to settle allegations that hundreds of women were sexually abused by a...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 27, 20222 min read
Biden Makes Sexual Harassment A Crime Under Military Law
President Biden signed an executive order making sexual harassment a crime under military law, a change prompted by lawmakers’ growing...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 19, 20222 min read
University of Michigan To Pay Nearly $500M For Doctor Sex Abuse
The University of Michigan agreed to pay $490 million to more than 1,000 people who had accused a doctor who worked with football players...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 19, 20221 min read
IN High Court Unanimously Upholds 'Revenge Porn' Law
The Indiana Supreme Court unanimously upheld the state’s "revenge porn" law in a criminal case involving college students and social...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 14, 20221 min read
IL Judge Under Fire For Throwing Out Teen's Sex Assault Conviction
An Illinois judge drew outrage after throwing out the four year mandatory sentence for Drew Clinton, an 18-years-old convicted of...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 10, 20221 min read
Sexual Harassment Charge Against Ex-New York Gov. Cuomo Dropped
A New York court dropped the misdemeanor complaint brought against former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Friday, according to Politico....
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 7, 20222 min read
Should Juror Revelations Derail Ghislane Maxwell Conviction?
After Ghislaine’s Maxwell’s sex-trafficking and conspiracy conviction, two jurors disclosed past sexual abuse that they might not have...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 6, 20221 min read
Maxwell Seeks New Trial After Juror Reveals History of Sexual Abuse
Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted last week of conspiring to recruit and groom teenage girls to be abused by Jeffrey Epstein, will request a...
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