A registered sex offender in Missouri was arrested on Wednesday, months after he allegedly raped his daughter’s friend at his home. James Michael Reed, 44, was arrested at his job and charged with rape and sodomy for the alleged June 30 incident. Police began their investigation after the victim was hospitalized and claimed Reed sexually …
A University of Florida student walked out of jail this after when a judge released him, following a defense attorney’s claim that the college senior was “high-achieving.” The Washington Post reports that Ian Milaski, a dorm resident assistant at UF, was arrested August 29 and charged with sexual battery and false imprisonment. He walked free …
The former California judge who voters recalled last year for the six-month sentence he gave to Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner for sexual assault has reportedly been fired from a high school tennis coaching position. Lynbrook High School officials confirmed Aaron Persky’s firing in a statement issued to the San Francisco Chronicle. Persky was reportedly …
Newly released documents reveal more details about the federal sex trafficking investigation that came to a halt when Jeffrey Epstein died of an apparent suicide in his Manhattan jail cell last month. As first reported by the New York Post, the website Muckrock published investigative documents from the Department of Justice and US Marshals Service …
A police officer in Texas was arrested on Sunday after a 16-year-old family member reportedly accused him of sexually assaulting her for years. Austin Police Department Lieutenant Dustin Paul Lee—a 21-year veteran who leads the department’s downtown area command and crisis intervention team—was charged on Tuesday with first-degree felony sexual assault of a child. Citing …
A spokesperson for Bill Gates has denied that Jeffrey Epstein directed any of his philanthropic contributions, appearing to contradict claims made an in exposé about the MIT Media Lab’s efforts to keep Epstein’s contributions and involvement in the donations of others a secret following his 2008 conviction for soliciting underage prostitution. Late last week, the …
Singer R. Kelly has been moved from solitary confinement to general population in an Illinois federal jail as he awaits trial for multiple crimes, including sex trafficking and sexual assault. Prosecutors, who announced Kelly’s move on Tuesday, denied the defense’s claims that the singer was in solitary confinement against his will—offering a recorded phone call …
A longtime meteorologist for an Ohio news station was arrested on Thursday for allegedly having a massive collection of pictures depicting child pornography. WBNS reported that their meteorologist of 31 years, Mike Davis, has been charged with pandering sexually-oriented material involving a minor. Law enforcement sources told the news station that their probe involves thousands …
A Maryland man was recently arrested, accused of raping his girlfriend’s 11-year-old daughter dozens of times as the mother worked and wasn’t home. Authorities got involved after August 24, when the mother allegedly caught Jose Indalecio Rosales, 38, touching her daughter’s genitals while in the child’s bed. The mother called Rosales back to their bed …
The woman who was sexually assaulted by ex-Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner in 2015 is speaking out about the high-profile case for the first time. Called “Emily Doe” until now, Chanel Miller reportedly began writing a memoir about her sexual assault in early 2017. According to a New York Times announcement about the memoir, writing …
A North Carolina man who was arrested last week for an unsolved September 2006 rape was given an unsecured bond—allowing him to walk out of jail a day after his arrest. Dimarco Alexander, 40, was accused of snatching a 33-year-old woman as she got off a bus in Rozzelles Ferry Road and raping her in …
A Georgia man accused of committing at least eight rapes since 2015 was briefly hired as a police recruit by the same police department investigating the unsolved attacks, according to multiple reports. Citing Clayton County police, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that the eight victims were black women who ranged in age between 19 and 39. …
