RoseMcGowan, a prominent #MeToo activist and former close pal of Asia Argento, has said that she feels “betrayed” by the Italian actress and director over allegations she had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old boy. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Argento was accused of sexual assault by a then-17-year old Jimmy Bennett, who had previously co-starred with …
BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese e-commerce giant says its billionaire founder, Liu Qiangdong, has returned to China after earlier being arrested in the U.S. on suspicion of criminal sexual conduct. Zhang Shuhan, a JD.com official, said Monday by phone that “Liu Qiangdong has been released without charges and he is now back in China.” Also …
The brother of a Texas man who shot himself within days after a mystery woman rang random doorbells in the middle of the night claims that his brother is “no monster.” ABC reports that Jeff Collins, brother Dennis Ray Collins, the man accused of sexually assaulting a woman and holding her captive before she escaped and …
Authorities in Virginia say a former police chief was arrested on suspicion of abduction and rape in connection with two separate incidents involving the same alleged victim. According to Fox News, 46-year-old Kevin Matthew Buckland had been appointed the head of the Rich Creek Police Department in 2003. Three years later, he was fired following …
A Missouri woman was charged Tuesday after authorities accused her of allowing men to have sex with her 14-year-old disabled daughter, who police say has the mental capacity of a 2- to 3-year-old child, in exchange for cash and drugs. Renee Collins, 49, is facing charges of sex trafficking and child endangerment. Her boyfriend, 44-year-old …
A former official in the Obama administration is facing charges related to groping, as described in a woman’s testimony to police earlier this year. As the New York Times reported, former Center for Disease Control and Prevention head Dr. Thomas R. Frieden is accused of squeezing a 55-year-old woman’s posterior in October. The alleged victim …
Police in North Carolina said they’ve arrested a man in connection with a series of six unsolved rapes committed more than a decade ago. According to a statement issued to ABC News, Darold Wayne Bowden, 43, is believed to have tortured and raped five women and one child between March 2006 and January 2008. The …
A New York man who was convicted of killing a suspected child rapist recently had his 2016 first-degree manslaughter conviction overturned and was granted a new trial. The Times Herald-Record reported that David Carlson was found guilty of the 2013 fatal shooting of Norris Acosta-Sanchez. Acosta-Sanchez, 35, (pictured right) was wanted in Rockland County on second-degree rape charges …
A Texas sheriff’s deputy who has been jailed since June for allegedly sexually assaulting a 4-year-old girl was found dead in his jail cell Monday of an apparent suicide. According to The New York Times, former Bexar County Deputy Jose S. Nunez, 37, was found dead in his cell at Karnes County Correctional Center at 5:45 …
A Texas priest who stands accused of molesting teen boys and embezzling from his own parish has gone missing, the Dallas Morning News reports. Church officials from St. Cecilia Catholic Church in Dallas believe Rev. Edumundo Paredes may have fled to his native country of the Philippines, after serving as a pastor at the parish …
A former Texas doctor convicted Thursday of raping an incapacitated patient will serve no prison time after insisting that the sex with his patient was consensual. Shafeeq Sheikh, 46, a physician at Baylor College of Medicine was found guilty of second-degree sexual assault last month. But as CrimeOnline previously reported, a jury recommended no jail …
Asia Argento, an actress who helped amplify the numerous sexual assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein, was reportedly accused of sexually assaulting a minor herself, and allegedly paid her accuser hundreds of thousands in hush money. The New York Times published a report on Sunday citing court documents the paper had received, via encrypted email from an anonymous …
