Top 10 Most Dangerous Cities For Women
In only the first four months of 2012, almost 300 rapes and four serial rapists have been reported in Detroit, and a 2011 survey found 37 percent of w...
In only the first four months of 2012, almost 300 rapes and four serial rapists have been reported in Detroit, and a 2011 survey found 37 percent of w...
The Huffington Post | Kate Abbey-Lambertz | Posted 04.17.2012
A social gaming network is the common thread between three recent cases of sexual assault, according to Detroit police. In three separate incidents, w...
Posted 04.06.2012
A 17-year-old alleged rape victim was taken into custody last week to ensure that she testifies against her suspected sexual abuser. The unnamed te...
Keli Goff | Posted 06.03.2012
According to the current standards, "Past offenses alone cannot show whether someone is mentally ill or likely to commit new crimes." Only when it comes to molesting children this is patently false.
AP | Posted 04.30.2012
TROY, Ohio -- An adoptive father in western Ohio has been accused of raping three children and allowing other men to have sex with one of them, allega...
HuffingtonPost.com | John Rudolf | Posted 01.28.2012
NEW YORK -- Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. said Friday he had "no idea" who leaked information to the media suggesting that prosecutor...
Posted 01.25.2012
A man once convicted of unlicensed castration will soon stand trial on child pornography charges. Last Summer, police in Alabama arrested Edward Le...
AP | By DAN ELLIOTT | Posted 01.23.2012
DENVER -- Nine years after a sexual assault scandal at the Air Force Academy sent shock waves across the military, the Defense Department last month a...
HuffingtonPost.com | John Rudolf | Posted 01.20.2012
Military leaders vowed this week to curb sexual assaults by and against U.S. soldiers after the release of a new report revealing that violent sex cri...
Mary Ellen O'Toole, PhD | Posted 02.07.2012
The victim's willingness and ability to report a crime is even more difficult if the alleged abuser is someone important or famous. It's for this reason that many victims do not come forward until years later -- long after a statute of limitations has run out.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 02.06.2012
A groundswell of demands for Sheriff Joe Arpaio's resignation continued to spread across local, county and state levels in Arizona today.
AP | GENARO C. ARMAS | Posted 01.31.2012
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Penn State will donate $1.5 million in bowl proceeds to a pair of groups that work with sex-crime victims, a gesture aimed ...
McClatchy | Marisa Taylor and Chris Adams | Posted 11.28.2011
By the time Marine Staff Sgt. Jamie Walton went to trial on rape charges, his accuser had changed her story several times....
The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 11.22.2011
At first, it seems like a cute story about playground crushes and first kisses, only instead of skipping off into the sunset, the cops were called, Fo...
Wendy N. Powell | Posted 01.10.2012
Many say Paterno didn't do anything wrong, but the issue is, he didn't do the right thing.
The Huffington Post | Mark Hanrahan | Posted 11.20.2011
The mother of a teenage hockey player in California has been accused of sleeping with her son's teammates. ABC News reports that Katia Marie Davis...
Posted 11.12.2011
A Chicago woman was hit with criminal charges Friday after allegedly forcing a 16-year-old girl to have sex with strangers. Ebony Mason, 27, of the...
HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 11.09.2011
A 24-year-old Ohio woman charged with raping her 10-month-old son and sharing the videotaped assault with her boyfriend is being held behind bars toni...
Posted 10.25.2011
Eight men and one woman were charged with involuntary sexual servitude of a minor and human trafficking Wednesday following an 18-month undercover inv...
Hayley Rose Horzepa | Posted 10.02.2011
When most people hear the term "rape victim," the image of an adult male is not what typically comes to mind.
Tom Matlack | Posted 09.24.2011
This is certainly an important question and one that bears directly on the impact of the accelerating sex trade. But 202 subjects recruited in the local paper by an activist with an ax to grind doesn't seem to be good science.
Posted 09.17.2011
Forget Drugs, Rhode Island is getting kids to say no to sexting. The state has banned minors from taking and sending personal images and, even thos...
HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 09.12.2011
Police in Michigan have arrested a 62-year-old man who was allegedly caught on surveillance video having sexual intercourse with a horse. It is the se...
Elizabeth Dickinson | Posted 09.05.2011
UN Women is releasing its first annual look at the state of females worldwide. And it focuses on exactly that: peace and justice, a sector that underlies many of the areas in which women lag behind.
AP | COLLEEN LONG | Posted 09.01.2011
NEW YORK — Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn spent his first day of freedom from house arrest in a sexual-assault ...
The Huffington Post | Hilary Tuttle | Posted 04.27.2012