If convicted, the boy-an 18-year-old homeless refugee from Ghana-faces a mandatory minimum of 10 years in federal prison, with life imprisonment possible.
The city has spent nearly $2 million on leave pay plus legal costs.
The state's new "revenge porn" measure is "so breathtakingly broad...that it criminalizes activity that involves neither revenge nor porn."
Alleged misconduct ranges from paying for sex to forcible rape, extorting sex through threats of arrest, and sex with underage girls.
Of course, the claim relies on refusing to draw distinctions between violence, coercion, and persuasion.
Why bother looking for actual sex-trafficking victims when cops can just pretend to be them and reap the same rewards?
The former speaker of the House can no longer be prosecuted for his real crimes.
People are bombarded with misleading statistics about rape, child abductions, and sex trafficking. Should we blame them for being afraid?
No evidence of a real sex-trafficking epidemic? No problem! The state has ways of creating sex traffickers...
Reports of negligent civilian authorities in military sexual-assault cases were overblown or unverifiable.
Even people who have committed no other crime can go to jail for trying to maintain their financial privacy.
When stopping sex discrimination requires more sex discrimination, how can anyone win?
Screw morality-the state is now intervening in American bedrooms under the mantle of stopping sex discrimination.
"I regret it because I didn't know it would lead to this."
He committed his offense when he was 11.
Momentum around the collection, testing, and tracking of DNA evidence from sexual assaults is growing.
A look at 12 new anti-rape measures gaining traction in the states.
The chief result of the stings-which involved Homeland Security and the FBI-was the arrest of 14 sex workers and 14 men seeking sex from undercover cops.
Public shaming in the Internet era can have lasting and wide-reaching effects.
Obviously, the vice cops are the clowns here. Unfortunately, their idea of entertainment is depriving people of their liberty and livelihoods.
The law of the last antecedent beats the law of lenity.
The voluntary exchange of pictures by teenagers should not be treated as a crime at all.
A new law imposes an international stigma on people who pose no threat to public safety.
The kid, 15, could be placed on the sex offender registry.
For the first time in U.S. history, some citizens may be singled out for scarlet letters on their passports.
Jack Weinstein concludes that the penalty recommended by federal sentencing guidelines is far too severe.
The legislation of morality continues despite Virginia's outlier status.
No, the data doesn't show some sort of secret sexual-violence crime wave nor a reversal of decades-long crime trends.
Little girl gets patdown for accidentally smuggling a juice box past airport security.
East Carolina University's new consent policy is quite broad.
State police show notable restraint, seeing the incident as an occasion for education rather than prosecution.
The criminalization of prostitution is at the root of the risk sex workers face.
Propaganda film wants to be immune from criticism.
Victims were poor women of color
Media is catching on to the junk science that forms the core narrative of the campus rape crisis.
Plenty of people enjoy rough sex and even "rape" porn without ever committing real-world sex crimes.
Members of the media were wrong to believe Jackie. They're wrong to believe The Hunting Ground, too.
How influential sexual assault expert David Lisak used a misleadingly edited video to sell his serial predator theory of campus rape.
As a proponent of gender-blind law, I understand why D.C. police must take the incident seriously. And yet...
Twenty other students were suspended for receiving the video on their cellphones.
Teenagers who swap nude photos of themselves should not be branded as sex offenders.
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