Texas Cops Fired for 'Inappropriate' Sexual Contact With Massage Workers
As a result of the internal affairs investigation, three Lewisville officers were fired, one was demoted, and seven were suspended without pay.
As a result of the internal affairs investigation, three Lewisville officers were fired, one was demoted, and seven were suspended without pay.
Although the Republican presidential nominee has denied those accusations, he has also bragged about strikingly similar behavior.
Author Christa Brown shares her story of abuse and exposes the hypocrisy inherent in the Southern Baptist Convention's cover-up.
Matthew Farwell allegedly murdered a 23-year-old woman who was pregnant with his child. Their relationship is said to have began when she was 15. He was 27.
The cases of Joey the Player and the Long Island Serial Killer show how systemic neglect and the failure to pass an immunity bill have left violent criminals on the loose for far too long.
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Facing an opponent who has been credibly described as a sexual predator, Biden instead emphasizes Trump's cover-up of a consensual encounter.
An analysis by The Washington Post found that nearly 1,800 police officers were arrested for child sex abuse-related crimes between 2005 and 2022.
The Justice Department announced last year that it would expand a program to grant compassionate relief to federal inmates who've been sexually assaulted by staff.
The victims received no restitution payment.
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A new report argues that the notorious program squanders taxpayer money while keeping people imprisoned without justification or recourse.
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The ruling has nothing to do with #MeToo. It is about ensuring a fair trial—a principle that applies no matter how unsympathetic the defendant.
The new rules allow students to be found guilty of assaulting a classmate without ever seeing the full evidence against them.
The defamation lawsuit is the latest in Trump's campaign of lawfare against media outlets, but all of those suits have failed so far.
Andrew Mitchell, who was acquitted on state murder charges in April, plead guilty this month to abducting and detaining two sex worker victims.
"A lot of people on the registry are on there for consensual behavior, things I think many people agree shouldn’t be crimes," says Meaghan Ybos, the president of Women Against Registry.
The issue was rejected because it "jeopardizes the good order and security of the institution."
With journalistic standards like these...
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"An attorney-client relationship between two adults does not present the same inherent danger or foreseeability" as "a relationship between an adult and a child in a religious organization."
It is not hard to see why the jury concluded that the incident she described probably happened.
Prosecutors dropped the case after interviewing 35 witnesses who contradicted the accuser.
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"Lifetime registries are wrong," said the plaintiff's attorney. "They're wrong based on the science and they're wrong based on the reality that risk is not static. It is dynamic."
Twenty years ago, the justices deemed registration nonpunitive, accepting unsubstantiated assumptions about its benefits and blithely dismissing its costs.
Prison staff were fired in less than half of substantiated incidents of sexual misconduct between 2016 and 2018, and only faced legal consequences in 6 percent of cases.
"When it comes to problems happening in America, [the NBA is] the first organization saying, 'This is wrong,'" says the former professional basketball player. But then they're silent for victims of torture.
Judges on The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit disagree over when Title IX claims accrue.
Long delays and management failures "allowed serious, repeated sexual abuse in at least four facilities to go undetected."
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Pardoning possession offenders is nice. Taking his boot off the necks of cannabis sellers would be even better.
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The lawsuit claims that a correctional officer gave male inmates the key to women's housing after accepting a $1,000 bribe.
In a petition for reconsideration, I ask the Utah Supreme Court to modify a recent opinion to remove the qualifier "alleged" in front of term "victim" in light of the fact that the defendant has been convicted of sexually assaulting the victim.
The Court agrees with my argument that crime victims can become "limited-purpose parties" in criminal proceedings to protect their interests, such as an interest in the confidentiality of mental health counseling records.
The "victim-centered" training required by S.B. 2469 would compromise the impartiality of Title IX investigations.
Under N.Y. law, the court holds, a jury could find that the alleged touching could qualify as touching of "intimate parts," based on its context.
The torturous trial calls to mind Title IX investigations on college campuses.
The bill addresses treatment of women in federal prisons and sexual assault of people in police custody.
The perpetrator did not target a random student, and he did not choose the girls bathroom because of his gender identity.
"She was withdrawing from opioids and actively suicidal. She needed help, and she got the opposite."
No accountability for government corruption.
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