sexual assault
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PublishedMay 9, 2024
Harvey Weinstein won’t be sent back to California while he awaits New York rape retrial
Weinstein's attorney said California first needs to produce a warrant.
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PublishedApril 29, 2024
Actor Gérard Depardieu will be tried for alleged sexual assaults on a film set, prosecutors say
The 75-year-old actor was detained for questioning by police in Paris for several hours earlier Monday.
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PublishedApril 27, 2024
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs files motion to dismiss some claims in a sexual assault lawsuit
Sean “Diddy” Combs has pushed back against a woman’s lawsuit that accused him of sexual assault
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PublishedApril 26, 2024
Chicago appeals court rejects R. Kelly’s challenge of 20-year sentence
Jurors in 2022 convicted the Grammy Award-winning R&B singer, born Robert Sylvester Kelly, on 3 charges of producing child porn and 3 charges of enticement of minors for sex.
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PublishedApril 7, 2024
Diddy named as co-defendant in new suit alleging his son sexually assaulted woman on yacht
Grace O'Marcaigh, who worked as a crew member and a bartender on the boat, says that in late December 2022, Christian Combs pressured her to drink tequila that she believes was spiked with other drugs.
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PublishedMarch 28, 2024
Lawsuit alleges founder of Special Olympics Maine sexually abused child for decades
An Augusta man says Melvin 'Mickey' Boutilier, who died in 2012, starting abusing him when he was a child in the 1960s.
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PublishedMarch 17, 2024
Opinion: Workplace inequality should be consigned to the past
Not enough has been made of three federal laws that provide historic protection to women in the workplace.
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PublishedMarch 8, 2024
Trump posts $91.6 million bond in defamation case he lost to E. Jean Carroll
The filings came a day after Judge Lewis A. Kaplan refused to delay a Monday deadline for posting a bond to ensure that the 80-year-old Carroll can collect the $83.3 million if it remains intact following appeals.
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PublishedFebruary 28, 2024
Father alleges former Maine DHHS caseworker sexually assaulted him
The federal lawsuit names Morgan Polky, who admitted to sexual misconduct with the father when the state revoked her social worker license in 2018.
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PublishedJanuary 29, 2024
Prosecutors and advocates push Legislature for rape kit reform
Forensic evaluations are an important piece of investigating sexual assaults. But there are several reasons – some valid, others problematic – why rape kits might not immediately be tested, experts say.
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