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A lawyer for former Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner argued this week that his client’s attempted rape conviction should be overturned because he was practicing “sexual outercourse,” which the lawyer described as a form of “safe sex.”

Turner never intended to rape an unconscious woman, he said. The lawyer cited witness accounts that Turner was “violently thrusting but fully clothed” when two Swedish graduate students found him on top of a half-naked, intoxicated woman in 2015.

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The man who allegedly strangled a nurse in her Queens home is also accused of raping a woman and using dating websites to meet his victims, police said Thursday.

Samantha Stewart, 29, was found strangled to death in her bedroom in Queens on July 17, 2018.

Detectives investigating the death of 29-year-old Samantha Stewart on July 17 connected her murder with the rape of a woman in Brooklyn several weeks earlier, NYPD officials said. Together, they tracked Danueal Drayton, 27, to a California hotel, where he was allegedly holding a woman against

A Mennonite missionary from Virginia who lived in Haiti for more than a decade has been sentenced to 23 years in prison followed by a life term of supervised release for child sexual abuse in the impoverished Caribbean nation, officials said.

James Daniel Arbaugh, 40, of the small Virginia town of Stuarts Draft is the latest American missionary to receive a hefty sentence for taking advantage of Haiti’s extensive poverty and anemic rule of law to sexually abuse vulnerable youngsters.

Earlier this year, he pleaded guilty in federal court to one count

A 33-year-old Stillwater, Minnesota man has been charged for allegedly raping a 16-year-old in the St. Paul home where a woman was found dead Monday.

Ivan Walker is charged with kidnapping and first-degree criminal sexual conduct. He has been named a person of interest in the suspicious death of 39-year-old Shana Hollins, also known as Shana Branch, but no charges have been filed. He made his first court appearance Wednesday afternoon.

Shana Hollins’ sister Krystal Hollins said, “My head is swimming. I’ve very dizzy,” following seeing the man suspected of killing her

A Department of Corrections parole officer has been charged with second-degree sexual assault of a child.  Wisconsin DOC records show the suspect, Reynaldo Rosalez, supervises sex offenders.  The DOC confirmed the status of his employment.

The 51-year-old is accused of assaulting a 10-year-old girl at her Brown Deer home July 12.  The criminal complaint said the suspect “began to touch her buttocks as she was standing next to him.”  The victim told her mom she didn’t tell the man to stop since he was drinking, and she heard people who are

After Ari Goldstein’s hearing last week on sexual assault charges, his attorney said the accuser had ulterior motives — that it is simply a case of “#MeToo gone wild.”

“The atmosphere of #MeToo,” attorney Perry de Marco Sr. said in an interview Tuesday, “has infected this case.”

The point of #MeToo, the movement that originated on social media and has brought down dozens of powerful men accused of everything from workplace harassment to rape, started as a sort of cultural workaround to a failing in the legal system — a way to