Category Archive for : ‘ABOUT SEX OFFENDERS AND OTHERS’

October 6, 2019
Megan Ball
MSN
 

Jeaneth Acosta, 44, was charged with Trafficking of Persons after police say she promised to help asylum seekers and then tried to force them into sex work.

On August 21, an attorney representing one of Acosta’s victims contacted police.

At the attorney’s office, the 38-year-old woman told police that she lived in Honduras and that Acosta told her she could help her get into the United States, according to an arrest affidavit.

Acosta reportedly told the woman to go to a border town and turn herself in to authorities.

After following

October 3, 2019
Alana Edgin
USA TODAY

SAN ANGELO — A man was arrested Tuesday after a 9-year-old girl described several incidents of sexual abuse to investigators, according to an arrest affidavit.

The girl told investigators a male relative who lives in the same home inappropriately touched her in November 2018. Other instances had occurred on at least four other occasions, the affidavit states.

The girl told her mother about the man touching her over her underwear more than once, and each time the mother told the girl to avoid being around the man, the

October 6, 2019
Jennifer Smola
Dispatch

The numbers of sexual assaults included in safety reports released last week by Ohio State University and Michigan State University are unprecedented highs, experts say, thanks to the crimes linked to doctors who preyed on hundreds of students at each school.
Ohio State acknowledged that there have been nearly 1,500 reported instances of sexual abuse tied to Dr. Richard Strauss, who worked as a sports and student health physician at the university from 1978 to 1998. The announcement came as part of Ohio State’s annual campus safety report,

October 10, 2019
Robyn Merret
People

Matt Lauer‘s accuser Brooke Nevils has slammed his open letter — where he denied anally raping her — as a “case study in victim shaming.”
On Wednesday, Nevils released a statement, which aired on NBC Nightly News saying, “There’s the Matt Lauer that millions of Americans watched on TV every morning for two decades, and there is the Matt Lauer who this morning attempted to bully a former colleague into silence.”
“His open letter was a case study in victim blaming,” Nevils said, adding “I am not afraid of

October 6, 2019
MSN

Police in California have used DNA evidence from two decades ago to connect a 52-year-old man to a murder and a series of sexual assaults — a breakthrough that might also hold the answer to a murder mystery that has flummoxed authorities for nearly a quarter-century.
Twice in 1999, in the city of Visalia — located halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco –18-year-olds reported that an armed man who concealed his face with a piece of clothing had sexually assaulted them.
Police collected DNA evidence that tied the crimes

October 1, 2019
Martin Evans
Telegraph
 
 

A junior lawyer broke down in tears as she described how she was too embarrassed to go to the police after she woke up to find her married boss groping her in bed.

The woman claimed, Ryan Beckwith, 41, a senior partner at the Magic Circle law firm where she worked, took advantage of her when she got “exceptionally drunk” at an office gathering.

Giving evidence from behind a screen at a Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal, the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, described how Mr Beckwith