Category Archive for : ‘EMOTIONAL AND PHYSICAL EFFECT’

By Sheena Elzie Dayton

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio — In a first-of-its-kind case, an Air Force general convicted of a sex crime will not have to go to jail for it.

The court found Cooley guilty for forceful kissing, which was one of three specifications of an abusive sexual contact charge Cooley had been accused of.

Spectrum News 1 is not naming the victim, but the victim’s lawyer spoke out.

“At the end of the day, her victory really isn’t a victory. She will continue to have the pains of this for the

By AJ Etherington

A 22-year-old man faces 40 separate counts of sex crimes in Yellowstone County District Court, including 14 counts of rape and 21 counts of sex abuse of a child, after he called to report himself to Phoenix police in November.

Adam Michael Seery allegedly called the Phoenix Police Department on Nov. 14, 2021 to confess to raping a girl in Colorado and Billings over the course of years.

Seery has not had an opportunity to answer the charges and is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday morning in Yellowstone County district

BY AMIE FERRIS-ROTMAN

Rape as a weapon of war may date to the dawn of conflict. But in Ukraine, female lawmakers are waging a campaign to turn sexual violence by Russian soldiers against the invaders.

“No one thought that such cruelties and atrocities could happen in the middle of Europe,” says Lesia Vasylenko, a Ukrainian Member of Parliament who in March traveled from Kyiv to London, where she and three other female lawmakers urged Prime Minister Boris Johnson to stop U.K. trade with Russia on the grounds that it was funding the

By Emily Shugerman

New York prosecutors charged nine people Tuesday in what they claim was a multi-state sex trafficking operation that coerced women into prostituting themselves for the ringleaders’ gain—and viciously beat them if they worked for someone else.

According to the indictment, the nine participants recruited women—many of them immigrants from China without legal status in the U.S.—to travel to hotels across the country to engage in prostitution, then collected the proceeds for themselves. Prosecutors also claim the participants targeted women who worked for rival prostitution services, or operated independently, by

NEW YORK — The leader of the Sarah Lawrence College sex cult was found guilty Wednesday and now faces life in prison for a decade of physical, mental and sexual abuse of a group of wayward college kids.

The Manhattan jury brought down the guilty verdict on all 15 counts. Lawrence Ray, wearing all white, stood motionless as the verdict was read.

It took the panel roughly a half-day to convict Ray, 62, of racketeering conspiracy for his 10-year reign atop “The Ray Family,” preying on the vulnerable young friends of his

The most striking moment in Surviving Sex Trafficking comes late, when survivor Rachel Fischer strolls down a street in Budapest, only to be engaged by a group of random men. These burly guys come across as jovial, but almost immediately, one of them solicits her with cash. Another man named Richard admits that he’s a pimp who, because prostitution is illegal in Hungary, does most of his business in Switzerland and elsewhere. As these strangers continue to chuckle, Rachel strings them along, compelling Richard to confess, “I can give work.”