Category Archive for : ‘General’

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

October 6, 2019
Olivia Messer
MSN
 

The dark cloud that has lingered over the small town of La Vernia, Texas, for more than two years may finally be lifting.

Four teens each pleaded no contest to the felony charge of unlawful restraint on Friday, reported KENS5-TV, in the years-long sexual-assault and bullying case that victimized at least 10 boys on high-school sports teams in Texas and ripped apart the 1,200-person town. A no-contest plea, unlike a guilty plea, is an acceptance of the court’s punishment without an admission of guilt.

The defendants were juveniles at

October 6, 2019
Kristen Lowe
Local 12

GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) — A former northern Michigan principal has plead guilty to sex crime charges.

On Friday, Karl Hartman plead guilty to three counts of assault with intent to commit second degree criminal sexual conduct. The other charges against him were dismissed.

Hartman will be sentenced on November 1st.

Hartman’s attorney says each of the charges carries a five year maximum sentence, and those sentences would be served at the same time.

However, the judge can choose to sentence Hartman outside of those guidelines.

Hartman was facing life