Category Archive for : ‘RAPE KIT’

November 3, 2019
David Aaro
Fox News

A Florida man was charged with raping a woman and later admitted to killing a man and woman in Mexico, according to the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office.
Omar Navis Torres, 39, who the victim says has a “crack and alcohol addiction,” allegedly beat the unnamed woman before sexually assaulting her.
Officers responded to a location in Manatee County on Oct. 30, in reference to a past physical dispute, when they made contact with Torres and the victim.
Torres allegedly threw the woman onto the bed, hitting her in the

October 27, 2019
Robert Gearty
Fox News
  

Testing in Florida’s Palm Beach County of 1,500 backlogged rape kits has led to the arrest of a registered sex offender for a 1992 rape.

The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said Noel Bango, 57, was arrested Oct. 19 in Deptford Township, N.J., a Philadelphia suburb, on a warrant accusing him of the rape, according to reports.

The accuser was 17 when she reported being raped in a random attack in Delray Beach 27 years ago, the Palm Beach Post reported.

The woman’s rape kit was part of a backlog of 1,500 rape kits in Palm Beach County.

October 15, 2019
Isabel Hughes
USA TODAY

WILMINGTON, Del. – In the early morning hours of Aug. 4, 1993, a young woman was walking near Hill Park in Newark when a nude man grabbed her from behind.

Pushing her onto a grassy area, the man raped her, then fled with her clothes and other personal items.

The 22-year-old, who never saw her attacker, immediately reported the rape to Newark police, who were unsuccessful in locating the man.

Despite receiving tips and interviewing witnesses in the days and weeks that followed, Newark detectives exhausted all

September 25, 2019
Informnny

For years, Emily Doe suffered behind the scenes after she was sexually assaulted, shielded from public view by laws that kept her anonymous.

By contrast, the trial for her attacker, Brock Turner, garnered national headlines for the leniency a judge showed to the former Stanford athlete and the protests the decision sparked.

When the trial was over, the anguish and humiliation she felt from the attack and the public display of her body during the court case only deepened.

Now, Emily Doe, whose real name is Chanel Miller, has come forward,

September 19, 2019

CBS NEWS

A woman who says she was sexually assaulted after getting in a Lyft is now blaming the ride-hailing giant for allegedly mishandling her report. Alison Turkos claims she was kidnapped at gunpoint by her Lyft driver in 2017, and sexually assaulted by at least two men. And after she reported her assault, Turkos claims, Lyft still charged her for part of the ride and allowed her alleged assailant to keep driving.

Turkos said the person she once was ceased to exist after what she says happened to her in 2017. She

September 18, 2019
MSN

Winston-Salem police said a woman reported being raped to authorities Nov. 3, 1993.
On the night in question, the woman told police that a man armed with a knife approached her as she walked in the 1000 block of Cayuga Street.
The man reportedly forced her to another area before he sexually assaulted her, investigators said.
The case was referred to the Criminal Investigations Division of the Winston-Salem Police Department for further investigation was marked “inactive” Jan. 11, 1994.
In 2017, the Winston-Salem Police Department was invited to participate in a North