Category Archive for : ‘PROFESSOR’

A judge in Los Angeles today sentenced former university professor Michael J. Pepe, 68, to 210 years in prison for molesting underage girls in Cambodia.

U.S. District Judge Dale S. Fischer rejected the defense’s position that such a long sentence would be unduly harsh.

“Pepe confined numerous preteen girls in his home,” said Judge Fischer. “The horrors he inflicted on those girls was more than unduly harsh, it was torture.”

In papers filed before today’s hearing, the defense team, headed by veteran attorney Charles C. Brown, argued for a sentence of 25 years,

May 19, 2021
Jon Burkett
WTVR

RICHMOND, Va. — A former state and federal special prosecutor, who is now a criminal defense attorney, was indicted by a grand jury for rape, object sexual penetration, and aggravated sexual battery.
Matthew Pinsker was taken at the Henrico County Jail Wednesday and later he was released on bond.
“Two of the charges carry up to life in prison if convicted, so they’re very high-level charges,” CBS 6 legal analyst Todd Stone said.
Pinsker served as a VCU adjunct professor at the Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs from

December 31, 2020
Joshua Rhett Miller
NY Post

A former Massachusetts professor accused of raping a student in his office after meeting her on a “sugar daddy” website has been indicted, prosecutors said.
Nicholas Pirelli — a 37-year-old communications professor who has been fired by Bridgewater State University — was indicted Monday on a litany of sex crimes, including rape, indecent assault and battery on a person over 14, engaging in sexual conduct for a fee, trafficking of a person for sexual servitude and disseminating obscene matter, prosecutors announced Wednesday.
Bridgewater State University police first

November 19, 2020
Danielle Wallace
Fox News

A former University of California at Berkeley professor nicknamed the “NorCal Rapist” was convicted Wednesday of attacking women in a string of sexual assaults and kidnappings dating back almost 30 years.
Roy Charles Waller, 60, was found guilty on 46 counts, including rape, sodomy and kidnapping in connection with attacks on nine women between 1991 and 2009 in six counties throughout Northern California.
After a nearly month-long trial, a jury in Sacramento deliberated for 2 and a half hours Wednesday before handing down the guilty verdict, the Sacramento

November 3, 2019
Julie Turkewitz
The New York Times
 
 
Fakhrriyyah Hashim, an activist from Nigeria’s conservative north, began using the hashtag #arewametoo to publicise incidents of sexual assault, on Sep 16, 2019. Women in West Africa who accuse men of sexual abuse have recently seen some change, but also an intense backlash including threats and even a police investigation. (KC Nwakalor/The New York Times)

It was, she said, a secret that burned so badly she could no longer keep it inside. So at age 34, Busola Dakolo, a well-known Nigerian photographer, went on television