A captain with the Pasadena Fire Department has been charged with nine counts of committing lewd acts with a minor under age 14. Prosecutors allege he sexually abused three victims over a period spanning more than two decades. Christopher James Ramstead, 47, of Thousand Oaks was arrested Wednesday and, if convicted, faces up to 135 years to life in state prison, according to the L.A. County district attorney's office. He pleaded not guilty Monday and was ordered held without bail.
A new tranche of Epstein files has blasted its way through the worlds of media, politics, tech, academia, finance and Hollywood. High-profile individuals have once again been forced to explain their relationship with the billionaire financier and why exactly they sent that email, or what they were doing in that photo, in that place, at that time. There have been resignations in Norway, Slovakia, France, the UK and on Wall Street.
A former learning mentor who sexually abused five vulnerable teenage girls who came to him for support at school has been jailed for eight years. Emem Udaw, 51, touched the girls in intimate areas, made one of them touch him intimately and kissed another between 2002 and 2005 while he worked at Holland Park School in Kensington, west London.
In findings published on Thursday, the church-appointed president of tribunals, Stephen Males, concluded that some mistakes were made in the handling of Tudor's case, but the threshold for misconduct was not met. Males, a former court of appeal and high court judge, said Cottrell had no power to remove Tudor from ministry and could not be held responsible for the previous decision to allow Tudor back into ministry.
After four days of jury selection, opening statements began in Las Vegas court Tuesday in the trial of Nathan Chasing Horse, an actor and self-proclaimed spiritual leader accused of abusing Indigenous girls and women for over two decades. Chasing Horse, who's best known for playing a character named Smiles a Lot in the 1990 Oscar-winning western Dancing with Wolves, was arrested in North Las Vegas in January 2023 following months of investigation into alleged sex crimes he'd committed in Clark County.
If O'Connor is convicted of sexual battery or molesting a minor, Webby said she would be required to register as a sex offender under California law. A conviction on all counts would also carry a potential sentence of more than 30 years. Prosecutors have identified 14 named juvenile victims, seven girls referred to as Jane Does, and seven boys, or John Does, according to Webby, and none of the testifying juveniles have immunity agreements. In addition, prosecutors have other juvenile witnesses, who are not named victims.
Mandelson claimed he was not aware of Epstein's abuse of women and girls and was "kept separate" from that part of Epstein's life as he is gay. "Possibly some people will think because I am a gay man... I wasn't attuned to what was going on. I don't really accept that," he said. "I think the issue is that because I was a gay man in his circle I was kept separate from what he was doing in the sexual side of his life."
The (There's Gotta Be) More to Life singer, 39, is seeking unspecified damages as well as a trial by jury after filing a lawsuit this week against multiple parties including former manager Britt Ham, Universal Music Group, and ForeFront Records for multiple offenses including childhood sexual abuse, sexual battery, negligence and gender violence, according to the filing on the website for her attorneys at Stritmatter Law.
Ransone portrayed the dock worker turned petty criminal Chester Ziggy Sobotka in season two of David Simon's critically acclaimed Baltimore crime drama The Wire. He later acted alongside Alexander Skarsgard in Generation Kill, also helmed by Simon. In Generation Kill, Ransone played real-life marine Cpl Josh Ray Person across all seven episodes of the HBO show. Ransone more recently appeared in It Chapter Two as the fictional character Eddie Kaspbrak.
Mr. Baylon Asuncion has acknowledged his wrongdoing and accepted responsibility for his conduct. He has expressed sincere remorse, both for his actions and for the impact they have had on the victim, the victim's family, and the broader community,
He was sentenced to 45 years in prison and will be coming up for parole in two years. At this point, I think it is actually possible that he has changed since he's been in prison. He's written quite a few very thoughtful articles and also had some published in the prison newspaper. I talk with him regularly on the phone, and I think he's telling the truth when he says he's been clean and sober for several years now.
Ms Bush was told he (the officer) would pick her up, put her on his knee and would fondle her, on several occasions, and there was a real depth of distress. There were toys in the (police investigation) room, and she cuddled the toys and she needed them. I just sat there quietly while she spoke on the horror that happened to her in her childhood.
Philip Murphy is already serving a 10-year sentence for two random sex attacks on women in Dublin city centre His brother, Michael Murphy (48), was also jailed today for rape His half brother, Thomas Ryan, has waived his anonymity so Philip Murphy can be named A "most dangerous sexual predator" has been jailed for 15 years for the repeated rape and sexual abuse of his younger brother and two young girls 30 years ago.
Epstein's story is not really about one man's depravity. It is about a system legal, cultural, and institutional engineered to protect the powerful through silence. His crimes thrived not because they were hidden, but because the people who knew were coerced, encouraged, or more than willing to shut up. Silence was not incidental to Epstein's success. It was central to it. And in this, he was hardly unique.
Young was born in Newcastle, in 1959. At two, he was taken into care, and his parents were convicted of wilful neglect. At eight, at a school in Devon, he was sexually abused by the gardener. At 14, at St Camillus, a Catholic residential school in Yorkshire, he was sexually assaulted by the headteacher, James Bernard Littlewood. But none of this compared with his experience at Medomsley.
CNN anchor Erica Hill was taken aback when a guest told her he understood what Megyn Kelly was trying to do when she dissected sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein's pedophilia, or lack thereof. Kelly has gone viral over a two-minute segment during which she argued that Epstein was not a pedophile, expanding on what an unnamed confidant told her. While describing Epstein as sick and disgusting, she still explored the difference between a 15-year-old and a 5-year-old claiming Epstein was into the barely-legal type.
"You are nothing but a coward. You ducked and dived all your life, but the jury saw through you. You are the abuser, you are the rapist," one victim said. A "monster" whose sexual abuse of four victims spanned three decades has been jailed for 20 years. Declan Daly (54) of Cassidy Apartments, Kells, Co. Meath pleaded guilty before his trial to 12 counts of sexual assault and indecent assault against three female victims on dates between 1982 and 2002.
"Sean Combs used violence, threats, substances, and control over my career to trap me in over a decade of abuse," she wrote. "He groomed me into performing repeated sex acts with hired male sex workers during multi-day 'Freak-Offs,' which occurred nearly weekly. I was forced into lingerie and heels, told exactly how to look, and plied with drugs and alcohol so he could control me like a puppet," Cassie wrote.
