#sexual-assault

#sexual-assault

You abused the most intimate trust of each of your victims. In each case you systematically groomed your victim, first to befriend them, then to abuse them, finally to bend them to your will.

Kevin Spacey has consistently denied the allegations since they first emerged in 2017, and the terms of the settlement have not been disclosed.

She is the co-founder of UFW, of all alleged victims, and she calls herself a survivor. She doesn't call herself a victim. Who would have thought? And she kept it quiet for all those decades because she believed in the cause, she didn't want to destroy the cause, she says. She only came out now because these other women had spoken out about their attacks, their sexual assaults, and she didn't want them hanging out there on their own.

However, instead of going to the location where the girls instructed him to, the suspect drove to the area of Sunburst and Lemona Avenue ... it's a residential neighborhood, but it's secluded enough ... not enough people or vehicle traffic around.

Toronto police now accuse David Edward-Ooi Poon of having committed sex crimes going back as far as 2009, the year he began studying at the University of Alberta's medical school. The 28 newly alleged offences comprise: Seven counts of sexual assault between 2009 and 2024. Fifteen counts of voyeurism between 2009 and 2025. Three counts of sexual interference for allegedly sexually touching three minors under age 16 on a single day in September 2024, in Vaughan, Ont.

Using the name "Derek" on Grindr, Pleasant had Wilson meet him at the Banyan Tree Apartments in northeast San Antonio and later shot him to death in Wilson's white Ford Expedition SUV from the vehicle's passenger side. Witnesses saw a suspect in a red hoodie running away from the car with a black duffel bag.

Buck, 71, plied the men with drugs and then sexually assaulted them while they were unconscious or immobile. In Moore's case and that of another man, Tim Dean, he injected his victims with fatal amounts of methamphetamine.

Two boys, ages 12 and 13, were charged by a grand jury as adults in the brutal rape of a 12-year-old girl in the garden area of a Miami apartment complex over the summer. Both boys were booked into Metro West Detention Center Thursday on charges including sexual battery with serious injury, false imprisonment and kidnapping.

Ralph Fleuristil, 34, was arrested Feb. 6 after police executed a search warrant at a home on Ferdinand Street in Melrose, the Malden Police Department announced. According to the complaint issued with the arrest warrant, the home is believed to be Fleuristil's. Fleuristil is charged with two felony counts of indecent assault and battery on a person 14 or over, one felony count of assault and battery on a person over 60/disabled, and a misdemeanor charge of assault and battery, court documents show.

To date, very few victims have come forward with names of individual perpetrators. They are literally scared to death. Katie Johnson in a taped deposition described in detail how Donald Trump raped her. That deposition is in the public domain now. Johnson's whereabouts are unknown, even to her lawyers. She dropped her case in 2016 because of death threats. We don't know if she is alive or not. We do know victims of Epstein are legitimately fearful of the powerful men who raped them.

Bryant was the man police identified as being responsible for attacks on women who were all jogging in the same area, during the summer of 2025. All the incidents occurred near the Point Richmond tunnel, and all involved him either groping the victims or attempting to pull off their clothes, police said. On July 15, Bryant attacked a woman near the tunnel, attempting to pull her clothing off of her and crushing her with his body weight as she screamed for help.

BERKELEY - A man who tried to alter his appearance after an alleged attack has been arrested in a Valentine's Day sexual assault of a UC Berkeley student in the laundry area of the apartment building where he lived, authorities said Tuesday. The suspect, Ahmad Lutfi, 34, was arrested on suspicion of assault with intent to commit rape, sexual battery and false imprisonment. He was being held at the Berkeley jail in lieu of $160,000 bail and was scheduled to be arraigned in court Wednesday.

A Hayward man, 31-year-old Christopher Nadhan, has been charged with raping a woman whom he found sleeping in her car at the Walnut Creek BART station. The victim said she had been out drinking with a friend in San Francisco and decided to sleep a bit in her car on October 25, 2025, and she awoke to the suspect on top of her. [Bay Area News Group]

William 'Bill' Connolly jailed for nine years after being found guilty of rape, sexual assault and sexual exploitation The lewd text messages that sports coach William 'Bill' Connolly (68) sent to a teenage girl ultimately proved his undoing. Connolly, who was nearly 50 years older than the girl, had vehemently denied any sexual contact with her as he was charged with rape, sexual assault and sexual exploitation.

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Nevils agreed to go to Lauer's hotel room, she writes, in part because she wanted to delete unflattering photos he'd taken of her at the bar. She woke up the next day, she writes, crusted in blood. She recalls that she did not "say no or stop" when Lauer took off her jeans, and eventually "gave up" when he asked for anal sex.

"The incident took place in Battersea Park on April 28 2025," said prosecutor Barbara Valentini. "The defendant approached the victim while she was sunbathing, straddled her and exposed his penis. "He ran off into the bushes after being told off by the victim." Ms Valentini said that after his arrest Kuper is accused of "grabbing" a female PC in her crotch area.

A 'fairy whisperer' who sexually assaulted a 16-year-old girl on a flight to Boston bizarrely claims he has no recollection of the attack because he had a few whiskeys, his drink was spiked and he got a kick in the head from a horse.