A sign marks the location of the Rikers Correctional Center in the East River on March 9, 2021 in New York City. Lawyers for the plaintiffs say the abuse happened when their clients were between the ages of 11 and 17 years old. [ more › ]
Jurors convicted the Grammy Award-winning R&B singer on three charges of producing child porn and three charges of enticement of minors for sex in Chicago in 2022
Singer had appealed 2022 conviction by a Chicago jury stating Illinois’s shorter statute of limitations applied to his caseThe singer R Kelly was correctly sentenced to 20 years in prison on child sexual abuse convictions in Chicago, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday.Jurors in 2022 convicted the Grammy award-winning R&B singer, born Robert Sylvester Kelly, on three charges of producing child sexual abuse images and three charges of enticement of minors for sex. Continue reading
Sean "Diddy" Combs' legal team filed a motion Friday to dismiss a number of claims waged against the music mogul from a sexual assault lawsuit established in November. In the filings, Diddy's lawyers argued "numerous false, offensive, and salacious accusations" were brought against Combs and his companies in a lawsuit filed by Joi Dickerson-Neal "under statutes that did not exist at the time the alleged misconduct occurred and against corporate entities that were not formed or in existence."...
A total of 25 men have been jailed for a collective 346 years over the rape, sexual abuse, and trafficking of young girls in West Yorkshire.
(OSV News) — A New York state appeals court has found that an insurer for the Archdiocese of New York is not required to cover costs for settling hundreds of sex abuse claims — a ruling the archdiocese has called “extremely disappointing” and “wrongly decided.” On April 23, five justices of the First Judicial Department […] The post New York appeals court rules insurer doesn’t have to pay out for Archdiocese of New York abuse claims first appeared on OSV News.
The New York Court of Appeals on Thursday overturned the sex crimes conviction against Harvey Weinstein, the powerful Hollywood producer whose downfall stood as a symbol of the #MeToo movement. The court, by a 4-3 vote, ordered a new trial. “We conclude that the trial court erroneously admitted testimony of uncharged, alleged prior sexual acts against persons other than the complainants of the underlying crimes because that testimony served no material non-propensity purpose,” the ruling,...
A new form of “image-based sexual abuse" is on the rise among American teens using AI “nudification” apps to taunt female students.
A landmark trial over abuse at New Hampshire's youth detention center
The Boy Scouts of America is changing its name for the first time in its
Editor’s note: This story contains details that may be disturbing to some readers Tiny bottles of sparkly nail polish were in the loot bags given out at her fairy princess birthday party. She wasn’t allowed to have any. Her strict religious parents had a lot of rules to follow and there were big consequences if […]
The woman claims the mogul drugged and assaulted her while she was a student at Syracuse University.