#sexual-abuse

#sexual-abuse

Jack Jansen, 52, was convicted of sexually abusing a 7-year-old child in Berkeley a decade ago. With Jansen's jail sentence over, the sibling has made new allegations of abuse.

James Heaps, 70, pleaded guilty to 13 felonies, including multiple counts of sexual penetration of an unconscious person, and must register as a sex offender for life.

Afrika Bambaataa gained fame in the burgeoning hip-hop scene for DJing house shows and block parties, becoming a key figure in the Universal Zulu Nation and releasing the influential single 'Zulu Nation Throwdown.'

The allegations against the water polo star surfaced in the suit filed last month by former teammate Romain, who says Van der Woude subjected him to months of racist harassment and sexual abuse while playing on Harvard-Westlake's elite team.

Police have questioned a man over allegations of human trafficking and facilitating rape in connection with the former Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed. The suspect, who is in his 60s, was interviewed under caution this month after 154 people came forward to report allegations of sexual abuse by Al Fayed.

I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for. As a young mother in the 1960s, I experienced two separate sexual encounters with Cesar. The first time I was manipulated and pressured into having sex with him, and I didn't feel I could say no because he was someone that I admired, my boss and the leader of the movement I had already devoted years of my life to. The second time I was forced, against my will, and in an environment where I felt trapped.

On Tuesday, Columbia released a long-awaited report that details a culture of silence that allowed OB-GYN Robert Hadden to abuse more than 1,000 patients during his nearly 25-year career at Columbia. In unveiling the report, the university also announced that two long-time administrators are leaving their positions.

A former teacher and coach at the shuttered Summit Everest school has been arrested and charged with sex crimes for having alleged sexual relationships with two high school students. 31-year-old Anthony Gutierrez-Molina of Palo Alto was taken into custody this past Thursday by the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office for the crimes. The relationships with the students occurred from around 2023 to 2025.

An investigation into Anthony Gutierrez Molina, 31, of Palo Alto, began after a student from Summit Everest, which closed last year, came forward in January, sheriff's spokeswoman Gretchen Spiker said in a statement. The student was 16 at the time of the alleged incidents, according to Spiker. Gutierrez Molina was a coach and program manager for the school, according to Spiker.

Van der Woude was arrested on Harvard-Westlake's campus in February 2024 after another parent complained to police that their son had also been abused, the outlet reported. By that time 17, he was ordered to complete probation and pay $50,000 in restitution under a plea deal with Los Angeles County prosecutors that dropped a more serious charge - the restitution remains unpaid, per the outlet.

The trial, held in a court in the religious capital of the country, concluded on Monday night with a 20-year prison sentence for the doctor, after the victims presented a detailed account of the horrors they endured. It began as a story of jealousy. The psychiatrist S.I. had declined to accompany his wife on a trip to France that they had arranged the previous year.

"Thanks to the One Big Beautiful Bill, ICE has new funding to expand detention space to keep murderers, rapists, pedophiles, gang members, and terrorists off American streets before they are removed for good from our communities," the statement continues. "Secretary [Kristi] Noem aims to work with officials on both sides of the aisle to expand detention space to help ICE law enforcement carry out the largest deportation effort in American history."

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.

CNews is the country's most-watched 24-hours TV news station but it scarcely reports the news. It provides a running commentary of loud-mouthed opinion. Emmanuel Macron is a charlatan; the Left is wicked; immigrants are mostly violent criminals; Donald Trump is a breath of fresh air; Vladimir Putin has some faults but many qualities; France is swamped with crime because of the moral weakness of the ruling elite.

an indictment of California's criminal justice system which allows criminals to threaten public safety and prey upon the most vulnerable.

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.