Archive for rape

Report: Kidnap victim Michelle Knight needs reconstructive surgery

Friday, May 10th, 2013

Michelle Knight, one of the three women who have been held captive in Ariel Castro’s basement for the last ten years, is reportedly still recovering in a Cleveland hospital after allegedly sustaining some serious injuries while in captivity reported her grandmother on Thursday. Michelle Knight, who has been a prisoner in Castro’s home longer than the other ... read more »

14-year-old raped two blocks from President Obama’s Chicago home

Wednesday, November 7th, 2012

A 14-year-old girl who was walking her dog on Tuesday morning, election day, near the Chicago home of President Barrack Obama, when was sexually assaulted. The girl told Chicago police that an African American male, who appeared to be between 30 and 40-years-old and stood approximately 6 feet tall, grabbed her from behind and forced ... read more »

Chicago family sues school board over child’s abduction, rape

Wednesday, October 24th, 2012

A Chicago family is suing the Chicago Board of Education for failing to keep their daughter safe and reporting a witnessed abduction. The victim was a student at Cook Elementary on Chicago’s south side back in May. The family filed their lawsuit this week. The lawsuit claims that their daughter was abducted by a stranger, ... read more »

Boy Scouts helped cover up alleged child molestors according to ‘perversion files’

Monday, September 17th, 2012

According to a report in the Los Angeles Times, the Boy Scouts of America’s confidential internal files revealed that the organization failed to report hundreds of child sex abuse cases to authorities over a period of twenty years. The Los Angeles Times obtained over 1,600 of the scouting organization’s documents dating from 1971-1991.  In those documents, BSA officials urged admitted child molesters to ... read more »

Gawker: Editor causes firestorm after advocating for pedophiles

Sunday, September 9th, 2012

A firestorm has erupted over an editorial published on Friday an editor of Gawker, advocating for pedophiles and suggesting that pedophile challenges are a civil rights issue. Its author, Cord Jefferson, fully acknowledged the article’s agenda, tweeting on Friday, “I wrote this big piece about trying to find sympathy and new treatments for pedophiles. Check it ... read more »

Babysitters charged with assaulting a baby and two preschoolers

Tuesday, September 4th, 2012

In what is being described as one of the most horrific child sex abuse cases authorities in St. Charles County, Missouri, have ever seen, three babysitters were arrested and charged with sexually assaulting and sodomizing a baby and two young children. According to Lt. Craig McGuire of the St. Charles County Sheriff’s Department,  the three adults ... read more »

Missing teen, forced to have kidnapper’s baby, escapes after two years in captivity

Friday, August 24th, 2012

After first being reported missing over two years ago, a Washington Park, Illinois, teen escaped from the home where she was allegedly being held by a man and his mother. The girl, who was 15 when she disappeared, was reported as a missing or runaway juvenile in April 2010, by St. Louis, Missouri, police. According to ... read more »

Man posts ad on Craigslist to get men to rape his wife, two break into home

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012

A man who is not being named to protect the identity of the victim, who is a staff sergeant with the Idaho National Guard who served in Iraq, has admitted to posting ads on Craigslist to solicit men to sexually assault his wife. The husband, 32, posed as his wife and claimed that she had ... read more »

Man allegedly has sex with 12-year-old he met online, child was reported missing

Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

Authorities say that Christopher Bradley Nutt of Escondido, California, was arrested on suspicion of having sex with a minor and several other related charges. 24-year-old Nutt had recently moved to the city from San Dimas, and authorities say he was arrestedin the bedroom of a house of Nightingale Place near East Lincoln Avenue. According to police, ... read more »

Woman accused of having sex with boyfriend’s 7-year-old son

Monday, May 21st, 2012

20-year-old Alicia Gaston, of North Fairmount, Cincinnati, Ohio, has been charged with rape following the accusation that she had sex with her boyfriend’s 7-year-old son. According to police, Gaston confessed to engaging in sexual intercourse with the child on April 10 at around 8 p.m. in the 200 block of Craft Street in Winton Place, reports Cincinnati.com. It has not been ... read more »

Woman awakes to boyfriend’s neighbor having sex with her

Monday, May 14th, 2012

A woman who was spending the night at her boyfriend’s house told Arlington police that she awoke early Sunday morning to another man, the boyfriend’s neighbor, having sex with her. According to the Arlington Crime Report, Federico Alfonso Umana Barrera, 35, of Arlington, VA was arrested and charged with sexual assault and forgery of a ... read more »

Former missing-child poster boy sentenced for rape charge

Sunday, April 29th, 2012

As a poster boy for missing kids everywhere, Adam Croote’s story was the textbook case for why public resources should be used to help more victimized children. Croote, a former abducted child himself, stood next to Bill Clinton in 1996 as the president signed an order requiring missing children posters to be hung in federal ... read more »

Teen sex offender accused of raping classmate

Monday, April 23rd, 2012

19-year-old Jeremiah Christian Thompson was arraigned on Friday, charged with third-degree rape of a child, a Class C felony.  Thompson is a registered sex offender and was convicted of communicating with a minor for immoral purposes and fourth-degree assault in February 2010.  He also accepted a plea deal at the time to a misdemeanor charge ... read more »

Gang rape of teen video goes viral in Africa

Wednesday, April 18th, 2012

A mentally ill 17-year-old girl is being treated at a a hospital in Johannesburg for injuries she received after being abducted and gang raped. So far, eight boys and men have been arrested in connection with the rape. On Wednesday morning, cellphone footage of the attack had gone viral amongst the school children in Soweto, ... read more »

6-year-old boy accused of molestation is allegedly tortured by his accusers

Friday, November 18th, 2011

A young Wisconsin boy, age 6, was accused by one of the boy’s playmate’s mothers of sexually assaulting her daughter by sticking his finger in her anus. The little girl denied that the boy had done that, but the mother reportedly moved forward with her relentless plight to have the boy prosecuted for rape. The ... read more »