Crimes Against Women

Alabama state trooper Samuel McHenry will appear before a Butler County judge next week in a preliminary hearing March 3rd.  36-year-old McHenry was arrested and fired in early December 2015 after the State Bureau of Investigations confirmed that there was truth to the allegations of his accuser, a woman who …

In a report published today by Time magazine, Matt Sandy reported on the plans of Brazilian lawmakers to increase the penalties for abortion, despite the pleas of international bodies such as the UN to legalize abortion during the Zika epidemic. Brazil, like many Latin American nations affected by Zika, does …

Two veteran LAPD officers were arrested by detectives from the same police force on Wednesday and charged with a series of sexual assaults, most of which occurred while they were on duty.  The officers are expected in court on Thursday and are now held on more than $3.5 million bail. Prosecutors allege …

A bizarre love triangle between an adulterous former cop, a woman, and her alleged rapist, 35-year-old cable TV installer, Ronnie A. Torregano began to unfold Tuesday in a New Orleans court.  Orleans Parish prosecutor Jason Napoli told the jurors that NOPD completely botched the rape investigation and that “the only person …

Days after Georgia correctional officers gained national attention as the FBI arrest 46 of them for corruption in the drug trade, three women have gone public with a civil suit against Captain Edgar Daniel Johnson, the former supervisor at a medium-security women’s prison.  Captain Johnson has made headlines for allegedly raping the three …

The NYPD is investigating the former governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer for allegedly assaulting a woman at The Plaza hotel Saturday night.  Spitzer served as the Attorney General of New York for eight years and then as the governor of New York for a little over a year before his …

Prosecution of the former San Jose police officer, 40-year-old Geoffrey Graves for raping a woman while on duty began on February 1st before Judge Ron Del Pozzo at the Hall of Justice in San Jose.  Today the jury will begin its deliberations. With the help of a Spanish to English …

At a congressional hearing about the Zika virus and its spread from the developing world, House GOP members spoke out against efforts to provide contraception and abortion access to women who have become infected by the viral strain known to cause severe birth defects.  The $1.8 billion in emergency aid requested by …

In July 2013 two NYPD officers from the Special Victim’s Unit flew to Seattle to interview a 25-year-old woman who claimed to have been raped in a Manhattan apartment the week before.  As part of their “investigation,” Lt. Adam Lamboy and Detective Lucasz Skorzewski took the woman on a 10-hour …

Despite the efforts of Bill Cosby’s defense team to stop the sexual assault case against their client from going to trial on the grounds that a prosecutor had granted immunity to Cosby 11 years ago, a judge ruled Wednesday that a prosecutor is not bound by the decision of his …

Two 19-year-olds in Dallas have been arrested because police allege they captured a 15-year-old victim and forced her to have sex with other men for money, at least six men per day.  Police say that the girl was lured by the suspects, Mike Osario and Rafael Rodas over Facebook. Dallas police …

Carl Nathan Weeks Jr., 33, a former Franklin County sheriff’s deputy was arrested by the State Bureau of Investigation on three charges of sexual abuse involving minors.  A grand jury later indicted Weeks on six total counts of sexual abuse including one account of rape. Weeks is a current member of …

  Two Collegedale, Tennessee police officers are under scrutiny for use of excessive force on a Guatemalan woman employed by a private cleaning company at Ooltewah Middle School. Sgt. Jamie Heath and Officer Brian Desmond had entered the school looking for a possible burglar on January 11th when they noticed an open …

On Monday a fifteen-year-old girl reported being raped by a hospital security guard while she was in the hospital recovering from another rape by another teenager in Jamshedpur, India.  The second rape occurred only five days after the first.  While the victim’s mother was out, the security guard escorted the victim to the …

An American pick-up artist and pro-rape advocate, Roosh V, has organized meetings in Edinburgh and Glasgow for next Saturday, outwardly stipulating that only heterosexual men will be allowed to be in attendance, and that any women showing up in protest will be filmed with footage sent to his worldwide “anti-feminist” …