Illinois man gets life in prison for rape-murder of Chinese scholar
A former University of Illinois doctoral student will serve life in prison without parole for the rape and murder of a 26-year-old scholar from China whom he abducted near campus in 2017, after a federal jury said Thursday that it failed to agree on ...
Cyprus detains 12 Israeli teens for eight days over alleged rape of Briton
A Cyprus court has ordered 12 Israelis vacationing on the east Mediterranean island nation to remain in police custody for eight days after a 19-year-old British woman alleged that she was raped. Judge Tonia Nicolaou removed reporters from the hearing Thursday because some of the ...
Salvadoran accused of abortion faces retrial, hefty sentence
A young woman who gave birth to a baby in an outhouse in El Salvador was back in court Monday facing a second trial for murder in a case that has drawn international attention because of the country's highly restrictive abortion laws. Evelyn Beatriz Hernández, ...
Inside Jeffrey Epstein's network, layer upon secretive layer to protect the boss
A few cells away from drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman at a New York City jail, jet-setting financier Jeffrey Epstein sits accused of running a different kind of criminal network. There was the team of recruiters and enablers bringing Epstein dozens of underage girls ...
'Pedophile Island': Whispers, suspicions abound about Jeffrey Epstein's Caribbean properties
Ask about Jeffrey Epstein on St. Thomas and rooms go quiet. Some people leave. Those who share stories speak in barely audible tones. The 66-year-old billionaire bought Little St. James Island off this U.S. Caribbean territory more than two decades ago and began to transform ...
Facing calls to quit, Alexander Acosta defends serial sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's leniency
Insisting he got the best deal he could at the time, Labor Secretary Alex Acosta on Wednesday defended his handling of a sex-trafficking case involving now-jailed financier Jeffrey Epstein as Acosta tried to stave off intensifying Democratic calls for his resignation. "We believe that we ...
Accuser says Jeffrey Epstein raped her when she was 15 in New York
A new accuser of Jeffrey Epstein said Wednesday that the wealthy financier raped her at his New York home when she was 15. Jennifer Araoz said in an interview on NBC's "Today" show that she hasn't spoken to authorities about her allegations because she feared ...
At court hearing, journalist Shiori Ito says she was 'desperate to protect' herself during rape
Journalist Shiori Ito, who has accused a prominent former television reporter of rape, said in a damages lawsuit Monday that she tried to stop him and was "desperate to protect" herself. Ito, 30, is seeking ¥11 million in compensation from Noriyuki Yamaguchi, a former reporter ...
Protesters in Myanmar demand justice after 2-year-old was allegedly raped
Hundreds of people marched to Myanmar's Central Investigation Department on Saturday in Yangon to demand justice for a 2-year-old girl who was allegedly raped at her nursery school in the country's capital in May. A 29-year-old suspect was rearrested Wednesday and charged in the case ...
Miyako Shirakawa was a 19-year-old college student when she was raped by an older man. She said that when the attack started, her mind went blank and she froze up. "When I became aware, he was on top of me," said Shirakawa, 54, now a ...
North Korean females tell of slavery and gang rape in China cybersex dens
Tens of thousands of North Korean women and girls — some as young as 9 — are being trafficked into sexual slavery in China as they try to flee poverty and oppression in their homeland, experts on the reclusive state said Monday. The sexual exploitation ...
The onerous rules for proving sexual assault should be reviewed.
