In a nationwide crackdown on child sex-trafficking last week, the FBI rescued nearly 170 victims, many of whom were never reported missing. The crackdown also led to the arrest of 281 pimps on state and federal charges. “These are not faraway kids in faraway lands,” FBI Director James Comey said in announcing the annual enforcement push known as Operation […]
According to the United Nations human rights team in Iraq, at least 1,075 people, the vast majority of them civilians, have been killed in the country during the month of June, as a Sunni insurgency overtakes key areas of the country. There were at least 757 civilians killed and 599 injured in Nineveh, Diyala and Salah […]
A teacher at an Arizona prison was stabbed and raped after being left alone in a room with a sex offender, according to documents obtained by the Associated Press about the savage attack. The attack occurred at Eyman prison’s Meadows Unit on January 30, which houses about 1,300 rapists, child molesters and other sex offenders. After the […]
Kenyan officials have confirmed forces fatally shot five people allegedly involved in a World Cup screening attack that killed 50 earlier this week. The five were killed Thursday in the coastal town of Mpeketoni as they tried to escape Kenyan forces, the ministry said Friday. Officials detained additional suspects in the raid, including the owner and […]
A $40 million settlement has been reached for five men who were convicted, and later exonerated, of raping a white female jogger in Central Park in 1989. The announcement brings the 25 year-long case, known as the Central Park jogger case, and the long-fought civil rights lawsuit to an end. If you recall, the five […]
A 30-second snippet of Lady Gaga‘s unreleased Terry Richardson-directed music video for her single “Do What U Want” featuring R. Kelly has surfaced, and its everything you’d expect it to be. As in, gross and rapey. The explicit video depicts Gaga lying naked on a hospital table covered by only a sheet, while R.Kelly, who […]
It happened. For the first time in its World Cup history, the United States defeated Ghana 2-1 in a thrilling match on Monday night. For highlights, read here…[NBC] Just a day after suspected al Shabab members slaughtered at least 50 people at a World Cup screening, 15 others were killed in a raid on two […]
A 911 dispatcher in Columbus, Ohio has come under fire after she told a rape victim to “quit crying” on the phone. The victim, who said the dispatcher had “zero sympathy,” called 911 just after 4 a.m. last Sunday after she was assaulted at a friend’s house just off the Ohio State University campus. The caller […]
Adding to the list of violent crimes against women in India in the past two weeks, a woman was allegedly raped in a police station. News of the rape comes as another woman was found hanging from a tree on Thursday in India’s state of Uttar Pradesh. Police say they suspect the woman was raped before being […]
On Friday, after three years of pre-trial hearings in a sexual assault case, Samuel Curtis “S.C.” Johnson III was sentenced to just four months in jail and a $6,000 fine. The 59-year-old heir to the SC Johnson & Son fortune was first charged with repeated sexual assault of a child in 2011. He faced a […]
An Education Department report released Tuesday says 3,330 forcible sex offenses were reported on campuses in 2011. That is a 51 percent increase from the 2,200 reported a decade ago. Even though sex crimes are steadily increasing, the number of campus crimes in other categories, like car theft and burglary, decreased over the same period of time. […]
On Thursday, a senior politician from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling party made some pretty offensive comments about sexual assault that no doubt perpetuates the prevalent rape culture in India. Babulal Gaur, the minister responsible for law and order in Madhya Pradesh, reportedly defended rape when he said this: “Sometimes it’s right, sometimes it’s wrong.” The controversial remarks come at a time […]
