The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/category/sex-crime/)
Convicted former movie producer Harvey Weinstein will remain in a New York prison after his lawyers and prosecutors agreed Friday to postpone efforts to send him to California to face more sexual assault charges.
“They’re sweeping it under the rug,” said a former FBI analyst who alleges harassment in a lawsuit. A congresswoman says the FBI is in the “dark ages” on sex cases.
The Veterans Affairs inspector general told federal prosecutors of possible criminal conduct by Secretary Robert Wilkie stemming from an investigation into whether he worked to discredit a congressional aide who said she was sexually assaulted.
Saying his civil rights weren’t violated, a federal appeals court reinstated former Penn State University President Graham Spanier’s child endangerment convictions and two-month prison term that stemmed from the Jerry Sandusky child-sex case.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will hear Bill Cosby’s appeal on Tuesday. His defenders say five other accusers shouldn’t have been allowed to testify at his 2018 seual assault retrial.
A new Bureau of Justice Statistics report shows that an overwhelming majority of youth who were victimized by staff reported previous inappropriate contact with their abuser.
Dr. James Heaps also faces criminal charges. More than 200 women complained about his actions.
The Louisville Metro Police Department concealed at least 738,000 records documenting the sexual abuse of Explorer Scouts by two officers and lied to keep the files from the public.
Feminism has become “a legitimator of penalty in an era of declining faith in criminal punishment,” says a former defense attorney in a paper arguing that the #MeToo movement has unwittingly strengthened a justice system that is overly punitive and racially imbalanced.
There were 180 new federal prosecutions where child sex trafficking was the lead charge during fiscal year 2020, compared to 273 in 2016, reports the Transactional Access Records Clearinghouse. In about two-thirds of the cases, the reason given for declining to prosecute was “insufficient evidence.”