The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/category/sex-crime/)
A team of reporters traced the whereabouts of hundreds of accused priests and other church officials, finding many who had taken on leadership roles in new communities while never being held accountable.
Search engines, social networks and cloud storage are rife with opportunities for child-pornography users and child abusers to exploit, but the tech industry has consistently failed to take aggressive steps to shut it down. The New York Times tested the safeguards by programming searches that turned up dozens of banned images.
Prominent lawyers Alan Dershowitz and David Boies escalated their battle over sex-trafficking allegations surrounding the late Jeffrey Epstein by filing new defamation actions. Dershowitz sued his accuser, while Boies sued Dershowitz.
U.S. District Judge Miranda Du in Reno said in her Tuesday ruling that she empathized with three women who claim they were victims of sexual violence in Nevada and other places. However, the judge said the women live in Texas and she wasn’t convinced the profound harm they said they suffered was due to Nevada prostitution laws.
A Georgia sheriff’s plan to post “no trick-or-treating” signs at sex offenders’ homes was unconstitutional, ruled a federal judge, who called the legal authority for the notices “dubious at best.”
Michael Baden, a forensic pathologist hired by Jeffrey Epstein’s family, believes Epstein’s autopsy suggests homicide rather than suicide. New York City’s chief medical examiner stands by her conclusion that Epstein died by hanging himself.
Nude photos of Rep. Katie Hill (D-CA), who is resigning, were posted on two websites. A patchwork of laws in 46 states have different definitions of what constitutes “revenge porn.”
Actress Rose McGowan sued Harvey Weinstein and lawyers David Boies and Lisa Bloom, accusing them of a campaign of covert and illegal measures meant to discredit her and prevent her from going public with her rape accusation against Weinstein.
The proposal is dividing the city’s progressive community, pitting some women’s groups against advocates for sex workers. Some prostitutes who have been sex trafficked find themselves on the other side from sex workers who have not been.
The owners and two employees of the GirlsDoPorn website face sex-trafficking charges in what federal investigators call a “scheme to deceive and coerce young women to appear in sex videos.” A criminal complaint in San Diego alleges that some women were threatened with “legal action or outing” if they didn’t perform.