sexual assault

A federal judge is allowing the Education Department to move forward with new rules governing how schools and universities respond to sexual assault complaints.

A review suggests a nonprofit health organization where at least 41 intellectually disabled children have reported sexual assaults over the past quarter-century has been plagued by understaffing and inadequate supervision of staff and patients.

The New York Times looks looks back at Antioch College’s groundbreaking first affirmative consent policy for sex which was ridiculed 25 years ago but is now considered groundbreaking in the #MeToo movement.

If calls to “defund the police” and divert funds to nonpolicing efforts are successful, what happens to rapists and sex offenders?

On Friday morning, a Twitter user who goes by the name Gabby posted a message to her followers where she shared “my story” with the Hollywood actor. In her post that has since gone private, Gabby claims the 26-year-old actor “sexually assaulted me when I was 17. I had DMed him on when it was two days before my 17th...

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has issued final rules that will reshape the way schools and universities respond to complaints of sexual misconduct

The Pentagon says reports of sexual assaults across the military increased slightly last year, with the Air Force showing the biggest jump of all the services

A bald man wearing a workman’s “contractor-style” shirt and described as fat is being sought by police in Chester County for entering a woman’s house Tuesday and sexually assaulting her. The man wore a light blue shirt with a dark blue name tag and white piping with the name “Jeff” embroidered on it, police said. The victim was on...

Prosecutors who won a conviction in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault case are defending their work as they fight the imprisoned actor’s latest appeal

A fake contractor attacked and sexually assaulted a woman inside her Chester County home, police said.

San Jose police, with the help of a security guard, arrested a 70-year-old man this week on suspicion of kidnapping and molesting a 13-year-old girl, according to the police department.

A TV news reporter who was covering a road race in Georgia when she was slapped on the backside by a runner is seeking criminal charges against the man she said “violated” her. NBC News

Early one morning in April, a homeless woman sleeping in an abandoned house in Louisville, Kentucky, was jolted awake by a stranger who pulled her bedding over her head and raped her, according to police. The 29-year-old woman was taken to the University of Louisville Hospital, where nurses examined her for traces of DNA that could identify her assailant, NBC News…......

A Philadelphia Police Officer was accused of sexually assaulting a woman inside his home. NBC10’s Deanna Durante was at the Philadelphia Police headquarters with the latest information.

A Pennsylvania appeals court on Monday questioned why actor Bill Cosby never got a supposed non-prosecution agreement in writing as his lawyers asked the panel to overturn his sexual assault conviction. Cosby, 82, is serving a three- to 10-year prison term for drugging and molesting a woman at his home in what became the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era.

Bill Cosby’s lawyers will fight to overturn his sexual assault conviction Monday as the 82-year-old comedian serves a three- to 10-year prison term in Pennsylvania.

Investigations remain underway after 1,862 calls were made to a clergy abuse hotline in the 12 months since a landmark grand jury report exposed decades of child abuse within Pennsylvania’s Roman Catholic dioceses, the state attorney general said Tuesday.

Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on charges of trafficking dozens of underage girls for sex. While Epstein’s is a high-profile case, experts warn that sex trafficking of minors is much more prevalent than some may think, and it’s happening in the greater Philadelphia region.

Seth Meyers has some strong words for President Donald Trump, who claimed he didn’t assault E. Jean Carroll because she’s not his type.