All tagged child sexual assault
Former Los Angeles Police Department officer Paul Razo has been charged with sexually assaulting four boys at his Covina home "during various times between 2006 and 2017," according to a news release from Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón, according to People.
Former glam rockstar, and registered sex offender, Gary Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd, has returned to prison after violating his probation.
Paul Gadd, also known famously as Gary Glitter, was released early from prison after serving half of a sixteen year sentence for sexually abusing three young girls in the 1970s, according to People.
Bracey Byrd, 33, of Wilson, North Carolina, was arrested on September 30 and charged with attempted murder, kidnapping, and various counts of child abuse after she allegedly castrated her stepson.
Florida mother Shiela O’Leary was sentenced to life in prison Monday following her conviction on charges of first-degree murder for the starvation death of her 18-month-old son, Ezra O’Leary in September 2019.
Georgia Leah Moses disappeared from Santa Rosa California on August 13th 1997. Nine days later, the 12-year-old girl's dead body was found alongside Highway 101 near the Petaluma Boulevard onramp. Georgia's short life was marked by failures of the system, which sadly continued to fail her in death. The investigation was distracted by a series of errors -- from the handling of her missing person report to the identification of her body. Even Georgia's name was printed incorrectly by the media, creating further barriers to justice.
Hawai’i man Gary Ramirez, 75, was arrested on August 2 in connection with the 1982 murder of 15-year-old Karen Stitt in Sunnyvale, California.
After a young girl escaped captivity from a Dadeville, Alabama home on Monday, police returned to make a shocking discovery the following day that opened an entirely new investigation.
Between 1964 and 1985, Soviet serial killer and sadist, Anatoly Slivko, murdered and dismembered seven young boys and sexually assaulted 43 young boys.
As one of the most infamous serial killers in modern history, Jeffrey Dahmer is the focus of multiple books, television shows, movies, and other kinds of media. However, his victims rarely share the same spotlight, their names often not even shared, just a number. Here are the stories of Jeffrey Dahmer’s victims and their brutal deaths.
The 40-year-old cold case of the kidnapping, assault, and murder of five-year-old Anne Pham was solved last week in Monterey California using DNA evidence. The perpetrator, now in his 70s, has been taken into custody in Nevada, waiting to be extradited to California for trial.
Alton Coleman and Debra Brown were a young couple from Illinois who together went on a murderous rampage across the midwest in 1984. The duo's 53 day reign of terror spanned 6 states, and resulted in a trail of murders, rapes, and robberies.
In the early hours of January 14, 2018, 17-year-old Jordan Turpin escaped her family’s house through a window. While running through the streets, she called police and told them how her parents abused her siblings. The story of the Turpin family would gain international attention and become known as the “House of Horrors.”
Infamous 90s celebrity R. Kelly was officially sentenced to 30 years in prison for his crimes against seven different women yesterday, June 29th. Robert Kelly (55), whose public appearance began to drown in 2019 after the release of the Surviving R. Kelly series, was charged last September on nine counts.
A Los Angeles County Jury has found Bill Cosby guilty of sexually abusing a minor in 1975.
On March 30, 2015, 10-year-old Corrine Gump was set to testify in court about how she was raped and sexually abused over a period of four years. Hours before she was set to testify, her home exploded, killing her and her deaf grandparents on the south side of Youngstown, Ohio.
Authorities in Georgetown County, South Carolina have recovered the remains of missing 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel, 13 years after she went missing while on a Myrtle Beach spring break trip.
On the afternoon of May 8, 2013, 911 operators received a frantic call from Amanda Berry in Cleveland, Ohio saying she’d been missing for ten years and was alive. When police arrived, they discovered her and her daughter at a neighbor’s home. She quickly directed police in the direction of the home where she and two other women, Michelle Knight and Gina DeJesus, were held captive for a decade by Ariel Castro.
For Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, Manchester was their hunting grounds, and the moors -- a vast stretch of barren landscape -- was their dumping grounds. Britain's most reviled killers preyed on children, abducting and violently murdering their victims before leaving their bodies in shallow graves.
This week marks the 29th anniversary of the siege at the Branch Davidians compound in Waco, Texas. What would occur over a 51-day standoff would end with the deaths of 80 people, which included 24 children.
