All tagged sexual abuse
According to the University of California’s student newspaper, The Daily Bruin, James Heaps, 66, the former OB-GYN at UCLA, has received an 11-year sentence after sexually abusing his patients. Heaps was a faculty member at the David Geffen School of Medicine and an OB-GYN at UCLA Health from 2014 to 2018.
According to People, California, six-grade teacher Jaqueline Ma has been accused of sexually abusing a former student. Ma has worked at Lincoln Acres Elementary School in National City since 2013 and was named one of the “Teachers of the Year” by the San Diego County Office of Education for the 2022-2023 school year.
In Philadelphia, February 1957, a college student came across a box discarded in the woods, which held the body of a malnourished boy between the age of three and seven. The cause of death appeared to be blows to the head. While several major theories have been developed as to who the boy was and what happened to him, his case remains unsolved after over sixty years.
As the front woman for Seattle-based rock band The Gits, Mia Zapata was building herself a promising career before she was killed on July 7, 1993. Her killer would walk free for ten years before finally being linked to her brutal murder.
A case was filed on Friday against the Department of the Army seeking $35 million in damages after the sexual assault and death of Army Specialist Vanessa Guillén. Guillén’s family is looking for $10 million in the wrongful death and $25 million in personal injury claims for the Army’s role in her eventual murder.
Barry Gilton and Lupe Mercado took the law into their own hands in 2012, hunting down and murdering Calvin Sneed, who’d allegedly pimped their teenage daughter. There’s a reason the legal system upholds the principle of ‘innocent until guilty,’ but the fantasy of the hero vigilante is hard to shake.
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.
In 1992, accused of sexually abusing his daughter Jennifer Freyd during her childhood, Peter Freyd and his wife Pamela would go on to found the False Memory Syndrome Foundation. They claimed that Jennifer, and other survivors who recovered traumatic memories through therapy, could not be trusted.
Retired Baltimore Police Officer, James S. Weems Jr., was shot by his wife, Shanteari Weems, on July 21th in a Washington D.C. hotel after accusations were filed against him of molesting at least three children who attended Shanteari’s daycare, Lil Kidz Kastle.
Netflix has just put out a stellar new true-crime documentary: Girl in the Picture. The feature follows a twisting, turning, and 20+ yearlong investigation into Tonya Hughes, a young woman who had to be killed for her secrets, abused past, and true identity to come to light.
With a combined 90 years in federal prison, Jayson and Kara Wright will be ineligible for parole. Even after release, their registration as sex offenders will last the rest of their lives.
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.”
Vanessa Guillén was murdered by co-worker, Aaron David Robinson, on April 22, 2020. Her death has caught the attention of many celebrities and has raised concern for sexual harassment against women in the military. Her story continues to shake the nation as time progresses.
For years, power couple Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein trafficked teenage girls among their powerful peers. Maxwell’s sentencing today brings closure for some of those victims, but it’s not the end of the battle.
After suffering through years of emotional and physical abuse, Lorena Bobbitt cut off the penis of her sleeping husband, John Wayne Bobbitt in their Manassas, Virginia home. The media firestorm which would follow would make Lorena Bobbitt a pop culture icon, often ignoring the truth of the reality she was living.
A Los Angeles County Jury has found Bill Cosby guilty of sexually abusing a minor in 1975.
On this day in 1931, Peter Kurten was convicted for 9 murders and received 9 death sentences.
It was about 2:00 a.m. on November 3, 1984, when 17-year-old Lisa McVey was kidnapped on her bike ride home after a double shift at a Krispy Kreme in Tampa, Florida. The culprit was Robert Joseph “Bobby Joe” Long, “The Classified Ad Rapist,” turned serial killer. For 26 hours, McVey was repeatedly abused, until she talked him into letting her go.
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.
