A Fort Hood soldier was arrested Tuesday after expedited DNA tests connected him with the death of Chelsea Cheatham back in 2019. Cheatham was found deceased in June 2019 at a Days hotel in Killeen. 

Friday the Los Angeles County announced Harvey Weinstein faces an additional 6 sexual assault charges. The incidents date between 2004 to 2013. Weinstein was initially charged back in January for sexually assaulting two women.

Chien “Howard” Hwa Shen, owner of several Billings restaurants was charged in the Yellowstone District Court with one felony count of rape and misdemeanor count of sexual assault

“This is a sad case involving a teacher, as well as a family friend abusing the trust placed in her by both the parent and the child,” said Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer. 

A Fort Hood soldier who has been missing for a week was the victim in an ongoing “abusive sexual contact” investigation, the Army said in a statement.

A 27-year-old Los Angeles police officer accused of fondling a dead woman was sued Tuesday by her family, court documents show.

A Brooklyn cab driver was arrested Tuesday after he allegedly raped a 12-year-old girl in the back of his vehicle.

A Tennessee couple is accused of kidnapping, torturing and sexually assaulting a woman before murdering her. They had initially offered her a place to stay, according to police.

A man accused of murdering an Alexandria woman, who had accused him of sexually assaulting her last fall, died Saturday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound that occurred as police tried to arrest him again on Wednesday. The man’s family issued a statement Saturday night saying they were grieving the loss of both lives.

In the United States, one out of every two Black transgender people has been incarcerated. And trans women who are incarcerated in men’s prisons are 13 times more likely to be sexually assaulted than cisgender men. Yet more than 50 percent report fearing for their safety if they are vocal about harassment, discrimination, or violence.

A Georgia man who received a 1,000-year sentence for possessing more than 26,000 files of child pornography has been released on parole after serving just seven years behind bars.

A U.S. Forest Service firefighter was arrested Wednesday after allegedly groping a 12-year-old girl in Newport Beach a month ago, officials said Thursday.

Nassau County Police have arrested a man they say crept into a bedroom window of a brother and sister and groped the girl as she slept early Wednesday.

A former Harrisonville High School coach has turned himself in after Cass County prosecutors filed criminal charges alleging he had sexual contact with a student.

Hollywood producer David Guillod, who has been battling public allegations of sexual assault since 2017, has been charged in California with alleged attacks on four women. The alleged assaults date back to 2012.

A former Oklahoma Department of Corrections employee is accused of sexually assaulting and forcibly sodomizing several inmates, according to authorities.

A 51-year-old Lyft found guilty of sexual assault and battery will spend 5 years behind bars.

Tad Cummins, the former Tennessee teacher who was captured after more than a month on the run with a 15-year-old girl, was sentenced to 20 years in prison Wednesday afternoon.

More than two and a half years after the murder of Queens jogger Karina Vetrano, and after two trials and the postponement of the killer’s initial sentencing, Chanel Lewis learned his fate Tuesday.

The 22-year-old convicted in the August 2016 murder and sexual assault will serve life in prison, without the chance of parole.

There were 109 victims of sex offenses in Wood County last year. That’s up from 86 in 2018. Those numbers put Wood County at the second-highest per capita rate of sex offenses in the state. Eau Claire County had the highest per capita rate.

Peel Regional Police are searching for a man involved in an alleged sexual assault in Brampton on Tuesday, May 5. Reports of the incident came in shortly after 11 a.m. in the area of Moldovan Drive and Father Tobin Road.

The justices affirm 10 of the 11 convictions against Ronald Paquin, 77, a former Catholic priest from Massachusetts, leaving his 16-year prison sentence unchanged.

Andrew Vineyard, 18, beat his father’s girlfriend, Kimberly Forness, to death with two baseball bats, slit her throat, and abused her corpse in 2017.

The convicted rapist is serving a 23-year sentence in New York, and faces another trial in Los Angeles.

Disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison Wednesday for his rape and criminal sex act convictions following an emotional trial that was a landmark moment in the #MeToo era. Weinstein was convicted Feb. 24 of rape in the third degree for assaulting aspiring actress Jessica Mann in a New York City hotel room in 2013, and of committing a criminal sex act for forcing oral sex on former production assistant Mimi Haley in 2006. 

Two men who drugged and sexually assaulted a 24-year-old woman for hours inside a now-shuttered Toronto bar have each been sentenced to nine years in prison.

Nicole Addimando met Christopher Grover in 2008, when they were coaches at Mr. Todd’s Gymnastics, in Poughkeepsie, New York. At first, they were just friends. Addimando lived with her mother, Belinda, in an apartment complex that Belinda managed. She was nineteen, tiny and delicate, with inky-black hair that fell down her back like a scrim. Her sister described her as shy and introverted. Grover, who was twenty-one, had a gymnast’s build, short and powerfully muscular. People who knew him described him as charming, childlike, and playful, if sometimes short-tempered. He loved video games and had a black belt in tae kwon do. Addimando called him her best friend.

Once at the top of an international yoga empire, Bikram Choudhury is now on the run from creditors, hiding from an arrest warrant and trapped in Mexico where his bills are only growing.

Eyewitness News learned that the founder of the hot yoga brand, whose international Bikram Yoga empire is headquartered in West Los Angeles, had his passport seized in Mexico, where he failed to pay a $180,000 bill at the Princess Mundo Imperial Hotel.

The 76-year-old yogi is also accused of using his trademark name to market his teacher training sessions at the Acapulco resort in violation of court orders.

A state’s attorney’s office in Illinois has welcomed its newest member: Hatty the black lab

A New Jersey groom accused of sexually assaulting a teen waitress in a bathroom at his wedding reception copped a wrist-slap plea deal over the incident that spares him prison time.

Sexual assault survivors will now be able to monitor the location and status of their rape kit.

This is through a new statewide electronic tracking system. New innovations happen nearly every day. A genetic analyzer, for instance, processes rape kits and works harder than its predecessor did 14 years ago.