sex crimes

Prince Andrew wasn’t on trial in the Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficking case but her conviction is bad news for the man who is ninth in line to the British throne.

A prosecutor described sex abuse claims against R&B star R. Kelly Wednesday, saying the long-anticipated trial now underway is “about a predator” who used his fame to entice girls, boys and young women before dominating and controlling them physically, sexually and psychologically for at least three decades. “This case is not about a celebrity who likes to party a lot,” Assistant...

Singer R. Kelly has been moved to federal custody in Brooklyn from Chicago ahead of his imminent trial on sex trafficking charges. It was not immediately clear exactly when the one-time R&B superstar was moved, but federal Bureau of Prisons records show Kelly is now housed at the Metropolitan Detention Center. A judge approved the move in April, saying...

A series of online messages from a long-ago schoolmate has a Gettysburg College graduate trying again to get authorities to make an arrest in her 2013 sexual assault

A 19-year-old Oregonian man was arrested on sexual assault charges in Northern California after being found with a 12-year-old girl from Chula Vista he met on an online gaming platform, authorities said Monday.

A convicted sex offender pleaded no contest Monday to two counts of murder and is expected to be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the killings of two young boys within a five-year span. Kenneth Kasten Rasmuson, 59, is scheduled to be sentenced on April 27 at the Pomona courthouse. Monday’s plea deal happened as...

A Perris high school teacher was arrested for allegedly committing lewd acts against two former students between 2013 and 2016.

Federal prosecutors in New York have charged Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard in connection with an investigation into allegations he trafficked and sexually assaulted dozens of girls and women for years. The nine-count indictment out of the Southern District of New York also charges the 79-year-old Nygard with racketeering and other crimes. He was taken into custody in Canada Monday…

Police are looking for a “peeping” man accused in a series of sexual battery cases in Oceanside, the most recent of which escalated to alleged sexual assault on a woman.

An Orange County Superior Court judge Thursday handed off the prosecution of a Newport Beach hand surgeon and his girlfriend, who are charged with drugging and raping several women, to the state Attorney General’s Office. Judge Gregory Jones recused the office of Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer, who had no objection to his prosecutors being removed from the...

The California Attorney General’s Office Thursday refiled sex-related charges against the leader of a Mexico-based evangelical megachurch, nearly four months after a state appellate court panel ordered the case against him to be dismissed on a technicality.

A 34-year-old Riverside man was arrested in connection with trying to kidnap a 5-year-old child in the unincorporated area of Montclair on Wednesday afternoon, sheriff’s officials said. Abel Ojeda-Vazquez allegedly said he was there for a Bible study and tried to take the child, but was interrupted by the victim’s teenage sibling, officials said in a news release. Ojeda-Vazquez was...

A U.S. Forest Service firefighter was behind bars Thursday on charges of possession of child pornography and groping a 12-year-old girl in Newport Beach. Authorities are asking for the public’s help in identifying additional potential victims. Jacob Daniel Carothers, 38, of San Jacinto, was arrested Wednesday on a warrant by Newport Beach police and was being held on $100,000 bail….

A 64-year-old woman who was ambushed by a man in a blue surgical mask, put in a chokehold and raped on the ground in East Harlem last month, has died from her injuries, police said Friday. The woman was attacked as she walked along 111th Street shortly before midnight on May 18. Jarring surveillance footage released by police shows a…

An East Bay oral surgeon has been charged with a slew of sex crimes involving children, including one child as young as nine.