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A 33-year old man from Malmö has been sentenced to ten years in prison by a US court for sexually assaulting a 16-year-old he met online. The man travelled to the city of Corpus Christi in Texas in October 2008 and was arrested ten days later by police in a hotel room. The girl, who had ran away from home, was found in the room partially clothed. Hotel personnel raised the alarm after recognising the girl from a missing persons poster. According to Texas law, the age of consent is 17 years old. The Swede pleaded guilty on eight counts...

The domestic violence industry has a habit of attracting unsavory characters into its ranks. And now three former operatives are doing hard time. Take Barbara Dehl of Nampa, Idaho. Ten years ago Dehl single-handedly lobbied for passage of Cassie's Law, a bill aimed at stopping dating violence. That achievement landed her on the Montel Williams Show, and Sen. Mike Crapo hailed Dehl as the "Spirit of Idaho." Her crowning moment came in 2002 when she was invited to serve on the National Advisory Committee on Violence Against Women. But then Dehl got caught up in drug trafficking charges and a...

A day after a sixth-grader at Perry Hall Middle School accused a construction worker of sexually assaulting her in a school restroom, the principal said that renovation work has been curtailed while a separate entrance to the work area is created. "We're trying to make [the school] as secure as we can," said Allen H. Zink, principal of the 1,500-student school. "I'm confident that we'll do what needs to be done to make sure kids stay safe." Baltimore County police said yesterday that they have identified the man who the 11-year-old girl said assaulted her but have made no arrest...

Accused of touching two middle school girls By KIM NGUYEN THE GAZETTE December 21, 2007 - 5:52AM A seventh-grade mathematics teacher at Lewis-Palmer Middle School in Monument could face charges of sexual assault for allegedly touching female students inappropriately, the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office said. Deputies on Thursday arrested Gregory Jackson, 34, who could face two felony counts of sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust. Jackson, who also coaches the girls volleyball and basketball teams at the school, was being held at the El Paso County jail on $25,000 bail. According to an...

Fairfax County police said they arrested an Alexandria man in connection with the sexual assault of a teenage boy. Raymond Craig Alexander, a 34-year-old Fairfax County Park Authority employee, was arrested Wednesday after property taken during a search of his home established probable cause, according to police. Alexander is charged with aggravated sexual battery, forcible sodomy and custodial indecent liberties with a child. Federal authorities also are investigating Alexander, and more charges could be filed. Anyone with information about the case should call Crime Solvers at 866-411-TIPS/8477 or police at 703-691-2131

Cab driver charged with kidnapping statesman staff - Idaho Statesman Edition Date: 05/04/07 A Boise cab driver has been arrested and charged with kidnapping and battery in connection to an April 8 report from a woman who was riding in the driver's cab. Habib Hubijar is charged with felony kidnapping and misdemeanor battery. Boise police said early in the morning of April 8 two women hailed a cab in Downtown Boise. The driver dropped off one woman, but drove the other woman to a dead-end street near Roosevelt and St. Andrews. Police said the woman fled the cab, which was...

Reichen Lehmkuhl is perhaps best known for dating pop star Lance Bass of N'Sync fame or winning a $1 million on the adventure reality show "The Amazing Race." But before Lehmkuhl's name hit celebrity magazines, he was an Air Force captain living with a secret: He is gay... But Lehmkuhl said when he entered the Air Force Academy, he was living with the secret of his sexuality. "And I remember the panic that came over me at that moment realizing, 'What am I going to do? Am I going to be able to change this? How can I admit this?'...

A Colorado Springs, Colo., school tried to silence the parents of a disabled girl who was sexually assaulted by a teenager, the Rocky Mountain News reports. The victim, now 20, has an IQ of 50, and was assaulted in September 2004 at Rampart High School by the 15-year-old boy assigned to be her peer trainer, said Jeff Weeks, an attorney for the girl and her parents.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A taxi driver has been arrested and jailed for allegedly raping a passenger, and police on Friday were asking any other victims to come forward to help the investigation. Huseyin Akbana, 35, was arrested Thursday while driving his cab and booked on rape and false imprisonment charges. Police said Akbana picked up his victim Monday in downtown San Francisco, drove her to the city's Tenderloin neighborhood, climbed in the back seat and sexually assaulted her. "We're asking the public for information to see if they are any more victims out there," San Francisco police Lt. Molly...

CLEVELAND (AP) - High school officials acted properly in taking three days to determine whether an alleged rape occurred between students before contacting authorities, police said. Three teenage boys have been charged with raping a fellow special-education student who said he was attacked five straight days the week of April 18-22 at East Technical High School. School officials became aware of the alleged rapes after a custodian saw sexual activity between students at the school's track on April 22. Custodian Michael Savoy and principal Dale Laux reviewed surveillance videotape, but couldn't identify who was involved until later that night and...

DALLAS—A former local teacher and convicted sex offender was deported to Russia Wednesday as a criminal alien by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention and removal officers. Vladmir Olegovich Brusilov, 48, was ordered removed by Immigration Judge Deitrich H. Sims Dec. 9. Brusilov was first convicted in Colorado in 1997 for third degree assault and sentenced to two years in prison and 18 months probation. His victim was mentally disabled and believed Brusilov was her boyfriend. When she resisted his sexual advances, Brusilov tied her up and raped her. Because the girl was incapable of being cross-examined during Brusilov's...

At least one member of the top-ranked Southern California football team is under investigation for sexual assault, the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed Tuesday. The assault allegedly occurred Monday morning, according to Officer Esther Reyes, a police spokeswoman. "Today the rape special section of LAPD's robbery division began conducting an investigation into the allegation of a sexual assault that may involve a member or members of the USC football team," Reyes told reporters. She declined to elaborate.

Children interrupt sex assault Attacker leaves evidence while fleeing neighbor BY P. CHRISTINE SMITH AVALANCHE-JOURNAL PLAINVIEW — The fast action of 5- and 7-year-old siblings may have saved their mother from more serious harm after a man entered their home and sexually assaulted the woman Thursday, police said. The 26-year-old single mother stepped outside her northwest Plainview home about midnight to empty the trash, while her children slept in their beds. When the woman re-entered the house, she found a strange man inside, said detective Capt. Michael T. Carroll. The noise from the attack woke the children. "When she started...

**** *****'s friend Janelle Medina says that the group photo on the internet of her is not her and the prom pics are also incorrect. She hasn't seen the new photo that is supposedly the correct picture.In the night in question **** was working at the front desk of the hotel/resort, she was home by 11:50 PM. The assault happened before she clocked out for the night to go home.Los Angeles Lakers basketball player Kobe Bryant called down to the desk for towels. There were no complaints of noise until the end of the incident in question.Mr. Brant had his...

<p>The on air folks dodnt specify exactly what all of the evidence was, just that it was more than DNA and wide ranging..</p>

Los Angeles--A man who advertised on several Spanish-language radio stations as "Doctor Misterio" was sued Monday for the sexual assault of two minors last year. "Doctor Misterio," whose real name is Fernando Lozano, pleaded guilty in January to the sexual assault of six girls and women, 15-31, and was sentenced to nine years and four months in state prison. The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said the 32-year-old immigrant will be deported to Mexico after he serves his sentence. Lozano pleaded guilty to practicing medicine without a license, sexual penetration by fraud, lewd acts on a child under 15,...

In the summer of 2001, Abbey, then 13, was an aspiring cheerleader spending a week at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., as part of a sports camp held every summer for hundreds of teenagers. "I really wanted to be a cheerleader when I got to high school," she said. "I thought I was going to learn some new tumbling skills for cheerleading." But by the time her one-week camp session was over, Abbey, who had just finished seventh grade, would be sexually assaulted by Robert Burdge, a 22-year-old Air Force cadet who was serving as a counselor...

If Ronald Cantrell's case had gone to trial, jurors might have learned that DNA evidence never clearly linked him to the sexual assault of an 8-year-old girl. They also might have heard that the girl has accused another man, her mother's boyfriend, of abusing her in the same way, by forcing her to perform oral sex. Instead, he pleaded guilty, accepting a six-year sentence. And serious questions about his case, such as whether there ever was any DNA evidence, were never asked until a crisis at the Houston Police Department crime laboratory forced the review of hundreds of cases, including...

<p>Detectives investigate sex assault Melody Brumble / The Times Posted on January 24, 2003 C addo Parish sheriff's detectives are investigating an alleged sexual assault at University Christian Prep, a pre-kindergarten through 12th-grade private school.</p> <p>The alleged incident occurred on Jan. 7 during a basketball game at the school. Deputies have arrested a 16-year-old male student on an oral sexual battery charge in connection with the incident.</p>