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Tara Reade is writing a memoir about the turbulent journey she has taken since coming forward with her allegation that her former boss Joe Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993. Reade, who went public in March with the accusation after previously joining several women who in 2019 lodged claims of unwanted touching by the former senator, vice president and current Democratic presidential candidate, is authoring the book "Left Out: When The Truth Doesn't Fit In." It is slated for release on Oct. 27, just one week before the presidential election. The synopsis reads, "Tara Reade shares the aftermath of the...

Hardly any of the more than 100 Buffalo area priests implicated as child molesters spent so much as one day in jail. For years, most of their victims were too scared or embarrassed to make complaints. But Buffalo Police had marching orders not to arrest Catholic priests, according to former vice squad Detective Martin Harrington and other retired officers. Instead they alerted the bishop's office to any illegal activities. "The department's unwritten policy was that Catholic priests did not get arrested," said Harrington, who investigated vice crimes for 17 years and retired in 1995. "I never had any experience with...

A mother and five other adults have been arrested after they repeatedly beat and threw scalding water on a 3-year-old boy in order to punish him at the Newark home they share, prosecutors said. . Police said a Newark public preschool alerted authorities to the abuse. Prosecutors said the abuse, which began in July, was a “systematic and coordinated beating” of the child with a belt and their fists. They also poured scalding water on him to punish him, authorities said. The child, hospitalized in order to treat his injuries, has been released from the hospital and is in protective...

Four years before a Portsmouth man molested a toddler on camera to gain special access to child pornography websites, the FBI was hot on his trail, according to court documents. In 2012, agents had downloaded “numerous” photos from Dashawn Webster's IP address, a federal prosecutor explained. But then the 17-year-old moved to New Jersey before a Norfolk-based agent could interview him, “and there was no resolution to the matter,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Yusi wrote. Webster, now 23, was sentenced Thursday to more than 24 years in federal prison for producing child pornography. It is unclear exactly what happened with...

Excerpt: The two men went back to the actor's condo for a drink the same night. "We have the drink and he asks if I would like another," Brunton recalls. "And I said sure. So, I have the second one, and then all of a sudden, I begin feeling very disoriented and dizzy, and I thought I was going to pass out. I said I need to sit down and he said sit over here and he had the giant yellow beanbag chair. So I sat down in that and leaned my head back and I must have passed out."...

During the same month that U. S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy was issuing his opinion that the Defense of Marriage Act “humiliated tens of thousands of children now being raised by same-sex couples,” Russia’s House of Parliament voted unanimously to ban the adoption of Russian children by same-sex couples from abroad. The House also voted to forbid single people who are citizens or permanent residents of countries that allow same sex marriage to become adoptive parents or legal guardians of Russian children.Children’s rights ombudsman Pavel Astakhov vowed to do everything possible to “ensure that Russian orphans are only adopted...

Do those who want the Boy Scouts to allow openly homosexual boys to participate understand why it's the Boy Scouts rather than the Boy and Girl Scouts? Do they think boys and girls should share tents on camp outs? Male homosexuals claim they look at other males the way males look at females. If that is true than they sometimes look at other males as potential sexual conquests. They sometimes invade the sexual privacy of other males by imaging sexual contact with them. I don't know if the claim is true or not. I only know that scientific research indicates...

A text-message relationship between a Stranahan High band director and a female student evolved into make-out sessions during school hours and marijuana-fueled sexual trysts at his Hollywood home, according to a police report. Martin Anthony Brown, 33, is accused of taking the then-17-year-old girl to his Oak Garden Lane home, where they smoked marijuana and engaged in oral sex and intercourse. The report also says he pulled the girl from class during school hours so that they could make out in his classroom office.

A Texas father has not been arrested and is unlikely to face charges after he beat a man to death for trying to molest his 4-year-old daughter at their rural ranch, authorities said Monday. Lavaca County Sheriff Micah Harmon said... the victim was a 47-year-old man from Gonazles with no apparent prior criminal history.... an "acquaintance" of the father who had come to help care for some horses... The father called police late Saturday afternoon and told them he attacked a man caught trying to sexually assault his daughter, Harmon said. The alleged attack happened near a barn where some...

Todd Bridges and Corey Feldman, both of whom were molested by men with Hollywood connections, support legislation to require fingerprinting and background checks for those with unsupervised access to child performers. Three decades ago, they were teen idols. Todd Bridges played Willis on the popular sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes." Corey Feldman starred in "Gremlins,""The Goonies" and "The Lost Boys." The two men held the same dark secret: Each had been molested in his adolescence by men with Hollywood connections, experiences that would lead to downward spirals and years of drug addiction. Today, they are making a highly public case for California...

Senator David Norris claimed in public that his greatest childhood desire was to be sexually molested, according to minutes of a gay rights meeting he addressed in the Seventies. The minutes, which are stored in the National Library, say that Mr Norris made the claim in front of some 200 delegates at the conference of the Union for Sexual Freedom in Ireland. Mr Norris, who wasn’t a senator at the time, also suggested that because he had not in fact been molested, it showed that there were very few paedophiles in Ireland. The typewritten minutes show that Mr Norris was...

A San Jose man is facing a maximum of life in prison for something many fathers would be tempted to do -- badly beating a Thanksgiving weekend houseguest who molested his 8-year-old stepdaughter. Surely the suspected molester, who has confessed to the sexual attack and even apologized to the child, is in worse trouble than the stepfather? Actually, the stepfather is facing the possibility of spending more time behind bars -- perhaps his entire life. The stiff penalty the stepfather faces for his allegedly violent reaction to what many would consider extreme provocation has lawyers debating whether he deserves leniency....

PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- An illegal immigrant was wearing an "I'm hiding from the cops" shirt when he was arrested on child molestation charges, authorities said today William Velasquez Castillo, 27, was arrested by U.S. Marshals in Lucedale late Wednesday evening, Jackson County Sheriff Mike Byrd said. Investigators have been searching for Castillo since April 3 when a 10-year-old girl told investigators he molested her in a vehicle in Ocean Springs, Byrd said. Castillo's last known residence was on Derry Street in Ocean Springs, the sheriff added. A warrant was issued for Castillo on April 23 and detectives believe he fled...

A SCREENWRITER who works with young people in Ealing has been jailed for two years for molesting a five-year-old girl. David Chamberlain, of Newburgh Road, Acton, formerly of St Margarets Road, Hanwell, preyed upon his victim after his young daughter made friends with her. The 43-year-old, who was already a registered sex offender in the US, was sentenced at Isleworth Crown Court last Friday. The victim's mother, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told the Gazette of the trauma Chamberlain caused in her family. The 32-year-old, of Chiswick, said: "I'm glad he has gone to jail and I hope...

A former Adams County teacher is behind bars Friday night, charged in an apparent conspiracy to molest several teenage boys. Police say this man was not working alone, there also was another man involved as well, and he lives in the area still. This pair would take trips together, anywhere from Pittsburgh to Canada and it is on these trips that the sexual assaults may have occurred. Thursday night police arrested 61 year old John Curtioff at his Pittsburgh area home. That is where he has lived since he moved out of Adams County, where he was a teacher at...

BOROUGH PARK, Brooklyn (WABC) -- A 19-year-old man is under arrest Sunday night, accused of molesting a boy in a Brooklyn synagogue. Menachem Deutsch turned himself in to police on Sunday. He's charged with sexual abuse and acting in a manner injurious to a child. Story: Molester lures children into Brooklyn synagogue Deutsch is accused of luring boys into a Brooklyn synagogue and then sexually assaulting at least one of them. Police say the sex attack happened during the afternoon on Wednesday, June 22. Police say Deutsch lured a 12-year-old boy into Simcha Hall, a Borough Park synagogue located at...

Video footage filmed by her son shows the woman burst into tears after the alleged 'sexual assault', while other staff members tell her son to stop filming the distressing episode.

New state legislation that seeks to ensure the accomplishments of gays are accurately reflected in California’s classrooms is causing fresh controversy here in Alameda, where the school district’s efforts to put anti-gay bullying lessons in place at elementary schools pitted local religious conservatives against gay-led families and their allies. Last week, several Alameda residents told The Island they got an e-mail from a group called Committee to Change AUSD School District urging them to contact members of the state Senate’s Education Committee and request that they vote against SB 48, a bill from Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, that would...

A mother and daughter in Arizona are accused of sexually abusing a teenage boy for three years and police say the pair did it without knowing about each other’s relationship with him. The mother, 48-year-old Susan Brock, allegedly met the boy for trysts when he was 13 and continued for three years until this past October, police said. Her daughter, Rachel, now 21, allegedly sent him nude photos and videos of herself between 2007 and 2008, police said. The alleged victim, now 17, told cops Susan Brock would pick him up after school in her car and take him to...

... Robert Decheine, 48, of Washington, D.C., was arrested in Gaithersburg, Md. last week. Gaithersburg police announced Tuesday that 11 people were caught in a police sting that involved ads placed on a website and an undercover officer communicating with “johns” through phone and text messages. “During the communication, an exchange of services or expectations was made,” a police news release said. Decheine was arrested at 10:30 p.m. on Nov. 17 and Gaithersburg police contacted authorities in the House to confirm the employment information he gave them, Lane said. The solicitation was for sex with an underage girl, said Gaithersburg...