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Rape at sea: How a broken system is failing passengers and darkening the cruise industry
Major cruise ship operators appear to be more interested in covering their tracks than protecting v…
Sophia Ankel  Â
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The survivor whose namesake bill tackling Texas' rape kit backlog Gov. Abbott signed into law says his pledge to 'eliminate all rapists' is 'asinine'
Abbott signed the Lavinia Masters Act into law in 2019. Masters told CNN the governor's pledge to "…
Kenneth Niemeyer  Â
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GOP state lawmaker walks back his comments calling at-home rape kits a 'novelty purchase' as he defended the 'right' for people to purchase them
The Utah House of Representatives passed a bill on Friday that would prohibit anyone from selling o…
Bre'Anna Grant  Â
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A New Orleans police officer groomed and raped a 14-year-old girl he was assigned to take to a rape-kit exam, a lawsuit alleges
The lawsuit alleged the officer began grooming the girl as they sat in the waiting room of a New Or…
Michelle Mark  Â
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The race to get emergency abortions and contraception to Ukrainian women amid reports of mass sexual violence by Russian soldiers
Democratic Reps. Jackie Speier and Lois Frankel say the situation shows the need to defend reproduc…
Alia Shoaib,Joshua Zitser  Â
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A US fugitive who faked his death to escape rape charge was captured when he went to hospital suffering from severe COVID-19
Nicholas Rossi faked his own death and was living off-grid until he became dangerously ill with COV…
Bethany Dawson  Â
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The Buffalo Bills released punter Matt Araiza after a civil lawsuit detailed rape allegations against him by a minor
The civil lawsuit alleged that Araiza, then 21, gave alcohol to a 17-year-old girl and had sex with…
Katie Balevic  Â
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Topless woman storms Cannes Film Festival red carpet to protest against Russian rapes in Ukraine, photos show
French feminist collective SCUM has said she is one of their activists and was there to denounce se…
Joshua Zitser  Â
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Rapper Mystikal faces rape charges after he's accused of punching a woman, pulling out her braids, and sexually assaulting her
The 52-year-old Mystikal — born Michael Lawrence Tyler — allegedly took the victim's ph…
Rebecca Cohen  Â
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US fugitive wanted by the FBI on rape charges disguised himself as an eccentric English professor, and his neighbors admit they were totally fooled
Nicholas Rossi faked his death and fled to Scotland to evade a rape charge where he hid in plain si…
Bethany Dawson  Â
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There are hundreds of thousands of untested rape kits sitting in police storage
Alexenko's assault was one such case. Prosecutors charged the DNA found in her kit with the crime, …
Abigail Tracy  Â
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Report: Patrick Kane's DNA not found in rape kit, no decision on whether he'll be charged
Authorities since early August have been investigating the woman's allegation that Kane raped her i…
Emmett Knowlton  Â
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Memphis, Tennessee Allegedly Failed To Process More Than 15,000 Rape Kits
In June 2012 the National Institute of Justice published a report finding that "backlogged and unte…
Erin Fuchs  Â
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This $5 kit can test your drink and tell if its been roofied within 30 seconds
A US campus sexual assault survey of 6,800 undergraduates in 2007 found that 13.7% reported they'd …
Hilary Brueck  Â
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A woman is suing Lyft alleging that she was kidnapped by a driver at gunpoint and raped by 2 other men but the company let him continue driving under another name
Turkos alleges that she spent the following day traumatized and confused. She knew something was wr…
Isobel Asher Hamilton,Isobel …  Â
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The Cristiano Ronaldo rape allegations started with a chance meeting at a Las Vegas nightclub. Here's a timeline of everything that's happened so far.
It details a chance meeting in Las Vegas in June 12, 2009 and an alleged incident at a $1,000 per n…
Alan Dawson  Â
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Ex-Goldman banker's attorney says the rape allegation against his client was 'perhaps regrettable consensual sex'
According to the Irish Times report, the court also heard a recording of a 911 call made that morni…
Julia La Roche  Â
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Ex-Goldman Sachs banker accused of raping a 20-year-old woman in the Hamptons will go to trial in April
Police were responding to a disturbance early in the morning involving a car that was believed to b…
Julia La Roche  Â
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Daniel Williams was supposed to be released from a correctional facility this month. Now, his family is seeking answers after his sudden death.
Williams's family is reeling as they try to find what led to his death on November 9.
Sebastian Cahill  Â
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A cruise passenger is suing MSC, saying she was sexually assaulted by a crew member
The woman said in a lawsuit that an MSC crew member forced himself on her in a staff-only room on t…