sexual assault

A New Hampshire therapist is accused of sexually assaulting a young patient, police in Nashua, New Hampshire said Thursday. Mark Phillips, 56, was arrested Wednesday evening and charged with aggravated felonious sexual assault. Police said they first began investigating accusations against Phillips in October 2021, when a parent reported concerns that her child was being inappropriately touched by his therapist….

Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey has pleaded not guilty to charges of sexually assaulting three men a decade or more ago.

Recent weeks have seen an especially intense set of revelations about sexual assault and misconduct in U.S. churches.

A Trumbull police sergeant and a former Shelton firefighter have been charged with sexual assault in Shelton. Shelton police said a complaint was filed in September 2020 and Matthew Perkowski, 33, of Shelton, has been charged with sexual assault in the first degree and assault in the second degree. Trumbull police said Sergeant Perkowski has been placed on administrative leave…

Gabrielle Union discussed the long-lasting effects of being raped as a teenager, saying that at times her anxiety “is so bad it shrinks my life.”

A man accused of groping two women, including one caring for her baby, on a redeye flight from Los Angeles to Boston Tuesday was arrested when the plane landed, prosecutors said. Jairaj Singh Dhillon, a 42-year-old from Modesto, California, faces two charges of abusive sexual contact over the alleged groping incidents on the flight, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for...

A former emergency medical technician in New Hampshire has been charged with drugging and sexually abusing three children under the age of 13. Todd Burnim, 54, of Kensington, was indicted this month by a grand jury in Rockingham County on a dozen counts of felonious sexual assault and aggravated felonious sexual assault related to the abuse which allegedly took place…

Amber Heard told jurors that a harassment campaign waged against her by ex-husband Johnny Depp has left her humiliated and scared for her life from multiple death threats, and said she just wants Depp to “leave me alone.”

British prosecutors have charged actor Kevin Spacey with four counts of sexual assault against three men.

A registered sex offender with a criminal record in four states appeared in a Boston courtroom Thursday handcuffed to a wheelchair, one day after someone recognized him from a surveillance image that aired on TV and called 911. Edwin Fantauzzi, 33, of Lawrence, Massachusetts, had two separate arraignments Thursday on unrelated charges — one for a charge of resisting arrest…

Students are on edge after Boston University sent out a safety alert about two disturbing incidents as campus police work to determine whether they’re connected. “I’m glad we got the alert when we did because I then texted all my friends and checked up on all of them who are living in that area,” said Grace, a Boston University...

Boston police have arrested a registered sex offender suspected of raping a person downtown over the weekend. Edwin Fantauzzi, a 33-year-old from Lawrence, was arrested Wednesday, police confirm. He faces charges of rape, assault with intent to rape and assault and battery in connection with an attack around 6:30 a.m. Saturday near Harrison Avenue. No further details about the alleged…

A Boston University student fought off a stranger who forced his way into the student’s apartment and sexually assaulted them Friday night, school police said over the weekend. It was one of two incidents reported to Boston University police late Friday, and officers are investigating whether they are related. In the second incident, a male driving a pickup truck...

Police in Manchester, New Hampshire have released surveillance photos of a man accused of following a woman home and attacking her. Investigators said the man seen in the images above is responsible for a sexual assault after leaving the Seven Days Market. “I feel unsafe because of it,” said Coven Covey, who lives in the neighborhood. “I don’t go...

Police in Auburn, Maine say a 13-year-old girl was kidnapped and sexually assaulted at gunpoint on Monday night by a stranger. Investigators have since arrested a suspect, 24-year-old Razel Gavin, for allegedly kidnapping the girl using a firearm and repeatedly assaulting her. According to Auburn Police Chief, Jason Moen, the teenager was sketching in a book alone at a picnic…

Police are investigating a report that a woman was sexually assaulted in the Porter Square area of Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Wednesday morning. Cambridge police said a 47-year-old Somerville woman said she was physically and sexually assaulted near the Porter Exchange Shopping Center at 1815 Massachusetts Avenue around 8:40 a.m. Wednesday. The woman told police she was walking down Roseland Street…

A man wanted for allegedly assaulting two women within a quarter of a mile of one another in Brighton earlier this week has been arrested, police announced. Boston police said they responded around 5:37 p.m. Friday to the area of Quint Avenue in Brighton after they received several 911 calls reporting a suspicious person that matched the description and images…

Boston police are looking for a man accused of assaulting two women within a quarter of a mile of one another in Brighton earlier this week. The first incident involved a woman who was walking on Commonwealth Avenue near Spofford Road in Brighton shortly after 8 p.m. Tuesday. She told police that the man indecently assaulted her and then ran…

A former Massachusetts resident serving time in Texas has been charged with a string of sexual assaults that happened nine years ago in New Bedford. The Bristol County District Attorney’s Office announced the charges Wednesday against Orlando Robles, formerly of Dartmouth, in connection with attacks that occurred in June and July of 2013. A grand jury in Bristol County indicted…