sexual assault

A crowd of about 300 students gathered in front of the Theta Chi fraternity house Sunday, calling for it to be shut down after sexual assault allegations circulated online and among students over the weekend.

Michaela Coel became the first Black woman to win the Emmy for best writing for a limited series for her HBO drama “I May Destroy You.”

A U.S. court will hold a pretrial conference Monday in the civil suit filed by a woman who claims Prince Andrew sexually assaulted her as the two sides argue over whether the prince has been properly served with documents in the case

A nursing assistant was in court Tuesday to face charges he sexually assaulted two elderly woman at Massachusetts nursing homes where he was working overnight shifts. A grand jury in Worcester County had indicted Charles Wachira, a 40-year-old from Lowell, on charges including indecent assault and battery on an elder, the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office and Middlesex County District...

A man in state custody for being sexually dangerous after a 1990 rape conviction has been indicted on a murder charge in the sexual assault and strangling of a woman in Boston in 1988, prosecutors announced Monday. Richard Vega, 59, is expected to be arraigned in the killing of Judy Chamberlain later in September, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office…

A New Hampshire man has been arrested on sexual assault charges. Fifty-one-year-old Richard Theriault of Nashua was arrested Saturday morning, police said. The Nashua Police Department said that it learned of the assault on Aug. 15 and that it took place in the city, but did not release any further details of the allegations. Charges against Theriault include aggravated felonious…

Bail was set at $5,000 for defrocked former cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who is charged with sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy at Wellesley College in the 1970s. A not-guilty plea was entered on McCarrick’s behalf during his arraignment in Dedham District Court Friday, where he remained silent. Wellesley police charged McCarrick, now 91 and living in Missouri, more than a month…

Alibaba said it would set up a five-woman committee that will be the “decision-making body for matters related but not limited to sexual harassment prevention.”

An Easterseals employee in Manchester, New Hampshire, has been arrested for allegedly having an “inappropriate relationship” with one of her students, police said. Lisa Tanguay, 45, of Manchester, was taken into custody on Wednesday and is facing multiple charges. Manchester police said they learned on July 21 that Tanguay had sexual contact with a 17-year-old juvenile. The victim, one of…

A Chelsea School Committee member is accused of sexually assaulting a local student.

A student at the University of New Hampshire is accused of sexually assaulting two women after meeting them through dating apps.

A student at the University of New Hampshire is accused of sexually assaulting two women after meeting them through dating apps. Campus police said they have identified the person allegedly responsible but have not made any arrests. The man is accused of meeting women on social media dating sites Bumble and Tinder, bringing them back to his off-campus apartment on…

Brown University has systematically and repeatedly failed to protect women from rape and other sexual misconduct, according to a federal class action lawsuit filed recently by four current and former female students. The suit, which was filed last Friday in Providence federal court, alleges the Ivy League school in Rhode Island actively prevented the reporting of incidents of sexual violence…

Over the weekend, a female employee wrote a post on Alibaba’s intranet accusing her supervisor Wang Chengwen and a company client of sexual assault.

Two professional dancers have filed a lawsuit alleging that a former principal dancer with the Boston Ballet sexually assaulted young dancers he was instructing, and that his wife aided in the abuse. Boston Ballet’s Sage Humphries and another dancer, Gina Menichino, allege in the suit filed in federal court in Nevada that Mitchell Taylor Button and his wife, Dusty...

School officials in Duxbury, Massachusetts, wrote to the community Tuesday about an “untrue and harmful” claim of sexual assault on a child in elementary school by an administrator. Details of the allegation weren’t shared, nor was any information divulged about the family making it, though the Duxbury Police Department confirmed to NBC10 Boston it was investigating. “We are conducting...

Defrocked former cardinal Theodore McCarrick is facing charges that he sexually assaulted a 16-year-old boy at Wellesley College in the 1970s. Wellesley police have charged McCarrick, now 91 and living in Missouri, with indecent assault and battery on a person over 14, the Norfolk District Attorney’s Office confirmed Thursday. The Boston Globe was first to report the charges. McCarrick was…

A 48-year-old Springfield, Massachusetts, man pleaded not guilty to 28 charges related to the alleged sexual assault of two children, according to officials.  Jose Oquendo, formerly of Athol, was arraigned in Orange District Court on Tuesday for crimes he allegedly committed between 2013 and 2020 in Phillipston and Athol, officials said.  At Tuesday’s arraignment, Orange District Court Judge Laurie MacCleod…

Attorneys for New Hampshire’s state-run youth detention center are suggesting that a man who claims he was physically and sexually assaulted by multiple counselors as a teen was partially responsible for at least some of the alleged abuse. David Meehan sued the Sununu Youth Services Center, the agencies overseeing it and half a dozen former employees in January 2020 alleging…

U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster of New Hampshire has introduced a bill to reauthorize federal grants for the National Sexual Assault Hotline. Kuster, a Democrat, said the hotline’s call volume reached a “staggering record high” last year. The hotline is operated by the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network. Scott Berkowitz, president of the network, said since March 2020, as the...