A worker at a school in Gloucester, Massachusetts, is on leave after being accused of sexually assaulting a student. Richard Safier, superintendent of Gloucester Public Schools, notified parents in the district Tuesday about “an allegation of sexual assault brought forward by a female student regarding one of our staff members.” No details about the allegation were immediately revealed. Safier made…

A former police officer in Walpole, Massachusetts, is facing sexual assault charges for allegedly inappropriately touching another police officer while she was driving after a night at a restaurant last year. Christopher Mackenzie was a deputy police chief in Walpole, in the same department as the alleged victim’s husband, according to a criminal complaint filed Monday. The victim is...

A former deputy police chief in Walpole, Mass. is accused of assault.

Christopher Mackenzie, the former deputy chief of the Walpole Police Department, is accused of sexually assaulting a female police officer from a nearby community when she was driving him home in his cruiser.

A Massachusetts youth hockey coach accused of sexually assaulting one of his players was released on bail. Allen Pereira, 59, of Woburn, was arraigned Tuesday on three felony counts of indecent assault and battery on a person older than 14. Pereira is accused of sexually abusing a player over several years, starting when the victim was 14 years old, police…

A Massachusetts youth hockey coach has been arrested on charges of sexually assaulting a player on his team, starting when the player was 14, police in Dracut said Monday.

A Dracut youth hockey coach is accused of sexually assaulting a player on his team for years, starting when the boy was 14.

A youth hockey coach from Dracut, Massachusetts, is facing charges of sexually assaulting a teenage boy on his team.

Prosecutors who won a conviction in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault case are defending their work as they fight the imprisoned actor’s latest appeal

San Jose police, with the help of a security guard, arrested a 70-year-old man this week on suspicion of kidnapping and molesting a 13-year-old girl, according to the police department.

A man allegedly posed as an Uber driver and kidnapped a woman leaving a Boston nightclub last month before sexually raping her at a Rhode Island home, prosecutors say. Alvin Campbell Jr. — the brother of Boston City Councilor Andrea Campbell — was held on $250,000 cash bail after pleading not guilty Thursday to kidnapping and rape charges. According to…

One of two men charged with repeatedly raping a teenage boy at New Hampshire’s youth detention center in the late 1990s went on to work as a clubhouse attendant for the Boston Red Sox, who suspended him when the club learned of the allegations, the team told The Associated Press on Monday. Stephen Murphy, of Danvers, Massachusetts, was charged...

A Massachusetts pastor is behind bars, accused of rape and kidnapping following an investigation in New Bedford, police said Thursday. Elmer Perez, 44, was arrested Wednesday following the investigation into accusations of sexual assault, police said. He faces charges of rape, witness intimidation, kidnapping, indecent assault and battery and threatening to commit a crime. Perez is a pastor at Iglesia…

A former Rhode Island priest has sued his old diocese for including his name on a list of clergy “credibly accused” of sexually abusing minors. In a defamation lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence, ex-priest John Tormey said he never sexually assaulted anyone and was not given the opportunity to defend himself, the Providence Journal reported. The lawsuit,…

A TV news reporter who was covering a road race in Georgia when she was slapped on the backside by a runner is seeking criminal charges against the man she said “violated” her. NBC News

Early one morning in April, a homeless woman sleeping in an abandoned house in Louisville, Kentucky, was jolted awake by a stranger who pulled her bedding over her head and raped her, according to police. The 29-year-old woman was taken to the University of Louisville Hospital, where nurses examined her for traces of DNA that could identify her assailant, NBC News…......

A 27-year-old woman accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy is being sought by police in New Hampshire. Authorities in Manchester are seeking the public’s help in locating Hailey Krizan, who allegedly assaulted the teenager at least five times from September to October of this year. Police said the suspect also sent nude photos of herself to the...

Authorities are investigating a reported break-in and sexual assault at a Massachusetts college.

A Massachusetts man has been arrested on child rape charges and his home, which serves as a home day care in Brimfield, has also been shut down, according to the Hampden District Attorney’s office. Lawrence Mongeon, 63, was arrested Friday at the residence on Apple Road following an investigation. He was charged with two counts of aggravated rape of a...