sexual assault

A federal judge is allowing the Education Department to move forward with new rules governing how schools and universities respond to sexual assault complaints.

The New York Times looks looks back at Antioch College’s groundbreaking first affirmative consent policy for sex which was ridiculed 25 years ago but is now considered groundbreaking in the #MeToo movement.

If calls to “defund the police” and divert funds to nonpolicing efforts are successful, what happens to rapists and sex offenders?

A man charged with sexually assaulting a child in New Hampshire’s largest city is free on bail, much to the chagrin of the city’s police chief. Russell Debreceni, 31, was observed on July 1 having sexual contact with a girl under 13, according to police in Manchester. After Debrecini was arraigned Tuesday on a charge of aggravated felonious sexual assault,…

A Massachusetts man faced a judge Friday for the alleged sexual assault of a teenager at his Stow gymnastics facility, the Middlesex County District Attorney’s office announced. David Auger, 41, of Hudson, was arraigned in Concord District Court on three counts of rape. He pleaded not guilty to the charges against him. While Auger was the owner and a coach…

A woman was sexually assaulted by an apparent stranger in her apartment in Waltham, Massachusetts, this month, and on Friday authorities issued a warning to the community after stepping up patrols in the area. The attack took place over several hours after the victim, who is in her 50s, returned home from walking her dog late Saturday, June 13, according…

On Friday morning, a Twitter user who goes by the name Gabby posted a message to her followers where she shared “my story” with the Hollywood actor. In her post that has since gone private, Gabby claims the 26-year-old actor “sexually assaulted me when I was 17. I had DMed him on when it was two days before my 17th...

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has issued final rules that will reshape the way schools and universities respond to complaints of sexual misconduct

Presidential campaigns are always grueling, but for Joe Biden, the past few months have been particularly challenging. “It’s really hard to break through during a pandemic when you’re working from your basement,” said UMass Boston Professor Erin O’Brien. Biden is finally getting some headlines, but on a topic he’d rather not talk about — allegations of sexual assault from...

The Pentagon says reports of sexual assaults across the military increased slightly last year, with the Air Force showing the biggest jump of all the services

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.