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Brooklyn Janitor Charged in Rape of Middle School Girl

A janitor at a New York City middle school has been arrested and charged in the rape of a 13-year-old student, officials said today. Ambiorix Rodriguez, 32, is accused of raping and sexually abusing a female student multiple times in the basement of the Public School of Marketing and Legal Studies in Brooklyn, police told...

Alabama Leaders Apologize for Mishandled 1944 Rape Case

ABBEVILLE, Ala. -- Nearly 70 years after she was raped by a gang of white men, Recy Taylor got an apology Monday from leaders of a rural southeast Alabama community who acknowledged that her attackers escaped prosecution because of racism and an investigation bungled by police. "It is apparent that the system failed you...

Rape Probe of WikiLeaks Founder Reopened

(Sept. 1) -- A top Swedish prosecutor reopened a rape investigation into WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange today, the latest twist in a confusing case that has seen prosecutors of differing ranks repeatedly overrule each other. "There is reason to believe that a crime has been committed. Considering information available...

Sex, Lies and WikiLeaks: Julian Assange Says He Saw It Coming

(Aug. 23) -- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is hot for radical transparency, except when it comes to what goes on inside his bedroom. "What I can say is that I have never, in Sweden or in any country, had sex with anyone in a way that hasn't been based on voluntariness by both sides," Assange told Swedish newspaper...

Roman Polanski's Life in Crime and Film [TIMELINE]

(July 12) -- The Swiss government announced today that film director and fugitive Roman Polanski would not be extradited to the United States for an unlawful sexual conduct charge stemming from an accusation that he raped 13-year-old Samantha Gailey Geimer in 1977. Polanski has been under house arrest at his home in Gstaad...