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Federal report documents inmate sex abuse highest at Indy jail
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Inmates at jails in Indianapolis, Baltimore, St. Louis and Philadelphia face the nation's highest levels of sexual abuse at the hands of guards, according to a new federal report based on surveys of inmates at U.S. jails and...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Sexual Misconduct, Justice System, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC
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NW Ind. woman pleads guilty in molestation of toddler
VALPARAISO, Ind. (AP) — A northwestern Indiana woman has pleaded guilty to molesting a 2-year-old boy and sending photographs to her boyfriend. Twenty-three-year-old Tara Tryon would be sentenced to 10 years in prison if a Porter County judge...Tags: Trials, Court Preliminary, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Judges
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Ex-NE Ind. college football player sentenced in rape
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — A former University of Saint Francis football player who pleaded guilty last month to the rape of an incapacitated woman at a party has been sentenced to six years in prison. The Journal Gazette reports (http://bit.ly/...Tags: Trials, Crime, Law and Justice, Rape, Justice System, Judges
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Roseland restaurant owner guilty of sexual harassment
ROSELAND – A federal jury has found the owner of the American Pancake House in Roseland guilty of sexual harassment, battery and retaliation. 3 employees filed complaints against Nick Kladis. The jury awarded Angela Heyne punitive damages of...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Roseland, Justice System
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Local man charged with sex trafficking
South Bend TribuneBefore she died, Rachael Savannah Woods lay in the cargo area of an SUV, wrapped in a brown sheet. Her eyes were swollen and she wa covered in blood. Her head was knotted with bruises. She begged for water. Federal court documents allege that the 20-...Tags: Cell Phones, Crime, Law and Justice, Murder, Criminals, Prostitution
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Mich. woman charged with making false rape report
PORT HURON, Mich. (AP) — A 38-year-old woman has been charged with falsely reporting a rape at her eastern Michigan home, five months after a man convicted of sexually assaulting her in a different case was released from prison because of similar...
Tags: Prosecution, Sexual Assault
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South Bend man accused of murder now charged with sex trafficking
Nathan Huey-Dingle of South Bend, previously charged for murder in the beating death of 20-year-old Rachael Woods during a trip from Chicago to Indianapolis, has now been hit with sex trafficking charges. Specifically, the U.S. Attorney’s Office...
Tags: Prostitution, Prosecution
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Notre Dame declines to release results of sex assault policy survey
The University of Notre Dame is refusing to release results from a recent sexual assault policy survey that was taken by students. Some of the survey details were given to the university-owned, student-ran newspaper – The Observer. But when WSBT...
Tags: Human Interest, Arts and Culture, Students, Sexual Assault, Colleges and Universities
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4 men to join YWCA's board
South Bend TribuneFor the first time in its 110-year history, the local YWCA has elected men to its board -- four of them. And for the first time in the 33 years of the YWCA's Tribute to Women event, a man will be among those honored. In fact, the event on May 9 now...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Judges, Abusive Behavior, Elections
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Suit: Officials' response kept student from school
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A lawsuit on behalf of a former Michigan high school student says some officials failed to properly investigate allegations she was sexually assaulted at school. The lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids says... -
Third former athlete pleads guilty in sex assault
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — The last of three former athletes from a college in northeast Indiana has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting an incapacitated woman at a party. Former University of Saint Francis football player Austin Bower pleaded...
Tags: Trials, Rape, Abusive Behavior, Sexual Assault
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Lawyer: Girl's assault was shared in photos, texts
SARATOGA, Calif. (AP) — The parents of a 15-year-old California girl who took her own life after she was sexually abused and an explicit photo of the assault circulated among her classmates want the three boys who have been arrested in the case...
Tags: Police Arrests, Personal Data Collection, Interior Policy, Students, Politics
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