Tag: rape

Forensic Genealogy Leads to Arrest in 2007 Kansas Rape Case

WICHITA, Kan.—Police in Kansas have arrested and charged a man in a 2007 sexual assault by matching a DNA sample to data submitted to genealogy websites. Ted Foy, 52, of Augusta, is jailed on $500,000 bond after he was charged last week with rape, aggravated sexual battery, and aggravated criminal sodomy. His attorney, public defender…


Sex Offender Fatally Shot 6, Then Killed Self, Official Says

An Oklahoma sex offender who was released from prison early shot his wife, her three children, and their two friends in the head and then killed himself, authorities confirmed Wednesday as concerns grew about why he was free as his trial on new sex charges loomed. Okmulgee Police Chief Joe Prentice said that the victims…


7 Bodies Found During Search for Missing Oklahoma Teens; 4 Identified

A woman said Tuesday that her daughter and three grandchildren were among the seven people found dead at a rural Oklahoma property during a search for two missing teens and a convicted sex offender. Janette Mayo, 59, of Westville, Oklahoma, said the Okmulgee County Sheriff’s Office notified her late Monday that the other four victims…


7 Bodies Found During Search for Missing Oklahoma Teens

A woman said Tuesday that her daughter and three grandchildren were among the seven people found dead at a rural Oklahoma property during a search for two missing teens and a convicted sex offender. Janette Mayo, 59, of Westville, Oklahoma, said the Okmulgee County Sheriff’s Office notified her late Monday that the other four victims…


Ex-Massachusetts Deputy Chief Indicted on Child Rape Charge

A former Massachusetts deputy police chief is being charged with the rape of a child that occurred when he was a school resource officer nearly 20 years ago, the Middlesex County District Attorney’s office announced Monday. Former Hopkinton Deputy Chief of Police, John “Jay” Porter, 54, has been indicted by a grand jury on three…


‘Gift of Faith’: Pregnant From Rape, Mom Rejects Abortion, Places Son With a Family That Gives Priority to God

What does it take to turn an act of evil into an act of love? A college junior who became pregnant from rape drew on faith to acknowledge the value of the innocent human growing inside her womb and made a life-giving decision, choosing adoption over abortion. And to give her child the “gift of faith,”…


Scottish Government Pushes Ahead With Plans for No-Jury Trials for Rape Defendants

The Scottish government has published new legislation which, if passed, would scrap Scotland’s not proven verdict—which dates back to the 17th century—and would also allow for no-jury trials in some rape cases. The Victims, Witnesses and Justice Reform (Scotland) Bill would also reduce the number of jurors in Scottish trials from 15 to 12, bringing it…


Stanford Employee Charged With Lying About Rape to Get Revenge on Coworker

A 25-year-old Stanford employee faces two felony counts of perjury and two misdemeanor counts for intentionally lying about being raped twice on the California university’s campus last year, according to a press release from the local District Attorney’s office. On Aug. 9, 2022, Jennifer Gries, a Neighborhood Housing Service Center Supervisor at Stanford, told county…


No Harvey Weinstein Retrial on Rape, Sex Assault Charges

LOS ANGELES—Los Angeles prosecutors told a judge Tuesday that they will not retry Harvey Weinstein, who was convicted of the rape and sexual assault of one woman, on counts involving two others that left jurors deadlocked. Deputy District Attorney Paul Thompson announced the decision to Superior Court Judge Lisa B. Lench at a hearing in…


Abused Woman Pregnant From Rape Refuses Abortion, Says Her Son’s Worth Doesn’t Depend On How He Was Born

Raped by her abusive boyfriend after saying she wanted to abstain from sex before marriage, an Oregon college student found out she was pregnant and made a choice that would change her life: her baby’s worth had nothing to do with the circumstances of his conception, and she would not abort him. Robyn McLean, 34,…