Top gymnastics board members resign in wake of abuse case

Three top board members of USA Gymnastics resigned and the man who coached the 2012 Olympic team was suspended Monday, after calls from angry gymnasts who say the organization did nothing to protect them after they were abused by former team doctor Larry Nassar. Chairman Paul Parilla, vice chair Jay Binder and treasurer Bitsy Kelley... Read More

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Larry Nassar, USAG

January 20, 2018

Prosecutors to seek death penalty in Chinese scholar case

CHICAGO (AP) — U.S. prosecutors will seek the death penalty for a former physics student charged with the kidnapping and killing of a University of Illinois scholar from China, they told a judge in a Friday filing that also made a new allegation that the 28-year-old suspect once choked and sexually assaulted someone else years... Read More

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Brendt Christensen

January 20, 2018

Olympic gymnast abused by ex-doctor wants him to suffer

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Olympic gold medalist Aly Raisman on Friday confronted her former doctor who has pleaded guilty to multiple sexual assaults, warning him that the testimony of the “powerful army” of 140 survivors at his sentencing will haunt him in prison. More than 80 of the women and girls whom Larry Nassar abused... Read More

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Larry Nassar

January 19, 2018

Prosecutors want to call 19 other accusers at Cosby retrial

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Prosecutors preparing for Bill Cosby’s retrial on sexual assault charges told a judge Thursday that they want to call 19 other accusers to try to show a pattern of “prior bad acts” over five decades. The comedian’s first trial ended with a hung jury in June. In that proceeding, prosecutors asked to... Read More

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Bill Cosby

January 19, 2018

Louisiana TV’s ‘Mr. Wonder’ gets 5 years for child sex crime

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A man once known as “Mr. Wonder” to viewers of his children’s television show was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison, nearly four decades after he vanished amid allegations he sexually abused children on a camping trip. Frank John Selas III, 78, pleaded guilty to one count of indecent... Read More

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Frank John Selas

January 19, 2018

The Latest: USA Gymnastics severs ties with Karolyi Ranch

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Latest on the sentencing of former sports doctor who sexually assaulted athletes (all times local): 5:55 p.m. USA Gymnastics is ending its long relationship with the Karolyi Ranch. The organization announced Thursday that it has terminated its agreement to have the ranch outside of Huntsville, Texas, serve as the National... Read More

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Larry Nassar, USAG

January 19, 2018

LA Times CEO under investigation after report on impropriety

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The parent company of the Los Angeles Times is investigating allegations of inappropriate behavior by Ross Levinsohn, the newspaper’s CEO and publisher. The company, Tronc, began the investigation Thursday after a National Public Radio story detailed two sexual harassment lawsuits that named Levinsohn while he worked at Alta Vista and News... Read More

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LA Times, Ross Levinsohn

January 19, 2018

‘How dare you’: Gymnasts confront Michigan sports doctor

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — U.S. Olympian McKayla Maroney said being sexually assaulted by a Michigan sports doctor who molested her and other gymnasts scarred her mind in ways that may never heal. Dr. Larry Nassar won’t be sentenced until next week to accommodate the many victims who want to speak. Since Tuesday, Judge Rosemarie Aquilina... Read More

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Larry Nassar

January 17, 2018

Ex-doctor’s victims recount sex abuse as young gymnasts

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — One after one, gymnasts and other victims of a disgraced former sports doctor stepped forward in a Michigan courtroom Tuesday to recount the sexual abuse and emotional trauma he inflicted on them as children, including one who warned that girls eventually “grow into strong women that return to destroy your world.”... Read More

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Larry Nassar

January 16, 2018

Sexual abuse victim to ex-doctor: ‘You are a repulsive liar’

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — One of the dozens of victims expected to testify at the sentencing hearing of a disgraced former Michigan sports doctor on Tuesday described the sexual abuse Larry Nassar inflicted on her as a child and warned him that “little girls don’t stay little forever.” WATCH LIVE HERE Kyle Stephens was the... Read More

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Larry Nassar

January 12, 2018

Bid to oust judge in Stanford swimmer case moves forward

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Voters on Thursday were a big step closer to getting an opportunity to decide whether to oust a California judge who was severely criticized for his handling of a sexual assault case involving a Stanford University swimmer. The campaign to remove Santa Clara County Judge Aaron Persky submitted nearly 100,000 signatures... Read More

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Aaron Persky

January 12, 2018

Group sues over passport marker for sex offenders

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A group representing sex offenders sued again Thursday to challenge a law that requires a marker to be placed in the passports of people convicted of sex offenses against children. Attorney Janice Bellucci filed the lawsuit in federal court in Los Angeles on behalf of her nonprofit organization, the Alliance for... Read More

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Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws

January 12, 2018

Bill Cosby’s next trial will carry weight of #MeToo movement

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jurors couldn’t agree the first time around whether to accept a woman’s story that “America’s Dad,” Bill Cosby, sexually assaulted her over a decade ago. Now he faces a retrial in less than 90 days in a vastly different cultural climate, one in which powerful men from Hollywood to the U.S. Senate... Read More

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Bill Cosby

January 11, 2018

Man Charged With “Vigorously” Sexually Assaulting Sleeping Woman On Airplane

JANUARY 4–A woman flying from Las Vegas to Detroit awoke yesterday to find a male passenger shoving his fingers inside her “and vigorously moving them,” a federal criminal complaint alleges. According to the FBI, the 22-year-old victim was traveling Wednesday morning on a Spirit Airlines flight when she dozed off in her window seat. “She... Read More

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Prabhu Ramamoorthy, Spirit

Top gymnastics board members resign in wake of abuse case

Prosecutors to seek death penalty in Chinese scholar case

Olympic gymnast abused by ex-doctor wants him to suffer

Prosecutors want to call 19 other accusers at Cosby retrial

Louisiana TV’s ‘Mr. Wonder’ gets 5 years for child sex crime

The Latest: USA Gymnastics severs ties with Karolyi Ranch

LA Times CEO under investigation after report on impropriety

‘How dare you’: Gymnasts confront Michigan sports doctor

Ex-doctor’s victims recount sex abuse as young gymnasts

Sexual abuse victim to ex-doctor: ‘You are a repulsive liar’

Bid to oust judge in Stanford swimmer case moves forward

Group sues over passport marker for sex offenders

Bill Cosby’s next trial will carry weight of #MeToo movement

Man Charged With “Vigorously” Sexually Assaulting Sleeping Woman On Airplane

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