sexual assault

A massage therapist who gained recognition for helping wounded warriors is now accused of sexual assault. The victim alleging things escalated quickly during a massage session in the suspect’s Silver Spring home. News4’s Pat Collins has the details

A massage therapist who once gained recognition for helping wounded warriors is now accused of sexual assault. David Kupferschmid is a licensed massage therapist was arrested last weekend at his home in Silver Spring, Maryland, and charged with second-degree rape. According to court documents obtained by News4, the alleged assault happened in July at Kupferschmid’s home on Cassidy Street...

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

A man accused of killing a woman in Alexandria, Virginia, has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police say. Ibrahm Elkahlil Bouaichi, 33, was suspected of killing Karla Elizabeth Dominguez Gonzalez on July 29. Alexandria police officers tracked down Bouaichi in Prince George’s County, Maryland, on Wednesday and initiated a brief vehicle pursuit, police said. Bouaichi’s vehicle crashed and officers…

Police in Virginia say that a rape suspect released from jail amid the coronavirus pandemic went on to kill the woman who had accused him. Ibrahim E. Bouaichi was tracked down by authorities on Wednesday, The Washington Post reports. But he shot himself and was in grave condition on Thursday. Bouaichi was indicted last year on charges that included rape,…

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.

A Prince George’s County police officer was suspended after he was charged with attempted rape, the department says.  Cpl. Brian Newcomer was arrested while off-duty late Sunday and charged with six counts, including attempted rape, the department said Monday morning. He was accused of trying to sexually assault a woman he knows.  In a statement, Interim Chief Hector Velez...

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

Current and former students from almost a dozen campuses in Montgomery County, Maryland, have been posting their experiences on social media for the past week, prompting one student to push the administration to do more to keep abusers and their victims separated. Hundreds of complaints have been posted on Instagram accounts since last week, forcing the district and Montgomery County…

Current and former students from almost a dozen campuses in Montgomery County have been posting their experiences on social media for the past week, prompting one student to push the administration to do more to keep abusers and their victims separated. News4’s Cory Smith spoke with her.

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

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

The manager of a bakery that employs disabled adults was fired from that position after he was accused of sexually assaulting two employees. Family members of one of the other employees are upset that they weren’t notified sooner about the incident.

Family members of the bakery employees are upset after the bakery failed to notifiy about the incidents.

A Virginia bakery manager is charged with object sexual penetration and forcible sodomy of two adult employees with special needs.

A 13-year-old boy has been arrested and charged days after a woman was sexually assaulted as multiple suspects burglarized her Northwest D.C. home, the Metropolitan Police Department says. The 13-year-old arrested Wednesday was charged with first-degree sexual abuse and burglary. Two other teens had already been charged with burglary in the case earlier this week. The group broke into...

Multiple suspects broke into a Northwest D.C. home and sexually assaulted the woman inside before stealing a car and other property early Friday morning, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. They broke into the home on Girard Street just before 3 a.m., police said. A woman was in bed when she was awakened by someone sexually assaulting her, police...

A woman’s car was stolen after she was sexually assaulted in her home. Jackie Bensen reports the car was spotted Friday evening and led police on a dramatic chase.

Coaches, teachers and administrators of Damascus High School failed to stop the school football team’s violent hazing ritual, according to a lawsuit filed on behalf of four rape victims. The school football team’s tradition, called “brooming,” involved the forcible sodomizing of younger players with a broom, according to the lawsuit. The story made national headlines in 2018 when four...