sexual assault

If you or someone you know is experiencing sexual violence, contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline by calling 1-800-656-HOPE (4673), visit the lifeline crisis chat at www.online.rainn.org, or find your local rape crisis center at www.centers.rainn.org. After a rape, the first step toward a conviction — before evidence testing, charges and a trial — is a sexual assault forensic exam. Commonly...

The designer, 37, known best for his eponymous brand started in 2005, has been accused of inappropriate sexual behavior by a model based in the U.K.

Former movie producer Harvey Weinstein will remain in a New York prison for now after his lawyers and prosecutors agreed  to postpone efforts to send him to California to face sexual assault charges.

As Fort Hood’s commander, Lt. Gen. Pat White faces the immense task of rebuilding trust and turning around an installation with one of the highest rates of murder, sexual assault and harassment in the Army.

A man attacked a woman Tuesday morning inside a business on Wilson Boulevard in Ballston. Hours later, someone attacked another woman as she walked her dog near the Courthouse Metro. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports.

DNA evidence helped authorities identify and arrest an Eastvale man suspected of raping a young woman more than two decades ago, police announced Friday.

Weeks before her disappearance, slain Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillén told her mother that she had been sexually harassed at the Army base and was afraid to speak up because of what Gloria Guillen calls a culture that protects abusers in the military at the expense of victims like her daughter, NBC News reports.

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