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Teacher Ducks Rape Charge by Saying 'I Do'

Leah Shipman marries 17-year-old former student

(Newser) - A former teacher in North Carolina has avoided statutory rape charges after marrying the alleged victim, the Wilmington Star-News reports. Leah Shipman, 42, was accused of sleeping with a 15-year-old student in 2009, but prosecutors reduced the charge to a misdemeanor after she divorced her husband of 19 years and...

US Locks Up Perverts for Crimes They Might Commit

The 'New Yorker' looks into America's sex-crime laws

(Newser) - The US justice system is punishing child-porn consumers in an unusual way—for crimes they may one day commit, writes Rachel Aviv in The New Yorker . Using sex crime laws that first arose in the 1980s, officials have discarded First Amendment protections for child porn users, and now keep prisoners...

Teen Girl's Rapist Fights for Visitation With Their Kid

Victim asks Massachusetts court to keep him away

(Newser) - A man who raped a 14-year-old girl in 2009 is now demanding visitation rights to see the child he fathered, reports MyFox Boston . His victim, however, wants the courts to keep him away. Part of the legal problem is that a judge sentenced the man, who was 20 at the...

Texas Teacher Accused of Group Sex With Students

Evidence includes video of her alleged encounter with teens

(Newser) - A startling case out of Texas: Former high school teacher Brittni Colleps, 28, could face up to 20 years behind bars after being accused of having group sex with four of her students, and a separate encounter with a fifth. Prosecutors in the case showed jurors cell phone footage of...

NFL Cheerleader Pleads Not Guilty in Sex Case

Sarah Jones accused of sleeping with high school senior

(Newser) - The captain of the Cincinnati Bengals cheerleading squad and her mother both pleaded not guilty today to charges in a sex abuse case, the Kentucky Enquirer reports. Sarah Jones, 26, is accused of having an affair with a 16-year-old football player at a high school where she once taught—her...

Cop Suspected in Sex Crime Dies in Shootout

California cops suspected him of sexual misconduct with teenager

(Newser) - A California policeman yesterday shot and killed a fellow officer suspected of sexual misconduct, the AP reports. Police in Santa Maria learned of his alleged relationship with a 17-year-old girl and confronted him in the wee hours yesterday morning on duty at a DUI checkpoint. The officer resisted arrest and...

Paterno Cleared in Penn State Sex Scandal

But one columnist says he must resign

(Newser) - Looks like legendary football coach Joe Paterno is off the hook in Penn State’s sex abuse scandal , but other officials aren’t nearly so lucky. Pennsylvania Attorney General Linda Kelly told reporters today that two school administrators who resigned today "allowed a child predator to continue to victimize...

Another 11-Year-Old Gang Raped

Seven teens, one 19-year-old arrested for bathroom assault in California

(Newser) - Police in Moreno Valley, Calif., have arrested seven teens and one 19-year-old for allegedly gang-raping an 11-year-old girl in a park bathroom. The victim says she was about to get on a bus when a 15-year-old girl asked if she wanted to hang out at a nearby shopping center. The...

Facebooker Busted After Posing With Lover, 14

He was worried about cops, but posted anyway

(Newser) - Boasting about sex with underage girls is not the brightest thing to do on Facebook. Just ask Robert Nickson, 27, who was busted by Philly cops after crowing on his site about his 14-year-old fiancée. The couple, who described themselves as "engaged," posed together in a photo...

Don't Worry: Texas Will Get Warren Jeffs

State has a much stronger track record convicting polygamists

(Newser) - The Utah Supreme Court stunned prosecutors when it tossed out the only successful conviction against Warren Jeffs, the leader of the polygamist FLDS church. The ruling will make it extremely difficult to retry Jeffs in Utah, where the laws already make the prosecution of child-marriage cases difficult, Time reports. But...

'Rat' Polanski Deserves a Boycott

 'Rat' Polanski 
 Deserves 
 a Boycott  
Eugene Robinson
Jul 12, 2010 1:54 PM CDT

'Rat' Polanski Deserves a Boycott

Confessed rapist 'has never shown remorse'

(Newser) - The Swiss government's decision to free Roman Polanski on a technicality is bad enough; the fact that a lawyer for the filmmaker and confessed rapist called the move "a great relief after the pain suffered by Roman Polanski and his family" is "the definitive textbook example of unmitigated...

Church Forced Girl to Apologize for Being Raped

Girl forced to apologize before being sent away

(Newser) - When a 15-year-old girl was raped and impregnated in 1997, her New Hampshire church took justice into its own hands…by sending her to Colorado, thereby protecting her alleged rapist. Ernest Willis, 51, was finally arrested last month after the victim, now 28, read about similar cases and decided to...

Polanski Sexually Abused Me in 1982: Actress

Charlotte Lewis, 42, says filmmaker 'forced himself' on her in 1982

(Newser) - A British actress says Roman Polanski, who is currently under house arrest after raping a 13-year-old girl in 1977, "forced himself" on her in 1982 during the filming of Pirates. Polanski "sexually abused me in the worst possible way when I was 16 years old," Charlotte Lewis...

LT's Defense: No Sex, Just Masturbation

Oh, and that condom wasn't his

(Newser) - It’s not often that NFL stars will publicize their masturbatory habits, but in Lawrence Taylor’s case, the alternative is statutory rape. The former Giant's defense against allegations that he raped a 16-year-old girl will be that he didn’t actually have sex with her. Instead, a source tells...

I Don't Want to Ruin LT's Rep: Victim

She's not sure NFL great should go to jail

(Newser) - The 16-year-old at the center of the rape charges against Lawrence Taylor didn’t recognize the NFL great when she entered his hotel room—but now she says she’s “a huge Giant fan” and not so sure he should go to jail. “I used to look up...

Old Jocks Club a Dangerous Place for Women
 Old Jocks Club a Dangerous Place for Women 
OPINION
May 9, 2010 1:13 PM CDT

Old Jocks Club a Dangerous Place for Women

Huguely, Roethlisberger, Taylor cases have similar threads

(Newser) - It's been a rocky spell in the headlines for women and male athletes, and the cases of Ben Roethlisberger, Lawrence Taylor, and George Huguely make Sally Jenkins wonder: "Should women fear athletes?" For the Washington Post columnist, the bottom line in the allegations against all three: "The alleged...

Cops: LT Admitted He Paid $300 for Sex

Lawrence Taylor told cops he engaged in sex acts with victim

(Newser) - Disgraced gridiron great Lawrence Taylor admitted paying for sex at a suburban Holiday Inn where police say he raped a 16-year-old runaway, federal prosecutors said yesterday in a criminal complaint against the girl's alleged pimp. The papers filed in federal court in Manhattan refer to Taylor only as "Client-1....

Alleged Victim Told LT She Was 19

Nutrisystem dumps Lawrence Taylor

(Newser) - The 16-year-old Lawrence Taylor is accused of raping told him she was 19 at the behest of alleged pimp Rasheed Davis. Davis also instructed her to charge Taylor $300, the victim told cops, according to documents obtained by TMZ . An FBI agent says Davis showed potential customers “almost nude”...

Attorney: 'Lawrence Taylor Did Not Rape Anyone'

Football Hall of Famer denies charges

(Newser) - Lawrence Taylor's attorney emphatically denied today that the football great raped a teenage girl. "Lawrence Taylor did not rape anyone," said Arthur Aidala at a news conference, reports Entertainment Tonight . In fact, Taylor "did not have sex with anyone. Period. Amen." The Hall of Famer pleaded...

Lawrence Taylor Charged With Rape of 16-Year-Old

Cops arrest ex-Giants star; he faces felony

(Newser) - Football great Lawrence Taylor was arrested today and charged with third-degree rape, after allegedly having sex with a16-year-old girl. Police say the incident took place earlier today at a hotel in Montebello, New York, the Daily News reports. Taylor is currently in jail, and will be arraigned this afternoon.

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