ROGERS, Ark. — A former police chief serving a 30-year prison term for murder was charged Monday with raping a school teacher 20 years ago. Rogers officials said DNA collected after the 1997 assault at an elementary school was from Grant Hardin, 59 and the former chief of the Gateway Police Department in northwestern Arkansas. … Read more
A lesbian inmate who was allegedly raped and impregnated by a Tennessee guard has filed a million-dollar civil rights lawsuit against him. Jessica Fowler, 31, was booked into Moore County Jail in September 2016 on a probation violation. Five months later, corrections officer Caleb Shane Hopkins began coercing her into sex with him, the federal … Read more
Pennsylvania – Sexual assault, rape and related charges against a suspended Mt. Pleasant Borough police officer will stand, a Westmoreland County judge ruled Tuesday. Common Pleas Court Judge Christopher Feliciani said five other cases involving five alleged victims in Western Pennsylvania can be prosecuted against John Andrew Brown in Westmoreland County. Brown, 44, of Mt. … Read more
More than three months after a former San Mateo police officer accused of sexually assaulting five women received a new court-appointed defense attorney, his April 30 jury trial date was delayed Monday to Oct. 9 to provide additional legal preparation time, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office. The jury date for Noah … Read more
Anna was sitting in the parked car with two friends when a charcoal gray van pulled up and flashlight beams momentarily blinded her. The 18-year-old had grown up in south Brooklyn and spent many Friday nights like this driving around the city with friends, looking for places to hang out away from home. On this … Read more
PHENIX CITY, AL – A now former Phenix City Police officer finds himself on the wrong side of the law after a woman in custody accuses him of sexual assault. On Monday afternoon, former five-year veteran Phenix City Police Officer Eldrick Kennedy responded to a shoplifting call at the Piggly Wiggly on the 280 bypass … Read more
The Austin Police Department has apologized after a video posted to YouTube showed two of its officers making rape jokes while in a patrol car. The video, dated May 24, was posted Oct. 30 by Austin lawyer Drew Gibbs, who told Austin TV station KXAN he obtained the footage via an open records request. In … Read more
NASHVILLE, TN – A female police officer who said she was raped and strangled by a fellow Metro officer said she’s baffled by the district attorney’s office decision to drop the rape charge. The News 4 I-Team exposed in 2016 that the female officer secretly recorded her ex-boyfriend, Julian Pirtle, when he came to the … Read more
A federal correction officer repeatedly raped a Brooklyn inmate and even threatened to throw her in solitary confinement if she ratted him out, the woman testified on Tuesday. “I was raped,” the woman, identified only as Maria, told the Brooklyn federal courtroom before bursting into tears. Prosecutors said in their opening statements that Carlos Martinez, … Read more
Ray Smith awoke to a scuffle from across his sleepy Delray Beach, Florida, street. It was 1 a.m. on Jan. 18, 1991, and the front door of his neighbor’s home was ajar. Ray and his wife Evelyn watched as Charlene Hoeffer’s husband was “manhandling” her, Ray told cops according to a police report. The man … Read more
A Birmingham woman has been awarded a $10 million default judgement by a Jefferson County judge after she claimed she was sexually assaulted by a former police officer when she was just a teen. Circuit Judge Michael G. Graffeo awarded the damages to Daria Collins, who was just 17 when the attack is said to … Read more
In a chilling case out of Colorado, a gay inmate has filed a federal lawsuit claiming prison guards knowingly set him up to be repeatedly raped by another inmate. “This is malice. This is sadistic. They set him up to be beaten and raped and that is exactly what happened to him,” said Denver attorney … Read more