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Michigan man sentenced to 30 years in prison for role in online child exploitation ring

Nov. 07, 2024 14:50 PM EST

DETROIT (AP) — A Michigan man who admitted to exploiting a girl was sentenced Thursday to 30 years in federal prison in an investigation of a sinister online community that pressures children into committing acts of self-harm and creating sexual abuse images. Richard Densmore ran...

A British Parliament member is charged with assault over an altercation in the street

Nov. 07, 2024 10:14 AM EST

LONDON (AP) — A member of the British Parliament has been charged with assault after video showed him beating a man in the street, prosecutors said Thursday. Mike Amesbury, 55, who was suspended by the Labour Party after the Oct. 26 incident, was charged with common assault on a...

Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine strikes deal to end jail stint

Nov. 06, 2024 17:18 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine struck a deal to end his current jail stint, agreeing to serve a month behind bars for violating the terms of his release after a felony conviction, prosecutors said Wednesday. The deal with federal prosecutors was described in a letter...

Atlantic City mayor is charged with asking daughter to say he did not injure her

Nov. 06, 2024 12:07 PM EST

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Atlantic City's mayor, already accused of abusing his teenage daughter, now faces a new charge that he asked her to lie about how she sustained a head injury. Marty Small Sr., 50, was charged Monday with witness tampering involving the girl, whom he and...

New York Philharmonic fires two players after accusations of sexual misconduct and abuse of power

Nov. 05, 2024 19:12 PM EST

The New York Philharmonic is firing principal oboist Liang Wang and associate principal trumpet Matthew Muckey after their union decided not to contest the decision, which followed renewed allegations of sexual misconduct and abuse of power. The orchestra said Monday it issued a...

Woman accusing Conor McGregor of sexual assault testifies in court at start of civil case

Nov. 05, 2024 18:56 PM EST

DUBLIN (AP) — A woman accusing Conor McGregor of sexually assaulting her in a Dublin hotel in 2018 testified in an Irish court on Tuesday at the start of a civil case seeking financial damages against the mixed martial arts star. McGregor was at the High Court in Dublin for the...

UK prosecutors are mulling whether to charge Russell Brand over sex assault allegations

Nov. 03, 2024 05:37 AM EST

LONDON (AP) — British prosecutors say they have been given a file of evidence from police about alleged sexual offenses by comedian Russell Brand and are considering whether to charge him. The Crown Prosecution Service said late Saturday that “we have been passed a file by the...

True crime's popularity brings real change for defendants and society. It's not all good

Nov. 03, 2024 01:07 AM EDT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — In 1989, Americans were riveted by the shotgun murders of Jose and Kitty Menendez in their Beverly Hills mansion by their own children. Lyle and Erik Menendez were sentenced to life in prison and lost all subsequent appeals. But today, more than three decades later, they...

Head of UN-backed team of experts cites paramilitary force in Sudan for sexual violence as war rages

Nov. 01, 2024 17:14 PM EDT

GENEVA (AP) — The head of a U.N.-backed fact-finding team looking into human rights violations and abuses in Sudan said Friday it found the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces responsible for large-scale sexual violence in areas that it controls. Mohamed Chande Othman has denounced...

Court confirms federal takeover of a Mississippi jail but limits power over budget

Nov. 01, 2024 14:50 PM EDT

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — An appeals court says a federal receiver can proceed with a takeover of a Mississippi jail where a judge found unconstitutional conditions and “a stunning array of assaults, as well as deaths.” A panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled...