Top-ranking NYPD officer abruptly resigns amid sexual misconduct allegations

NEW YORK (AP) — The highest-ranking uniformed officer in the New York Police Department has resigned amid allegations he demanded sex from a subordinate in exchange for opportunities to earn extra pay. Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch accepted Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey...

Real estate brothers Oren and Alon Alexander remain in custody on sex trafficking and rape charges

MIAMI (AP) — Prominent real estate broker Oren Alexander and his twin brother Alon will remain in custody following their initial court appearance in Miami on Friday. The brothers had sought bond on charges of sex trafficking and gang rape. But federal prosecutors argued that they...

Guatemala authorities raid ultra-orthodox Jewish sect's compound after report of abuse

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan authorities searched the compound of an extremist ultra-orthodox Jewish sect Friday, taking at least 160 minors and 40 women into protective custody after reports of abuse. Interior Minister Francisco Jiménez said the National Civil Police and...

Report alleges Coast Guard leaders kept sexual assault investigation secret

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Former top Coast Guard officials hid a yearslong investigation into sexual assault and harassment at the service's academy from both Congress and the public after leaders debated the fallout from a potential disclosure, according to a U.S. Senate committee report released...

Gisèle Pelicot's Australian supporters are moved that their French heroine wore an Aboriginal scarf

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A group of Gisèle Pelicot’s Australian admirers said Friday they're moved that the victim in France’s notorious drugging-and-rape case has acknowledged her distant supporters Down Under by wearing a scarf adorned with Aboriginal art. The 72-year-old...

Gisèle Pelicot thanks backers after her ex-husband and his co-defendants are convicted in rape trial

AVIGNON, France (AP) — Gisèle Pelicot spoke of her “very difficult ordeal” after 51 men were convicted Thursday in the drugging-and-rape trial that riveted France and turned her into an icon, expressing support for other victims whose cases don't get such attention and “whose stories...

A Romanian court says the Andrew Tate case can't go to trial because of missteps by the prosecutors

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — An appeals court in Romania ruled Thursday that the human trafficking case against influencer Andrew Tate, his brother and two Romanian women cannot go to trial because of multiple legal and procedural irregularities on the part of the prosecutors. The...

Gisèle Pelicot expresses support for other sexual assault victims, says 'we share the same fight'

Gisèle Pelicot says trial was 'very difficult' after all 51 men found guilty of rapes, sexual assaults

French court sentences ex-husband of Gisèle Pelicot to a maximum 20 years in prison for aggravated rapes, other charges