Sexual Assault

The Berkshire Eagle reports that the man accused of sexually assaulting three elementary students while working as an adjustment counselor at the former Stockbridge Plain School was investigated in 2004 for allegedly inappropriately touching two of those students, though criminal charges weren’t filed at the time. In June 2004, two 10-year-old students told investigators that […]

Boston University leading hockey scorer Corey Trivino, who was drafted by the New York Islanders in 2008, was arrested Sunday night and faces multiple charges stemming from an incident with a female student, the student newspaper BU Today reported Tuesday. Men’s hockey coach Jack Parker dismissed Trivino, a senior forward, from the team. “He is […]

A former Boston Red Sox clubhouse manager, Donald Fitzpatrick, now deceased, is again the subject of Massachusetts sex crimes allegations, this time involving two former Boston Red Sox clubhouse attendants, who claim they were sexually assaulted by him in the early 1990’s. One of the victims alleges he was sexually assaulted in 1991 in the […]

A Pittsfield man has been arraigned in Berkshire Superior Court on sexual assault charges. 20 year old WILLIAM J. DANIELS, JR. (771 Tyler Street) appeared before Judge Daniel Ford. DANIELS had not guilty pleas entered on his behalf on two (2) counts of RAPE and one (1) count of INDECENT ASSAULT AND BATTERY ON A […]

AMHERST, Mass. – Everywoman’s Center ( EWC ) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has been awarded a three-year, $112,000 grant to provide outreach, counseling and sexual assault prevention education in the rural communities of Hampshire County. EWC is partnering with the state Department of Public Health, which was awarded more than $1 million by […]

The Boston Globe reports that a woman who claims she was sexually abused by a janitor at Camp Good News has filed a lawsuit in Barnstable Superior Court. This is the same camp at which Senator Scott Brown has disclosed that he was sexually abused as a child camper.

The UPI reports that men who pay for sex are far more likely than those who do not buy sex to commit crimes related to violence against women, a U.S. researcher says. Dr. Melissa Farley of Prostitution Research and Education, with logistical support from Demand Abolition, conducted a study of sexual attitudes of men in […]

The Boston Globe reports that a Lowell police officer has pleaded not guilty to charges that he raped two prostitutes and solicited prostitution from others while he was on duty. Prosecutors allege that 31-year-old Aravanh Lakmany of Dracut would approach the women, ask them to get into his cruiser or personal vehicle and drive them […]

A New Scotland (NY) man is being held in the Albany County Jail on attempted murder and rape charges. 23-year-old Adam Croote allegedly raped and tried to kill a 10-year-old girl in Berne. Croote was a longtime family friend of the victim, and was a person the young girls’ parents trusted to watch their child. […]

WCVB reports that at the request of Assistant District Attorney Cameron Merrill, the open bail of Joseph Lee “Vocals” Brown, 22, of Cambridge, was revoked by Judge David T. Donnelly and a new bail of $50,000 was set after Brown allegedly sexually assaulted a 19-year-old female near Soldier’s Field Road. Brown, who was on open […]

The Metrowest Daily News reports that a Framingham man accused of sexual assaulting a woman at the Red Roof Inn on Sunday skipped his Framingham District Court arraignment this week. Judge Robert Greco issued a warrant for Richard Freeman’s arrest when he failed to appear in court. Framingham Police arrested Freeman, 54, on Sunday at […]

The Brockton Enterprise reports that school committee members are questioning how the alleged repeated sexual assault of an 8-year-old girl could happen in a city classroom, during school hours and where a teacher may have been present. Stonehill College junior Kevin Treseler, 21, of Millis, faces charges of child rape and indecent assault on a […]

A Framingham High School student has been accused of raping a classmate on a school bus. The 15-year-old boy was arrested last Thursday at the school and charged with rape of a child and indecent assault and battery on a child 14 or younger, according to Wicked Local. The victim — a 14-year-old girl — […]

A 54-year-old Massachusetts man was arrested after he traveled to Michigan to have sex with a 13-year-old girl whom he “married” in an online role-playing game, according to authorities, as reported by the NY Daily News. John Phillips, of Fitchburg, faces a slew of charges, including sexual assault, child sexually abusive activity and accosting a […]

A sexual assault case against a Connecticut man involving a 14-year-old girl took an unexpected turn at Hartford Superior Court when a Massachusetts woman appeared with a new allegation of abuse that allegedly occurred in Somerville 21 years ago, as reported by the Somerville Patch website. Nelson M. Kawakami, 57, of 401 Prospect Ave., West […]

Kevin Sledge, a suspended officer from the Lawrence city police department, has been sentenced to serve no less than 10 years without parole in a state prison. The sentence comes following his conviction for raping a 23-year-old mother while he was on duty and in uniform back in 2008. Sledge’s Misuse of Authority Sledge, a […]

The NY Daily News reports that an outgoing Massachusetts prosecutor has stated that New York officials are trying to protect accused sex abuser Ernest Lorch, founder of the famed Riverside Church basketball program. An extradition hearing was postponed again Monday because New York state officials said Massachusetts authorities failed to send them all of the […]

The Boston Globe reports that DNA evidence has linked a man suspected of raping a child and brutally stabbing his father during an August home invasion in Cambridge to the 2008 rapes of two female college students who were tied up and threatened at knifepoint in their Brighton apartment. Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley […]

The Boston Globe reports that a former Chelsea District Court clerk magistrate has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for coercing two women into having sex with him at the courthouse. “He took my dignity,” one of the victims told the judge just before James M. Burke, 43, of Chelsea, was sentenced. “He […]

Nice piece in the Brockton Enterprise about the change in name from Womansplace Crisis Center to A New Day. The agency has expanded its mission to help all survivors heal from sexual violence. While sexual and relationship violence are often viewed as “women’s issues,” the issue of violence belongs to men, women and children. Domestic […]

A Sudbury nursing home resident who said she was sexually assaulted by an employee of the home more than a year ago will be allowed to testify at his trial, a judge has ruled, as reported by the Metrowest Daily News. Ruby McDonough will be allowed to testify against Kofi Agana in his Framingham District […]