Sex Crimes

Retired APG general: The players change, the 'GAM' remains the same

2013-05-23 03:05:00

Sixteen years ago, Robert Shadley, then a major general in the Army, uncovered disturbing news from an important Army training facility at Aberdeen Proving Ground. Drill sergeants and other instructors were regularly using their power to get sexual...

Bel Air Police investigate abduction, attempted sexual assault last week

2013-05-21 11:42:31

Bel Air Police say they are investigating an abduction and attempted sexual assault that began on the town's southwest side late the evening of May 14. At approximately 11 p.m., the victim, a woman in her mid-20s, reported stopping in the area of...

Sock full of syringes found in Bel Air [Harford police blotter]

2013-05-16 15:13:00

Aberdeen Linwood O. Burke, 47, of the 400 block of Chestnut Street, was charged Tuesday with obstructing and hindering police and second-degree assault. Sara Montgomery, 30, of the 300 block of North Philadelphia Boulevard, was charged Tuesday with...

Baltimore has high rate of staff-inmate sex

2013-05-16 18:49:19

The Baltimore City Detention Center had the nation's second-highest rate of sexual contact between jail staff and inmates, according to a U.S. Department of Justice study released less than a month after federal prosecutors accused corrections officers at...

Man who raped 13-year-old gets four life sentences

2013-05-15 18:11:28

A Baltimore judge sentenced a man convicted of repeatedly raping a 13-year-old girl in an East Baltimore vacant home to life in prison four times over plus an additional 25 years. Alvin Ray Wright Sr., 50, was convicted at trial in February on three rape...

Baltimore Co. officer pleads guilty to misconduct, resigns

2013-05-13 12:04:00

A Baltimore County police officer pleaded guilty to misconduct and agreed to resign after admitting to filming himself numerous times engaging in sex acts and neglecting to respond to calls while on duty. Aaron Z. Pross, 29, who had been assigned to the...

Harford school employee suspended following sex offense indictment

2013-05-06 12:45:00

An employee of the Harford County public school system who works primarily with special needs students has been placed under suspension without pay following her indictment on a sex offense charge last month. Stephanie Mikles, 45, of the 1500 block of...

Baltimore police officer charged with pimping wife

2013-05-10 14:29:00

A31-year-old Baltimore Police officer was charged Friday with pimping out his wife after officers from a human trafficking task force found him outside a hotel room where the woman had agreed to have sex for cash with an undercover officer. The child...

Police blotter

2013-05-09 14:23:50

Aberdeen Sheriff's deputies and state police report: Antoine D. Rushing, 20, of the first block of New County Road, was charged Thursday with trespassing and failing to obey a lawful police order. Warren E. Smith, 54, of the 100 block of Bouzarth Lane,...

Military injustice

2013-05-08 12:04:00

The recent study estimating that there may have been 26,000 cases of sexual assault in the military last year stirred a lot of tough talk from the Pentagon and the White House over the past 24 hours. But the question is whether that outrage will translate...

Police investigating sex abuse allegations at Anne Arundel Catholic school

2013-05-08 17:42:22

Anne Arundel County police are investigating sexual abuse allegations by a former student at Monsignor Slade Catholic School in Glen Burnie, officials of the Archdiocese of Baltimore said Wednesday. In a letter posted on the archdiocese website and...

BGF jail corruption alleged months before indictment

2013-05-08 17:37:00

Months before a federal indictment detailed allegations of corruption at the Baltimore City Detention Center, the smuggling and sexual improprieties at the core of that case had already been outlined in an inmate's lawsuit. Calvin Hemphill, in a...

Attorney Gloria Allred, left, and politics professor Caroline Heldman, along with six alleged sexual assault victims, announce last month the filing of a complaint against Occidental College as a result of what the women say is the college's "deliberate indifference to rape victims.

2013-05-23 08:22:43

Accused of breaking into a teen's home -- a classmate of his -- to sexually assault the girl. Charges: Sexual battery, Child abuse and Burglary involving an assault and Battery

2013-05-21 00:00:00

Map shows location where authorities said a woman was sexually assaulted in Ventura County.

2013-05-20 21:31:00