sexual assault

On Friday morning, a Twitter user who goes by the name Gabby posted a message to her followers where she shared “my story” with the Hollywood actor. In her post that has since gone private, Gabby claims the 26-year-old actor “sexually assaulted me when I was 17. I had DMed him on when it was two days before my 17th...

 “I think without forensic genealogy everyone would agree that the case probably would have went unsolved,” said Kristin Sasinouski, deputy director of Forensic Biology & DNA at the Division of Scientific Services. For nearly two decades, forensic scientists at the state’s crime lab have been trying to help police identify the person responsible for a series of rapes that...

A Manchester firefighter remains behind bars accused in a series of rapes

Angelo Alleano Jr. 47, of Vernon, has been charged with four counts of sexual assault in the first degree and three counts of burglary in the second degree.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has issued final rules that will reshape the way schools and universities respond to complaints of sexual misconduct

The Pentagon says reports of sexual assaults across the military increased slightly last year, with the Air Force showing the biggest jump of all the services

New London police have arrested a Wallingford man on sexual assault charges involving a child, police said Friday. Ricardo Naccarato, 34, was arrested Friday by New London Police and members of the FB-New Haven Crimes Against Children Task Force. Police said Narccarato solicited sexual acts from a juvenile victim. Naccarato was charged with criminal attempt of second-degree sexual assault and…

A Connecticut man accused of kidnapping a 12-year-old girl from a park in Massachusetts and sexually assaulting her last year has pleaded guilty to the charges. Prosecutors said 36-year-old Joshua Besaw, of Thompson, encountered the 12-year-old at a park in Webster, Massachusetts and tricked her into getting into his car. Besaw, who identified himself as “Chuck,” then drove her to…

Prosecutors who won a conviction in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault case are defending their work as they fight the imprisoned actor’s latest appeal

San Jose police, with the help of a security guard, arrested a 70-year-old man this week on suspicion of kidnapping and molesting a 13-year-old girl, according to the police department.

A New York man is accused of sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl who was visiting a relative at a Fairfield nursing home. Fairfield police confirmed 77-year-old Dino Carlo Gioia was charged with third-degree sexual assault, risk of injury to a child, second-degree unlawful restraint and breach of peace. Police said on December 24, the girl was visiting a relative at…

A TV news reporter who was covering a road race in Georgia when she was slapped on the backside by a runner is seeking criminal charges against the man she said “violated” her. NBC News

Early one morning in April, a homeless woman sleeping in an abandoned house in Louisville, Kentucky, was jolted awake by a stranger who pulled her bedding over her head and raped her, according to police. The 29-year-old woman was taken to the University of Louisville Hospital, where nurses examined her for traces of DNA that could identify her assailant, NBC News…......

A trial is expected to begin next week in Connecticut for a home remodeling show personality accused of molesting a 10-year-old girl.

Shelton Police have arrested a man who is accused of sexually assaulting a teen girl multiple times.

A Pennsylvania appeals court on Monday questioned why actor Bill Cosby never got a supposed non-prosecution agreement in writing as his lawyers asked the panel to overturn his sexual assault conviction. Cosby, 82, is serving a three- to 10-year prison term for drugging and molesting a woman at his home in what became the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era.

Wallingford Police have arrested three men for separate sex-related crimes within the last week.

A Bridgeport police officer who was previously arrested on domestic violence charges has now been charged with sexual assault.

Fairfield police have arrested a man who is accused of sexually assaulting a girl in an Uber on Saturday.

Police have arrested a loss prevention officer who is accused of sexually assaulting a girl who was detained at a store in Norwalk last month.