sexual assault

Weeks before her disappearance, slain Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillén told her mother that she had been sexually harassed at the Army base and was afraid to speak up because of what Gloria Guillen calls a culture that protects abusers in the military at the expense of victims like her daughter, NBC News reports.

More than 1,000 rape kits once sat on the shelves of police evidence rooms across the state. “They stemmed all the way back to the late 80s early 90s,” said state forensic biologist Kristin Sasinouski. Sasinouski serves as deputy director of the Connecticut Public Safety Forensics Laboratory. “There was no tracking system and so we didn’t even know that these…

More than a 1,000 rape kits once sat on the shelves of police evidence rooms across the state, but the backlog is gone and the kits are now tracked in real-time.

A Bridgeport police officer was arrested Friday on multiple counts of sexual assault, according to police. Police Chief Garcia said Sergeant Ivan Delgado was served an arrest warrant charging him with three counts of first degree sexual assault and risk of injury to a minor. Delgado has been an officer with the Bridgeport Police Department for 13 years, according to…

The first six weeks of college are considered a “red zone” for incoming freshmen when it comes to sexual assault. According to research by the U.S. Department of Justice, the first month and a half of college is the time when freshmen women are most likely to be raped or experience attempted rape. Connecticut’s legislature is looking to pass...

Connecticut legislators hope to move a bill forward that will help make it easier for victims of sexual assault on college campuses easier to report.

A 12-year old girl reported that she had been the victim of rape in the rear of a livery cab on Monday, and police arrested the suspect the next day. The NYPD took 32-year-old Rafael Martinez into custody Tuesday night for allegedly sexually assaulting the young girl after he picked her up in Brooklyn. Police say the victim’s parents...

A federal judge is allowing the Education Department to move forward with new rules governing how schools and universities respond to sexual assault complaints.

The New York Times looks looks back at Antioch College’s groundbreaking first affirmative consent policy for sex which was ridiculed 25 years ago but is now considered groundbreaking in the #MeToo movement.

If calls to “defund the police” and divert funds to nonpolicing efforts are successful, what happens to rapists and sex offenders?

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.