A bill targets sexual offenses perpetrated by a health care provider or a member of the clergy.
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Video appears to show Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs beating singer Cassie in hotel hallway in 2016
The video aired Friday appears to show Combs, wearing only a white towel, punching and kicking the R&B singer who was his protege and longtime girlfriend at the time.
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Harvey Weinstein won’t be sent back to California while he awaits New York rape retrial
Weinstein’s attorney said California first needs to produce a warrant.
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Chicago appeals court rejects R. Kelly’s challenge of 20-year sentence
Jurors in 2022 convicted the Grammy Award-winning R&B singer, born Robert Sylvester Kelly, on 3 charges of producing child porn and 3 charges of enticement of minors for sex.
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Lawsuit alleges founder of Special Olympics Maine sexually abused child for decades
An Augusta man says Melvin ‘Mickey’ Boutilier, who died in 2012, starting abusing him when he was a child in the 1960s.
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Trump posts $91.6 million bond in defamation case he lost to E. Jean Carroll
The filings came a day after Judge Lewis A. Kaplan refused to delay a Monday deadline for posting a bond to ensure that the 80-year-old Carroll can collect the $83.3 million if it remains intact following appeals.
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Jay man indicted on sexual assault charges involving young child in Augusta
Kenneth Marin, 60, was indicted by a Kennebec County grand jury recently on several charges stretching back more than a decade.
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Father alleges former Maine DHHS caseworker sexually assaulted him
The federal lawsuit names Morgan Polky, who admitted to sexual misconduct with the father when the state revoked her social worker license in 2018.
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Prosecutors and advocates push Legislature for rape kit reform
Forensic evaluations are an important piece of investigating sexual assaults. But there are several reasons – some valid, others problematic – why rape kits might not immediately be tested, experts say.
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Trump’s stockpile of cash risks being wiped out from $450 million dual verdicts
Trump on Friday was ordered by a jury to pay $83.3 million to writer E. Jean Carroll for defaming her. On top of that, a verdict is expected this week in New York’s civil fraud trial.