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Brooklyn Janitor Charged in Rape of Middle School Girl
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsA janitor at a New York City middle school has been arrested and charged in the rape of a 13-year-old student, officials said today. Ambiorix Rodriguez, 32, is accused of raping and sexually abusing a female student multiple times in the basement of the Public School of Marketing and Legal Studies in Brooklyn, police told the New York Post today. He has been charged with rape, sex abuse and committing a criminal sex act. The student told the school principal about the alleged assault Monday, New York City Department of Education spokeswoman Marge Feinberg told AOL News today by ...
Alabama Leaders Apologize for Mishandled 1944 Rape Case
By not in system - AOL NewsABBEVILLE, Ala. -- Nearly 70 years after she was raped by a gang of white men, Recy Taylor got an apology Monday from leaders of a rural southeast Alabama community who acknowledged that her attackers escaped prosecution because of racism and an investigation bungled by police. "It is apparent that the system failed you in 1944," Henry County probate judge and commission chairwoman JoAnn Smith told several of Taylor's relatives at a news conference at the county courthouse. Phelan M. Ebenhack, AP Recy Taylor, 91, is seen in her home in Winter Haven, Fla. Black and ...
Rape Probe of WikiLeaks Founder Reopened
By Theunis Bates - AOL News(Sept. 1) -- A top Swedish prosecutor reopened a rape investigation into WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange today, the latest twist in a confusing case that has seen prosecutors of differing ranks repeatedly overrule each other. "There is reason to believe that a crime has been committed. Considering information available at present, my judgment is that the classification of the crime is rape," director of public prosecution Marianne Ny said in a statement cited by Swedish news site The Local. "More investigations are necessary before a final decision [on whether to bring charges] can be ...
Sex, Lies and WikiLeaks: Julian Assange Says He Saw It Coming
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(Aug. 23) -- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is hot for radical transparency, except when it comes to what goes on inside his bedroom. "What I can say is that I have never, in Sweden or in any country, had sex with anyone in a way that hasn't been based on voluntariness by both sides," Assange told Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet in an interview published Sunday. Assange was responding to rape and molestation charges filed against him in Sweden on Aug. 20, along with a warrant for his arrest. The next day, Swedish prosecutors rescinded the rape charge. An investigation into the molestation ...
Roman Polanski's Life in Crime and Film [TIMELINE]
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(July 12) -- The Swiss government announced today that film director and fugitive Roman Polanski would not be extradited to the United States for an unlawful sexual conduct charge stemming from an accusation that he raped 13-year-old Samantha Gailey Geimer in 1977. Polanski has been under house arrest at his home in Gstaad since the fall. Below, Surge Desk has compiled a timeline of the director's life and times as they have played out across multiplexes and courtrooms far and wide. 1959 -- Polanski graduates from the Lodz Film School in Poland. 1962 -- Polanski directs "Knife in the ...
The Polanski Case: Why Using the Word 'Rape' Matters
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyRoman Polanski may be racking up some high-profile support in America, as my Politics Daily colleagues Mary, Bonnie and Domenica have noted, but abroad he's losing his friends in government fast. Both the French and Polish governments have announced they are dropping their support of Polanski, just days after foreign ministers from both countries appealed to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for clemency, right before she was set to chair a United Nations' meeting on sexual violence against women. Even more important than the announcement that they wouldn't officially support Polanski, ...
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