Teens, Sexual Assault | featured news

PR guru Max Clifford has been charged with 11 counts of indecent assault against seven teenage girls, including one who was aged 14 at the time, Scotland Yard said tonight. The force said Clifford, who answered police bail today, faces charges linked to girls aged between 14 and 19 between 1966 and 1985.

The attorney for the family of a California girl who committed suicide after she was sexually battered and then cyberbullied with a humiliating photo plans to file a civil action against the suspects Monday.

Eight days after allegedly being sexually battered while passed out at a party, and then humiliated by online photos of the assault, 15-year-old Audrie Pott posted on Facebook that her life was ruined, "worst day ever," and hanged herself....

... To sum up the backlash, critics jumped on the network’s extensive discussion of the implications for the perpetrators and their plight, with less countervailing discussion of the rape victim. Change.org has launched a petition seeking an apology from the network.

A grand jury will investigate whether anyone else should be charged in the events surrounding the August sexual assault of a 16-year-old, Ohio's attorney general said after a judge convicted two teenagers of rape in the incident. "This community needs assurance that no stone has been left unturned in our search for the truth." Attorney General Mike DeWine said Sunday.

A teenager testified Friday that he saw one of the two Steubenville, Ohio, boys accused of raping a 16-year-old girl engage in sexual conduct with the girl during a car ride.

A 10-year-old girl was sexually assaulted in the Temple Hills area as she was walking home from school Thursday afternoon, authorities said. The girl, who lived in the Temple Hills area, was walking alone in the 3100 block of Scottish Drive when a boy who appeared to be between 14 and 16-years-old grabbed her and forced her into a nearby wooded area, police said. The boy sexually assaulted the 10-year-old until he was scared away by people who heard the girl’s cries for help and went into the woods, authorities said.

Former NFL player Lawrence Taylor was also indicted on charges of endangering the welfare of a child and patronizing a prostitute. Former Giants great Lawrence Taylor was indicted Wednesday for having sex with a teenage prostitute.

Arizona police arrested the parents of an 8-year-old Liberian girl who was allegedly sexually assaulted by four boys in July.

Four days after receiving a nine-month jail sentence for touching the breasts of six women patients, a San Jose dentist was arraigned Monday on a grand jury indictment of a more serious charge of lewd and lascivious acts on a 14-year-old girl.