All posts tagged "Sexualassaultsandcrime"

MIAMI — Federal prosecutors have filed an appeal with a Miami judge seeking to overturn a Denver court’s decision that allowed an American man accused of sexually abusing boys at a Haitian orphanage to be sent to a halfway house until trial. Earlier this month, Magistrate Judge Scott Varholak in Colorado denied a request by federal prosecutors to detain Michael Karl Geilenfeld, 71, after he was indicted on Jan. 18 by a grand jury in Miami. Geilenfeld, who was arrested in Denver, is accused of traveling from Miami to Haiti 14 times between November 2006 and December 2010 to engage in “illicit s......

Joel Greenberg, a chief witness in the sex trafficking case against Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, appears to be working with investigators trying to determine if the 41-year-old Republican had intercourse with a 17-year-old girl while serving in Congress. “I can confirm that Mr. Greenberg is cooperating in a congressional investigation,” Greenberg’s attorney Fritz Scheller told the Daily News on Friday. “The nature of the investigation, as well as the subjects of the inquiry, are questions better left for congressional investigators to answer.” Scheller clarified to The New York Times the investiga......

NEW YORK — A new law designed to increase protections for victims of sexual assault in New York by redefining rape in the state’s penal code is set to take effect in September. The Rape is Rape Act, which was signed into law Tuesday by Gov. Hochul, updates the legal definition of rape to include other forms of forced sexual conduct. Under current law, rape is defined as vaginal penetration by a penis. The new law — a version of which has been in the works for over a decade — redefines rape to include nonconsensual vaginal, oral and sexual conduct. The legislation, which will apply to sexual as......

NEW YORK — Actress Mariska Hargitay has opened up about her harrowing experience being raped in a new essay. The 59-year-old star of “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” — a procedural that spotlights sexual assault crimes — spoke about how she came to terms with her own rape. “A man raped me in my thirties. It wasn’t sexual at all. It was dominance and control. Overpowering control. He was a friend. Then he wasn’t. I tried all the ways I knew to get out of it,” the Emmy winner wrote in an open letter published by People. “I was terrified. I didn’t want it to escalate to violence. I now know it......

Cameron Diaz, whose name was listed in Jeffrey Epstein documents unsealed in New York City this week, is denying any ties to the late multimillionaire sex offender. The “Charlie’s Angels” star, 51, “ never met Jeffrey Epstein, nor was she ever in the same place as him or had any association with him whatsoever, regardless of the fact he may or may not have mentioned her name or implied that he knew her,” a representative for the actress said in a statement to "Entertainment Tonight." Epstein was reportedly “name-dropping” A-listers like Diaz, her “Gangs of New York” co-star Leonardo DiCaprio, ......

MIAMI — A South Florida attorney — known as an advocate for sexual abuse victims — was sentenced to four years in federal prison earlier this week after he pleaded guilty to downloading thousands of child porn images. After Michael Thomas Dolce completes his prison term, he will have to spend the next 15 years on supervised release. Additionally, the 54-year-old Palm Beach man will be permanently banned from practicing law in the state effective Friday, according to a Supreme Court of Florida ruling. “As an attorney and Southern District resident, Michael Dolce had a duty to protect children f......