Sex Crimes

The brutal assault put the 28-year-old white investment banker in a coma for 12 days. It was considered emblematic of New York City’s lawlessness in an era when the city recorded 2,000 murders a year.

Ultimately, it was a GrubHub order for an Irish breakfast sandwich and a hamburger that got him caught. Here’s why.

R&B star R. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday for using his superstardom to subject young fans — some just children — to systematic sexual abuse. The singer and songwriter, 55, was convicted of racketeering and sex trafficking last year at a trial that gave voice to accusers who had once wondered if their stories were being…

Prince Andrew wasn’t on trial in the Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficking case but her conviction is bad news for the man who is ninth in line to the British throne.

A former San Diego County Sheriff’s Department deputy convicted of 16 felony counts related to rape and child molestation was sentenced Wednesday to 80 years in state prison.

NBC 7’s Dana Griffin breaks down the charges filed against former deputy and Navy reservist Earle Daniel Yamamoto.

A former San Diego County Sheriff’s deputy and retired Navy Reservist will be sentenced next month after being convicted on several rape and molestation charges related to years of sexual assault involving two minors.

A prosecutor described sex abuse claims against R&B star R. Kelly Wednesday, saying the long-anticipated trial now underway is “about a predator” who used his fame to entice girls, boys and young women before dominating and controlling them physically, sexually and psychologically for at least three decades. “This case is not about a celebrity who likes to party a lot,” Assistant...

Singer R. Kelly has been moved to federal custody in Brooklyn from Chicago ahead of his imminent trial on sex trafficking charges. It was not immediately clear exactly when the one-time R&B superstar was moved, but federal Bureau of Prisons records show Kelly is now housed at the Metropolitan Detention Center. A judge approved the move in April, saying...

A series of online messages from a long-ago schoolmate has a Gettysburg College graduate trying again to get authorities to make an arrest in her 2013 sexual assault

A 19-year-old Oregonian man was arrested on sexual assault charges in Northern California after being found with a 12-year-old girl from Chula Vista he met on an online gaming platform, authorities said Monday.

Federal prosecutors in New York have charged Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard in connection with an investigation into allegations he trafficked and sexually assaulted dozens of girls and women for years. The nine-count indictment out of the Southern District of New York also charges the 79-year-old Nygard with racketeering and other crimes. He was taken into custody in Canada Monday…

The man is suspected of exposing himself, peeping into homes and a sexual assault. NBC 7’s Jackie Crea reports.

Police are looking for a “peeping” man accused in a series of sexual battery cases in Oceanside, the most recent of which escalated to alleged sexual assault on a woman.

The California Attorney General’s Office Thursday refiled sex-related charges against the leader of a Mexico-based evangelical megachurch, nearly four months after a state appellate court panel ordered the case against him to be dismissed on a technicality.

A 64-year-old woman who was ambushed by a man in a blue surgical mask, put in a chokehold and raped on the ground in East Harlem last month, has died from her injuries, police said Friday. The woman was attacked as she walked along 111th Street shortly before midnight on May 18. Jarring surveillance footage released by police shows a…

A 34-year-old Carmel Valley man was arrested Wednesday and he is facing a slew of charges that involve sex crimes against minors. Brandon Sones, 34, was arrested on the 12000 block of Alta Carmel Court, according to a booking log by the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department (SDSO). The suspect is facing seven dozen charges that include 20 counts of…

An East Bay oral surgeon has been charged with a slew of sex crimes involving children, including one child as young as nine.

A former San Diego Fire-Rescue Department employee pleaded guilty on Tuesday to having sex with a minor whom he knew since she was a young child, according to the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office. Justin Curtis Price, an engineer/paramedic who was with the department for 10 years, appeared at the San Diego Central Courthouse on Tuesday for the...

A part-time basketball coach at Coronado High School who was arrested last week and accused of being in an “inappropriate relationship” with a female student pleaded not guilty to sex crimes charges Monday.