'U' Students Rally In Support Of Sexual Assault Survivors
Saturday, University of Minnesota students and community members joined together in response to the suspension of 10 Gopher football players.
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Saturday, University of Minnesota students and community members joined together in response to the suspension of 10 Gopher football players.
Gopher players and others are speaking out on Twitter in support of the suspended University of Minnesota football players.
However, the school declined the players' request to reinstate the suspended players.
Ten players were suspended indefinitely Tuesday. The team said Claeys did not make the decision.
In a news conference, the Minnesota Department of Health shared data they gathered during a five-year study.
Police in St. Paul are investigating after a woman was sexually assaulted early Saturday morning just south of the Wabasha Street Bridge.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says a man is in custody after a female victim was sexually assaulted at a park in Pine City Tuesday.
University of Minnesota basketball player Reggie Lynch is still in custody at the Hennepin County Jail on Monday and is facing accusations of sexual assault.
Minneapolis police have issued an advisory after a female victim was sexually assaulted by a group of male suspects on the south side of the city Saturday.
Hundreds of students are protesting the way a Minnesota college has handled alleged sexual assaults on campus.
Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson sent a letter to Minnesota hospitals to remind them they aren't allowed to bill sexual assault victims for forensic exams. Swanson's letter dated Friday also asks the hospitals several questions about billing practices, which her office will use to help get refunds for patients who were wrongly billed.
Jeyapaul was suspended in 2010 after being charged with sexually assaulting a teenage parishioner while serving at Blessed Sacrament Church in Greenbush in 2004.
A 39-year-old Minneapolis man is in custody after allegedly committing a brutal sexual assault of an unconscious woman. Justin Lee Ironhawk, 39, was charged Friday with first-degree sexual assault for an incident that happened between Jan. 16 and Jan.17, according to the Hennepin County Attorney's Office.
An appeals court has upheld the conviction of an Ozaukee County mother who sat by while her husband sexually assaulted her 12-year-old daughter.
The comedian was charged Wednesday with sexual assault.
A former student at the University of Minnesota has been charged with raping two women he met at college parties. Daniel York Drill-Mellum, 22, was arrested on Christmas Eve and now faces five felony counts of criminal sexual conduct in connection with the alleged 2014 incidents.
The Hennepin County Sheriff's Office is investigating a report of a sexual assault at a county treatment facility for troubled teens. The assault allegedly occurred at the Hennepin County Home School on the 14000 block of County Road 62 in Minnetonka.
A 44-year-old Minneapolis man is charged with allegedly sexually assaulting a vulnerable female adult while working as a metro mobility driver, according to the Hennepin County Attorney's Office.
A Northwestern Wisconsin volunteer fire fighter is being accused of child abuse and sexual assault, according to criminal charges. According to the charges, Virgil A. Hansen, 65, has been charged with sexual assault and exploitation, physical abuse, trafficking and prostitution and enticement of a child.
Police say a man posed as a doctor and went too far with some of his patients. Three women have accused Fredy Escobar of fondling them at his St. Paul clinic. Police arrested him last week, and he has since posted bond.
Authorities continue to ask for more information about Danny Heinrich, the man identified as a person of interest by law enforcement in the Jacob Wetterling case a week ago Thursday. But there is another person of interest named publicly in 2010. Dan Rassier is a school band teacher, and Wetterling was abducted at the end of his quarter-mile-long driveway.
The University of Minnesota has investigated a series of sexual misconduct allegations against Gopher football players that it says did not result in criminal charges. An internal university email does not identify the players involved in the incidents, or when they happened.
A 66-year-old northern Minnesota man was convicted Friday of sexually abusing two women on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. The U.S. Attorney's Office says William Andrew Clark, of Blackduck, was found guilty of one count of aggravated sexual abuse and one count of sexual abuse in connection to two rapes on the reservation.
A fugitive from the Hennepin County "Most Wanted" list has been arrested, according to Hennepin County officials.
Minneapolis police say a woman was sexually assaulted while running near Lake Harriet last week.
