Santa Clara Co. Supes Approve Funding To Test Rape Kits
The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors Tuesday unanimously approved $600,000 in funding to process a backlog of 200 rape kits by July 2019.
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The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors Tuesday unanimously approved $600,000 in funding to process a backlog of 200 rape kits by July 2019.
A psychiatrist hired by Travis Air Force Base in Northern California to help military veterans dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder has been arrested and charged with raping patients.
Authorities expressed belief that former police officer Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, committed 12 killings and at least 50 rapes across California in the 1970s and 1980s.
A man who spent almost a quarter of a century on California's Death Row took his first steps of freedom right into his family's arms Thursday after his conviction in the rape and killing of his girlfriend's two-year-old daughter was overturned.
A night out at a San Francisco bar took a dangerous turn for a woman trying to get home after she got into a car she thought was her rideshare and was sexually assaulted.
A 36-year-old man suspected of raping his 7-year-old step-granddaughter has been arrested as he was trying to flee to Mexico, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office.
Police announced Friday morning that a bus driver for the Salinas Union High School District is in custody on five charges relating to the alleged rapes of special needs children over the last ten years.
A young woman testified this week that a man repeatedly raped her at a San Leandro apartment in 2012.
Minneapolis police were repeatedly called to the home of mentally disabled twin girls in the years before charges of sexual assault, beatings and neglect were filed against their parents.
A new report shows the number of rapes reported in San Jose has gone up an alarming amount, rising 263 percent in the past decade.
Former 49er linebacker Dana Stubblefield is accused of rape and now his attorneys plan to challenge the victim's credibility.
Based on the investigation, detectives believe that Stanley Troy Friesen may have victimized other women he met online.
A Mexican Uber driver living in the U.S. illegally was charged Monday with raping, assaulting and robbing young women in California, prosecutors said.
An unrepentant ex-convict was sentenced Thursday to 25 years to life in state prison for kidnapping and raping a woman who suffers from a cognitive disability in Oakland earlier this year.
Jarryd Hayne, an Australian rugby player who briefly played in the NFL for the San Francisco 49ers, has been accused of rape in a lawsuit.
Three women have told the New York Times that music mogul Russell Simmons raped them.
Netflix has fired star of the hit series "The Ranch," Danny Masterson amid accusations of sexual assault...
A 49-year-old Sunnyvale man has been arrested on suspicion of stalking a 46-year-old woman and attempting to kidnap and rape her, according to the city's Department of Public Safety.
A new lawsuit is again calling into question Uber's background check policies and how it monitors its drivers.
An actress' rape allegations against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein are credible, and investigators are gathering evidence for a criminal case, New York City police said Friday.
The New Yorker reported Tuesday that Harvey Weinstein has previously raped three women, significantly intensifying the scandal surrounding the disgraced movie mogul. A representative for the mogul vehemently denied the allegations in a statement to the magazine.
The attorney for a former San Mateo police officer accused of raping five women on Thursday argued that some of the charges against his client should be thrown out.
Notorious convicted rapist and ex-Stanford swimmer Brock Turner is now the textbook example for rape in college classes.
An 87-year-old woman used her walker to fight off a man who tried to sexually assault her while she slept.
Police in Fresno say a convicted rapist arrested for illegally carrying a firearm had been working as a security guard at a rape crisis center in Fresno, reports CBS affiliate KGPE-TV.
