The Wisconsin Department of Justice would have to test sexual-assault kits within 90 days of collecting them under a new state assembly bill. The Wisconsin Assembly Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety met Thursday for an executive session and a public hearing on the proposal.

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Wisconsin lawmakers and animal-rights activists spoke out in support of a bill to make bestiality a felony. Speakers at the public hearing on Thursday cited possible reasons why people might engage such behavior, blaming a cultural phenomenon and the occult.

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The Wisconsin Senate is poised to approve bills that would establish new protocols for storing and tracking kits used to process sexual-assault evidence.

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A Wisconsin jury on Friday acquitted a retired Catholic priest on charges alleging that he had sexually assaulted an altar boy over several years, starting in 2006.

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The state Justice Department has won its first conviction using results from testing thousands of unanalyzed sexual assault kits.

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Minnesota’s county attorneys think a newly defined aggravating crime factor, child pornography with kids under age 13, should be treated more severely than the state’s Sentencing Guidelines Commission is contemplating.

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As Attorney General Josh Kaul and Gov. Tony Evers advocate for more DNA analysts at the Wisconsin Department of Justice, new data show the backlog of DNA evidence at the state's crime labs has been cut by nearly half in 2019.

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A former daycare worker at the Oshkosh YMCA is charged with sexually assaulting a 3-year-old girl.

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University of Wisconsin receiver Quintez Cephus has pleaded not guilty to charges alleging that he sexually assaulted two drunken women in his apartment this past spring.

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A judge ordered Wisconsin the receiver Quintez Cephus to stand trial Tuesday on charges that he sexually assaulted two drunken women this spring, rejecting a motion from his attorneys to dismiss one of the counts alleging that the women weren't as impaired as investigators say.

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Attorney General Brad Schimel says the state Department of Justice has finished testing thousands of unanalyzed sexual-assault-evidence kits dating back to the 1980s.

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A federal appellate panel says the Madison school district isn't liable for a security guard accused of sexually assaulting a student.

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A corrections employee is accused of having sexual contact with an inmate at the Oshkosh prison.

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A judge has sentenced a Wisconsin man to 13 years in prison for locking a woman inside a wooden box in his basement and sexually assaulting her.

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The parents of a former University of Wisconsin-Madison student asked a judge on Tuesday to give their son a chance at redemption when he is sentenced for a string of alleged assaults around campus.

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Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel says the state Department of Justice has now sent all untested sexual-assault-evidence kits to private laboratories for analysis.

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A retired priest is accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting an altar boy when he served at a Fort Atkinson church beginning in 2006.

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A Wisconsin judge wasn't required to tell a man he would face a lifetime of GPS monitoring upon pleading guilty to child sex crimes because such monitoring is a public safety measure, not a form of punishment, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday.

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An agent who worked in diplomatic security protection for the U.S. Department of State is accused in Wisconsin of sexually assaulting three women with whom he was acquainted, according to a criminal complaint.

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A federal appeals court says a Milwaukee police officer convicted of sexually assaulting a woman after he responded to her 911 call is entitled to a new trial.

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Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel's effort to analyze untested sexual assault evidence kits has produced its first criminal charges.

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The state Department of Justice is contracting with two more private labs to analyze untested sexual assault kits.

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An Oconto County trucker has been sentenced to 125 years in prison for sexually assaulting five children and possessing child pornography.

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Under the state’s criminal statutes concerning the sexual assault of children, sex with someone under 16 years old amounts to second-degree sexual assault. Those who are convicted of it can end up with a $100,000 fine, 40 years in prison ...

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The state Department of Justice has set up a public website that tracks the agency's efforts to test hundreds of untested sexual assault evidence kits.

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A former Wisconsin doctor convicted of sexually assaulting multiple patients at a clinic in Plover has been sentenced to more than six years in prison.

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A former Chippewa Falls science teacher has been sentenced to six years in prison for the sexual assault of a student.

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A former inmate who says a Milwaukee County jail officer sexually assaulted her while she was pregnant in 2013 has been awarded $6.7 million.

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A Wisconsin appeals court has vacated the placement of a sexually violent offender from Racine County into neighboring Kenosha County.

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A Waukesha County restaurant manager accused of groping and making sexual comments to teenage employees has been found dead.

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