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Wisconsin launches statewide system for tracking sexual assaults
A statewide system to track kits that contain evidence following a sexual assault went live on Wednesday, Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul announced.
Read More »Evers signs bills to improve sexual assault kit process
Gov. Tony Evers on Monday signed bipartisan bills establishing a first-ever process for collecting and tracking sexual assault evidence kits, proposals that stalled for years over partisan bickering despite widespread support among law enforcement agencies, victims' advocates and others across Wisconsin.
Read More »New bill would allow lifetime restraining orders against sexual abusers
A new bill is seeking to allow some victims of sexual assault to petition the court for a lifetime restraining order against their abusers.
Read More »Former NFL player, Badger star is accused of assault
A former NFL player and University of Wisconsin football star is accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting a young girl.
Read More »Man convicted of assaulting stepdaughter finds no relief from state Supreme Court
A man convicted of sexually assaulting his 12-year-old stepdaughter found no relief from the Wisconsin Supreme Court in his case.
Read More »USAF rejects Wisconsin Guard sergeant’s reprisal allegations
U.S. Air Force investigators have rejected a Wisconsin National Guard sergeant's allegations that his commanders retaliated against him and tried to force him out of the service after he complained about sexual assaults in his unit.
Read More »Diocese: Claims against retired Wisconsin priest not credible
Sexual misconduct allegations made against a retired Wisconsin Catholic priest who was acquitted last year on charges he sexually assaulted an altar boy are not credible, the Diocese of Madison said.
Read More »Split Supreme Court finds no double jeopardy violation in case of child sex assault
Questions of double jeopardy in a case involving child sexual assault have split the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
Read More »Harvey Weinstein found guilty in landmark #MeToo moment
Harvey Weinstein was convicted Monday of rape and sexual assault against two women and was immediately led off to jail in handcuffs, sealing his dizzying fall from powerful Hollywood studio boss to archvillain of the #MeToo movement.
Read More »Altoona school superintendent charged with sex trafficking
A school superintendent in western Wisconsin was arrested Thursday on federal charges of the sex trafficking of a minor and production of child pornography.
Read More »Bill to prevent delays in sexual-assault testing appears dead
A proposal that began as a bipartisan effort to prevent future delays in the testing of kits for sexual-assault evidence in Wisconsin but that turned into a partisan fight appears doomed in the Legislature.
Read More »Assembly passes rape-kit bill, crime proposals
Assembly Republicans handed Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul another defeat Tuesday, approving a bill establishing testing protocols for sexual-assault-evidence kits after tacking on divisive provisions critics say are designed to ensure the proposal never becomes law.
Read More »Wisconsin Assembly passes bill making bestiality a felony
The Wisconsin Assembly approved a bill Tuesday that would make bestiality a felony.
Read More »Wisconsin teacher charged in Minnesota hidden-camera case
A Wisconsin high school teacher is faced with federal child pornography charges was charged on Wednesday in Minnesota with trying to secretly record students in their Minneapolis hotel rooms on a business-club trip.
Read More »New Hampshire general will oversee Wisconsin Guard changes
An East Coast general will oversee changes in the Wisconsin National Guard's sexual-assault protocols, Gov. Tony Evers announced Monday.
Read More »Wisconsin DOJ to review sexual assault investigations
The Wisconsin Department of Justice plans to review a series of sexual-assault investigations from the Wisconsin National Guard after a federal report found many were conducted improperly.
Read More »Army Reserve leaders accused of mishandling assault claims
Leaders of a U.S. Army Reserve unit that commands thousands of soldiers throughout the western United States have mishandled at least two sexual-assault complaints by not sending them to outside investigators, according to victims, their advocate and documents obtained by The Associated Press.
Read More »Ex-Michigan deputy charged in sex assault of boy, 16
A former sheriff's deputy in Michigan's southwestern Upper Peninsula has been charged in the sexual assault of a 16-year-old boy.
Read More »Lawsuit: Famed Jesuit abused boy 1,000 times around world
One day in May of 1970, an 11-year-old boy and his disabled sister were sitting on the curb outside a Chicago tavern, waiting for their mother to come out. When a priest with crinkly eyes and a ready smile happened by and offered the family a ride home, they could not have been happier.
Read More »Wisconsin Guard’s sexual assault response ‘train wreck’
A federal investigator called the Wisconsin National Guard's response to a sexual-assault case "a train wreck," according to a review of the Guard's handling of sexual assault-allegations.
Read More »Mother gets 40 years for sexually assaulting her children
A Fox Valley mother will spend decades behind bars for sexually assaulting her two young children and making explicit videos.
Read More »Kaul: Testing complete on thousands of sexual-assault kits
Attorney General Josh Kaul says testing is finally finished on thousands of unanalyzed kits for sexual-assault evidence.
Read More »Assembly bill would require assault-kit testing within 90 days
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.
Read More »“Abhorrent, disgusting, frightening”: Activists testify before Assembly about bestiality bill
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.
Read More »Wisconsin Senate passes new protocols for sexual-assault kits (UPDATE)
The Wisconsin Senate is poised to approve bills that would establish new protocols for storing and tracking kits used to process sexual-assault evidence.
Read More »Retired Wisconsin priest acquitted of sexual assault
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.
Read More »Sexual assault kit tests yield first conviction
The state Justice Department has won its first conviction using results from testing thousands of unanalyzed sexual assault kits.
Read More »Tougher child-porn penalties sought in Minn.
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.
Read More »Report: DNA backlog at state crime labs cut in half in 2019
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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