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.
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Questions of double jeopardy in a case involving child sexual assault have split the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
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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.
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Read More »A school superintendent in western Wisconsin was arrested Thursday on federal charges of the sex trafficking of a minor and production of child pornography.
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Read More »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.
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Read More »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.
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Read More »The Wisconsin Assembly approved a bill Tuesday that would make bestiality a felony.
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Read More »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.
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Read More »An East Coast general will oversee changes in the Wisconsin National Guard's sexual-assault protocols, Gov. Tony Evers announced Monday.
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Read More »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.
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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.
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Read More »A former sheriff's deputy in Michigan's southwestern Upper Peninsula has been charged in the sexual assault of a 16-year-old boy.
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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.
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Read More »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.
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Read More »A Fox Valley mother will spend decades behind bars for sexually assaulting her two young children and making explicit videos.
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Attorney General Josh Kaul says testing is finally finished on thousands of unanalyzed kits for sexual-assault evidence.
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Read More »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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Read More »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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Read More »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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Read More »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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Read More »The state Justice Department has won its first conviction using results from testing thousands of unanalyzed sexual assault kits.
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Read More »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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Read More »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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Read More »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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Read More »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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Read More »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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