The Latest Breaking News from sexual assault

Alicia Franklin’s sexual assault kit remained untested for almost a year after she was raped

When Brad Evans resigned from the University of Toledo allegations of sexual assault effectively disappeared, allowing him to continue coaching

Filmmaker Roman Polanski has been ordered to stand trial in France for allegedly defaming a British actress who accused him of sexual abuse. The 89-year-old Franco-Polish director has faced a series of sexual assault claims, though he has never been tried in France.

Reports of robberies, car thefts and burglaries have dropped significantly in NSW in recent years but domestic violence and sexual assaults are increasing.

LOS ANGELES — The video lasts nine seconds, with no sound. Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer appears to be asleep in bed, with a mask over his eyes. Next to him in bed, his attorneys say: the woman whose sexual assault allegations against Bauer triggered the investigation that resulted in his…

France has rejected a request from a visiting delegation of Canadian Inuits to extradite a priest accused of sexual assault on young members of the Indigenous minority in the 1960s. The justice ministry said that France does not extradite its nationals.

A federal lawsuit outlines how police relied on evidence collected from sexual assault kits for unrelated crimes, underscoring chronic challenges facing survivors seeking justice

During a search of a crime lab database, the woman's DNA was tied to a burglary in late 2021. Her DNA had been collected and stored as part of a 2016 domestic violence and sexual assault case.

A San Francisco woman whose DNA from a sexual assault examination was used by police five years later to arrest her in connection with an unrelated property crime, spurring a backlash and attempts to ban the practice, has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city.