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A Warren Jeffs Wife Flees Sect With Police Help

Woman, 25, is taken to shelter

(Newser) - Police yesterday helped one of Warren Jeffs' numerous wives flee the polygamous community on the Utah-Arizona border that he still leads from behind bars . The woman, 25, "asked for assistance in leaving the community, and a deputy responded and facilitated that request," said a spokesman for Utah's...

FBI Urged to Broaden Definition of Rape

Crime stats don't reflect reality, top cops say

(Newser) - Many more rapes take place in the US than the FBI's figures suggest, say campaigners urging the federal government to broaden its definition of rape. The FBI's definition, written more than 80 years ago, defines rape as "the carnal knowledge of a female, forcibly and against her...

Dominique Strauss-Kahn Returns Home to Paris
 DSK Back in Paris 
Sep 4, 2011 10:18 AM CDT

DSK Back in Paris

Smiling Dominique Strauss-Kahn returns home to rehab image

(Newser) - Nearly four months later, a beaming Dominque Strauss-Kahn finally got to take that JFK-to-Paris flight today, returning home with wife Anne Sinclair to the couple's Paris mansion. Scattered applauding supporters and a phalanx of reporters greeted the couple, reports the New York Daily News . "Finally, they are freed...

Dominique Strauss-Kahn Charges Dropped
 Strauss-Kahn Charges Dropped 
Aug 23, 2011 11:24 AM CDT

Strauss-Kahn Charges Dropped

Prosecutors say they don't believe accuser beyond reasonable doubt

(Newser) - A New York judge dropped all charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn today, officially closing the criminal case, CNBC reports. The dismissal came at the District Attorney’s office’s request, after prosecutors said they had lost faith in alleged victim Nafissatou Diallo, whose testimony had changed repeatedly. “If we do...

Prosecutors to DSK Judge: Drop Charges

Say accuser's story riddled with holes, lies

(Newser) - Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s accuser lied to prosecutors again and again, they allege in a court document full of what two sources to the New York Post call “bombshells.” The document calls for the case against Strauss-Kahn to be dismissed on grounds that Nafissatou Diallo—the alleged assault’s...

Maid Sues 'Sadistic' Strauss-Kahn

Seeks unspecified damages in civil lawsuit

(Newser) - A hotel maid who accuses ex-IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault sued him today over what she calls a "violent and sadistic" attack that left her life "in shambles." Lawyers for Guinean immigrant Nafissatou Diallo wrote that Strauss-Kahn "intentionally, brutally, and violently sexually assaulted Ms....

Warren Jeffs Fathered Child With 15-Year-Old: Expert

DNA makes forensic expert '99.99%' certain polygamist is the father

(Newser) - Warren Jeffs sure could use a good defense attorney right about now. A DNA expert testified today that there's a 99.99% chance that the embattled polygamist leader fathered a child with a 15-year-old girl, reports the AP . Jeffs, the leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of...

Libyan Rape Accuser Moves to US

Iman al-Obeidi gets asylum; told media Gadhafi forces assaulted her

(Newser) - The woman who burst into a media breakfast to say she’d been gang-raped by Moammar Gadhafi’s forces has arrived in the US, where she’s been granted asylum, CNN reports. Iman al-Obeidi flew into New York following 54 days in a UN refugee camp in Romania ; she then...

Pelosi Seeks Ethics Probe of Rep. Wu

Urges investigation into alleged sex assault

(Newser) - On the heels of Saturday's news that a young woman has accused Rep. David Wu of sexual assault , Nancy Pelosi and other top Democrats are demanding a House ethics investigation, the Washington Post reports. “I call on the Ethics Committee to initiate an investigation into the allegations against...

DSK Accuser: I Want Justice
 DSK Accuser: I Want Justice 
Jul 25, 2011 4:47 AM CDT

DSK Accuser: I Want Justice

Nafissatou Diallo rips Strauss-Kahn again, this time in ABC interview

(Newser) - In a one-two punch, the woman accusing Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempted rape blasts him again—this time in a broadcast interview—just as her account of the attack hits newsstands in Newsweek magazine . "I want justice. I want him to go to jail," Nafissatou Diallo says in an...

Oregon Dem Wu Accused of Sex Assault

Young woman accused rep of unwanted sexual encounter

(Newser) - It's been almost two months since a House Democrat got into sex-related trouble, so Oregon's David Wu— he of mentally unstable, tiger-suited fame —is again making headlines. A young woman is accusing the rep of an unwanted sexual encounter, which she says took place last Thanksgiving. The...

Internet Love Pours in for Girl Who Wouldn't Cheer Attacker

Online donations go toward legal fees

(Newser) - A former cheerleader who sued her school and lost after refusing to cheer for a player she says raped her is being helped by strangers from all over America. The Texas girl and her family were ordered to pay the school almost $40,000 in legal fees after losing their...

Charges Against DSK to Be Dropped: Source

Prosecution will make move within two weeks, says source

(Newser) - The case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn has fallen apart so spectacularly that charges will be dropped within two weeks, a top investigator on the case tells the New York Post . It is "a certainty" that prosecutors will agree to ditch the charges on DSK's next court date, two weeks...

DSK to Slap French Accuser With Slander Complaint

His lawyers call Tristane Banon's account 'imaginary'

(Newser) - Dominique Strauss-Kahn is swinging back at Tristane Banon , the Frenchwoman who plans to file a lawsuit accusing him of attempted rape: His legal team today announced that he plans to file his own criminal complaint of slander against her. Strauss-Kahn "has always said that the incident described by Ms....

French Novelist to File Suit Accusing DSK of Rape

Tristane Banon has described him as a 'rutting chimpanzee'

(Newser) - After good news for Dominique Strauss-Kahn, bad: French novelist Tristane Banon will file a lawsuit tomorrow accusing the former IMF chief of attempted rape, according to her lawyer. Banon, who is is Strauss-Kahn's second wife's goddaughter, previously described an encounter nine years ago in which Strauss-Kahn allegedly assaulted...

DSK Wouldn't Pay for Sex, Maid Got Angry: NY Post

Source tells the paper the maid knew exactly who Strauss-Kahn was

(Newser) - Yesterday, the New York Post reported , by way of a source, that the maid accusing Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault worked as a prostitute at the Sofitel Hotel. Today, the paper advances that storyline . A source tells the Post that the maid was after Strauss-Kahn's money, having been "...

DSK Maid Was a Hooker: NY Post

Defense source lobs latest assault on her credibility

(Newser) - The maid accusing Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault has had her credibility take a drubbing lately, and the New York Post has the latest, and potentially most damning: She worked as a prostitute at the Sofitel Hotel, the paper claims in an exclusive that cites an anonymous defense source. "...

Accused Rapist: I Thought She Was Dead

Kansas City man arrested for sexual assault offers shocking excuse

(Newser) - A man accused of raping a woman as she lay unconscious on a city sidewalk in broad daylight told cops he thought he was merely molesting a corpse, according to investigators. Witnesses who say they saw Melvin Jackson having sex with the woman flagged down a passing patrol car. When...

Case Against Strauss-Kahn Collapsing

Prosecution finds major holes in accuser's credibility

(Newser) - The case against Dominique Strauss-Khan has fallen apart so dramatically that he could be freed from house arrest as soon as Friday, well-placed law enforcement officials tell the New York Times . The prosecution's investigators have found major issues with the credibility of the maid who accused the former IMF...

Maid Looking for Other Strauss-Kahn Victims

She hires French lawyer to head up search

(Newser) - The hotel maid accusing Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault has hired a well-known lawyer in France to look for other women who may have fallen prey to the banker, the Telegraph reports. “I was hired to see if we can contact other victims,” Thibault de Montbrial says, explaining...

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