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I-Team: NY Health Dept. Was Aware of Sex Abuse Claim 5 Years Before Doctor's Arrest
Five years before a New York doctor was criminally charged with sexually abusing underage boys, one of the urologist’s former patients notified the state’s Health Department about alleged misconduct that closely mirrors the kind of abuse now detailed in a federal indictment against the physician.
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Regulators Were Aware of Abuse Claim Against Doctor Years Before His Arrest
A New York doctor was criminally charged and indicted in April after allegedly fondling underage patients. While the doctor denies the allegations, the I-Team has learned at least one former patient complained to health regulators five years before the physician was arrested. NBC New York’s Chris Glorioso reports.
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Lawyer Urges NYC Jurors to Acquit Ex-Doctor in Sex Abuse Case
Jurors hearing evidence Monday against a former New York gynecologist accused of sexually abusing nearly 150 patients can “cancel” and “condemn him,” but they should acquit him of federal charges that he enticed women to cross state lines to be abused because he didn’t know where they were coming from, his lawyer said in an opening statement. Defense attorney Deirdre…
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Rochester Diocese to Pay $55 Million to Sex Abuse Survivors
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester will pay $55 million to survivors of sexual abuse committed by clergy members under a settlement announced by church officials. The diocese, which declared bankruptcy in 2019 after hundreds of lawsuits were filed against it under the state’s Child Victims Act, will create a trust for abuse survivors, Rochester Bishop Salvatore Matano said Thursday. Survivors...
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Knife-Wielding Stranger Terrorizes NYC Girl, 11, in Mid-Afternoon Subway Attack
Police are looking for a man who sexually abused an 11-year-old girl on a New York City subway at knifepoint in the middle of an afternoon last month, authorities say. The girl was on a northbound No. 4 train approaching the East 149th Street and Grand Concourse station in the Bronx around 3:30 p.m. Oct. 18, which would have been…
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Queens Man Who Sexually Abused Ex-Girlfriend's Daughter For years Sentenced to 15 Years
A Queens man was sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexually abusing his ex-girlfriend’s young daughter for four years, according to prosecutors.
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Disgraced R&B Star R. Kelly Back in Chicago for Sex Trial
R. Kelly has returned to the federal jail in downtown Chicago ahead of his trial on child pornography and obstruction-of-justice charges, just two weeks after the disgraced R&B star was sentenced in New York to 30 years in prison for racketeering and sex trafficking.
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R. Kelly Sentenced To Thirty Years In Sex Abuse Trial
Several victims of R Kelly’s spoke in court in today, some of them broke down in tears as they spoke. News 4’s Erica Byfield reports what happened in the courtroom toay
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R. Kelly Faces NYC Sentencing in Federal Sex Trafficking Case
R&B singer R. Kelly will be sentenced Wednesday in Brooklyn in the federal sex trafficking case.
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R. Kelly Timeline: Shining R&B Star to Sentenced Sex Trafficker
R. Kelly’s musical accomplishments have been accompanied by a long history of allegations that he sexually abused women and children. Now the R&B singer could be put away behind bars for a quarter-century or more when he is sentenced Wednesday in a federal courtroom in New York City.
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‘Victory Belongs to the Victims': R. Kelly Sentenced to 30 Years in NYC Federal Sex Trafficking Case
R&B star R. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday for using his superstardom to subject young fans — some just children — to systematic sexual abuse. The singer and songwriter, 55, was convicted of racketeering and sex trafficking last year at a trial that gave voice to accusers who had once wondered if their stories were being…
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Former NY Officer Sentenced to 7 Years for Repeated Sexual Abuse of Woman While on Duty
A former police officer in Westchester County was sentenced to seven years in prison Thursday after he sexually abused a woman multiple times while he was on duty, prosecutors said.
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Adult Sex Abuse Survivors Win 2nd Chance to Sue in New York
Adult sexual assault survivors who missed legal deadlines to sue their abusers would get a second chance to file lawsuits under a bill that received final approval Monday from New York’s Legislature. Once it becomes law, the Adult Survivors Act would give victims of sexual abuse a one-year window in which the state’s usual statue of limitations for civil...
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NJ Diocese Settles Sex Abuse Claims With $87.5 Million Deal for 300 Alleged Victims
A New Jersey Catholic diocese has agreed to pay $87.5 million to settle claims involving clergy sex abuse with some 300 alleged victims in one of the largest cash settlements involving the Catholic church in the United States.
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76-Year-Old Ambushed by NYC Sidewalk Groper, Then Shoved: Cops
Police are looking for a man they say sneaked up behind a 76-year-old in the Bronx and groped her aggressively before shoving her to the ground last week, officials say. The woman was on West Mount Eden Avenue around 7 p.m. Thursday when she was attacked from behind. She screamed for help, which is when she got pushed. The suspect…
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Ghislaine Maxwell Family Insists She's Innocent, Starts Appeal in Sex Trafficking Case
Each charge carries a maximum prison term of five to 40 years. Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted of five of them but she’s unlikely to face the max.
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Ghislaine Maxwell Convicted of 5 Sex Traffacking Charges
British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell convicted of helping American financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls. NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.
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Ghislaine Maxwell Guilty of 5 Sex Crimes Charges
The heiress and confidante to Jeffrey Epstein now faces decades in prison. Adam Harding reports.
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Ghislaine Maxwell Guilty of 5 Charges in Sex Crimes Trial
Jeffrey Epstein’s confidante Ghislaine Maxwell was found guilty on 5 of 6 counts against her, related to sex trafficking and other charges.
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Ghislaine Maxwell Found Guilty in Sex Trafficking Trial
More than two years after Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide behind bars, and following a shorter-than-expected trial, his longtime companion Ghislaine Maxwell was found guilty of multiple sex trafficking charges. A New York City jury found that Maxwell was Epstein’s chief enabler, recruiting and grooming young girls for him to abuse. The twelve jurors found Maxwell guilty on five of the six...