The bizarre case of a man accused of posing as a spiritual healer so that he could to lure a woman to a hotel room and rape her just got even worse: the suspect allegedly had another victim. more ›

A 17-year-old girl alleges that she was sexually assaulted at the Stagecoach Country Music Festival in Indio last night. The alleged assault happened inside one of the portable bathrooms at the festival. more ›

A Huntington Beach man was found guilty today of kidnapping and raping a 7-year-old developmentally disabled girl. The victim, described as being "severely developmentally disabled," had been his neighbor at the time of the crime. more ›

One of today's most disturbing stories comes to us from Santa Ana, where a 36-year-old spiritual healer has been arrested on suspicion of raping a woman during a raw egg cleansing. Confused? Don't worry. So are we. more ›

An actress sued Belvedere Vodka after her image was used unwittingly in an ad that jokes about date rape. The ad shows a drunken frat boy type holding back a girl who looks horrified. The ad says, "Unlike some people Belvedere always goes down smoothly." more ›

Gabriela Cortez, a high school Spanish teacher at Roosevelt High School, was charged in connection with bringing underage high school boys home to have sex with her. more ›

A registered sex offender turned himself in to police shortly after sodomizing a 13-year-old boy at a Tustin library yesterday afternoon. The attack happened yesterday afternoon at an Orange County Library. more ›

A woman hired as a babysitter in Norwalk allegedly woke up to find her employer sexually assaulting her in his home after giving her a drink containing a sedative, reports ABC News. Kevin Cady, 53, allegedly found the 22-year-old sitter on a website, sittercity.com. He hired her to come to his house and watch his kids on January 11, while he was out of the house. more ›

University police say that a UCLA student was sexually assaulted near a residence hall on campus early this morning. A male suspect called out to a female student climbing what are called the Saxon Steps before he sexually assaulted her. more ›

Alex Da Silva, a local dancer, instructor, and choreographer whose resume includes a gig on the hit reality show "So You Think You Can Dance" will be tripping the light fantastic behind bars for the next 10 years. Da Silva, 43, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for aping one woman and assaulting another. more ›

Police are looking for a man who raped a 14-year-old girl outside her apartment building in La Puente. The incident took place on January 2 in the evening, according to City News Service. The assailant, who's described as a young Hispanic man between the ages of 18 and 22 with a faux-hawk, started talking to the girl as she was walking towards the trash bins. more ›

Remember John Haig Marshall of Redondo Beach? The former reserve police officer in his mid-50s has pleaded no contest on accusations he drugged, raped, and shaved the body hair of his onetime "drinking buddy," a 29-year-old former pal. Marshall was sentenced today to serve three years as part of a plea deal. more ›

MTV's "The Real World" has never been known as a bastion of purity. But according to a lawsuit filed by one former cast member, things got out of hand one night, and the whole thing was caught on tape. Tonya Cooley, who originally starred on "The Real World" Chicago" is suing MTV, Bunim/Murray Productions, Kenneth Santucci, Evan Starkman and others. more ›

A serial rapist who picked up at least four young women in Orange County bars by drugging them or plying them with booze could face 100 years in prison at his sentencing hearing, according to the LA Times. more ›

The search for a man who raped a woman in the backseat of his car at knifepoint on Monday got a little easier when detectives figured out the victim had dropped her cell phone in the man's car. Detectives tracked her phone to the car of Charles Lee Kelly, a security guard who lives in Inglewood. more ›

A 19-year-old Riverside man has been sentenced to 30 years to life in prison for sexually assaulting a 9-year-old boy with a toy light saber, according to KTLA. Javier Enrique Perez was found guilty on four felony counts, including "sexual penetration by foreign object by force." more ›

A mixed martial arts fighter who appeared as Dr. Evil's handyman in the hit comedy "Austin Powers" has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in the 1990 Christmas Eve gang rape of a 20-year-old Orange County woman. more ›

A bill was approved last night by the California State Senate that will require the testing of all rape kits in counties where fewer than 12% of forcible rape cases result in arrests, reports the Pasadena Star News. more ›

Registered sex offenders won't be able to find a date on Match.com, thanks to a settlement with a woman who says she was sexually assaulted by a convicted sex offender while she was using the site. The colossal dating service has agreed to conduct background checks to weed out sex offenders that try to use the site, despite previous concerns that such a policy would not be foolproof and may provide a false sense of security. more ›

DNA evidence has prompted the arrest of a 33-year-old Van Nuys man after he was linked to a 2002 rape, according to the Burbank Leader. Armen Shakhbazyan was arrested Thursday evening for his allegedly role in the rape of an unconscious 16-year-old girl at a South Glendale motel. more ›

Alan Paul Wurtzel, the legal inspiration for Match.com's stricter background checks, pleaded no contest to charges that he sexually assaulted a woman he met through the dating site, according to KTLA. Wurtzel, 67, is accused of sexually assaulting a 53-year-old TV executive Carole Markin on their second date. He is scheduled to be sentenced September 19. He faces one year in jail, five years of probation and he must register as a sex offender for life, according to KTLA. more ›

An L.A. doctor is awaiting his fate after jurors heard allegations that he sexually assaulted 11 female patients, reports the Royal Gazette. Kevin Brown, 40, is accused of everything from inappropriate breast and pelvic exams to forcible rape at clinics that he owned in L.A. Brown's case has drawn international interest, not just because of the nature of the alleged crimes but because his father, Ewart Brown, is the former premier of Bermuda. more ›

After being caught staking out an apartment in Irvine, a 29-year-old man has been arrested in connection to three sexual assaults, reports KTLA. Travis Dewayne Batten was seen prowling around the apartment complex last month, where one of the three previous attacks had taken place. more ›

A San Diego man has been found guilty of raping and murdering Dane Williams, a 23-year-old man who was working as an intern at sports store Hurley. The the OC Register reports that Philong Huynh, 40, was accused of drugging Williams before sexually assaulting him and then hiding his body, wrapped in a comforter, in an alleyway. more ›

Following in the alleged footsteps of one Dominique Strauss-Khan, a man in Orange County has been arrested after being accused of raping a woman he hired to work as a housecleaner. The OC Register reports that Michael Delgado, 27, enlisted the cleaning services of a woman who is only being identified as "in her 40s" through an ad she posted on Craigslist. more ›

When Toronto police officer Michael Sanguinetti told a group of students at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University in January that the women among them should avoid "dressing like sluts" lest they be raped, little did he know that he was about to spark a movement. Outraged by the incident -- and others like it -- local activists Heather Jarvis and Sonya Barnett launched SlutWalk, described on its website as a mission to spread the word that "those who experience sexual assault are not the ones at fault, without exception." more ›

53-year-old Carol Markin, the Los Angeles woman suing the dating website Match.com after an alleged rape, will be in court Monday. Markin wants the site to stop accepting new subscribers until a screening system for sex offenders can be implemented. more ›

A 19-year-old Riverside man has been convicted of sexually assaulting a 9-year-old boy with a toy lightsaber, according to KTLA. Javier Enrique Perez was found guilty on four felony counts, including "sexual penetration by foreign object by force." more ›