A medical assistant at Saddleback Hospital in Laguna Hills was arrested at his Orange home Wednesday night on allegations of molesting three patients. 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 ›

Detectives from the Special Victims Bureau are on the hunt for a man who apparently could not keep his hands off the buttocks of an 11-year-old girl at a Ross department store in the City of Industry. more ›

For methamphetamine user Robert Edward De Shields, one side effect of the drug is apparently the strong desire to sexually abuse animals. The Sacramento parolee was sentenced this week to 10 years in state prison for his appalling treatment of an 8-month-old chihuahua. more ›

After sexually assaulting at least 14 underage girls, some as young as twelve, 19-year-old Michael Downs has been arrested and faces 29 felony charges, reports KTLA. Downs, who lives in Santa Clarita, allegedly met the girls on Facebook, and lied to them by saying he was 16. He then arranged times and places to meet them, and that's when the attacks occurred. more ›

Yet another local coach has been accused of sexually abusing a former student. Bellflower High School track and girls' basketball coach Bryan Shepherd, 47, of Torrance was behind bars Tuesday on suspicion of sexually assaulting one of his former students over the course of four years. more ›

We've done our best to document the recent criminal goings-on of the Explorers program, a program in which teenagers are welcomed into police departments to learn the tricks of the trade. In just the past few months, at least two officers have faced charges of having sex with underage girls who were part of the Explorers. more ›

The legend of the casting couch usually tells the story of an older man sleeping with a young girl by promising her an acting or modeling career. But in today's refreshing news, this tired old tale ends not with a sexual encounter, but with the older man getting kicked in the face and the girl getting away. more ›

A rental car company received a sketchy, anonymous tip that one of their cars was abandoned in an alley early this morning. The employee responded and found a dead woman in the backseat of one of their cars with her pants pulled down. more ›

A jury has awarded a whopping $65 million to a woman who was sexually assaulted by a male nurse at a hospital that was then known as Encino-Tarzana Medical Center. more ›

A female hiker was the victim of a sexual assault on Halloween afternoon in Elysian Park, and the Los Angeles Police Department have released a sketch of the suspect, who may have tracked down his victim using Twitter. more ›

City Controller Wendy Greuel has taken a look at the Los Angeles Police Department's approach to tackling a backlog of over 7,000 untested rape kits in recent months, and has found that there is much room for improvement in how the LAPD handles this kind of evidence. more ›

Police are investigating the creepy possibility that a sexual assailant used Twitter to find his next victim. On Halloween afternoon, a man jumped out of the bushes and sexually assaulted a woman finishing up a stroll through Elysian Park. She managed to escape and the suspect fled. more ›

George Washington Carver Middle School in South L.A. was put on lockdown this morning after a student saw someone near campus who matched the description of a man suspected of trying to sexually assault a 12-year-old girl last week. The lockdown started at 7:15 a.m. and lasted about an hour, reports the Huffington Post. 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 ›

Authorities in Beverly Hills are waving off claims made by a woman who said she "was sexually assaulted by two men at a luxury hotel in Beverly Hills," according to KTLA. The alleged victim, a guest at the Montage Beverly Hills, says she was attacked early this morning in her room. more ›

Police are looking for a man who snuck up behind a woman, dragged her into a carport and sexually assaulted her just after she had dropped her son off at school in Montebello, according to CBS Los Angeles. The assault happened on Tuesday around 8:30 am in the carport of an apartment complex in the 800 block of South Greenwood Avenue in Montebello. 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 ›

An 11-year-old boy was sexually assaulted at the Westfield Valencia Town Center on Monday afternoon while inside a public restroom in the food court area of the mall. The molester has been identified as 25-year-old Casey Crockett of Santa Clarita. more ›

A 23-year-old man who was convicted of sexually assaulting a 58-year-old woman in a Santa Ana park faces 30 years to life in prison, reports CBS News. The victim was walking alone on a hiking trail at about 2 p.m. on May 25, 2009 when Alfredo Fraga grabbed her, dragged her into the bushes and sexually assaulted her. more ›

Is something just completely rotten in the city of Fullerton? As two cops face charges in the beating death of a schizophrenic homeless man, another was involved in a recently settled lawsuit against the city which claimed that he sexually assaulted several women while on duty. KTLA reports that Officer Albert Rincon was accused of arresting women and then groping them. more ›

While walking near Strathmore Drive and Levering Avenue by the UCLA campus on Saturday, a student was grabbed and sexually assaulted, reports ABC News. The attack happened at about 7:00 p.m. more ›

A doctor in Loma Linda has been charged with sexually assaulting two of his patients during exams — and detectives believe there may be more victims. The charges started with one complaint against the doctor Ramon Fawzi Fakhoury, 35, of Norco, reports The San Bernardino Sun. A 32-year-old woman claims that she was sexually assaulted in July during a medical exam, when she went into an urgent care center complaining of chest pain. 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 ›

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 ›

Despite being literally caught with his pants down, a man who was found naked in his apartment with an also-naked 4-year-old girl has plead not guilty to molesting the child, reports KTLA. The girl was found by her father after she went missing from her yard, and was then seen banging on the suspect's window and screaming for help. 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 ›

The Los Angeles Police Department have released details about an attack on a woman who was walking near Cedars-Sinai Hospital last weekend. The incident took place at around 3:30 a.m. on Saturday, July 30th. more ›

After reportedly pulling a young girl into the back room of a yogurt shop and sexually assaulting her, a Tutti Frutti store employee is in custody. According to the Long Beach Press Telegram, the alleged incident took place on Saturday in Signal Hill. Two girls, age 7 and 8, reportedly went in to the store to use the bathroom. more ›

Mandak Kohn Griffin, a 30-year-old BMX coach accused of sexually assaulting three boys and exchanging child pornography over the internet, was arraigned Monday for crimes authorities say occurred between 2000 and 2002, according the KTLA. If convicted, Griffin could serve a maximum sentence of 85 years to life in state prison. more ›