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 ›

Authorities are calling him the "Teardrop" suspect, and have linked him to 28 sexual assaults logged since February 1996. Now the Los Angeles Police Department Robbery Homicide Division (RHD) Sexual Assault Section is asking for the public’s help to make the ID, and have released sketches of the perp. more ›

Robert Charles Lee has a lot of time on his hands to think about the crimes for which he was convicted. Lee, 42, received a sentence today of 764 years and eight months in prison, according to the District Attorney's office. more ›

After what was beginning to seem like endless allegations of sexual abuse in local schools, LAUSD announced yesterday that it's revamped its policy for letting parents know when a teacher is being investigated. The district will now inform parents within 72 hours if an educator is removed for sexual misconduct. more ›

A seven-year-old girl was sexually assaulted on Saturday outside her house in Covina, reports KTLA. The girl was playing in her driveway when a man described as white and between the ages of 18 and 40 clapped his hand over her mouth, picked her up and took her to the side of the garage, where he molested her. 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 ›

A South Pasadena father came home to a horrifying scene early Wednesday morning: a man was sitting on his 18-year-old daughter's back and holding a knife. The assailant had apparently cut through a window screen and was attempting to sexually assault the woman in her bed. more ›

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 ›