The full NFL investigative report on star Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott has been released. It was included as an exhibit to a lawsuit, filed in federal court by the NFL Players’ Association, demanding that Elliott’s league-issued suspension be vacated. In its lawsuit, the NFLPA calls what transpired “one…
Yvonne’s problems began several months ago when she started noticing bruises and swellings on the arms, face, and lips of her 16-year-old daughter. Yvonne (not her real name) kept asking her how it happened, but her daughter Raquel (also a pseudonym) offered unconvincing answers. When Yvonne finally figured out what…
When I was in my early twenties I dated a guy who was just a nightmare. He played games with my mind, going back and forth between making me feel like I was the best thing ever and then making me think I made him sick to his stomach. Emotionally, I was a wreck. But things never got physical. Except once. We fought,…
A man named Kariem Ali Muhammad Moore is being held on three counts of abduction by force, intimidation or deception, and one count of assault and battery after a woman and two children ran out of his house in Virginia during a welfare check by police on Saturday.
On Tuesday, a man named Kenneth Manzanares was charged with murder after he was caught trying to drag the body of his wife, 39-year-old Kristy Manzanares, to the balcony of their cabin on an Alaskan cruise ship near Juneau.
The first time I was hit by a man, I was 11. Actually, he wasn’t yet a man; he was 13, an eighth-grader to my sixth. And we weren’t fighting, or even roughhousing. We were rehearsing for a school play when he abruptly asked me to be his girlfriend.
On July 23, Washington will require survivors of domestic violence, stalking, or sexual assault be notified if their abuser fails a background check when attempting to purchase a firearm. According to The Trace, Washington will be the first state to enact this form of gun control.
On Wednesday morning, Rob Kardashian’s Instagram account abruptly transitioned from adorable photos of the reality star and his seven-month-old daughter Dream to a barrage of explicit nudes, cheating allegations, and other vitriol directed at his sometimes-fiancé Blac Chyna.
Bill O’Reilly’s ex-wife swore in an affidavit that the disgraced Fox News host brutally assaulted her in their Long Island home after she discovered him half-naked and engaging in phone sex, Jezebel has learned.
On Monday, Cedric Anderson walked into the elementary school classroom of Karen Smith, his estranged wife, and fired ten shots from a Smith & Wesson revolver. He killed Smith and eight-year-old Jonathan Martinez, her student, and injured another nine-year-old student, both of whom were standing behind Smith. After…
Two students were injured today in a shooting at an elementary school in San Bernardino, California, according to breaking news reports. Police believe the shooting to be a murder-suicide, and it happened in a classroom at North Park Elementary. San Bernardino police chief Jarrod Burguan has confirmed on Twitter that…
From September 2011 to February 2012, Missouri woman Rosetta Watson reportedly called the police multiple times to report abuse from her ex-boyfriend—once after he kicked through her front door and punched her in the face while she was in bed. According to the ACLU, doing so lost her her home.
Jane called the police, and not everyone does that. The cops didn’t scare her, but her husband did.
A Las Vegas jury found former MMA fighter War Machine (born Jon Koppenhaver) guilty today on 29 charges for when he brutally beat ex-girlfriend Christy Mack and her male friend Corey Thomas back in 2014. The jury deliberated for a day and a half before finding War Machine guilty of most of the charges, including …
Two and a half years after his arrest, ex-MMA fighter War Machine has finally gone to trial on charges that he viciously beat and sexually assaulted ex-girlfriend Christy Mack nearly to death. It’s obvious what kind of defense War Machine’s counsel has in mind: one told the jury during opening arguments that Mack, a…
An undocumented immigrant was arrested last week at the courthouse in El Paso, Texas where she had just been granted a protective order for domestic abuse.
Russian columnist Yaroslav Korobatov can barely contain his excitement for all the men who are going to get to beat their wives without consequence now that Russia has partially decriminalized domestic violence.
A bill sponsored by conservative Russian senator Yelena Mizulina, most famous for her successful anti-LGBT legislation, has been passed. The new law lowers the penalties for domestic violence in a country with inordinately high levels of abuse within families.
A bill proposing the decriminalization of domestic violence was introduced to Russia’s State Duma in August by ultra-conservative Yelena Mizulina, best known for her successful anti-LGBTQ legislature against “gay propaganda.” The proposed legislation passed the first reading early around the new year, in a vote of…
Johnny Depp won the People’s Choice Award for “Favorite Movie Icon” last night. This would not normally be a newsworthy (the People’s Choice Awards matter even less than the annual “Thespian Awards” at my suburban Texas high school and “Favorite Movie Icon” is a meaningless category), but because Depp has extensive…
