Roman Polanski is once again fighting extradition to the United States, where he pleaded guilty in 1977 to drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl. Polanski fled the United States after serving 42 days in jail, which his lawyers now argue should count as having done his time.
In January of this year, Cory Batey and Brandon Vandenburg, both football players at Vanderbilt University, were convicted of raping a fellow student in 2013. Now, as the sentencing phase begins, Vandenburg’s attorney is moving for a mistrial, arguing that the jury foreman failed to disclose that he was a victim of…
Mary Kay Letourneau—perhaps America’s most famous convicted statutory rapist—plans to mark the tenth anniversary of her marriage to Vili Fualaau (yes, her former student) with a sit-down interview with Barbara Walters. Brace for another round of really fucking weird and uncomfortable coverage of this case.
This week, a Swedish court ruled to acquit a 27-year-old man of raping a 13-year-old girl because her body was too "well-developed" for him to have guessed her age.
Today, USAToday and local media reported that a 16-year-old girl is being tried as an adult in the case of the murder of her 43-year-old boyfriend, who she killed "during sex" while her mother was in the other room. Missing from the story? Arizona's age of consent, which is 18. Everyone just kind of glossed over that.
“Holy shitsnacks,” is more or less what you’ll say after reading “writer and former lawyer” Betsy Karasik’s opinion piece about the “vast and extremely nuanced continuum of sexual interactions involving teachers and students” that the Washington Post didn’t so much publish as release from the double-locked cellar in a…
Statutory rape laws, what a drag — am I right or am I RIGHT?? At least that's the opinion of New York Assemblyman Vito J. Lopez. The 71-year-old Democrat from Brooklyn was stripped of all party leadership positions because of unsavory comments he made about the sexiness of a 14-year-old intern. Puke. Even…
Parents of young men who have been busted and sent to jail for having sex with underage girlfriends are fighting anti-sex offender laws on their sons' behalf. Sex offender registry standards are unfair, they say, and enforcing statutory rape laws when the two people involved are just two kids in love is unjust. Is it?
Isn't it natural and normal for adult men to want to have sex with teenage girls? And aren't we being unfair to them by prohibiting them from doing so? These are questions you'd be likely to see on Reddit, but this week they've been addressed to Scientific American's new advice column. And our favorite science writer…
Gymnastics coach Don Peters led the US women's team to eight Olympic medals. But according to a new exposé, he also sexually abused three teenage gymnasts.
A British judged has ruled that a 30-year-old teaching assistant who had sex with her friend's 15-year-old son shouldn't go to jail because the boy hit on her first and wasn't "corrupted" by the experience. There are so few times that the double standard benefits ladies — does one of them really have to be totally…
Yes, the stepfather of the pregnant 11-year-old Mexican girl at the center of an abortion-rights controversy hasn't been convicted of a crime. But does Fox News really believe a girl impregnated at 10 was capable of consent? [Fox News, Earlier]
Roman Polanski's lawyers are alleging even more judicial misconduct in his original trial than we previously knew about, showing yet again that the 1977 proceedings were basically an example of how not to handle a rape case.
Lila Rose has struck again, now with a video supposedly showing a Milwaukee Planned Parenthood ignoring a statutory rape claim. Planned Parenthood has responded with new training, but the video highlights the difficulties of providing reproductive services to teens.
A California appeals court yesterday refused a motion by Roman Polanski's legal team to dismiss his statutory rape case, but it did provide him with a "road map" for resolving the matter more quickly than his critics hope.
By a nutjob who's obsessed with devil-worship? Maybe:
In an interview with the Mirror, former enfant terrible Tracey Emin reveals that her ex-boyfriend, who she dated when she was just 14 and he was 22, is auctioning off her old love letters. Emin is pissed.
• In attempts to improve German-Swiss relations, the Swiss Farmers' Union has created a calendar of half-naked farmer hunks. "We want to show Switzerland in its best light, the countryside and a bit of its culture," says photographer Tina Steinnauer. •
Two days after an L.A. judge's decision that if Roman Polanski wants to challenge his guilty plea he can return to the U.S., Salon's Bill Wyman is rebutting the 2008 HBO documentary on the director.
