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A probation officer in New Jersey is going to prison for coercing a woman he supervised to have sex with him. A judge in Monmouth County on Thursday sentenced Henry Cirignano, 48, of Wall Township, to 10 years in prison. He must serve nearly 7 years before he’ll be eligible for parole. The 18-year veteran of the probation department will…

A federal judge has rejected a proposed $18.8 million settlement that Harvey Weinstein and his former studio’s board reached with dozens of his sexual misconduct accusers, attorneys said Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Heellerstein in Manhattan said Weinstein’s accusers in the proposed class-action settlement were too varied to be grouped together. The tentative deal, originally announced late last...

Weinstein is serving 23 years in prison for rape.

The suspect, a neighborhood regular according to those who live in the Brooklyn community, used a brick to break a window and get into the victim’s apartment. After allegedly attacking her, he robbed her and stopped by a local deli. NBC New York’s Myles Miller reports.

The president of a Louisiana bible college has been charged with sexually assaulting a student on a flight from Israel to New Jersey.

A mistrial has been declared in the sexual assault trial of a former New Jersey church pastor who is already serving prison terms in assault and bail-jumping cases.

A 29-year-old man has been charged with raping one woman and sexually assaulting another at knifepoint in two separate attacks that occurred at a Queens park, authorities said.

The man who sexually attacked a teenage girl in wooded part of a Queens park is being tied to another similar attack at the same park just a day before, police said Friday morning.

The man who sexually attacked a teenage girl in wooded part of a Queens park is being tied to another similar attack at the same park just a day before, police said Friday morning. Tracie Strahan reports.

Police are searching for the knife-wielding man who forced a teen into a forested part of a Queens park and sexually attacked her.

A 17-year-old girl walking in a park in Queens was sexually attacked by a knife-wielding man, police say. Michael George reports.

A woman said she was sexually assaulted while in the hospital in the Bronx Friday, authorities said.

Two women fought off separate attempted sex attacks in Brooklyn within an hour Thursday, according to police, and authorities have released surveillance images of the man they believe to be responsible.

Two attempted sex assault attacks within an hour of each other may be by the same attacker. Rana Novini reports.

A registered nurse has been charged with sexually assaulting two patients at a hospital emergency room in New Brunswick, authorities said.

A woman is being evaluated after she said she was sexually assaulted by a stranger outside of Penn Station, authorities said.

Police are looking for a man in connection with forcibly touching a woman on a bus on Long Island.

Defense attorney Enrique Latoison explains how the appearance of “The Cosby Show” actress Keshia Knight-Pulliam in court Monday can affect the jury in the Bill Cosby sex assault trial.

A man attacked and sexually assaulted an 11-year-old boy in the Bronx, demanding money and pulling his pants down, authorities said.

New video was released of the man who police say sexually assaulted an 11-year-old boy in the park.