sex assault

A 41-year-old Brooklyn woman who had returned home from a night out early Friday and forgot her keys was attacked by a stranger in his 20s who punched her, said, “I’m going to get you naked,” and tried to rape her, according to police. Rana Novini reports.

Police have arrested a man who they say attacked and sexually assaulted a teenager in a Bronx park on Monday. The suspect, 18-year-old Rahmel Bali, was charged Thursday with criminal sexual act, criminal obstruction of breathing, assault and harassment, according to the NYPD. He allegedly grabbed the 13-year-old victim as they were walking home from school in Crotona Park, police…

Police are searching for a man who they say attacked and sexually attacked a teenager in a Bronx park on Monday. The suspect — last seen wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt, black jacket, blue jeans, black sneakers and a black hat — grabbed the 13-year-old victim as they were walking home from school in Crotona Park, according to police. He…

Police are searching for a man who they say attacked a teenager in a Bronx park and sexually assault the teen on Monday.

A neurologist already facing charges that he raped patients in New York and New Jersey was arrested on new federal charges Wednesday alleging that he was a serial, sexual abuser of women who went to him for help with debilitating chronic pain. An indictment said Dr. Ricardo Cruciani, who specialized in rare pain syndromes, abused multiple patients over 15 years…

A man wanted for a sexual assault of a woman in a Middlesex County, New Jersey, park last month may be connected to another attack over the summer, police said Tuesday. The victim was walking on a path in Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park in the afternoon of Sept. 28 when the suspect, who was armed with a weapon,…

A suspect wanted for a sexual assault on a woman in Middlesex County park may be connected to another attack, police say.

Harvey Weinstein’s victims will now have access to a $17 million compensation fund.

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.

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 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.

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