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Rape
Allegations don’t amount to rape charges for Missouri athlete
Fans of the University of Missouri men's basketball team have likely heard about criminal allegations leveled against a member of the team. Despite the allegations, prosecutors recently decided not to file charges of rape against the former player. The player in...
Missouri man charged with rape in St. Louis County
A man from Ferguson, Missouri, was arrested and charged in connection with incidents of alleged sexual assault. The man was accused of rape, in addition to other charges. The 46-year-old man was charged with counts of forcible rape, sodomy and kidnapping, in...
Strong accusations made, Missouri man charged with statutory rape
A man from Warren County, Missouri, was arrested on suspicion of having committed a sex crime with an underage girl. The man, who is 29 years old, was charged with statutory rape. According to police, the man had a sexual encounter with the girl several months ago,...
Missouri school employee charged with statutory rape
Most people in Missouri are acquainted with various incidents where school personnel are accused of inappropriate conduct with a student. These kinds of accusations are now being leveled against an employee at a high school in the St. Louis area who has been accused...
Missouri man charged with statutory rape
A Hazelwood, Missouri, man was recently accused of, arrested for and charged with statutory rape. The 25-year-old man was charged with one count of first-degree statutory rape. Police claim that the man offered a ride to a 13-year-old girl. According to police, after...
Patient arrested for alleged sexual assault at local hospital
A 24-year-old male psychiatric patient of a Creve Coeur, Missouri, hospital was arrested after a female patient there claimed that he raped her at the facility. The female patient, 19, told police that the rape occurred in a "quiet room" adjacent to a lounge on the...
Cultural differences lead to criminal charges in Missouri
When the topic of cultural differences comes up in St. Louis, Missouri, most people think of the diverse traditions of the various ethnic groups that live in the city. Cultural differences usually do not result in criminal charges. Unfortunately for one St. Louis man,...
Man jailed after women allegedly abducted from Missouri and raped
A man who was released from prison in 2010 after serving 11 years on a rape conviction has been arrested again on sexual assault charges. Allegedly the man abducted two women from near a truck stop in Joplin, Missouri, and took them across state lines to Oklahoma....