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Temarkus Washington says the sexual abuse he experienced as a teenager at a troubled Chicago youth detention center still gives him nightmares. The lawsuits, filed Monday on behalf of 193 men and ...
USA TODAY relied on 30 hours of interviews, more than 1,500 pages of documents and police audio and video for a story on a Michigan cold-case rape.
USA TODAY's 18-month investigation into untested rape kits has lawmakers, victims' advocates calling for results, accountability.
Chicago saw a major rise in violent crime starting in the late 1960s. Murders in the city peaked in 1974, with 970 murders when the city's population was over three million, resulting in a murder rate of around 29 per 100,000, and again in 1992, with 943 murders when the city had fewer than three million people, resulting in a murder rate of 34 murders per 100,000 citizens.
The sexual abuse scandal in the Chicago archdiocese in the late 20th and early 21st century is a major chapter in the series of Catholic sex abuse cases in the United States and Ireland. A 2023 report by the Illinois Attorney General found that more than 450 Catholic clergy in Illinois abused nearly 2,000 children since 1950.
He entered a plea of guilty in September 2009 to the murder of Nicarico after having previously confessed to the crime. He was already serving a life sentence on two other, unrelated rape and murder charges, one of a 27-year-old woman and the other of a seven-year-old girl, Melissa Ackerman from Somonauk, Illinois.
A record high number of girls in high school have experienced sexual violence in the past year. New data from the CDC says in 2021, 1 in 5 (18%) of girls in grades nine through 12 grade ...
Most of the complaints in the period examined by HuffPost were filed in majority-black neighborhoods, which also tend to have higher crime rates than other areas of the city. Allegations against Chicago officers ranged from traffic violations to serious criminal misconduct like sexual assault and battery.