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Sexual Offenses

  • News

    May 10, 2012

    How Rape Victims Cope When Their Alleged Attackers Are Exonerated

    Debbie Jones spent decades coming to grips with the fact Thomas McGowan raped her. Then she found out he didn't.

  • News

    December 1, 2011

    In the Boy Scouts' Police-in-Training Program, a History of Abuse

    Dozens of teenage Explorers have been sexually assaulted by the cops they hoped to emulate.

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2011

    DPD: Man Guilty of One Sexual Assault Responsible For Another at Occupy Dallas Site

    Dallas County SheriffRichard Armstrong​One week ago we got Occupy Dallas's side of the story concerning the sexual assault that took place at its encampment behind Dallas City Hall. Today, we get the official version from the Dallas Police Department, which is reporting that it has arrested Ri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2011

    Prosecutors Accused Hilliard Fields of Rape With Zero Evidence. Now, His Name is Cleared.

    Hilliard Fields stands outside the courtroom with his lawyer, Gary Udashen.​In the end, it only took minutes for Judge Larry Mitchell to clear Hilliard Fields of the sexual assault charges that have followed him for the last 14 years."Sir, I'm very sorry for the misery this has caused you in your ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2011

    Downtown Last Weekend, SlutWalk Urges End to Victim-Blaming Culture Surrounding Rape

    Photos by Patrick Michels About a hundred women and men rallied up at the JFK Memorial Plaza over the weekend for Dallas's very own SlutWalk, a stroll through downtown to fight the popular notion that it's fair to blame a woman for anything from cat-calls to sexual assault based on how she's dressed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2010

    City Council to Vote on Ordinance Keeping Registered Sex Offenders From Living Together

    ​Shame there's no one at Dallas City Hall till Monday, because this just popped up on the year-ending December 8 council agenda: an ordinance that will "prohibit multiple registered sex offenders from residing in the same dwelling unit, with certain defenses." Says the agenda, the council first di ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2010

    Presbyterian Announces $2-Million Grant Increasing Resources For Dallas Rape Victims

    Photos by Andrea GrimesCourtney Underwood introduces Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins at today's SANE press conference. Underwood credits Watkins's support of her cause with the implementation of the sexual assault treatment program at Presbyterian.​Dallas has long been one of the mos ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2010

    Dallas PD: Sexual Assault Cold Cases Will Be Reopened Only With Victims' Involvement

    ​Victims of unsolved sexual assaults committed prior to 1996 will now need to contact the Dallas Police Department should they wish for DNA analysis to be conducted in hopes of identifying their attackers. In a press release sent out today in advance of an afternoon press conference with Deputy Ch ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2010

    Jasso on DPD's Sexual Assault Awareness Campaign: "This Is Not a Victims-Only Issue"

    One of several posters DPD sent today as part of its new Sexual Assault Prevention Campaign​Led by Councilwoman Delia Jasso, a group of sexual assault resource centers and the Dallas Police Department held a press conference today at City Hall announcing the sexual assault awareness campaign that' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2010

    Dallas Police Department Outlines Strategies to Combat 25-Percent "Spike" in Sexual Assaults

    ​I know where Andrea'll be tomorrow at noon: In the Flag Room at Dallas City Hall, where council member Delia Jasso will be joined by members of the Dallas Police Department and local rape-victims advocacy and support groups to announce the kickoff of what DPD's calling a "Sexual Assault Awareness ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2010

    Trying to Understand What Led to DPD Chief's Comments About Drinking and Date Rape

    Illustration by Andrea Grimes​Update at 8:35 p.m.: The Dallas Police Department has sent a statement from Chief David Brown regarding his comments about the increase in the number of reported sexual assaults this year -- and the reaction to them. It reads, in full:Chief Brown wants to emphasize, " ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 5, 2010

    Can Virtual Reality Combat Real-Life Sexual Assault? Two SMU Profs Certainly Think So.

    When it comes to sexual assault, victim-blaming is rampant on college campuses (and, well, elsewhere -- remember when it was this 15-year-old girl's fault she was gang raped in California last year?). Girls who wear certain clothing, drink too much alcohol or travel alone to parties are often believ ... More >>

  • News

    February 19, 2009

    Is Suspected Sex Abuse Underreported in the Mexican Communty?

    When it comes to sexual assault, victim-blaming is rampant on college campuses (and, well, elsewhere -- remember when it was this 15-year-old girl's fault she was gang raped in California last year?). Girls who wear certain clothing, drink too much alcohol or travel alone to parties are often believ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2008

    SMU Insists It's Not Hiding Sexual Assault Statistics

    When it comes to sexual assault, victim-blaming is rampant on college campuses (and, well, elsewhere -- remember when it was this 15-year-old girl's fault she was gang raped in California last year?). Girls who wear certain clothing, drink too much alcohol or travel alone to parties are often believ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2008

    Daily Campus Discovers SMU Officials Were Mum About '06 Rape Increases

    When it comes to sexual assault, victim-blaming is rampant on college campuses (and, well, elsewhere -- remember when it was this 15-year-old girl's fault she was gang raped in California last year?). Girls who wear certain clothing, drink too much alcohol or travel alone to parties are often believ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2008

    For the 16th Time, a Dallas County Prisoner Has Been Exonerated Following DNA Testing

    When it comes to sexual assault, victim-blaming is rampant on college campuses (and, well, elsewhere -- remember when it was this 15-year-old girl's fault she was gang raped in California last year?). Girls who wear certain clothing, drink too much alcohol or travel alone to parties are often believ ... More >>

  • News

    February 7, 2008

    Life After DNA Exoneration

    After 27 years in prison, DNA exoneree Charles Chatman tries to pick up the pieces and catch up with a world that has left him behind

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2007

    If Anand Jon Comes Back to Dallas, He Might Not Be Leaving

    After 27 years in prison, DNA exoneree Charles Chatman tries to pick up the pieces and catch up with a world that has left him behind

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2007

    Two Years Later, Texas Monthly Gets an Answer to a DNA Question

    After 27 years in prison, DNA exoneree Charles Chatman tries to pick up the pieces and catch up with a world that has left him behind

  • News

    June 14, 2007

    ¡Ask a Mexican!

    After 27 years in prison, DNA exoneree Charles Chatman tries to pick up the pieces and catch up with a world that has left him behind

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2007

    See, We're Not the Only Ones Writing About Sherman Allen

    After 27 years in prison, DNA exoneree Charles Chatman tries to pick up the pieces and catch up with a world that has left him behind

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2006

    Penal Colonies?

    After 27 years in prison, DNA exoneree Charles Chatman tries to pick up the pieces and catch up with a world that has left him behind

  • News

    September 8, 2005

    After the Flood

    Plus: Still Living, Wrist Slap, We Screwed Up

  • News

    June 16, 2005

    Letters

    Stuck in Squalor Numbers Racket Sex Crime Myths

  • News

    June 2, 2005

    Letters

    The Scarlet "S" Truthful, Not Savage

  • News

    June 2, 2005

    Death for a Killer

    Plus: Off the List, Maybe

  • News

    May 26, 2005

    Tax Dollars at Work

    Hey, armed robbers need bullets, too!

  • News

    May 26, 2005

    Jailbait

    Frank Rodriguez faces a lifetime on Texas’ sex offender registry for having sex with a 16-year-old—who is now his wife. He’s not alone.

  • News

    April 28, 2005

    The Dorm From Hell

    Black mold, broken toilets and leaking ceilings can make life miserable at UTD's Waterview Park. Then there's the crime.

  • News

    February 19, 2004

    Go Greyhound

    Federal security team gets the wrong man

  • Culture

    June 26, 2003

    Family Portrait

    Andrew Jarecki captured the Friedmans, perhaps to free them

  • News

    April 17, 2003

    1-Hour Arrest

    When does a snapshot of a mother breast-feeding her child become kiddie porn? Ask the Richardson police.

  • News

    February 20, 2003

    American Sex Tourist

    Caught in the act of molesting young boys in Thailand, Coppell businessman Nicholas Bredimus came up with a last-ditch defense: obstruct justice

  • News

    October 31, 2002

    Likely Suspect

    Three years after his conviction for rape, local DJ Gary "Babyfase" Faison speaks out to proclaim his innocence. What are the odds he's right? One in 300 million.

  • News

    June 20, 2002

    The Gay Priest Thing

    The conference of bishops ignored "the elephant in the sacristy"

  • News

    February 1, 2001

    Letters

    Rhymes with Asso, Ready to Rumble, Not a Pedophile

  • News

    January 25, 2001

    Letters

    Sex Offenders

  • News

    January 11, 2001

    Hello, My Name is Pervert

    Outcasts among us, sex offenders struggle to find treatment and lead normal lives in a justice system that gives them little of either

  • News

    December 7, 2000

    Sects and Lies

    Did the isolated, unhappy life of an Arlington family of Jehovah's Witnesses breed false charges of sexual abuse? Absolutely, says a family member who never got a chance to tell her side of the story.

  • News

    October 14, 1999

    Cult of Madness

    Seeking help for depression, Martha Hurt turned to therapists. That's when her insanity truly began.

  • News

    January 1, 1998

    Surfing for convicts

    Texans will soon have access to statewide criminal convictions via the Internet--maybe

  • News

    November 13, 1997

    No joke

    County Commissioner Ken Mayfield isn't laughing anymore about sexual harassment charges

  • News

    August 21, 1997

    Payback Time

    How two hacked-off Cowboys scored on Channel 5 and Marty Griffin

  • News

    July 3, 1997

    Bad business

    A&M Records VP accused of rape during Texas trip

  • News

    June 19, 1997

    Letters

    A&M Records VP accused of rape during Texas trip

  • News

    May 1, 1997

    The lies that BIND

    A Dallas jury is forced to sift through the wreckage of a family destroyed by the infamous Norplant rape case

  • News

    August 8, 1996

    A Minor Affair

    When young love ended in a rape allegation, the juvenile justice system left a Dallas teen's life in limbo.

  • News

    July 4, 1996

    Handle With Care

    Sex offender David Rivera was willing to do almost anything to stay out of jail. Except masturbate.

  • News

    November 17, 1994

    'Tell Mama Why You Cry' (Part II)

    Sam Krasniqi was acquitted of sexual abuse. So why won't the state let two children have their parents - or their religion?

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