A former advisor to the US government who flew to the UK to rape whom he believed to be a nine-year-old child has been convicted and jailed. Rahamim Shy, 47, travelled to Bedford from New York in February 2024 to have sex with the girl following more than a month of planning.

Harvey Weinstein appeared disheveled during a court hearing Wednesday. The former film producer requested an earlier trial due to his health conditions, calling Rikers Island a "hellhole."

During the court hearing, Weinstein pushed for an earlier trial date, citing his health. "I can’t hold on anymore," he said.

A violent battle for the city of Goma in eastern Congo has again put the region’s women at risk.

A man and woman who filmed themselves as they raped and sexually abused a child have been jailed. Zabien Burns, 35, pleaded not guilty to 10 sexual offences, but a jury found him guilty of all offences following an eight-day trial.

A Queens man pleaded guilty to rape and attempted murder for a brutal daytime attack on a rooftop in 2023, the local district attorney said. Jerson Vasquez, 25, of Jamaica, Queens, pleaded guilty Friday to attempted murder in the second degree,

Cheung, who worked for State Street Corp., was arrested in 2022 for four rapes that took place between 2003 and 2006.

A Washington man was convicted by a jury in Crawford County on Jan. 28 for raping two children more than a decade ago.

A Lancaster man was sentenced to years in prison for the attempted rape of a woman during a 2023 burglary at her city home — the same home he’d broken into the previous year, prosecutors said.

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The prosecutor said there is potentially newly discovered criminal conduct that needs to be investigated and potentially presented to a grand jury, records say.