SF News Hard-to-Recognize Sex Offender Named ‘Pirate’ Riles NorCal Town After Returning There A face-tattooed man with a history of rape and sexual assault charges has returned to Redding after being run out of Alaska, and the community is understandably a little freaked out.
SF News SF Man Charged With Sexual Assault of 99-Year-Old Woman Found Guilty of Misdemeanor A mentally ill San Francisco man accused of attempting to rape a 99-year-old woman in a Chinatown apartment building on New Year's Eve last year was acquitted of the most serious charges he faced this week, and found guilty of two misdemeanors.
Business & Tech Lyft Is Being Sued By 20 Victims In Second Sexual-Assault Suit A second lawsuit was filed Wednesday against Lyft in a case involving 20 cases of sexual assault involving drivers. And this suit joins a separate one filed in September by the same law firm that covers 14 other cases of assault.
Business & Tech Lyft Hit With Sexual Assault Lawsuit From 14 Different Women Lyft has allegedly received more than 100 rape and assault claims in California alone, and the victims say the company "chooses to stonewall" on prosecuting drivers. Now 14 women are suing.
SF News Brock Turner Assault Victim 'Emily Doe' Reveals Herself, and She's Written a Book Her name is Chanel Miller, and many of us have known her story, and her prose style, without knowing her real name or anything much about her. That is about to change.
SF News Lyft Driver On Peninsula Accused Of Raping Woman Who Passed Out In His Car A driver for Lyft has been arrested on suspicion of sexual assault after a 25-year-old woman says she was picked up in a San Mateo bar and driven to the man's home in the Central Valley while she slept.
SF News Notorious 'Ski Mask Rapist' George Anthony Sanchez Gets Parole Hearing A man convicted of raping 25 women in the Bay Area in 1980s recently became eligible for the state’s new Elderly Parole Program, and is getting a parole hearing Wednesday, much to the horror of his many victims.
SF News Alleged Rapist of 74-Year-Old Woman Disputes His Confession, Pleads Not Guilty A new twist in the grisly case of the rape and kidnapping of an elderly woman, as the defense is now disputing the confession that the suspect made when he was arrested.
Bay Area Sports Former Warriors and Lakers Coach Luke Walton Sued For Sexual Assault Recently departed Lakers head coach, former Warriors assistant coach, and newly hired coach of the Sacramento Kings, Luke Walton, has been sued by a female sports reporter over an incident in which she says Walton sexually assaulted her.
Arts & Entertainment Crystal Castles Show At Warfield Cancelled After Band Co-Founder Is Accused Of Rape And Abuse Crystal Castles was originally scheduled to play the Warfield tomorrow, October 26, but that performance has been cancelled after former band member Alice Glass accused Ethan Kath of rape and assault in a
SF News SF Startup CEO Arrested For Allegedly Sexually Assaulting, Abusing 3-Year-Old Son Former SF Startup CEO Zain Jaffer is facing multiple crimes including Child Abuse, sexual assault on a minor and Battery on a Police Officer pic.twitter.com/TMvqFfZBrA— Sergio Quintana (@svqjournalist) October 21,
SF News #MeToo Campaign Highlights The Widespread Commonality Of Sexual Harassment On Twitter over the weekend, women began sharing stories of sexual harassment and assault using the hashtag #MeToo in an effort to illustrate the magnitude and commonplaceness of the problem across many corners
SF News San Jose Music Teacher Arrested For Allegedly Blackmailing 13-Year-Old Student Into Sexual Relationship Police arrested a middle school music teacher in San Jose on Friday for allegedly sexually assaulting a student at the school and blackmailing them into a three-year sexual relationship. KRON 4 said that
SF News SFPD Blames Nightlife For Uptick In Rape Despite the fact that a lot of people will tell you that nightlife in SF is on the wane and isn't as vibrant as it used to be in the age of Netflix
SF News TechCrunch Writer Details Sexual Harassment Experience With SF-Based Venture Capitalist TechCrunch writer Catherine Shu repeatedly declined the advances of 500 Startups venture partner and entrepreneur-in-residence Tristan Pollock but that didn't stop him from allegedly grabbing her and groping her. Disgusted with what she
SF News Recall Campaign Underway For Judge In Brock Turner Case The now yearlong effort to recall Santa Clara County Superior Court judge Aaron Persky, known nationally for the lenient six-month sentence he handed to the literal poster child for college sexual assault Brock
SF News Uber Exec Fired Over His Handling Of Rape Victim's Case In India Following Tuesday's bloodletting at Uber in the wake of a company-wide probe into hundreds of claims of sexual harassment in which at least 20 employees were terminated Recode has learned that a high-level
SF News Northern California Man Convicted Of Drugging And Raping Sister Gets Only Eight Months In Jail 20-year-old Nolan Bruder of Crescent City, way up in Northern California, was sentenced last week in a sordid case involving his teenage sister and some very potent marijuana. Calling to mind the Brock
SF News BART Issues Weird PSA That Implies It's Women's Responsibility To Avoid Creeps On Trains Thom Yorke didn't give us his input, but we're still pretty sure these are some great tips for #AvoidingCreeps while riding. What're yours? pic.twitter.com/CI7GxCoPKl— SFBART (@SFBART) April 11, 2017 BART
SF News Groper Assaults Two Victims In Separate Incidents Friday On Stanford Campus Two women say they were sexually battered Friday night within about 20 minutes of each other in the same area of the Stanford University campus, and the assailant was likely the same in
SF News Police Search For Man Accused Of Series Of Sexual Assaults On Muni .@sfpd says be on the lookout for this man who they say is rubbing himself against unsuspecting women on @sfmta_muni. #SanFrancisco pic.twitter.com/8soiDQpyDO— Lilian Kim (@liliankim7) April 4, 2017 A
SF News Crazy Kidnapping Of 13-Year-Old In Napa Ends With Kidnapper Carving His Name Into Victim's Skin A 13-year-old managed to escape the clutches of a 50-year-old man who kidnapped her, sexually assaulted her, made her smoke weed, injected her with meth, and then scratched his name into her skin
SF News Yet Another Star Berkeley Prof Accused Of Sexual Harassment A lawsuit filed in Alameda County Superior Court alleges that UC Berkeley professor John R. Searle, who stepped down suddenly from his post in the philosophy department this month but has held onto
SF News BART Police Interrupt Sexual Assault At Station A man is in custody today after BART police say they witnessed him sexually assaulting a woman at the transit agency's Rockridge Station in Oakland. NBC Bay Area reports that BART police received
SF News SFPD SVU Busts Alleged 'Escort Service' Boss For Rape And Child Molestation A San Francisco man who allegedly committed multiple sexual assaults, including at least one on a child, while running an escort service that advertised on multiple online platforms is behind bars today, arrested
