Sex Offenses

Sexual assault is not only a problem in society at large, but also in the military. That should not come as too much of a surprise, since those in the armed services are made of flesh and blood like the rest of us. What may come as a surprise is the extent of the...

Our Baton Rouge readers may already be aware of the recent allegations against former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. For those of our readers who haven't heard, Sandusky was arrested earlier this month and charged with 40 counts of child sexual...

Recently, a 50-year-old Louisiana man was released from prison after being there 30 years from an offense for which he was not guilty. Henry James had been in the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola since his rape conviction in 1982. According to sources he had...

A 25-year-old Louisiana man who has come to be known as the "Facebook stalker" was arrested last week on charges of stalking and harassing women, among other offenses. The man is currently being held at Hammond jail on $900,000 bond for two counts of extortion for...

A man who has spent over 16 years in prison for a rape in the 1980s he didn't commit was recently sentenced to several more years in prison on charges of second-degree battery. The new conviction arises from accusations that the 54-year-old man punched a woman in the...

On Tuesday, a federal judge in New Jersey sentenced a former employee of a Louisiana sheriff's office to 39 months in prison stemming from charges that he traded child pornography. The 45-year-old Bessier City man was convicted of trading violent sexual images with a...

On Thursday, a new state law took effect which makes wrongfully convicted persons eligible for as much as $25,000 per year for each year spent in prison, and up to a total of $250,000. That yearly amount is $10,000 higher than the previous limit. The new law will...

As we like to point out on this blog, sex crimes-perhaps more than any other area of law-carry a large social stigma and harsh consequences. Individuals convicted of such crimes often bear the consequences long afterward. The Louisiana chapter of American Civil...

CBS News reports that Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Department Secretary Janet Napolitano announced the unsealing of three indictments and a complaint charging 72 persons for involvement in an online child pornography ring spanning five...

More than most crimes, charges of sexual assault carry more than just the possibility of a conviction. Even for individuals who are acquitted of such charges, public stigma and a presumption of guilt often remains. A recently published article by Roy Black-the...