Last June, the Brooklyn DA made a big announcement about the arrests of Damien Crooks and Jamali Brockett, who were accused of forcing a 13-year-old Orthodox Jewish girl into prostitution in 2003—and continuing to rape, assault and sexually traffic her for the next eight years. Two of their "associates," Jawara Brockett and Darrell Dula, were also charged with raping the victim. But this week it emerged that the alleged victim recanted her accusation almost immediately, telling detectives she was a prostitute for five years and simply made up the rape allegation. more ›

A 22-year-old man claiming to be a "neighborhood watchman" in the West Village was arrested early Sunday morning after he allegedly robbed and raped a 30-year-old woman who had lost her wallet (but not her ATM card). Fortunately, while she was being attacked on a Perry Street stairwell, the woman was able to scream for help, leading a good Samaritan to call the cops on the perp (and chase him). more ›

The police have released a sketch of a man suspected of raping a woman on the steps of the DeKalb L train station. more ›

Police are on the hunt for a man who allegedly raped an 18-year-old woman early Monday morning in Bed-Stuy—and then tried to rape a 22-year-old woman hours later. His weapon of choice? A hammer. According to the police the perp approached his first victim in the vicinity of the 81st Precinct around 12:40 a.m., brandished his tool and threatened her with it unless she went down on him. The suspect allegedly then forced the woman into an alley where he raped her before fleeing. more ›

For the second time in a month a New York City school safety agent has been arrested after getting into a violent domestic altercation. Police today cuffed 28-year-old Tommy Johnson in Queens and charged him of raping his ex-girlfriend as well as menacing, assault and criminal possession of a weapon. more ›

Another day, another person who is outraged and offended that former police officer Michael Pena, who had been accused of raping a 25-year-old school teacher at gunpoint while off-duty in Manhattan last August—was not convicted of rape charges. Key witness Ann Bishop, a special education teacher who testified that she witnessed Pena having sex with the victim from her bedroom window, said she couldn't believe jurors dismiss the victims own testimony as well as hers: “I know what I saw,” she told the Daily News. “I am disturbed by the fact that they didn’t come back with a guilty verdict.” more ›

More details to make your blood boil have emerged from the trial of former police officer Michael Pena, who was found guilty of three counts of predatory sexual assault for attacking a 25-year-old school teacher at gunpoint while off-duty in Manhattan last August. A juror interviewed after the judge declared a mistrial on the rape charges told the News the three holdouts didn’t take the testimony of witness Gregory Matherly seriously, dismissing him as the “skateboard witness.” “I know Greg,” said neighbor Eva Okada. “He’s not a liar. Just because he rides a skateboard doesn’t make him a liar.” more ›

We're still trying to understand exactly what happened in Manhattan Criminal Court over the past two weeks that led to former police office Michael Pena—who had been on trial for the alleged rape of a 25-year-old school teacher at gunpoint while off-duty in Manhattan last August—not getting convicted of rape, despite being convicted of three counts of predatory sexual assault. More information has leaked out about the holdout jurors: the Daily News reports that at least one juror didn't believe the victim because she could not recall the color of a car parked by the courtyard where she was attacked: “If she doesn’t remember these details, how does she know she was penetrated,” one juror said, according to their sources. more ›

For the better part of the last month, former police officer Michael Pena had been on trial for the alleged rape of a 25-year-old school teacher at gunpoint while off-duty in Manhattan last August. Jurors heard eyewitness accounts, doctors testimony, and the victim's first-hand account of being attacked—and ultimately, Pena was found guilty of three counts of predatory sexual assault. But the judge declared a mistrial on the rape charges because of a deadlocked jury. Today, everyone is trying to make sense of what happened—but one juror has vowed to not lose any sleep over the case: “This was not fun,” juror Lloyd Constantine told reporters. “This was hard work. It was difficult, painful work...There’s no law that says a jury has to reach a verdict.” more ›

A jury of eight men and four women have convicted 28-year-old Michael Pena of three counts of predatory sexual assault, which carry a maximum sentence of life in prison. However, the jury remains deadlocked on the rape charge, and according to the AP, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Richard Carruthers instructed them to keep deliberating on other unresolved charges, including rape. The Post reports that the 25-year-old victim "burst into audible, gasping sobs" when the jury foreman announced that their deliberations kept resulting in deadlock. more ›

The fiancée of Michael Pena—the 28-year-old police officer who is accused of raping a schoolteacher at gunpoint while off-duty in Manhattan last August—told a jury that she still loved him, and planned to marry him, during her testimony yesterday. Alma Rodriguez, 24, answered defense attorney Ephraim Savitt's questions through a translator—the Dominican Republic citizen said she understood the charges against Pena, and still loved him. She also claimed that she and Pena had sex hours before the alleged rape took place. more ›

The prosecution rested their case this week against Michael Pena, a 27-year-old police officer who is accused of raping a schoolteacher at gunpoint while off-duty in Manhattan last August. This came after testimony from the victim, a bartender who confirmed Pena was drinking heavily that evening, and a witness who saw Pena attacking the 25-year-old teacher. The witness described what she saw as "joyless" sex, and added, "It wasn't like 'let's sneak a quickie.'" Defense attorney Ephraim Savitt responded: "I'm sure it wasn't a quickie. I'm sure it was joyless, but she also didn't see exactly what happened." more ›

The trial for Michael Pena, a 27-year-old police officer who is accused of raping a schoolteacher at gunpoint while off-duty in Manhattan last August, began yesterday. While Pena had previously implied that it was a consensual encounter—and that he was just "cheating" on his girlfriend—his lawyer took a different strategy in his opening statements: he admitted his client deserved to go to jail. “He did in fact assault her,” defense attorney Ephraim Savitt told jurors. “All those things the People will be able to prove, because they happened...This was a terrible crime, an unforgivable crime, but it does not rise to the level of the [rape] charges." more ›

Three men have been arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a 60-year-old woman Tuesday morning in the car leasing office where she works in Marine Park, Brooklyn. Carlington Haye, 30, Georges Etienne , 20, and Jonathan Nelson, 21, have all been charged with rape, robbery, sexual abuse and burglary in the assault. "They were creepy. I saw them walk into the building. I felt like I wanted to go inside and lock my door," one witness told the Post. more ›

Five men and a woman have been indicted for allegedly kidnapping, gang raping and prostituting a 15-year-old runaway girl in an Ozone Park, Queens house they were illegally squatting in. According to Queens DA Richard Brown [PDF], 22-year-old Gary Council was the brains of the operation, which also managed to involve a bogus lease signed by "Raymond Kelly," the much criticized sex-peddling site Backpage.com, a man named Junior Goldring and threats against a Queens homeowner. more ›

A man who was found guilty of twice raping a 12-year-old girl was sentenced to 47 years in prison today. Adam Wright, 44, was convicted in December of sexually assaulting the then middle schooler several times in 2002. Wright, who says he's now found God and wants to "instill some good morals and values" in his kids, adressed the victim directly in court, telling her: "Let go, learn to let go. Don't hold on to any pain, don't hold on to it. Give it to the Lord and he'll take care of it for you." more ›

The 36-year-old waitress claiming that a veteran NYPD detective may have taken advantage her in the back of a Washington Heights restaurant says he returned her underwear to her in a plastic bag the next day. “The last thing I remember is him patting the bed and telling me to sit down next to him,” the waitress, whose name is being withheld, told the Daily News. “I remember trying to slide away from him, bob and weave. He was like, ‘Come here, everything’s all right. I’m not gonna hurt you.’” [Ed. note: This has been revised to reflect changes in the Daily News' story.] more ›

A new report downplays the seriousness of an incident in which four NYPD detectives allegedly consumed alcohol on duty and focuses on a "possible rape" a detective may have committed against a waitress. more ›

If there is one thing Jon Stewart loves, it is to mock Fox News. And boy howdy did he have fun with the network last night regarding contributor Liz Trotta's interesting views on the recently reported 64 percent rise in violent sexual assaults in the military. You will be "horror-tained" as Stewart responds to Trotta's comments—"What did they expect? These people are in close contact."—with zingers like, "You know what they say, you can't make a co-ed omelette without raping a few eggs." more ›

The Post reports that police are investigating whether a 13-year-old girl was raped in a downtown park's men's room yesterday. The paper reports that the "girl who sources said is a runaway told cops that a man dragged her into a Battery Park men’s room yesterday and raped her." more ›

The career criminal who was arrested for allegedly raping and beating a woman at the Bowery J train station was drunk, according to his ex-girlfriend, who told the Post, “He wasn’t himself. He didn’t realize what he was doing." more ›

Thursday's blatant character assassination of Greg Kelly's rape accuser masquerading as a newspaper cover can either be explained by the New York Post's profound commitment to misogyny, the NYPD, News Corp, or all of the above. But the paper's response to criticisms of their coverage reflects a piercing hatred for basic literacy and is a new low, even for the Limbo of tabloids. more ›

After successfully fending off a heavy rape allegation, life is back to normal for Good Day New York co-host Greg Kelly, son of NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly. The 43-year-old former Marine told reporters he felt "terrific" as he returned to the Fox New York office on East 67th Street this morning. more ›

An MTA track worker scared off a man who was raping a 36-year-old woman on the tracks at the Bowery J subway station at Delancey Street on Wednesday. Police say the suspect targeted the woman who got off a train around 1 a.m.: The [victim] was on an escalator when 29-year-old Michael Torres grabbed her around the neck, covered her mouth and told her not to scream. He then dragged her to the end of the platform, threw her on the tracks and sexually assaulted her." more ›

The Manhattan DA's office will not pursue rape charges against Greg Kelly, a Fox 5 co-anchor and son of NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly. "The facts established during our investigation do not fit the definition of sexual assault crimes," Cyrus Vance Jr.'s office wrote in a letter to Kelly's lawyer that was obtained by the New York Times. more ›

A layman might think that when somebody gets accused of rape, one of the investigators' top priorities would be to interview the suspect, to get his side of the story on record. But it seems this is not the way it works, at least not for Greg Kelly, a local TV news host and son of the NYPD Commissioner. An unidentified woman filed a complaint against Kelly more than a week ago, but investigators have still not spoken to Kelly, whose attorney says he's innocent. more ›

At this stage it's impossible to predict the outcome of the Manhattan DA's investigation into Greg Kelly's alleged rape of an unidentified woman last October, but while we wait we may as well pass the time speculating on the identify of the woman's boyfriend. Kelly, the co-host of "Good Day New York" and son of NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly, has not been charged, and because of the high profile nature of the case, the DA's office is said to be proceeding with extreme caution (the bitter backwash of the Dominique Strauss-Kahn investigation is probably another factor). But one unidentified source tells the Daily News the investigation could be wrapped up soon—and the tabloid has all but identified the boyfriend of Kelly's accuser. more ›