A tourist from Texas reportedly experienced a New York nightmare last weekend. While visiting the city the 19-year-old says she was sexually assaulted in her midtown W Hotel room. Since the assault, the NYPD have arrested two Swedish tourists they say were involved in the crime. more ›

The Daily News has awful details about the Bedford-Stuyvesant home invasion-turned-sexual assault. According to the News, "When their victim, who was tied in a bedroom, refused the sexual demands, 'the defendant threatened to shoot her,' [Brooklyn ADA Wilfred] Cotto said of the youngest in the crew." And that suspect is 13-years-old. more ›

The police say that four teens, including a 13-year-old boy, have been arrested for "a broad-daylight home invasion that degenerated from armed robbery into the sexual assault of a Brooklyn woman for nearly an hour," according to the Post. more ›

Le Bain, the steamy Meatpacking District nightclub with the sexy roof bar perched atop the lusty Standard Hotel, is getting some very bad press today after a Brooklyn man was charged with sexually assaulting a woman in one of the bathrooms. According to investigators, Philip Manning, 34, met the unidentified 23-year-old woman at Le Bain early Monday morning, when he offered to buy her a drink. She claims he escorted her to a different part of the club, forced her into a bathroom, and refused to let her leave until she performed oral sex on him. more ›

Police arrested a man accused of attacking a woman in her East 7th Street apartment early on New Year's Day. According to the Post, passers-by heard the victim yelling, "Please don't rape me!" more ›

The NYPD had a chance to arrest accused molester Steven Pappas in 2009—but blew it because they didn't believe the 12-year-old who said he'd been sexually assaulted by a man posing as a police officer. Until now. Yesterday, police arrested Pappas and accused him of raping a 15-year-old boy he tricked into his van last week by flashing a police badge. more ›

Police say a man impersonating a police officer sexually assaulted and then robbed a Queens woman last month. According to NBC New York, "The woman, 52, was posting flyers at about 11:30 p.m. on Nov. 20 along 41st Avenue in Flushing when she was approached by a burgundy van or SUV with four people inside. The suspect displayed a business card with a police logo and told her it was illegal to post flyers, asking for her identification, police said." more ›

Convicted rapist Vincent Heyward received a sentence of 428 years in prison yesterday after being found guilty of dozens of felony charges for sexually assaulting five women in Hamilton Heights and Chinatown. Prosecutors told NY1 that Heyward's victims gave statements before the sentencing, and that Heyward received one sentence of 200 years to life, along with a consecutive sentence of 228 years. more ›

Was Dominique Strauss-Kahn framed by Nicolas Sarkozy's UMP party? Journalist Edward Jay Epstein sure seems to think so, and lays out several "mysteries" in the New York Review Of Books surrounding the downfall of the man who many believed would be the next president of France. more ›

Last weekend police released surveillance footage of a man accused of groping a woman from behind as she boarded a train at the Broadway-Lafayette subway station and asked for help identifying him. According to a NYPD spokesperson, the system works: a tip came in and 50-year-old Staten Island man Samuel Mangum was arrested. more ›

Police are searching for a man whom they believe is behind at least two broad daylight sexual assaults against elderly women in Bed-Stuy. You may recall that at the end of last month a man entered a retail establishment in the neighborhood and attempted to rape a 77-year-old woman. She was able to fight him off and escaped unharmed. ("I think he was trying to choke her and take her clothes off," one area resident told CBS 2.) Now investigators believe the suspect has struck again, forcing a 61-year-old woman to the back of her store on Friday afternoon and trying to rape her. more ›

This week, the owner of West Village celebrity-magnet restaurant Da Silvano was hit with a sexual assault lawsuit—parking garage manager Samuel Cruz claims Silvano Marchetto fondled his genitals twice. Marchetto's spokesman Mike Paul countered today that Cruz is just a petty extortionist: “Silvano’s only mistake was giving him large tips in the past, which created a money-hungry monster.” And then Paul made the ill-advised decision to compare Marchetto's situation with that of Penn State and JoePa. more ›

The owner of West Village celebrity-magnet restaurant Da Silvano was hit with sexual assault lawsuit. According to the Post, parking garage manager Samuel Cruz claims Silvano Marchetto fondled his genitals twice. And the Post's lede is "Maybe he just wanted to know if the noodle was al dente." more ›

Police are looking for a man who sexually assaulted a woman as she was boarding the M train at Broadway-Lafayette on the morning of November 10. According to DNAinfo, the 42-year-old victim was groped from behind but was unhurt otherwise. After sexually assaulting her, he fled, but the NYPD has obtained surveillance video of the heavy-set suspect. more ›

Police are searching for a Bronx man who went on a sexual assault spree on Thursday, groping six women in a six hour period. According to police, the victims ranged in age from 28 to 51, and the assaults took place in the Baychester and Soundview neighborhoods. more ›

Allie Loftis, the 13-year-old teen who apparently ran away from her suburban Massachusetts town on November 4 and had been last seen at the Port Authority Bus Terminal last Friday, was found in NJ yesterday. And police have arrested Jorge Garzon and charged him with "aggravated sexual assault, child endangerment and child abuse." more ›

After sharing surveillance video of a man who allegedly tried to rape a woman in the East Village earlier this week, the police now say they have arrested Imre Meszesan, 35, for the incident. And the tip about the suspect came from a cop who recognized him from a previous arrest. more ›

In a press conference in Arizona yesterday, presidential candidate Herman Cain continued to deny the allegations made by five different women who have claimed he committed everything from impropriety to sexual assault. "I have never acted inappropriately with anyone, period," he said, blaming the charges on the "Democrat machine," and denying that he remembered any of the incidents in question. Would he perhaps one day? "It's a remote possibility…I'm not an expert in how the brain works." more ›

Yesterday, Sharon Bialek shared an account of her 1997 meeting with 2012 GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain in which he allegedly grabbed her genitals, pushed her head towards his groin and asked, "You want a job, don't you?" So what's Cain's next logical step in confronting these serious allegations? Get some TV laffs at their expense! more ›

In July, investigative news reporter Marcia Kramer broke news about the alarming bike lane terror threat, warning viewers about the city's plans to paint a bike lane on a street that goes by the Israeli Consulate. "Imagine if the man on the bike was a terrorist!" Kramer declared in one of the Bike Lane War's most memorable moments. A bike-riding terrorist has yet to use our bike lanes against us, but that doesn't mean the city is safe from cyclist threats: A bike-riding groper is currently on the loose in Brooklyn. more ›

Previous sexual harassment allegations against 2012 GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain have all been shrouded under confidentiality agreements and behind anonymous sources. But earlier today, a former employee of an agency involved with the National Restaurant Association gave a press conference in New York and claimed that Cain sexually assaulted her in 1997 after she asked him to help her find a job. Sharon Bialek alleges that after a dinner in which Cain told her that he "upgraded" her hotel room, he drove her to NRA headquarters, when he "reached over and touched my leg and grabbed my genitals…he then grabbed my head and pushed it towards his crotch...He said, 'You want a job, don't you?'" more ›

In the wake of an alleged rape and a sexual assault in Zuccotti Park that resulted in the arrest of an Occupy Wall Street protester earlier this week, the movement has erected a women-only safe-space sleeping tent. According to the Post the 16-square-foot metal-framed tent will be watched by female members of the de-escalation team, and can sleep 18 people. "This is all about safety in numbers," 24-year-old protester Becky Wartell says. more ›

Police are looking for a man who allegedly tried to rape an elderly woman while she was at work in Bedford-Stuyvesant yesterday, and they've released a video of the man lingering outside of the building. more ›

A 15-year-old boy was taken into police custody for questioning on a series of sexual assaults in Queens. According to the Daily News, "Charges are pending against the teen, who was picked out of a police lineup by a victim in at least one of the attacks, the sources said. His name was not released by the sources." more ›

The Heartland Brewery bartender who was arrested and accused of being one of the suspects terrorizing and sexually assaulting Brooklyn woman—only for a witness to recant identifying him in a lineup—tells the Post, "This was torture... I don’t know how to deal with the situation, I’m just trying to clear my name. I’m 100 percent innocent." more ›

The guy arrested for allegedly grabbing a woman's breasts, exposing himself and masturbating in Park Slope's 7th Avenue subway station has gotten off. On Monday morning Joshua Flecha, a bartender at the Heartland Brewery in midtown, was arrested because police believed he matched one of the many sketches of deviants believed to be behind a series of sexual assaults in South Brooklyn. But now the sexual assault charges have been dropped. more ›

Police have arrested a man suspected of sexually assaulting women while bicycling in Long Island City. According to the Daily News, "Police collared the man after they spotted him pedaling away from a screaming woman at Broadway and 31st St. in Astoria Tuesday morning, police said. He was captured after he rode through a red light at the intersection," cops said. more ›

On October 9, a low-flying police helicopter roused residents of the Lower East Side along Rivington Street, looking for a suspect in a sexual assault. According to the Lo-Down the incident occurred around 7 a.m. near Rivington and Attorney Streets. more ›

Police announced they arrested a second suspect in the series of Brooklyn sex attacks that have distressed residents. Joshua Flecha, 32, was arrested yesterday morning—the Daily News reports that he "was spotted early Monday skulking along a dark Windsor Terrace street. Cops thought he was trying to break into cars and nabbed him. They found his pants were unzipped and a porn video was playing on his cell phone, police said." more ›

Over the weekend, investigators issued a warning to women in Long Island City, Queens, where six women have been assaulted by a bike-riding groper since September. Now, another disturbing attempted sexual assault in the borough has one City Council member vowing payback. more ›