Sexual Offenses

Darian Tillman: Suspect 'Sextorted' Teen Into Taking, Sending Nude Images

Federal authorities say a Corona man coerced underage victims to photograph themselves in sexually explicit ways and then send the images to him via the internet. Darian Anthony Tillman, 21, pleaded guilty today to "enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity" as part of a deal with federal ... More >>

Rape at Occidental College: Official Hush-Up Shatters Trust

Teacher Allegedly Watched Child Porn With Undercover Fed ... In a SoCal Classroom

A middle school teacher arranged to meet up with someone to view child porn together. In his Covina public middle school classroom. Really. Allegedly. So says the U.S. Attorney's Office in L.A., which announced that John David Boyle, a 49-year-old Glendora educator, has been arrested on suspicion o ... More >>

Doctor Sexually Assaulted Patients at USC-Adjacent Office, Cops Say

Pervs come in all shapes and sizes. In this case, a man entrusted with your deepest medical secrets is being accused of sexually assaulting patients at a medical center near USC. The suspect was charged in connection with the case. His name is ...

Brandon Simpson: Ex-LAPD 911 Operator Gets Federal Time For 'Repugnant' Child Porn

Warning: You're going to want to wash your eyeballs out with soap after reading this. A former LAPD 911 operator was sentenced this week to 72 months in federal prison after he admitted to possessing more than 600 images of child porn, some of it involving "infants being sexually assaulted," accord ... More >>

Yoshitomo Kaneda Convicted Of Sexually Abusing Aspiring Teen Performer

Yoshitomo Kaneda, a talent agent and actor who has appeared in Letters From Iwojima, Collateral and ER, was convicted of six counts of sexual abuse for molesting a 16-year-old aspiring performer he had taken under his wing, the L.A. City Attorney's office said today. When charges were announced aga ... More >>

Albert Abrams' Child Porn Nets 7 Years Behind Bars For Ex-L.A. Neighborhood Councils Chief

More information added at the bottom. Albert Abrams, the former neighborhood councils chief at L.A. City Hall who once admitted he "was watching myself from a distance watching" child porn, was sentenced to 7 years behind bars today. He faced five counts of distributing child pornography, two coun ... More >>

Rape Is on the Rise in Los Angeles County

L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and LAPD Chief Charlie Beck held their biannual crime-stats press conference today in typical feel-good fashion: They were proud to announce that for the first half of 2012, violent crimes were down 8.8 percent from last year. But the same cannot be said for reported ... More >>

Yoshitomo Kaneda, Actor, Stuntman, Talent Agent, Sexually Abused Teen, Say Prosecutors

Yoshitomo Kaneda, an actor, stuntman and talent agent who says he has appeared in Letters From Iwojima, Collateral and ER, has been hit with allegations that he cornered and sexually abused a 16-year-old aspiring model, the L.A. City Attorney's Office announced today. Prosecutors say the 45-year-ol ... More >>

Francisco Aguilar, San Diego Child Rapist, Found Hanging From Electronic Cable in Lancaster Jail; Cellmate Suspected

Francisco Aguilar, a 36-year-old child rapist serving a life sentence for the "aggravated sexual assault" he committed in San Diego County many years ago, was found blue-faced in his prison cell early Tuesday morning. It looks like the prison-justice fairies, who have been especially active over th ... More >>

A Cancer on the Office

Blackjack With Pedophiles: Why Gambling on Our Ability to Stop Sex Offenders Isn't the Way to Go

By Dr. Paul Abramson and L.J. Williamson Riot Act is a semi-regular column that challenges conventional wisdom in controversial issues In 2008, a 35-year-old LAUSD teacher got one of his fifth-grade students alone in the classroom at lunchtime, and convinced the 10-year-old boy to masturbate him t ... More >>

Albert Abrams, City Hall's Ex-Neighborhood Councils Chief, Indicted, Arrested For Child Porn

Albert Abrams, the former chief of the L.A. Department of Neighborhood Empowerment, was arrested this morning by federal agents after he was indicted yesterday as part of a child-porn case, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. The former president of the City of Los Angeles' Board of Neighborho ... More >>

L.A. Pedophile Bust Dismantles International Child Porn Ring

Antoine Denell Jordan, 1980s Sex Monster Who Raped USC Women at Knifepoint, Moves Near Fullerton Colleges

HomefactsAntoine Denell Jordan, serial rapist, now lives near Fullerton college students.​Watch out, women of CSU Fullerton and Fullerton College (and anyone else who lives in the area, really). Antoine Denell Jordan, the 50-year-old sex offender convicted in 1983 of multiple counts of violen ... More >>

The Boy Scouts' Police Problem

Dozens of teenage Explorers have been sexually abused by cops. Should Scouts share the blame?

Halloween Limits on Riverside County Sex Offenders Unconstitutional, Says L.A. Group

Terry Tyson​Nobody loves a sex offender (except maybe his mom). As such, moves by California and, more recently, Riverside County to limit their participation in Halloween have been met mostly with support if not yawns. But a new, L.A.-based organization, California Reform Sex Offender Laws, ... More >>

Albert Abrams, Mayor Villaraigosa's Neighborhood Councils Honcho, Blames 'Split Personality,' Pain, For Child Porn Problems

Albert Abrams.​Updated at the bottom with with reaction from one Neighborhood Council leader. First posted at 11:33 p.m. Wednesday. Albert Abrams, top dog at the L.A. Department of Neighborhood Empowerment, appeared to admit to a local TV news station that he viewed child porn because "it is ... More >>

Christian Hernandez Admits on CHP Officer Application That he Viewed Child Porn: He Gets 30 Years For Molesting a 5-Year-Old

childrefuge.orgFile photo (not the actual victim).​When we think of molesters and child-porn aficionados, we don't necessarily think "genius." But this guy has to be more bent that most: Federal authorities say they caught 31-year-old child molester Christian Hernandez after he vied to become ... More >>

Mormons, Incest and Weird Car Crashes: The Sordid Saga of The 5 Browns, Utah's Version of the Von Trapp Family

The 5 Browns: A sordid saga​Today's incredibly strange music story comes courtesy of the great fellow Western state of Utah. There once (back in the '90s) was a quintet of classical piano-playing siblings--the Mormon version of the Von Trapp family from Sound of Music, if you will. Three adora ... More >>

Becky Johnson's Story: Woman Claims She Was Attacked By Grim Sleeper Serial Murder Suspect Lonnie Franklin Jr. In 1979

Becky Johnson believes she might have been a victim of the Grim Sleeper.​Update: Los Angeles police Det. Dennis Kilcoyne told the Weekly Thursday that this woman's story, which we first reported Jan. 4, does not point to any connections to the Grim Sleeper case. Among the oddities ascribed to ... More >>

Polanski Alleged To Have Raped Another Woman At Jack Nicholson's House

RadarOnlinePolanski and the self-proclaimed victim.​Another woman has come forward to allege that director Roman Polanski raped her in the 1970s. The victim says she was 21 at the time that Polanski allegedly raped her at the home of Jack Nicholson in 1974, three years before he had sex with a ... More >>

Gubernatorial Candidate Wants To Create 'Pedophile Island' To Banish Sex Offenders

Douglas Hughes.​With shades of the 135-candidate gubernatorial (recall) election of 2003 (which featured a porn star, Gary Coleman and Angelyne), the race for California governor this year is not without its characters. Chief among them is Douglas Hughes. One of the Orange County Republican's ... More >>

Rodney Alcala: The Fine Art of Killing

One man’s murderous romp through polite society

District Attorney Steve Cooley Rejects Adelman Rape Case

Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley Office will not file rape or other charges against ousted city bureaucrat Andrew Adelman, who was at the center of an ugly scandal after a woman accused him of repeatedly raping her with sex objects after she met him for the first time at a City Ha ... More >>

DNA Deep Freeze

Why Los Angeles crime-fighters fell years behind on rape testing, and may never catch up

Why Do Mexicans Deny Child Sexual Abuse?

Plus, defining pinche

Anand Jon: Guilty 16 Times

Fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander faces life in prison today following his conviction on 16 charges of sexual assault and lewd conduct with minors. He was acquitted on four charges, while the jury deadlocked on three other counts. "Mr. Alexander is a 34-year-old pedophile masquerading as a fashi ... More >>

Some Girls: Anand Jon Trial Goes to Jury

UPDATE: The following was an abbreviated preview of a longer piece that would appear online Nov. 6, under the same headline. “I want more. I want harder evidence. I want that tampon.” So said deputy district attorney Frances Young during her closing rebuttal that finally brought the criminal tr ... More >>

Anand Jon’s Beverly Hills Cop Witness

Defense lawyers for L.A. fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander, who is accused by nine young women of committing sexual assaults against them, continued their case this morning by calling Beverly Hills cop Nicole Cranham to the stand. The attorneys sought to show that three of Jon’s accusers (Britn ... More >>

The Strange and Disturbing Trial of Anand Jon

What we talk about when we talk about rape

Fashion Victim: Anand Jon

Will celebrity designer be in stripes for the rest of his life?

�Ask a Mexican! Chilango Cheer

Dear Mexican: Why does the crowd yell �Cu-le-ro (Ass-hole!)� at a band that they seemingly adore?

Silent Wraith: Chester Turner

By slaying troubled black women, LA's worst serial killer operated invisibly for years

To Forgive or to Shun

A child-porn-convicted rabbi tries to make amends as rabbi sex-abuse cases roil the Jewish community

Shame of Iran

U.S. remains silent on gay hangings

Cardinal Untruths

Mahony�s testimony in sex scandal clashes with earlier statements and reality

The Sex Files

When you find yourself in one and can�t get out

The Man in Red

Pray tell, what are Steve Cooley�s plans for Cardinal Mahony?

Veil of Secrecy Torched

Judge�s order could bring prosecutors closer to the man in red

Predator or Prey?

For James Rodriguez, the only way to freedom was to confess to sex crimes he � and one of his alleged victims � says he did not commit.

Memory and Manipulation

The trials of Elizabeth Loftus, defender of the wrongly accused

Roger�s Nest

So what keeps this cardinal from flying away?

Cardinal Sins

How the Catholic Church, legal community and PR machine are conspiring to protect Roger Mahony

Blessed by the Times

Inside one of the newsroom deals to go soft on the man in the red robe

What Part of No Do You Still Not Understand?

Date rape in the time of Kobe, roofies and Girls Gone Wild

The Rape Disconnect

Decapitating the Friedmans

Andrew Jarecki chronicles the destruction of an American family

Behind the Robes

Pondering the secrets Cardinal Mahony might hold about the Catholic sex scandal

The Hidden Epidemic

Rape continues to plague L.A. as other violent crime declines