Man Charged With Robbing His 83-Year-Old Mother At Knife-Point

Orangeburg County Sheriff’s Office
An 83-year-old Cordova woman said she was robbed at knife-point by her 44-year-old son when she refused to give him $50 Saturday morning.
She said her son pulled a knife that looked like a “machete,” demanding the money and “threatening her life,” according to an OCSO incident report.
The man said his mother only [...]

Woman Uses Bible Verses to Ward Off Attacker After He Slashed Her Throat

Shelby, N.C. – A North Carolina woman read the Bible to her attacker for an hour and a half after he slashed her throat before the man apologized and left.
Lindsay Wood, 32, of Shelby, N.C., had just arrived home from Bible study on Wednesday. Wood asked her 15-year-old son to collect the trash can [...]

Domestic Violence A Factor In More Than 1/3 of Murders in Wisconsin in 2010

Domestic violence was a factor in more than a third of the murders that took place in Wisconsin in 2010. Violence prevention advocates say the downturn in the economy played a major role in many of those deaths.
When the money gets tight, tensions in family relationships can rise and victims of abuse have fewer options [...]

Woman Raped At Gunpoint By Four Men

JACKSON, Miss. — Jackson police were searching for four men accused of sexually assaulting a woman.
The 27-year-old woman told police that the attack happened about 3 a.m. Monday inside a car that was parked at Northside Apartments on Northside Drive. The woman told police she had gone to the apartment complex to meet a man.
“When [...]

Woman Dragged Into Alley And Suffers Long Rape Attack

Jersey City, NJ – A 34-year-old Jersey City woman was put in a choke hold, dragged into an alleyway, and savagely sexually assaulted early yesterday, according to authorities who are seeking the public’s help to capture the victim’s bike-riding attacker.
“The facts depict the actor as a very disturbed individual,” Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio said [...]

Nude Man Caught On Security Video Prowling Around A Preschool

Los Angeles, CA – Los Angeles police detectives are trying to identify a suspected burglar caught in the nude on security video at a Boyle Heights preschool.
School security video recorded March 6 shows a naked man inside an entryway at the facility.
Investigators said he was seen parading around for several minutes while engaging [...]

Woman Fights Off Assailant, Dug Into Attacker’s Eye

Seton Thompson, The Witness
Durban – A middle-aged Hibberdene woman has told how she turned on a robber and chased him off after he had stabbed her husband and threatened to rape her.
Sue and Eric Setaro, both in their late fifties, were on Elysium beach with two of their dogs on Sunday when a man strolled [...]

Man Charged For Beating Up Girlfriend And Holding Her Against Her Will

EAST NAPLES — An East Naples man is accused of beating up his girlfriend and holding her against her will after deputies responding to a domestic violence call on Tuesday morning found a victim bloodied and crying, according to an arrest report.
Michael J. Hart, 28, of the 1200 block of Wildwood Lakes Boulevard in East [...]

Robber Rapes Bakery Employee When He Learned That There Wasn’t Any Money

A 22-year-old woman was sexually assaulted at the Park Slope bakery where she works on Friday – and the sick culprit was still on the lose Saturday, cops said.
Cops said an armed man wearing a black ski mask entered the bakery at about 9 a.m. He forced her into a back office and demanded money, [...]

Man Raped Woman As She Walked Home From a Train Station

A 20-year-old man has been charged with sexually assaulting a woman as she walked home from a train station last month in the Lakeview area, Chicago police said this morning.
Tyrone Maxwell, of the 4300 block of West Gladys Avenue, is charged with aggravated criminal sexual assault, aggravated kidnapping and aggravated robbery in connection with the [...]

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