Sexual Offenses

Man Arrested During His Florida Honeymoon for Soliciting a Prostitute

Generally, honeymoons should be sex-filled jaunts, but the general rule is that the sex should be with your new spouse, and not, say, an Orlando-area prostitute you met online. Especially when your new spouse doesn't know about it. A 21-year-old man named Mohammed Ahmed was charged with solicitati ... More >>

Rape Victims Demand "Reebok Drop Rick Ross for Bragging About Drugging and Raping"

Rick Ross insists the words spit on "U.O.E.N.O." ("Put molly all in her champagne, she ain't even know it/I took her home and I enjoyed that, she ain't even know it") don't have anything at all to do with drugging a woman till she passes out so he can have sex with her. But UltraViolet, "a communit ... More >>

"Doctor Scumbag" Abused Miami HIV Patients; 20 Years Later, He Finally Faces Justice

Homer Kirkpatrick, "Doctor Scumbag," Facing Charges 18 Years After New Times Articles

Eighteen years ago, New Times published an investigation into a Miami doctor accused of preying on his HIV patients. More than a dozen men with the disease accused Dr. Homer L. Kirkpatrick of manipulating them, sexually assaulting them, even offering them medication in exchange for sex. Despite our ... More >>

Mentally Disabled Liberty City Woman Raped by Ex-Con Care Provider

Marc Sarnoff's Pop-Up Park to Stop Sex Offenders Is Just a Start: Pop-Up Jails, Brothels Are Next

Dalina Nicholas Arrested For Selling Sex With Six-Year-Old Daughter For Drugs

​The Sunshine State has a new candidate for its most despicable criminal of the year. Police in Jacksonville have arrested a 35-year-old mother named Dalina Nicholas on charges that she repeatedly sold sex with her six-year-old daughter in exchange for cash and drugs. Two men have also been charge ... More >>

SoBe Entertainment record head accused of toe-sucking, sexual assault in performer's lawsuit

Pop Star Phyllisia Ross Claims SoBe Records CEO Cecile Barker Licked Her Foot, Groped Her

What do an aspiring pop star, a South Beach music mogul, Florida's most powerful lobbyist, and Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade have in common? They're all involved in one of the most bizarre, sordid recording-industry lawsuits ever filed in Miami-Dade County, complete with allegations of backstabbi ... More >>

Jacksonville Church Hires Registered Sex Offender as Pastor, Bans Children from Service

​The Lord may be forgiving. Sex offender laws? Not so much.A Baptist church in Jacksonville has hired a registered sex offender as its new pastor, but because a court has ruled the he's not allowed to have "unsupervised contact with children under 18 years old," the church has decided to ban kids ... More >>

Jeff Rubin, T.O.'s Maligned Financial Adviser, Faces Litigation and a Criminal Probe

​A recent GQ profile of once-high-flying NFL star Terrell Owens -- who's now close to broke despite earning more than $80 million -- has shined a national spotlight this month on his South Florida agent, Drew Rosenhaus, and financial advisor, Jeff Rubin. T.O. has lambasted Rosenhaus's management a ... More >>

Lavont Flanders, ex-cop rapist, struck again after prosecutors let him free

Florida National College's Manuel Mares traded child porn, FBI says

Gandhi Lora, Convicted Sex Offender, Still Collects $7,200-Per-Month MDPD Pension

via Florida Sex Offender RegistryGandhi Lora​Seven years ago, an ex-Miami-Dade cop named Gandhi Lora was convicted of producing and possessing dozens of kiddie porn images, sent to prison, and forced to register as a sex offender. Today he's not only free but also still earning a $7,200-per-month ... More >>

Carnival Employee Kert Clyde Jordan Accused of Molesting 14-Year-Old Girl Aboard Cruise Ship

​A Carnival Cruises employee finds himself in hot water after being accused of engaging in sexual acts with a 14-year-old girl earlier this month. Kert Clyde Jordan, a 35-year-old ship employee, now faces federal charges after he allegedly lured the young passenger into a bathroom and engaged in s ... More >>

Joe Paterno is not the problem

The danger of making gods out of men.

Justin Bieber: Would You Face Statutory Rape Charges For 15 Minutes of Fame?

​When Mariah Yeater accused Justin Bieber of being the father of her three-month-old baby (allegedly the result of a 30-second, backstage sexcapade), the 20-year-old woman unintentionally opened a nasty can of pedophilia. If Yeater and Bieber did in fact share a half-minute romp at the Stap ... More >>

Lost Boys: New child-sex-trafficking research demolishes the stereotype of the underage sex worker

And sparks an outbreak of denial among child-sex-trafficking alarmists nationwide.

Chris Hansen Accused of Cheating, Gets Exactly What's Coming to Him

Twitter almost collapsed under the weight of all the "Why don't you have a seat over here?" jokes being made Wednesday night.​You know who he is: The expensive haircut, the cheap ties. The fake tan, the small-town wrestling announcer voice.He's Chris Hansen, the former host of NBC's To Catch A Pre ... More >>

Florida Legislature Gave $1.5 Million to Lobbyist Ron Book's Daughter's Nonprofit She Didn't Even Want

Republicans up in Tallahassee are so used to giving money to things associated with Miami-based power lobbyist Ron Book that they ended up giving $1.5 million to a nonprofit run by his daughter Lauren Book that she didn't even ask for or apparently need. The odd moves came as those very same politic ... More >>

Some Republican Women Resent Latest Anti-Abortion Ultrasound Bill

​Despite the fact the Republican-controlled Florida legislature has had to deal with a myriad of issues, including the economy, immigration, education and a crackdown on Florida's deadly prescription pain pill problem, the legislators still found time to carve out a new round of anti-abortion meas ... More >>

Moniker Privacy Services, Company Broadcasting Bieyanka Moore's Movie, Has Been Sued In Past For Child Porn

Jeff Kupietzky​According to a lawsuit recently filed by a girl's mother, last year RealityKings.com uploaded a hardcore porn featuring her 15-year-old runaway daughter, who used the stage name Bieyanka Moore. Though Reality Kings has claimed it removed the offending video "immediately" after being ... More >>

Kids claim abuse and violence at juvenile lockup Thompson Academy

Woman Claims Mental Health Counselor Forced Her to Have Sex or Lose Custody of Her Son

The South Florida institution was hit with a sexual abuse lawsuit today.​A Broward County woman is suing Henderson Mental Health Center, claiming her counselor forced her to have sex with him or else she would lose custody of her son.According to the lawsuit, a judge initially allowed the woman to ... More >>

FIU's Garrett Wittels Takes Swing at Extending Hit Streak Tonight, Despite Controversy

Photo by C. StilesGarrett Wittels, FIU shortstop shouldering criminal charges and a 56-game hit streak​The last time Garrett Wittels swung his bat in an NCAA game, he went 3 for 5 with two RBI. It was his 56th straight game with at least one hit, two shy of Robin Ventura's all-time college record. ... More >>

Two More Florida Cops Killed While Miami Mourns Roger Castillo and Amanda Haworth

via Pinellas County Sheriff's DepartmentHydra Lacey Jr., the convicted sex offender who killed two St. Petersburg cops today.​A horrible week for Florida's police officers turned even worse this afternoon. While thousands gathered in downtown Miami to remember Roger Castillo and Amanda Haworth, th ... More >>

George Neville Rucker, Accused Predator Priest, Allowed Aboard Voyages of Discovery Cruise to South America

via bishop-accountability.orgGeorge Neville Rucker​A defrocked Los Angeles priest accused of sexually molesting 33 girls shipped off yesterday from the Bahamas for a three-month tour of South America on a South Florida based cruise line.Voyages of Discovery, a Fort Lauderdale-based cruise company, ... More >>

Down and Out in Suburbia

Shaq Hit With Lawsuit For Attempting to Plant Child Porn on Former Employee's Computer

​Former Miami Heat star Shaquille O'Neal has been hit with an explosive lawsuit filed in Miami-Dade court alleging that the hard court legend planted child pornography in an attempt to frame a former employee, and hacked into various personal accounts of the employee and a former mistress. We've b ... More >>

Former County Employee Arrested for Child Porn

​In today's roundup of the sins of South Florida: A former county employee faces 20 charges of child pornography, a man is killed after a fight at a South Beach club, a veteran security guard is mysteriously found dead behind a dollar store in Southwest Dade, two men are arrested for a fire exting ... More >>

Edgar Castillo, Miami's Most Inept Burglar-Slash-Child Molester, Arrested

Edgar Giovanni Castillo, how dumb -- and disturbed -- you are. via City of Miami Police Department On the plus side, Edgar Castillo has made the prosecutors' jobs fairly easy.​Let us count the ways. First, police say, you molest children and film it. Then you keep said films and videos on ... More >>

News Roundup: Sex Offenders Might Be Saying So Long to Bridge

County commissioners OKed a new, less harsh law concerning places where sex offenders may live. It's expected to supersede many of the stronger municipal laws and, more important, finally get those sex offenders out from under the bridge. [Herald]Former Miami Police Chief John&nb ... More >>

Miami Crime: 14-Year-Old Raped in Little Haiti This Morning on the Way to School

Miami Police are looking for a rapist after a brazen sexual assault on a girl on her way to school this morning. ​Just after 8 a.m., a 14-year-old girl was walking through Little Haiti along NW First Avenue. As she waited for traffic to slow at NW 57th Street, a man in his 30s approached her from ... More >>

Doubt Wags the Finger of Moral Relativism

Stacey and Friends

Four characters in search of a talk show.

Comfortably Numb

A UM professor gathers an ugly hidden history of rape and forgetting

Is R. Kelly Ever Going to Trial??

News You Can Use -- Again and Again

Axing the Property Tax

Potamkin’s homestead has a market value of $21 million.... Raul Masvidal owes $33,639 in taxes for his four-bedroom residence.

Justice for All?

Free Bird?

New evidence may exonerate Luis Diaz, imprisoned for 26 years as the Bird Road Rapist

Crime and Argument

Did a private investigator lead police to Miami's serial rapist?

Admired in Life, Reviled in Death

The mysterious suicide of supergenius Alex McIntire begged for answers. His former stepdaughter, Lisa Hamilton, is now providing them.

The Coach's Record

Sherlock Holmes, Meet Melanie Morningstar

How a freelance reporter and South Beach nightlife maven tracked down Australia's most notorious fugitive

Accusing the Accuser

When Laura Douglass went to the police to accuse her uncle of sex abuse, she never imagined she'd be sued for libel

News of the Weird

News of the Weird

HIV In the First Degree

A Dade man finds himself accused of raping three young boys. Because he is HIV-positive, prosecutors are calling it attempted murder.