Recently in Rape / Sexual Assault Category

Fox 5’s Good Day New York host Greg Kelly is being investigated for suspicions that he raped a woman in October. In the Greg Kelly rape claim, the TV host allegedly met a woman on the street, had a few drinks with her, and then raped her in the law office where she worked.

It’s unclear why the purported victim waited three months before filing a police report, but the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is now investigating the claim. Kelly’s father is the NYPD police commissioner, reports the New York Post.

Talk about being caught between a rock and a hard place. Young women in New York faced the tough decision between driving drunk and getting arrested (thus needing a NYC DUI Attorney) or calling a cab and risk being sexually assaulted.

Perhaps that decision has been made easier with the recent news that cab driver Gurmeet Singh was arrested in connection with a string of taxi cab rapes.

Froylan Andrade was arrested in Queens thanks to the woman he allegedly groped.

The 39-year-old Andrade is accused of molesting 22-year-old Shyane DeJesus on a subway platform in Union Square, reports the New York Post. After the incident, the victim reportedly ran after her assaulter and snapped his picture with her BlackBerry.

A 15-year-old boy has been arrested for the Queens sex assaults that had terrorized the community in recent weeks.

The unidentified suspect has been charged as an adult for rape and sexual abuse in connection with two attacks, reports the New York Post.

The Dominique Strauss-Kahn case collapse is complete. In a 25-page motion requesting that the judge dismiss the case, Manhattan prosecutors stated that they did not believe they could prove Strauss-Kahn’s guilt in sexually assaulting hotel maid Nafissatou Diallo. For that reason, Strauss-Kahn is to walk free — regardless of his guilt or innocence.

In May, Strauss-Kahn was accused of attacking and sexually assaulting Diallo, a maid at an upscale Manhattan hotel. However, the case against Strauss-Kahn quickly began to unravel when investigators delved deeper into the alleged victim, reports The New York Times.

Jason Quinones allegedly broke into the ground floor apartment of a 27-year old woman in the Upper East Side and raped her. But consensual rape is not rape, and Quinones' attorney is offering consent as a rape defense.

According to the New York Post, Quinones is a 21-year old out on parole for drug dealing. Last week, prosecutors claim that the parolee broke into an apartment on East 90th Street shortly before 5 a.m. and raped a sleeping woman inside the apartment. The woman was eventually able to free herself and fled. Quinones also took off.

An 87-year-old Bronx priest, Father Jamie Duenas, was arrested for priest sexual abuse of a 16-year old girl who worked at his church.

According to the New York Daily News, Duenas is accused of molesting the unidentified teenage girl at the Church of the Blessed Lady. The girl had apparently just started working at the church last week.

Headlines last week in the Dominique Strauss-Khan (DSK) case were dominated by allegations that the hotel housekeeper who accused the former IMF chief of sexual assault was a prostitute with ties to convicted drug dealers and a history of lying.

The impression one would get by reading these stories is that the housekeeper was in fact the defendant as she was attacked from every angle, while Strauss-Kahn was the unwitting victim of the whole incident.

Now, with rumors that prosecutors may drop their case against DSK -- due in part to the housekeeper's credibility issues -- state officials and advocacy groups are coming to the housekeeper's defense and urging prosecutors to continue their case against Strauss-Kahn, reports The New York Times.

The credibility of the housekeeper in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn sex assault case is in question casting serious doubt on the prosecutors' case.

In May, the housekeeper accused the former IMF chief of trying to rape her and forcing her to perform oral sex on him at a Manhattan hotel.

But in recent weeks, Strauss-Kahn's defense team hinted at evidence that would seriously cast doubt on the housekeeper's credibility. Now, the prosecutors themselves have revealed damaging discoveries that could force them to drop the case, reports the New York Times.

Mahmoud Abdel-Salam Omar, an Egyptian banker, is the latest international financier charged with sexual assault at a Manhattan hotel. Just two weeks after IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s arrest for sexually assaulting a hotel worker, the 74-year old Omar is now accused of assaulting a hotel maid at the upscale Pierre Hotel reports TheWall Street Journal.

According to the Journal, Mahmoud Abdel-Salam Omar allegedly requested that tissues be brought to his hotel room. When a hotel maid arrived bearing three boxes of tissues, Omar is reported to have locked the maid in the room before proceeding to grope and rub her body.

Omar has been charged with sexual abuse, unlawful imprisonment, forcible touching, and harassment.