In civil action over alleged rape that occurred in Brazil involving New York residents, New York Appellate Court finds that New York law applicable because New York has a stronger interest in regulating the conduct of its residents and such application of law would not threaten the policies underlying Brazil's law.
In 2002, K.T. (Plaintiff), a female New York resident, attended a New Year's Eve party on an island off the coast of Brazil. There she met Damon Dash, a well-known music entrepreneur and hip hop music producer in New York. According to news reports, Dash drives a $400,000 car...

Alaska Court of Appeals upholds dismissal for lack of State's jurisdiction over prosecution for unlawful sexual conduct allegedly committed on state-owned ferry operating in Canadian territorial waters.
While on board the Matanuska, an Alaska state ferry navigating from Bellingham, Washington to southeast Alaska through the Inside Passage, Vernon G. Jack V, engaged in sexual contact with, and sexual penetration of, S.N.F. and physically assaulted her. After investigating S.N.F.'s complaints, an Alaska State Trooper (who happened to...

COURTHOUSE RECORDS.
COLUMN: COURTHOUSE RECORDS Worcester Superior Court Judge Mary-Lou Rup Sean Barrett, 28, of 59 Everard St., Worcester, sentenced to 18 months in the House of Correction, with six months to be served, after being found guilty by a jury of indecent assault and...

Teczar's conviction overturned; Texas judge cites errors in court proceedings.
Byline: Bronislaus B. Kush An appeals court in Texas has thrown out the conviction of the Rev. Thomas H. Teczar, a Roman Catholic priest formerly from Worcester who was found guilty last year of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old boy from Ranger, Texas, in 1990. The...

Lawsuit against former administrator begins; Woman says boss ogled her.
Byline: Scott J. Croteau WORCESTER - Nancy Billings claims her former boss stared at her breasts and that once she filed formal complaints, town officials retaliated against her. A lawyer for the town said the accusations are baseless and hopes a jury in federal court...

The Hidden Crisis: Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Girls.
YWCA USA and Women's Policy, Inc. Co-Sponsor Capitol Hill Briefing WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- American girls as young as 10 are being coerced and lured into prostitution as a result of desperation, poverty or manipulation by adults. Many of these girls are especially vulnerable -- runaways,...

Regional digest.
COLUMN: Regional digest Kidnapping charges against men dismissed FITCHBURG - The charges were dismissed yesterday against two men charged with kidnapping a woman from Partners Pub in July. Prosecutors said there were questions about the legitimacy of the accusations. Thomas P. Mallett, 37,...

Operape.
COINING WORDS, especially ones that incorporate words with perhaps salacious connotations, runs the risk of being perceived as capricious and received as offensive. Both are entirely foreign to my intent. I use "rape" here in its original late Middle English sense of a violent seizure of property (Latin: rapere...

Ninth Circuit rules that Protect Act does not apply to criminal sexual acts of U.S. pedophile who committed them in Cambodia because his foreign travel had ended before enactment of the Act.
A federal grand jury indicted Gary Jackson (Defendant) for violating 18 U.S.C. Section 2423, the Prosecutorial Remedies and Other Tools to end the Exploitation of Children Today Act [PROTECT Act], which prohibits U.S. citizens and permanent residents from traveling in foreign commerce to engage in illicit sexual conduct. Defendant...