The Suffolk District Attorney’s Office has dropped the child porn possession charge that was filed against Michael Fiola, a former Department of Industrial Accidents investigator in Massachusetts. Fiola was fired from his job after child pornography was discovered on his state-issued laptop. The computer was a replacement laptop, issued in…
R & B Performer R Kelly has been found not guilty of all 14 child pornography charges. The verdict ends a six-year saga for the singer, who was accused of having sex with a minor and recording the incident on video. He could have faced 15 years in prison if…
Court officials in Boston say that they are waiting for the results of a Wentworth Institute of Technology investigation to determine whether to file criminal charges against two of its students, who are accused of videotaping two women having a sexual encounter in a nearby Massachusetts College of Art and…
The criminal trial of R & B Singer R. Kelly continues this week. Kelly is charged with 14 counts of child pornography related to a video in which he allegedly is seen having sex with a minor. Kelly has pled not guilty to all 14 counts and he denies that…
In Massachusetts, Middlesex County prosecutors have announced that they will not file criminal charges against State Senator James Marzilli. The announcement comes after prosecutors conducted an investigation into charges filed by a woman alleging that the senator had inappropriately touched her without her consent early in the morning on April…
In Massachusetts, Robert J. Shea, a basketball coach and custodian at Everett Middle School has been charged with two counts of rape and three counts of indecent assault and battery involving a 12-year-old boy. He has pled not guilty to the charges. Shea’s arrest on April 6 and the subsequent…
New York Governor Eliot Spitzer says he is resigning from his position following allegations that he was involved with an international prostitution ring. Spitzer had once served as a prosecutor and New York Attorney General and had built his reputation on prosecuting high profile white collar criminal cases against Wall…
Woburn, Massachusetts resident Nicholas Chiaraluce has been cleared of the aggravated rape charge in an incident involving an unconscious woman in the bathroom of the Felt nightclub. In Boston Municipal Court today, the charges against him were formally withdrawn. Boston police arrested Chiaraluce after the January 19 incident. Following the…
Massachusetts lawmakers are assessing a number of bills aimed to place harsher restrictions on sex offenders. Today’s Judiciary Committee meeting comes just a few weeks after Cory Saunders, a high-level sex offender. raped a 6-year-old boy at a New Bedford public library. Saunders was charged with indecent assault and battery…
In Massachusetts, state officials filed legislation that would allow prosecutors to demand that a jury rule on whether a sex offender is considered dangerous. Massachusetts law currently mandates that a sexually dangerous individual be civilly committed anywhere from 1 day up to the rest of his or her life at…