sexual misconduct

A security guard has been indicted in D.C., on charges of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl he was previously accused of groping.

A former employee of the J.O. Spice is suing the company for sexual harassment and discrimination.

By Christina Tkacik

Jun 25, 2019

A bail review hearing Richard S. Barnes is underway, although police have so far filed no charges against the Lyft driver.

As the Roman Catholic church's sex abuse scandal grows ever wider in scope in the U.S., bishops convene for a national meeting in Baltimore on Tuesday,

Police say Uber driver Joshua Robinson, 31, sexually assaulted a female passenger in his car Saturday night.

By Christine Condon

Jun 7, 2019

According to a police report, an Uber driver sexually assaulted his customer Saturday night.

By Libby Solomon

Jun 5, 2019

A former Park School middle teacher inappropriately touched students and committed "boundary crossing" behavior an independent investigation found.

By Catherine Rentz

May 23, 2019

The principal of a Maryland high school announced Tuesday that she is stepping down six months after a locker room sexual assault case raised questions about whether football players were adequately supervised and whether the attack was properly reported to police.

School officials in suburban Maryland will hire an outside firm to help in an investigation of reporting practices and supervision issues after a sexual assault case involving football players who allegedly attacked four of their teammates with a broomstick at Damascus High School.

A Howard County middle school principal sent out an email Friday morning to school’s community regarding a “serious sexually explicit cyberbullying incident.”

By Jess Nocera

Apr 12, 2019

McDonogh School administrators shared the details of the external investigation into the co-ed boarding school’s history of sexual assault allegations made against faculty members, dating from the 1940s to the mid-1980s.

By Lillian Reed

Apr 10, 2019

President Donald J. Trump's hypocrisy is evident in his criticism of Joe Biden and his touchy-feeling behavior toward women.

The case of sexual assault in a JV football locker room rocked the high school of 1,300 students and the football-proud community of Damascus.

A Harford County Sheriff’s Office deputy has been suspended  after he was charged with two counts of second degree assault and two counts of fourth degree sex offense.

An administrative body of the Vatican has disciplined a former bishop of the Archdiocese of Baltimore over allegations of sexual misconduct with a young adult more than a decade ago. Bishop Gordon Bennett has been barred from acting in any ministerial capacity within the archdiocese.

By Jonathan M. Pitts

Mar 11, 2019

For the second time in less than three years, Baltimore County officials say they will review the way police conduct sexual assault investigations following continued complaints about how authorities handle the cases.

By Alison Knezevich

Feb 25, 2019

Two women say singer R. Kelly picked them out of a crowd at a Baltimore after-party in the mid-1990s when they were underage and had sex with one of the teens although she was under the influence of marijuana and alcohol and could not consent.

After a doctor who practiced in Westminster was found to have committed sexual misconduct, the Times reached out to local resources for sexual assault victims on how best to start a conversation about sexual misconduct by medical caregivers.

Anne Arundel County officials moved Tuesday to end the controversial practice of asking victims of sexual assault to waive their rights to an investigation.

The use of forms for sexual assault victims to sign away their rights to an investigation must stop.

The leaders of the Maryland General Assembly are conducting a “workplace climate survey” of the legislature

By Pamela Wood

Feb 12, 2019

Baltimore County authorities seek dismissal of claims against them in class-action sexual assault lawsuit.

By Catherine Rentz

Jan 15, 2019

A new report tracking sexual harassment in the Maryland General Assembly says there were 11 complaints against lawmakers over the last year, but it's unclear

Baltimore arts groups from the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture to the Maryland Film Festival experienced change in 2018.

By Chris Kaltenbach

Dec 20, 2018

Conservative media analysts have every right to blast mainstream critics like me if we don’t denounce sexual harassment and assault at CBS every bit as angrily as we did when the ugliness at Fox News was exposed. This is a story that goes well beyond whether or not Moonves got $120 million.

By David Zurawik

Dec 17, 2018

Maryland prison officials are investigating an alleged sexual assault against a correctional officer Friday at the Patuxent Institution in Jessup.

By Luke Broadwater

Dec 14, 2018

Amid student angst, Johns Hopkins University revealed that it accidentally blocked 18 complaints of sexual misconduct between 2016 and 2018 because of a website problem.

By Catherine Rentz

Dec 7, 2018

Pope Francis in late August appointed Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori to lead an investigation into the alleged “sexual harassment of adults” by a former Catholic bishop in W.Va. But Archbishop Lori’s own record and actions seem to demonstrate a church “protectionism.”

The University of Maryland School of Medicine should bring in an outside expert to investigate case of research coordinator who has accused a surgeon and professor of sexual assault.

Due process and free speech are not the first causes one associates with the Donald Trump administration.

Incident of Maryland medical school resident getting harassed is only a partial diagnosis of a widespread problem.

Baltimore County government is poised to hire a private law firm to help defend itself against a federal class-action lawsuit that claims police failed to properly investigate sexual assaults involving students at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

By Pamela Wood

Nov 14, 2018

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has suspended concertmaster Jonathan Carney after allegations surfaced of Carney’s inappropriate behavior toward another orchestra’s employee, according to a statement from BSO President and CEO Peter Kjome.

By Sarah Meehan

Nov 9, 2018

The sexual assaults of four high school football players in Maryland last week were part of a hazing ritual at Damascus High School involving a broomstick, according to the accounts of suspects and victims detailed in a police report about the allegations.

Maryland gets funding to help test and track rape kits

By Catherine Rentz

Oct 26, 2018

On Nov. 15, two Baltimore County police detectives sat down at a Chick-fil-A to interview three University of Maryland, Baltimore County, baseball players accused of rape, according to investigative notes. The interviews, in total, lasted about an hour.

By Catherine Rentz

Oct 17, 2018

A Maryland police officer is accused of raping a woman in her car during a traffic stop.

The president said Fridthat UMBC would start implementing mandatory training for students, faculty and staff on campus. The training would be in-person and live and not online, and would focus on areas such as trauma, prevention and what happens during the reporting process after an incide

By Cody Boteler

Oct 12, 2018

I was sexually assaulted — raped — in my early 20s. It's not something I've come to terms with (if one ever does) until recently. Being a man, it's a bit more difficult to reveal these things. Men are supposed to be strong. Victims are sissies.

Towson University released its annual report of crime on campus last week showing a rise in stalking incidents and revised its three previous reports to indicate that some crimes, including sexual assault and dating violence, had been undercounted.

By Libby Solomon

Oct 8, 2018

The #MeToo movement has had an impact in Maryland, with new laws to combat sexual harassment and heightened activism around the issue.

By Jean Marbella

Oct 8, 2018

By a vote of 50-48, the U.S. Senate confirmed Judge Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court, and he was sown in shortly afterward, while protesters shouting outside the Capitol.

Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen took to the Senate floor on Saturday and read harrowing accounts of women who said the sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh had emboldened them to share their own stories.

By Jeff Barker

Oct 6, 2018

Sister Kathleen McNany's letter urged senators to vote against SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh, a stance that angers several of her former students who says she never spoke up in the 1970s when her fellow teacher, John Merzbacher, was raping and abusing them at a South Baltimore Catholic school.

By Jean Marbella

Oct 5, 2018

Last week, Hogan joined three other Republican governors who called on the U.S. Senate to delay a confirmation vote on Kavanaugh until there’s an independent investigation.

By Luke Broadwater

Oct 5, 2018

An estimated 40 to 50 people gathered at the intersection of Main Street and Churchville Road in downtown Bel Air Wednesday to protest the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

By David Anderson

Oct 3, 2018

The statement was circulated by the Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

If Jeff Flake, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski have souls (and saw President Trump's mocking of Christine Blasey Ford), now is the time for them to take a stand.

Many of the hundreds of Maryland laws that take effect Monday extend protections for women. One explicitly bans using threats of shame or economic harm to coerce a person into having sex. Others address sexual assault, workplace harassment and the rights of female inmates.

By Michael Dresser

Oct 1, 2018

The last-minute delay in Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court, to allow for an FBI investigation into sexual assault allegations against him, may save the Senate Judiciary Committee from a rerun of the earlier Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill fiasco.