sexual assault

House Bill 1138 would eliminate an exemption allowing courtroom discussion of a sexual assault victim’s prior sexual activity when it involved the defendant.

Survivors shared their stories at a town hall on the Colorado sexual assault kit backlog, highlighting the human toll of delayed DNA results and calls for reform.

Montezuma-Cortez School Superintendent Tom Burris faces a misdemeanor charge for allegedly failing to report possible child sexual abuse.

On Friday, a Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Council member was indicted by a grand jury for 12 counts of alleged sexual abuse and assault that took place on the reservation. In a special meeting held on Saturday, the Tribal Council moved to place Lyndreth Hemp Wall on unpaid administrative leave indefinitely if he doesn’t quickly resign. They also removed Wall from his appointments to boards and commissions and issued a formal reprimand. Wall is a former Montezuma-Cortez school board member and a well-known figure in the area. If he’s convicted of a felony, he could be removed from the Council by a two-thirds vote that would also bar him from serving on it again. And this weekend, a mainstay of local journalism in southwestern Colorado, the Four Corners Free Press, will print its final issue.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., has enough bipartisan support to approve legislation to transform how major criminal cases are handled for servicemembers. But hurdles remain.

A woman who was forced into marriage at the age of 14 in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has been awarded $16 million from…

A federal judge has ruled that Colorado’s sex-offender registry violates the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. U.S. District Court Judge…

2016 marked the 100th birthday of the National Park Service. But behind all the celebrations, darker stories about national parks emerged from within…