sexual assault

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and the DOVE Center and Utah Tech University have partnered once again to display the “What Were You Wearing” Exhibit.   The exhibit is a collection of clothing items that closely resemble or are the actual clothes someone was wearing during the assault. The ages range from ...

Sexual assault does happen in St. George and a lot more often than most people choose to believe. Camden Caifa, a resident of St. George for the past 17 years, is the Clinical Director of the non-profit organization Southwest Forensic Healthcare. Cai...

The statistics from the study surprised even the BYU researchers

(St. George, UT)  --  A 72-year-old St. George man has turned himself in to police on accusations he raped a child. Edward Jones is facing five felony charges, including three counts of raping a child. He is accused of sexually abusing a child under the age of eleven for several years. Jones is...

Authorities are asking the public for help in their search for a Clearfield man wanted for multiple charges of rape and sexual assault, with some cases involving minors. The Utah Attorney General's Office says Dustin Giles Andrus has a dozen felony charges pending for crimes allegedly committed from 2019 through 2020 including rape, sexual assault and sexual exploitation of multiple victims ... Re

A new study says the number of rapes and sexual assaults in Utah dropped last year, but the state still ranks eleventh nationwide for most rapes per capita.  The study from an organization called Social Catfish used FBI crime data.  Ac ...

A woman who accused The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints of covering up her alleged sexual assault has been told to settle. A judge overseeing McKenna Denson's case has ordered her and the LDS Church to schedule a conference within the next two weeks, and settle within the next three months...

Kidnapping victim Elizabeth Smart says she was sexually assaulted last year while sleeping on a plane. She says she couldn't believe she was being assaulted again. The sexual assault survivor says she felt a man's hand rubbing her leg while she was flying back to Salt Lake City...

A Utah man is accused of sexually assaulting a woman aboard an American Airlines flight.  It happened last week on a flight from Charlotte to Salt Lake City. Federal prosecutors say James Cholewinski-Boy  was removed from the plane after it was diverted to Tulsa. He wa...

The man accused of killing University of Utah student Mackenzie Lueck has now been charged with kidnapping and sexually assaulting another woman in 2018. According to charging documents, a woman came forward and told police she met Ayoola Adisa Ajayi, 31, on a dating app...