sexual assault

"We need to hold each other up," says one Kansas City man who was assaulted by his priest. Others tell their stories in a new Netflix documentary shot in Kansas City.

Rape survivors in Missouri awaiting years-old results may wait longer if they did not file a police report.

An alleged sexual assault at the Phi Kappa Psi house sparked hundreds of students to protest and call for the frat to be removed.

President Biden and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin have endorsed major changes in how the military handles sexual assault and harassment cases. But reforms may not happen until 2023.

Universities and the NCAA have failed in addressing the systemic culture that supports sexual harassment and assault by college sports figures.

The woman who falsely identified 17-year old McIntyre says she was pressured by a Kansas City, Kansas police detective and coerced by a county prosecutor.

The story of why the key witness in the 1994 trial of wrongfully convicted Lamonte McIntyre recanted and how the Kansas City Chiefs’ win in the 1970 Super Bowl helped bring about the end of the Kansas City mafia.

An investigative report by KCUR and The Kansas City Star details how Roger Golubski allegedly exploited vulnerable Black women for sexual favors and coerced some into fabricating testimony.

Daisy Coleman was raped in 2012 and died by suicide on August 4, 2020. Her mother Melinda died by suicide four months later.

Melinda Coleman died just four months after her daughter Daisy did, both from suicide, the first vice president of color was a Kansan, and remembering the lives of area residents who have died from COVID-19.

A federal lawsuit says a school resource officer at a Linn County, Kansas high school repeatedly abused a 15-year-old girl. The former sheriff's deputy, 48-year-old David Huggins, is now serving a 15-year prison sentence.

The often unacknowledged victims of sex trafficking in Kansas City will now have increased visibility with a memorial designed to honor them and educate the public.