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Detectives took hair, saliva and blood samples from Mitchell Dean Morrison, the suspect in a rape in Raleigh last month, according to search warrants released Tuesday. Morrison, 25, of 4163 N.C. Highway 210 in Smithfield, was indicted Monday on charges of first-degree rape, first-degree sex offense, assault on a female, first-degree burglary, false imprisonment and…

RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany — An Air Force staff sergeant who posed online as a trusted baby sitter to troll for victims was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Friday after pleading guilty to multiple counts of raping and molesting three girls, two of them preschool age. Staff Sgt. Joshua Adam Smith, who…

After exhausting his final appeal of a rape conviction, the former chief officer of the Coast Guard’s Provincetown station was sentenced Thursday to between three and four years in state prison. David Pierce, 46, was led from the Barnstable Superior Courtroom in handcuffs and dressed in a suit after a largely pro forma hearing during…

An abuse scandal builds against the Colombian army’s 5th Brigade as General Alejandro Navas announces that a sub-lieutenant confessed to raping two girls in October. Raul Muñoz Linares confessed to raping two girls in the municipality of Tame, in the Auraca department, on October 12 and 14, Navas told W Radio. General Navas said that…

By George Brennan gbrennan@capecodonline.com The state’s highest court has rejected a request to hear the appeal of a Sandwich man convicted of rape in February of 2009. David Pierce, 46, the former chief officer of the Coast Guard’s Provincetown station, had avoided his 3-4 year prison sentence to MCI Cedar Junction pending the appeal. In…

A Smithfield man accused of attacking a woman in her bed in Raleigh should be in a hospital, not a jail cell, his father said Monday. Mitchell Dean Morrison, 25, of 4163 N.C. Highway 210, faces three counts of first-degree rape, first-degree sex offense and assault on a female. He is also charged with first-degree…

Capt. Nichola Goddard, who in 2006 became the first female Canadian combat death, wrote to her husband that women working at bases in Afghanistan were often victims of sexual harassment or assault, and that in one week there had been six rapes at her camp. “OK. Now for all the stuff I can’t say over…

BARNSTABLE — David Pierce, the former Coast Guard master chief petty officer convicted of rape, remains a free man pending an appeal before the state’s highest court. Pierce, 46, of Sandwich stood before Judge Gary Nickerson in Barnstable Superior Court yesterday to see whether he would be sent to prison to begin serving his three-…

Six months ago, Gen. Carter Ham, USAREUR (U.S. Army, Europe) commander in Germany, won an exception to the Restricted Reported policy, allowing civilian survivors of sexual assault to benefit from an option that has helped many servicemembers seek help in the aftermath of a rape. Until then, the only way for a survivor who wasn’t…

A man accused of multiple rapes in the Fayetteville-Fort Bragg community is scheduled to face a court-martial Dec. 8, a military judge announced Monday. Spc. Aaron M. Pernell of Tulsa, Okla., is charged by military authorities with attempted rape, two counts of rape, assault, two counts of burglary and one count of housebreaking on Fort…