Documents in a civil lawsuit against a prominent Fayetteville businessman that have been unsealed after a two-year court battle reveal that he reached a $1.9 million settlement with people who claim that he sexually battered them.  The disclosure of ...

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Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax said Wednesday he’s asked prosecutors in Boston and North Carolina to investigate sexual assault allegations two women have made against him. Speaking at a news conference, Fairfax again said the allegations are untrue and the ...

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A superior court judge went too far when he issued an order completely sealing the file of a sexual assault lawsuit against a prominent Fayetteville car dealership owner, the North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled. The court was not ...

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RALEIGH (AP) A North Carolina man who federal authorities say sexually abused his stepdaughter has been stripped of his United States citizenship and will be deported to Ghana. The News & Observer cites a U.S. Justice Department statement that says Prempeh Ernest ...

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A Mecklenburg County jury has awarded more than $2 million to two women who accused a Charlotte doctor of sexually assaulting them during their medical exams. Jurors ordered Dr. Fidelis Edosomwan, owner and president of Americare Health Plaza Medical Center, ...

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FORT BRAGG (AP) A decade after the Pentagon began confronting rape in the ranks, the U.S. military frequently fails to provide justice to the children of service members when they are sexually assaulted by other kids on base. An Associated ...

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Holding: Where the trial court did not enter oral findings or explain its rationale for ordering lifetime registration as a sexual offender and satellite-based monitoring, and where the trial court’s orders merely contain the bare statutorily required findings that defendant ...

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Painter v. Doe (Lawyers Weekly No. 004-014-16, 23 pp.) (Max Cogburn Jr., J.) 3:15-cv-00369; W.D.N.C. Holding: Plaintiff alleges that, as part of a state-university disciplinary process, university defendants narrowly proscribed his inquiries and assisted his accuser. This is a claim ...

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State v. King (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-312-16, 7 pp.) (Donna Stroud, J.) Appealed from Cleveland County Superior Court (Yvonne Mims Evans, J.) N.C. App. Holding: Even though defendant ultimately drove the victim back to her home, he also forced her ...

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KINSTON, N.C. (AP) — A judge has freed a man who spent 23 years in prison after he was convicted of sexually assaulting his then 9-year-old daughter, a crime she now says didn’t happen. The News & Observer of Raleigh ...

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