For Some Victims, Reporting a Rape Can Bring Doubt, Abuse — and Even Prosecution
There are many reasons for women to think twice about reporting sexual assault. But one potential consequence looms especially large: They may also be prosecuted. The post For Some Victims, Reporting a...
View ArticleSex Offender Arrested on Rape and Kidnapping Charges in Attack Extending...
Obtravies Watkins, 33, of Palm Coast and Daytona Beach, a felon and sex offender with a long record, is accused of kidnapping a woman in Volusia and raping her there and in Palm Coast. The post Sex...
View ArticleInvestigation and Officials Detail Ordeal in Alleged Rape Case That Ended Off...
Obtravies Watkins, a 34-year-old registered sexual offender, faces attempted murder, rape and kidnapping charges after the alleged brutalization of a 25-year-old woman found naked and pleading for help...
View ArticleMatanzas High School Girl Reports Being Raped By Another Juvenile at Her Home
An investigation is ongoing into the allegation of a rape of a 16-year-old girl after the alleged perpetrator asked to meet the girl to "catch up." The post Matanzas High School Girl Reports Being...
View ArticleFamily Life Center Takes Over New But Familiar, More Visible Space: ‘We’re...
The administrative offices of Flagler County's shelter for victims of rape and domestic violence moved to where the sheriff's detective bureau used to be on State Road 100. The post Family Life Center...
View ArticlePalm Coast Man Faces Rape Charge, Allegedly ‘Testing’ If Girlfriend Had Been...
D'Marcus Boyd, a 24-year-old Palm Coast resident, is at the Flagler County jail on $127,500 bond on accusations that he broke into a P-Section house and raped his girlfriend. The post Palm Coast Man...
View ArticlePalm Coast’s Sam Andolina, 39, Accused of Raping Fiancée’s 13-Year-Old Daughter
Sam Andolina, 39, faces rape and molestation charges following an incident he claims to authorities was initiated by the alleged victim. He's being held on $150,000 bond. The post Palm Coast’s Sam...
View ArticleWhy Women Don’t Report Sexual Assault
That urge to discredit accusers of sexual assault like Christine Blasey Ford is exactly why it takes so long for some to come forward in the first place. The post Why Women Don’t Report Sexual Assault...
View ArticleObtravies Watkins, 35, Is Guilty of Attempted Murder and Rape and Sentenced...
Obtravies Watkins was found guilty for what turned into the kidnapping of a Daytona Beach prostitute, whom he then brutalized and left for dead off Old Kings Road in Palm Coast. The post Obtravies...
View ArticleBrian O’Dell, 35, of Palm Coast’s P-Section, Faces 5 Counts of Unlawful Sex...
The victim was a friend of O'Dell's daughter, would often spend time at his house, and he would walk her to and from her school bus stop regularly. The post Brian O’Dell, 35, of Palm Coast’s P-Section,...
View Article18-Year-Old Woman Accuses Former Bunnell City Commissioner’s Son, 20, of Rape
Stephen Connor Brady, 20, faces the second-degree felony charge after a Palm Coast woman said he sexually assaulted her after she went to his house to comfort him over a break-up. The post 18-Year-Old...
View ArticleMondex Man Accused of Raping an Unconscious 31-Year-Old Woman
Kenneth Steele, a 62-year-old resident of Daytona North, or the Mondex, is at the Flagler County jail following an arrest on a rape charge involving a 31-year-old woman, who was unconscious at the time...
View ArticleWhy the State Attorney Opted To Drop Sexual Assault Charge on...
Stephen Connor Brady, 20, was charged with statutory rape after an 18-year-old woman he knew accused him of assaulting her in November. The State Attorney's Office dropped the charge when it found that...
View ArticleJames McDevitt Back in Flagler This Week To Contest 40-Year Sentence and Rape...
James McDevitt, the former Palm Coast resident serving 40 years on a 2015 conviction for rape, is alleging ineffective counsel by two successive lawyers. The post James McDevitt Back in Flagler This...
View ArticleFacing Rape Charge, Larry Cavallaro Is Briefly Booked at Flagler Jail and...
Larry A. Cavallaro, the 72-year-old man facing a charge of drugging and raping a woman in Flagler Beach, was briefly extradited to Flagler before posting bail, on $100,000 bond end being released...
View ArticleJudge Denies James McDevitt Motion for Relief, Letting 40-Year Prison...
James McDevitt, now 27, argued he'd gotten poor counsel from two attorneys before his sentence on a 2013 rape of a 40-year-old woman in Flagler Beach. A circuit judge rejected his claims. The post...
View ArticleDefense Tries to ‘Smear’ Victim in Case of HIV-Infected Man Accused of Raping...
Victor Williams, 42, of Palm Coast, is accused of drugging and raping a 16-year-old boy. His defense's strategy is to portray the boy as promiscuous and not credible, in hopes of lessening the charges...
View ArticleNow 17, Boy Recalls From the Stand Night of Alleged Rape By 42-Year-Old Man...
Victor Williams faces life in prison unless he convinces the jury that, while he concedes having had sex with a 16-year-old boy, the act was not non-consensual, and drugs did not impair the alleged...
View ArticleVictor Williams’s Odd Defense: The 16-Year-Old Boy Was Drugged When They Had...
Victor Williams, 43, says he never drugged the 16-year-old boy he had sex with at his house, and that all acts were consensual. The boy's account differs, but a pharmacologist says there was little...
View ArticlePalm Coast’s Michael Bruns, 27, Jailed on Accusation of Rape; Posts Bail on...
Michael Bruns, a 27-year-old resident of Palm Coast's P Section, is at the Flagler County jail on $150,000 bond, facing a first-degree felony charge of spousal rape. The post Palm Coast’s Michael...
View ArticleCharged With Statutory Rape, Man’s Defense Invokes Racial Allusions and Lies,...
Tonda Royal, 53, is on trial this week on an accusation of unlawful sex with a 16-year-old girl in the Mondex. Despite uncontested DNA evidence, the defense claims the girl is lying and was part of a...
View ArticleJury Doesn’t Buy “Outlandish” Conspiracy Theory and Convicts 54 Year Old...
Tonda Royal was 52 when a 16-year-old Mondex girl accused him of raping her. He claimed the only way his DNA was in her is because another woman took his used condom and handed it to her to implicate...
View ArticleJason Minton, a Sex Offender, 43, Accused of Kidnapping and Raping Flagler...
Jason Minton, 43, a DeLand registered sex offender, is accused of kidnapping and raping a Flagler Beach woman after allegedly drugging her at River Grille restaurant in Ormond Beach Wednesday. The post...
View ArticlePalm Coast Man Accused of Raping Girl, 16, Denies Having Sex With Her Despite...
Kwentel Lakelvrick Moultrie, 21, of Palm Coast, seemed to borrow the argument of another man on trial for having sex with a minor the week detectives interviewed Moultrie, claiming he never touched his...
View ArticleAaron Carpenter, 43, Faces Child Rape Charges Involving Girl Since She Was...
Aaron Duane Carpenter, 43, is at the Flagler County jail on a first-degree rape charge involving a girl over whom he had custody. Carpenter blamed the girl for his behavior, saying "it just happened."...
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