Crime Against The Elderly | featured news

A 73-year-old woman was sexually assaulted Wednesday in New York's Central Park in the middle of the day, police said. The victim was bird watching in the vicinity of 74th Street and Central Park West, also known as Strawberry Fields, just before noon when her alleged attacker approached her. The woman told police they exchanged words and he sexually assaulted her.

A New Jersey woman is accused of fatally poisoning her husband’s 88-year-old grandmother with antifreeze.

A video of a 68-year-old school bus monitor mercilessly taunted by seventh graders became an international online rallying point against bullies Thursday, with funds for the Rochester, N.Y., grandmother rapidly increasing hundreds of thousands of dollars and a deluge of people demanding harsh punishment for the boys.

A Utah woman was sentenced Tuesday to consecutive prison terms for spiking a 79-year-old man's peach smoothie with antifreeze after taking control of his bank accounts....

Riverside County sheriff's investigators are asking for the public's help in finding a suspect who pistol-whipped a 93-year-old woman and her caretaker during a home-invasion robbery in the small town of Nuevo.

A Virginia man who raped and suffocated an 88-year-old widow has become the state's first inmate executed using a new drug cocktail. Thirty-year-old Jerry Terrell Jackson was executed by lethal injection at 9:14 p.m. Thursday at Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt. Jackson was sentenced to death for the August 2001 rape and murder of Ruth Phillips in her Williamsburg apartment.

A 63-year-old woman grabbed a burglar less than half her age after she found him in her home and made him wait for the police, according to reports.

An elderly Michigan woman watched helplessly as a girl broke into her apartment. Seventy nine-year-old Florence of Ferndale, Mich., is confined to a scooter because of Polio. So she couldn't do much when a 12-year-old girl broke into her apartment Friday.

An 88-year-old man accused of killing his wife of 70 years at her nursing home to "put her out of her misery" was charged Tuesday with murder, prosecutors said.

A 92-year-old woman is charged with murder following the discovery of her 98-year-old husband's body at their home in Australia, police say.