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Police have arrested former National Football League star Lawrence Taylor in a rape investigation in New York, authorities said Thursday.

Police have arrested 27 people on outstanding warrants at a New Jersey apartment complex in Trenton where officials say a 7-year-old girl was gang raped.

For the shy Afghan girl who sat quietly in a detention center with a pale blue headscarf, teenage rebellion had come at a heavy price: seven years in prison.

The executive director of Napa State Hospital, a Northern California mental institution whose patients include convicted child molesters, was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of sexually molesting a foster child in his care for more than a decade.

A 16-year-old Bangladeshi girl was who raped 8 months ago was given 101 lashes as punishment for having conceived during the assault, Bangladesh's Daily Star reports. Meanwhile, the paper notes, the alleged rapist received no punishment.

Film director Roman Polanski has lost his bid to be sentenced in a US court without having to return to the country.

Pepper spray has been flying off the shelves in the central Texas towns where a series of rapes and robberies of elderly women have been occuring in the past year.

After more than three decades in prison, a man in Florida was set free Thursday after a DNA test showed he did not kidnap and rape a 9-year-old boy in 1974.

Roman Polanski seemed to have little to lose last summer when his lawyers pressed to dismiss the child rape case in California that has haunted him since he fled to France three decades ago.

A Swiss court has approved Roman Polanski's bail offer of $4.5 million to be released from prison and kept under house arrest and electronic monitoring at his Swiss chalet.