LOS ANGELES — Author and venture capitalist Amy Griffin is suing the woman who accused her of stealing her stories of rape for the bestselling memoir "The Tell." Griffin filed a lawsuit against her former classmate for defamation on Monday, claiming that in 2025, the woman "told The New York Times — and through it, the world — that Amy Griffin is a fraud and a thief." According to the lawsuit, ...
In court filings, Global Community Communications Alliance call it a high-control religious group with a closed campus. Former members who talked to the Star call it a cult.
Police have closed a two-year investigation into alleged sexual hazing at an Arizona high school's wrestling program without recommending charges, despite multiple witnesses, victim accounts and documented video evidence.
For Star subscribers: Two lawsuits and a court report allege that a Southern Arizona community is a high-control religious group that blamed child sexual abuse on victims.
A Banner–University Medical Center South employee has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a patient in the hospital’s behavioral health unit. Authorities say the alleged assault occurred during an overnight shift, and the employee has since been fired as the investigation continues.
Cesar Chavez is someone many of us were raised to respect. A veteran, a labor leader, a symbol of dignity and collective power. That legacy is real, and it matters deeply. But it cannot place him beyond accountability.
Nebraska's statute of limitations laws prevented Erin Gibbs from making her case against Boys Town, which, she says, failed to protect her from sexual abuse while she was a resident.
A Tucson Sector Border Patrol agent has been indicted on 24 felony charges, the latest in a series of sexual-misconduct convictions or charges against CBP employees in Arizona.
A Star investigation found that Isaac Noriega, pastor of Tucson's Golden Dawn Tabernacle, covered-up alleged child-sex abuse for decades. He now faces criminal charges.
Jonathan Santos, 23, said a member of his former Tucson church molested him when he was about 8 years old. He's coming forward now to support another victim of the alleged "pedophile."
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Court filings: Southern AZ religious group failed to report sexual abuse