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DPS MMS scandal
DPS MMS scandal: 2004 Delhi Public School cellphone video case, also called DPS Dhamaka, in which an explicit clip of two underage students spread by MMS and was listed on Bazee.com, triggering arrests including CEO Avnish Bajaj and shaping India's Section 66E IT Act.
Edward Paisnel
Edward John Louis Paisnel (1925–1994), the Beast of Jersey, was a Jersey building contractor and masked sex offender who attacked women and children in night raids; convicted of 13 counts in 1971 and sentenced to 30 years.
Enumclaw horse sex case
Enumclaw horse sex case, also called the Mr. Hands incident: July 2, 2005 death of Kenneth Pinyan from sex with a stallion near Enumclaw, Washington; led to Washington's 2006 bestiality law, a Class C felony.
Epstein files
The Epstein files, also called the Jeffrey Epstein files, are Justice Department and court records about Jeffrey Epstein, released publicly from 2025 under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
Eve teasing
Eve teasing: South Asian (Indian English) term for public sexual harassment of women and girls, covering catcalling, groping, stalking, and obscene gestures; criticized as a trivializing euphemism for street harassment.
False accusation of rape
False accusation of rape: a rape claim determined false. Shaped by Hale's 17th-century warning, colonial forensic suspicion, and rape-myth research; rigorous studies place confirmed false reports near 2–10%.
Forced prostitution
Forced prostitution, also called involuntary prostitution, occurs when a person is made to engage in prostitution through coercion, violence, or deception that removes genuine consent.
Franklin child prostitution ring allegations
Franklin child prostitution ring allegations: claims from 1988 Omaha, Nebraska that credit union manager Lawrence King Jr. ran a child sex trafficking ring; two 1990 grand juries called them a hoax, King was convicted of $39 million fraud.
Frotteurism
Frotteurism, also called frotteuristic disorder (ICD-11 6D34), is a paraphilic disorder involving sexual arousal from rubbing against non-consenting people in crowded public places; classified since DSM-III-R 1987, prevalence roughly 8-10% of males.
Gang rape
Gang rape is rape of a person by two or more perpetrators, also called multiple perpetrator rape. Key facts: paired offenders commit about half of group offences; South Africa mandates life imprisonment; ICTY Foča convictions defined rape as torture.
Ghislaine Maxwell
Ghislaine Maxwell is a British former socialite convicted in 2021 of sex trafficking and related offenses involving Jeffrey Epstein. Sentenced to 20 years, she unsuccessfully challenged the conviction on appeal.
Grok sexual deepfake scandal
Grok sexual deepfake scandal: late December 2025 outbreak of nonconsensual sexualized AI images, including of minors, made with Elon Musk's xAI Grok on X; over 6,000 per hour at peak, followed by bans, investigations, and a Canadian PIPEDA violation finding.
Grooming gangs scandal
The UK grooming gangs scandal: group-based child sexual exploitation in towns such as Rotherham, Rochdale and Oldham, the 2014 Jay report, the 2025 Casey audit, and the national inquiry chaired by Baroness Anne Longfield from 2026.
Groping
Groping is non-consensual sexual touching of intimate body areas. Not a formal legal term; charged as sexual battery, forcible touching, indecent assault, or abusive sexual contact (18 USC 2244), usually a misdemeanor in the US.
Hebephilia
Hebephilia is sexual interest in pubescent children (about ages 11-14), between pedophilia and ephebophilia. Proposed for DSM-5 as pedohebephilia but rejected; absent from DSM-5 and ICD-11.
History of rape
History of rape: how law and society defined nonconsensual sex from Roman status-based offenses and medieval canon law through Hale's marital exemption, Brownmiller's 1975 reframing, ICTY/ICC wartime prosecutions, and modern consent-based reforms.
History of zoophilia
History of zoophilia, also called bestiality, traces human-animal sexual contact from Hittite and biblical death-penalty laws, through medieval Christian criminalization, to DSM-III (1980) paraphilia classification and modern animal-welfare-based statutes in most US states and Europe.
Indecent exposure
Indecent exposure is the crime of publicly exposing one's genitals in a way likely to offend or alarm others, usually a misdemeanor in most U.S. states.
Jailbait images
Jailbait images: sexually suggestive but non-nude photos of minors, often legal yet exploitative; best known as Reddit's r/jailbait subreddit run by Violentacrez, banned October 2011 after CNN coverage and a nude-image solicitation incident.
Jeffrey Epstein
Jeffrey Epstein, American financier, subject of the 2005 Palm Beach abuse investigation, the 2008 Florida plea under a federal non-prosecution agreement, the 2019 SDNY sex-trafficking indictment, and his 2019 jail death ruled suicide.
Jeffrey Epstein's Palm Beach mansion
Jeffrey Epstein's Palm Beach mansion, 358 El Brillo Way, was his Florida residence bought in 1990 for $2.5 million, the site of the 2005 abuse allegations, sold for $18.5 million in 2021 and demolished.
Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal
The Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal: posthumous revelations from the 2012 ITV Exposure documentary that BBC presenter Jimmy Savile was a prolific sexual abuser, triggering Operation Yewtree, the Pollard and Dame Janet Smith reports, and NHS investigations.
John Duffy and David Mulcahy
John Francis Duffy (born 1958) and David Mulcahy (born 1959), the Railway Rapists or Railway Killers, were childhood friends from north London who raped and murdered women near railway stations in southern England, 1982-1986; Duffy was convicted in 1988, Mulcahy only in 2001 after Duffy's prison confession and DNA evidence.
John Worboys
John Worboys, now John Radford, the black-cab rapist: London taxi driver convicted in 2009 of 19 sexual offences against 12 women, linked to over 105 assaults; his 2018 parole release was quashed and he received two life sentences in 2019.
Joji Obara
Joji Obara (織原城二), born Kim Sung Jong in 1952, is a Korean-Japanese former property developer serving life for nine rapes, the 1992 death of Carita Ridgway, and the abduction and mutilation of Lucie Blackman's body; courts never convicted him of killing Blackman.
Kenneth Parnell
Kenneth Eugene Parnell (1931-2008), American child molester and kidnapper who abducted Steven Stayner in Merced, California in 1972, held him seven years as "Dennis Parnell," kidnapped Timmy White in 1980, and died in prison after a three-strikes conviction.
Kidflix
Kidflix (KidFlix), darknet child sexual abuse material streaming platform created in 2021, 1.8 million users 2022–2025, ~91,000 videos; shut down 11 March 2025 in Europol's Operation Stream: 1,393 suspects identified, 79 arrested, 39 children protected.
Kidwelly sex cult
Kidwelly sex cult: occult-inspired group led by Colin Batley on Clos yr Onnen, Kidwelly, Wales. Convicted 2011 of 35 offences including 11 rapes; indeterminate sentence, minimum 11 years; Parole Board open-prison recommendation in 2025.
Kobe Bryant sexual assault case
The Kobe Bryant sexual assault case: 2003 Colorado felony charge under CRS 18-3-402 after a 19-year-old hotel worker's complaint; charges dropped September 1, 2004; civil suit settled.
Lascivious behavior
Lascivious behavior (lewd and lascivious conduct): a criminal-law category for lewd, obscene sexual conduct, defined variously by US state statutes such as Florida §798.02 and Kansas §21-5513, with penalties from misdemeanor to felony.