- An El Salvador appeal court has upheld the murder conviction and 30-year sentence of Teodora del Carmen Vásquez, who testified that in 2007 she experienced a stillbirth. Vásquez was accused of inducing a late term abortion and convicted of aggravated murder.
- The RCMP has announced that they will review every sexual assault report since 2015 that did not result in a charge being laid. Nationwide, around 25,000 cases will be reviewed.
- A 2013 police report shows that Curtis Wayne Sagmoen was accused of, but never charged with, beating a woman in prostitution with a hammer. The police report concluded “It appears [the male] was ripped off by a known Surrey prostitute. Neither want to pursue the matter.” Sagmoen is currently facing charges for another violent attack on a prostituted woman in Salmon Arm. The remains of a missing teenaged girl were recently found on his farm.
- In the UK, Essex police are defending a social media campaign that features stories of women who “wanted to stay in a relationship where less harmful abuse was taking place” and who had “found safety and happiness doing that.”
- Wayne Jones, a Toronto pastor, has been convicted of sexually assaulting three women parishioners. The court found that Jones coerced the women by telling them that “sexual intercourse with him was part of a larger spiritual plan”
- The NYPD has launched an investigation into Russell Simmons after three women told the New York Times that he raped them.