Sexual Assault

There were football players in high heels, police officers in pumps, and students in spikes marching around campus on Wednesday, April 4, as Towson University hosted its third annual Walk a Mile In Her Shoes event. Walk A Mile is a national movement and marks April as National Sexual Assault Awareness Month. The event invites men to walk a mile on campus in a pair of women's shoes. Scores of students - men and women - took part in the walk, with many men choosing from a wide range of shoe choices at the sign-in table before stepping out. Towson University Student Government President Matt Sikorski, wearing a fashionable pair of heels, carried a sign stating, "My strength is not for hurting.

A woman walking through Riverside Park in South Baltimore early Sunday was attacked and sexually assaulted, and city police are asking for help in locating a suspect, authorities said on Tuesday. The incident occurred 10 days after a couple was robbed at gunpoint at East Clement and Covington streets, a few blocks south of the park which runs along East Randall Street, between Johnson and Covington streets. City police released scant details of the latest attack, and only after inquiries from The Baltimore Sun. The police then issued a news release to all the city's media.

Machele Fredericks had to face her attacker every day. She was in the Air Force. He was a fellow service member on the base. And he said that if she told anyone what he'd done, he'd kill her. "You didn't hear much of people getting raped in the military back then," Fredericks said. "At least I didn't. So, you know, it was like fear every day: 'I hope he's not at the gate today.' "I wouldn't dare tell no one. I didn't think anybody was going to believe me anyway. " She drank instead.

As a teenager growing up in the shadow of Memorial Stadium, working as a batboy in the clubhouses with the Baltimore Orioles and opposing teams was a dream job for Ronald Shelton. But Shelton said he quietly left the job before he had planned to do so after being twice sexually assaulted in an equipment room in 1990 by a Red Sox clubhouse manager, Donald Fitzpatrick, when the Boston team was in town. Now all these years later, Fitzpatrick has been linked to a growing number of claims of sexual assault.

The sexual assault of a 9-year-old girl reported Sunday to authorities in Anne Arundel County is unfounded, police said Friday. The reported sexual assault allegedly occurred on Feb. 14 after the girl left her Pasadena elementary school, according to a statement released Tuesday from Anne Arundel County Police. It had been reported that shortly after 3 p.m. the girl was heading home from Lake Shore Elementary by walking through the Riding Woods neighborhood when a man "grabbed her and pulled her into a wooded area," according to the statement.

A 9-year-old girl was sexually assaulted last week while she was walking from her Pasadena elementary school, police said. Shortly after 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 14, the victim was heading home from Lake Shore Elementary by walking through the Riding Woods neighborhood when a man "grabbed her and pulled her into a wooded area," according to a statement Tuesday from Anne Arundel County Police. The assault was reported to police on Sunday. Additional officers are patrolling the area.

A Baltimore police officer who resigned after being convicted of assaulting a 13-year-old relative in 2008 was arrested against this week and charged with a similar offense, according to a police department spokesman. Troy Jaquan Gee, 37, of the 5400 block of Sagra Ave. in Northeast Baltimore was charged Monday with two sex offenses and one count each of attempted rape and assault. He was ordered Tuesday held without bail at the city detention center. Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said the incident occurred in December while a young relative was at home over winter break.

A man accused of beating one of his roommates to death at the Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center last fall was found mentally competent Thursday to stand trial in Howard County Circuit Court. Vitali Davydov, 24, who is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 23-year-old David Rico-Noyola, appeared in court handcuffed, his hands covered with large padded white mittens. Bearded and wearing eyeglasses, Davydov spoke in slow, slightly slurred speech, telling Judge Lenore R. Gelfman that he waived his right to a speedy trial, and naming several medications he is now taking.

Baltimore County police said Monday that they were seeking information on a sexual assault that occurred three weeks ago in the Catonsville area. A 16-year-old girl told police she was walking along Mt. DeSales Road near North Bend Road around 5:40 p.m. Jan. 18 when she was approached by two men driving past her. She said that one of the men pulled her into the back seat and sexually assaulted her. Detectives ask that anyone with information about...

A 56-year-old man, who police say offered a taxi ride to a teenage boy and then sexually assaulted him, was arrested and charged with the crime Tuesday. The boy was standing at a bus stop near Patapsco Avenue and 9th Street in Brooklyn on the evening of Aug. 21, 2011 when Ted Bryant stopped his taxi cab and offered him a ride home, according to a statement Wednesday from police. Before being dropped off in the 2400 block of Baker Street in West Baltimore, police said, the boy was sexually assault by Bryant.