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D.C. Police announced Thursday that they have made an arrest in the April 6 sexual assault of a female victim inside her home in the 1500 block of Marion Street NW. Police say physical evidence linked a suspect to the attack, and 25-year-old George Leroy Clowers of no fixed address has since been arrested and charged with first degree sexual abuse and burglary one. The crime was the sort that gives city-dwelling women everywhere nightmares: at around 3 a.m., the suspect broke into the victim's house in the Shaw neighborhood, sexually assaulted her and then stole some of her stuff before fleeing.

WJLA points to this Georgetown Hoya article reporting the latest in a long string of sexual assaults on female students at the Northwest D.C. university. A woman living in off-campus housing in the 1200 block of 33rd Street NW reported that a break-in occurred at about 6:30 a.m. on Sunday morning.

U.S. Park Police are investigating a sexual assault that took place Wednesday morning along a running path in Rock Creek Park, FOX 5 reports.

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Prince George's County police are warning residents after a woman was robbed and sexually assaulted in broad daylight on Sunday afternoon.

Via WJLA, Georgetown University's Department of Public Safety says a student has reported an intruder and attempted sexual assault in her off-campus residence in the 1300 Block of 36th St. NW.

On Thursday, December 11, 2008 at approximately 6:43 a.m., a student reported to DPS that an unidentified male entered her residence by an unknown means, went into her bedroom and into her bed, then placed his hands on her. The victim challenged the suspect, he got out of the bed and exited the bedroom, closing the door behind him.

On the list of nightmarish experiences city-dwelling women dread, this one is right near the top. WJLA reported last night that a Capitol Hill woman says she was sexually assaulted by a cab driver who was taking her home. Dawn Young said she hailed a normal looking cab at 8th and G SE on Saturday night, because she thought it would be safer than making the short walk home alone. The cab driver asked her to sit in the front seat, and then proceeded to pull into an alley and park next to a wall to prevent her from escaping. He locked the doors and then proceeded to sexually assault her. Thankfully, Young got away. The WJLA report doesn't say anything about whether she was able to provide a description of her attacker. Here's hoping this cab driver is caught without delay.

Police are searching for a suspect in the rape of a woman Tuesday night near the Upper County Pool and Recreation Center in Gaithersburg. The Examiner says the victim had been taking a walk when a black male described as in his 40s, approximately 6'3", wearing a black shirt and black shorts pulled her into a wooded area and raped her. Montgomery County police did not find the suspect after a subsequent search. Anyone with information is asked to call 240-773-5070.

Criminy, this news from the Examiner is unsettling. On Monday, D.C. police arrested Edwin K. Wright, 23, on charges of sexually assaulting three women in a single hour in downtown Washington. Wright was detained by a group of citizens after the third incident, when he tried to rape a woman outside a K Street office building.

Many of you pointed out in the comments that the re-posting of the Mt. Pleasant assgrabber rant on Craigslist has also been flagged for removal. What's wrong with you, Craigslist community?

We loved the Craiglist post City Desk linked yesterday, in which a Mt. Pleasant woman detailed her aggressive response to a total creep grabbing her ass on the street recently. So we were sad to notice today that it's been flagged for removal. Who would have flagged that post? We guess the author promising her assailant that she would "MACE YOUR FACE" should he ever try it again could technically be considered a threat of violence, but that's seriously lame.

Yesterday WJLA reported on a series of sexual assaults around the American University campus that has police warning students and residents to be extra cautious. There have been four sexual assaults in the last two weeks that police believe were committed by the same man -- and the last two actually targeted the same woman twice. Officials from all universities in the area, including Georgetown, George Washington, UDC and American, have been briefed by police to put their students on alert.

The Georgetown Hoya reported on an armed sexual assault in LXR Hall over the weekend that has the university community up in arms over lax security measures in the dorm. At 3:40 a.m. on Saturday morning, an assailant described as a black male between 17 and 20 years old allegedly attacked a female student, forcing her off a public balcony and into a common room, where he threatened her with a gun and sexually assaulted her.

The U.S. Park Police has released sketches of two suspects sought for the Feb. 8 sexual assault of a 28 year-old woman.

We're always interested in new ideas and policies playing out in other major cities around the world, and this morning The New York Times reports on a fascinating experiment in public transit planning going on in Mexico City. Buses and trains in that other Distrito Federal are apparently awash in frotteurs, and complaints by women of incessant random groping and rubbing on the city's public transit system have led to the establishment of women-only buses.

Good morning, Washington. It really is freezing outside, people are dropping like flies from this terrible cold going around town, and over in Iowa, we hear there's some kind of a fake election going on that's going to dominate the news cycle all day. It could all be enough to get us down, but yet, we carry on ... until we read this story about an 11-year-old boy in Burke, VA who has been arrested on charges of breaking and entering and sexual assault. Eleven years old! Kid hasn't even gone through puberty yet. WTF?

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>> A second suspect in the kidnapping and sexual assault of a Prince George's County woman is under arrest after he was ID'd by a Metro transit investigator. [NBC4] >> D.C. firefighters and medics responded to the scene of an accident in Cleveland Park today that left a woman seriously injured after she crashed her car through a wall of her brick carport, collapsing part of it onto the car. [AP/WJLA] >> "If you're...

It's hard out there for a frat guy. That, at least, is what pro-Greek commenters over at George Mason University's Broadside newspaper would have you believe. The student publication has a story up about a law suit filed by the school's banned chapter of the Sigma Chi Fraternity, which is suing GMU for violating their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Sigma Chi was kicked off the campus after being found guilty of a series of...

In the department of that sounds completely and utterly effed up, via Feministing, a 19 year-old woman who attends Howard University is suing the District, Howard University Hospital and GW Hospital after being denied treatment on the night of and morning after her rape because she "appeared intoxicated." The GW Hatchet reports that the woman says that during an off-campus party near Howard in December 2006, the plaintiff was given a date-rape drug that rendered...

Attention, women of College Park! Please be aware that there is a creepy ass dude breaking into homes, crawling into bed with women while they sleep and trying to molest them. The Post reports that a series of straight-up skeezy events perpetrated by the same man occurred in the neighborhood around the University of Maryland early Thursday morning, including two home invasions that resulted in the sexual assault of at least four women in their...

>> Metro police have arrested a 17-year-old from PG County in connection with the now 8 sexual assault incidents that have been reported in the past two weeks in and around Shaw and Howard University. For those detectives and officers involved in the arrest, allow us to say Thank You! You all get a lot of grief in this city, so here's to a job well done. [WUSA] >> Dude, Pareene, next time you crash...

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Crime levels in the District improved, for the most part, in 2005, continuing a 15-year trend of improved public safety in Washington. While the capital's surrounding municipalities all experienced an increase in homicides from 2004 (with Prince George's County posting its highest toll ever at 168), the District saw a drop for the year to 195 homicides, down from 198 in 2004. It was the lowest number killed in the city since 1986. The Metropolitan...

Teresa Chambers, the whistleblowing former U.S. Parks Police chief is in court once again fighting for her old job back. Chambers, who was suspended last December -- and ultimately fired in July by the Interior Department, had complained publicly that her agency was understaffed and underfunded, leaving security of Washington's memorials and park land in jeopardy. This, of course, didn't sit too well with her superiors. Her suspension and firing, brought politicians into the fray,...