Assistant District Attorney Asheeka Desai of our Family Violence and Sexual Assault Unit helped secure justice for a now-teenage girl who was repeatedly raped and sexually abused when she was between the ages of eight and twelve years old. The defendant was found guilty of Rape of a Child, Unlawful...
The chart below generated by the District Attorney’s Transparency Analytics (DATA) Lab highlights the number of incidents reported by the public to the Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) from January 1, 2022, to June 30, 2022. The graph then breaks down the number of incidents with arrests...
The chart below generated by the District Attorney’s Transparency Analytics (DATA) Lab highlights the number of incidents reported by the public to the Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) from December 1, 2021, to May 31, 2022. The graph then breaks down the number of incidents with arrests...
The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office Crisis Assistance, Response, & Engagement for Survivors (CARES) Unit, which provides trauma-informed support to co-victims of homicide, observes National Self-Care Awareness Month in its September 2022 newsletter. Learn more.
Assistant District Attorneys Eamon Kenny and Kara Heininger of our Family Violence and Sexual Assault Unit helped secure justice at a recent sentencing for a defendant who was found guilty by a jury of sexually assaulting his daughter. Kenny and Heininger successfully argued that the defendant be...
The chart below generated by the District Attorney’s Transparency Analytics (DATA) Lab highlights the number of incidents reported by the public to the Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) from November 1, 2021, to April 30, 2022. The graph then breaks down the number of incidents with arrests...
The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office Crisis Assistance, Response, & Engagement for Survivors (CARES) Unit, which provides trauma-informed support to co-victims of homicide, observes International Peace Month in its August 2022 newsletter. This latest edition also includes a message from...
New in For the Commonwealth: Assistant District Attorney Chesley Lightsey (currently the Interim Supervisor for the DAO‘s Juvenile Unit) helped secure justice in a case involving a 40-year-old woman convicted for her role in the 2019 abuse and death of a 4-year-old child in her care. The Hon....
The chart below generated by the District Attorney’s Transparency Analytics (DATA) Lab highlights the number of incidents reported by the public to the Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) from October 1, 2021, to March 31, 2022. The graph then breaks down the number of incidents with arrests made...