A Penn State Trustee has dropped his re-election bid and resigned his position after disparaging the Sandusky victims by calling them the “so-called victims” of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — State police officers are currently hunting for a Catholic priest from this border city who has been named in court documents for sexually abusing at least one teenager in seminary.
Two teenage boys are accused of sexually abusing a girl with a learning disability at a Brooklyn school while other students watched, including one who allegedly recorded the incident on his cell phone, police sources said.
A Texas man is facing charges for child pornography after lending his computer to his neighbor, who discovered nude photographs of his ten-year-old sister on the laptop, police said.
A teenage girl was allegedly forced to have sex with more than 1,000 men over two years at a Philadelphia motel, according to a lawsuit.
Two workers at an assisted care facility in Ohio are facing felony sex charges after allegedly sexually exploiting a 100-year-old dementia patient, reports reveal.
A Utah high school teacher who pleaded guilty in 2015 to having sex with three students and was later sentenced to 30 years in prison is now asking for parole, insisting that her indiscretions stemmed from her “low self-esteem issues.”
The federal judge overseeing a class action lawsuit against the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (TDFPS) has issued an order that finds that the agency has not been complying with her December 2015 order keeping the department from placing children in foster homes that lack 24-hour supervision. She opines that the state agency has continued to have children in these facilities for over a year.
The State of Texas has filed objections to the special masters’ report in the class action lawsuit filed on behalf of children in the care of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS).
The Texas foster care system is in a crisis. How to settle the crisis has been a question for lawmakers, child advocates, and others. Now, two masters appointed by a federal judge in a class action suit filed against the state agency have issued their recommendations in a formal report.
A New Mexico mother being tried for the drugging, rape, murder, and dismemberment of her own ten-year-old daughter reportedly arranged for the abuse because she enjoyed watching the attacks, a new report reveals.
Police in Rochester Hills, Michigan, arrested an illegal immigrant after he was reported for exposing himself to a woman at a local grocery store, reports say.
A former high school student from California who fathered a child with his teacher will receive a $6 million settlement from his school district in what is one of the largest settlements made for sexual abuse in the United States.
Even as the Olympic Games launch in Rio de Janeiro tonight, fresh allegations that America’s biggest gymnastics organization has not done enough to investigate charges of the sexual abuse of young athletes by officials and coaches make headlines.
An Iowa substitute teacher accused of having sex with a teenage student is now blaming the school for “allowing” the relationship to grow.
Last week, the father of an 11-year-old girl called police in Fairfax, Virginia, to report that his child was molested in a local Target store. Now police have announced the apprehension of a suspect in the case.
Mario Anthony Hernandez was convicted of sexually assaulting a young male relative and now faces 106 years to life in prison, the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office announced Monday.
A fifteen year old girl became the latest victim of violence in this border region after two men allegedly kidnapped her, held her for ransom, raped her and then tried to have her moved north to be sexually trafficked.
After questioning a man seen peeping at little girls in the women’s bathroom of a community park, California police discovered he was already a registered sex offender. Police in Placerville, Calif., arrested Kenneth Tincher, 62, for harassing little girls in
Hugh Hefner is being sued by a model, who at one time accused Bill Cosby of sexually abusing her, suggesting the Playboy icon and founder was an enabler of Cosby’s behavior with her and other women.
A group of shoppers and store clerks surrounded and detained a man until police arrived after witnesses say he choked an eight-year-old girl unconscious and attempted to molest her in a store bathroom in Chicago’s South Loop, police report.
In the wake of new protestations by Pennsylvania State University President Eric Barron that accusations of sexual misconduct in its football program were not known until recently, another report finds the school has paid Jerry Sandusky’s accusers for incidents stretching all the way back to 1971.
After his weekly prayer in Saint Peter’s Square Sunday, Pope Francis dished out harsh words for those guilty of child abuse, after gruesome details emerged regarding the 2014 death of a six-year-old girl allegedly thrown from an eighth-storey balcony by her rapist.
An elementary school teacher from North Carolina was arrested in Virginia for traveling from her home to Fairfax County to have sex with a 13-year-old former student, police say. Police in Fairfax County, Virginia, arrested Kathleen Capitano, 24, of Shallotte,
A 18-year-old teen from Houma, Louisiana, has been charged with raping a nine-year-old member of his extended family, police report.
A Utah high school teacher, who in 2015 pleaded guilty to having an inappropriate relationship with three of her teenaged students, said in a letter to the court that after their relationship started, one of the boys began to get better grades.
Afghanistan intelligence operatives have discovered rampant sexual abuse of minors at a Taliban-run prison in southern Helmand province.
Four men living in Utah have been arrested and charged with gang raping and sodomizing a nine-year-old girl while the child’s mother smoked meth in the next room on Easter Day this year.
A South Carolina woman was arrested and charged with abusing an animal after a video she made of herself having sex with her pet dog were discovered by police.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Army Human Resources Command (HRC) has recommended that decorated Green Beret Sgt. 1st Class Charles Martland be discharged for striking an Afghan police chief accused of repeatedly raping a boy.
Seven investigators in a Missouri Crimes Against Children police unit are suspended pending an investigation into whether they failed to investigate cases where children were sexually assaulted in a timely manner.
New sexual abuse allegations have surfaced against UN peacekeepers in Central Africa Republic (CAR) as officials investigate previous claims.
An independent investigation found reports of sexual abuse of young boys by UN peacekeepers in the Central African Republic credible and said they suggested a broader pattern of abuse that should have been further investigated.
A teenage skateboarder and YouTube star, who goes by the screen name “Baby Scumbag” has been arrested on charges he used his social media fame to sexually exploit a 12-year-old girl.
Police have arrested a gynecologist, Doctor Basharat Hussain, for sexual battery against a patient in Kissimmee, Florida, reports reveal.
On Friday, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court ruled that the state must make restitution to convicted child molester and former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky for the pension funds denied him after his conviction three years ago.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sexual abuse of young boys by powerful men in Afghanistan, a common practice that was punishable by death under Taliban rule, was “resurrected” after the terrorist group’s regime was overthrown by the U.S.-led invasion in 2001, reports a federal watchdog agency.
On Tuesday, a nationally recognized teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District was fired in a unanimous vote by the Los Angeles Board of Education after a joke about Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn led to a broader investigation.
Early this year, an Islamic Imam in a western Chicago suburb, who was hailed as the Muslim “Billy Graham,” was accused of sexual assault of an employee at the Islamic institute he founded. Now the Muslim leader has reportedly been charged with another crime of sexually harassing a minor and is being held on a million-dollar bond.
In an unscheduled introduction to his address to U.S. Bishops, Pope Francis reflected on his meeting with the victims of clerical sexual abuse, promising “zealous vigilance” to protect minors and bring to justice those responsible for this crime.
