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Indiana man to plead guilty to 'sextortion'
An Indiana man has agreed to plead guilty to charges alleging that he tricked more than a dozen teenagers into stripping or performing sexual acts for ...
Priest, teacher convicted in Pa. church abuse case
A jury on Wednesday convicted a priest and teacher in a pivotal church-abuse case that rocked the Philadelphia archdiocese and sent a church official ...
Pa. judge nixes Sandusky's bid for new abuse trial
Jerry Sandusky lost a bid for a new trial Wednesday when a judge rejected his argument that his lawyers were not given enough time to prepare for the ...
Report: NM boy offered to stay with girl in cage
The son of a New Mexico woman accused of locking an 8-year-old girl with developmental disabilities in a wooden cage said he offered to stay with the ...
Scouts considering retreat from no-gays policy
The Boy Scouts of America may soon give sponsors of troops the authority to decide whether to accept gays as scouts and leaders - a potentially ...
Woman convicted of abuse, kidnap of missing girl
A former caretaker was convicted Friday of child abuse and kidnapping in a 4-year-old foster child's disappearance more than a decade ago, but a ...
Philly priest-abuse case in hands of jury
The credibility of a 24-year-old heroin addict whose sex-abuse complaint took down a Roman Catholic church official in Philadelphia — and helped bring ...
Sex abuse claims made against Los Angeles teacher
For decades, Robert Pimentel was a teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District. During that time he raised a family, coached soccer and avoided ...
Prior sex abuse claims made against LA teacher
For decades, Robert Pimentel was a teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District. During that time he raised a family, coached soccer and avoided ...
Jurors in missing girl case stuck on murder count
Jurors said Thursday they had reached verdicts on child abuse and kidnapping charges but were deadlocked on a murder count against a woman accused of ...
LA teacher suspected of sex abuse of 20 kids
An elementary school teacher who worked for nearly four decades in the Los Angeles Unified School District was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of ...
Bishop apologizes for role in hiding priest abuse
Prosecutors who have been stymied for years in their attempts to build a criminal conspiracy case against retired Los Angeles Archdiocese Cardinal ...
Victim 6 sues Penn State, Sandusky, his charity
A young man who testified at a child sex abuse trial last summer that former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky tickled and grabbed ...
NY Orthodox counselor gets 103 years for sex abuse
An esteemed religious counselor in New York City's ultra-orthodox Jewish community was sentenced Tuesday to 103 years in prison for molesting a girl ...
Vatican OKs next Catholic leader for Ireland
The Roman Catholic Church's much-criticized leader in Ireland announced Friday that the Vatican has approved his successor, a reform-minded priest who ...
Sectarian unrest flares anew in southern Egypt
Police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of Muslim protesters trying to storm a Coptic Christian church in southern Egypt Friday, after a word ...
Jailed priest recants plea in Philly abuse trial
An imprisoned ex-priest at the center of a landmark Roman Catholic priest-abuse case testified Thursday that he pleaded guilty to a sexual assault he ...
UK police open historic child abuse probe
British police have launched an official probe into claims that senior politicians had links to a pedophile gang during the 1980s. Scotland Yard says ...
Man pleads guilty to charge in Mo. sex slave case
A Missouri man accused of torturing a young woman he kept as a sex slave pleaded guilty Tuesday to having sex with her when she was underage, but more ...
AP Exclusive: US ordered delay in intern's arrest
Federal immigration agents were prepared to arrest an illegal immigrant and registered sex offender days before the November elections but were ...
Priest, ex-teacher face sex trial in Philadelphia
A troubled policeman's son who accuses two Roman Catholic priests and a teacher of raping him during boyhood is set to testify at a Philadelphia trial ...
6 arrested in new rape of a bus passenger in India
Police said Sunday they have arrested six suspects in another gang rape of a bus passenger in India, four weeks after a brutal attack on a student on ...
Official: Abducted Ind. boy's mother lived in car
In 2006, an 18-year-old Minnesota man legally changed his name to Michael Jeff Landers. Six years later, authorities determined Landers was really the ...
Report: Jimmy Savile targeted vulnerable for abuse
Patients in hospital beds; star-struck teenagers in a TV show audience; pupils at a school for troubled girls; a 10-year-old autograph hunter.