
Mom in NM chases down child abductor; man arrested
A mother whose 4-year-old was being abducted chased the suspect down and crashed her vehicle into his car, triggering a manhunt and the arrest of the ...
APNewsBreak: Deal reached in Catholic lawsuit
A lawsuit filed against the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph and Bishop Robert Finn by a girl who was 2 years old when Kansas City priest Shawn ...

Scottish cardinal to atone for sexual misconduct
The Vatican on Wednesday ordered a disgraced Scottish cardinal to leave Scotland for several months to pray and atone for sexual misconduct, issuing ...

UK: 7 men convicted of sex crimes against girls
Seven men were convicted in London on Tuesday for sexually abusing underage girls, including one who was just 11, by plying them with alcohol and ...

Records: Cleveland suspect faced prior complaints
A man charged with holding three women captive for about a decade had been accused of threatening his neighbors, attacking his common-law wife and ...
Autopsy: NJ hostage-taker shot, woman stabbed
The woman whose decomposing body was pulled from a New Jersey home following a tense, 37-hour standoff died from stab wounds and blunt force trauma, ...

Ex-yeshiva teacher admits sex assault of NJ boy
With other accusers stepping forward, a former yeshiva teacher changed pleas Monday in the middle of his trial, admitting he sexually abused a boy he ...

Ex-Penn St head was top paid among public colleges
Former Penn State President Graham Spanier became the highest paid public college president of 2011-12 when he was forced out over his handling of the ...

2 bodies found after NJ standoff; suspect killed
Police stormed a New Jersey home early Sunday and fatally shot a registered sex offender who had held his girlfriend's three children hostage, ending ...

Ex-yeshiva teacher faces sex assault charges in NJ
The 12-year-old boy and his rabbi father were driving from the boy's therapist appointment to their Lakewood, N.J., home when the child decided to ...

Makeup artist says Jackson was pushed to rehearse
Michael Jackson's longtime makeup artist testified Thursday that she overhead an executive for concert promoter AEG Live insist that the singer ...

Former Jackson defender now says singer abused him
A choreographer and television personality who was a key witness in Michael Jackson's successful defense against child molestation charges is seeking ...

Coach cleared of charges no longer at MSU, Mankato
A former head football coach for Minnesota State University, Mankato, who was cleared of child pornography charges last year but reassigned to an ...

Flavor Flav assault trial set for Sept. in Vegas
A Las Vegas judge has scheduled a September trial for entertainer Flavor Flav on felony charges he chased and threatened his longtime girlfriend's ...

Discovery of 3 women recalls past abduction cases
The discovery of three women in a Cleveland home who all had gone missing separately about a decade ago brings to mind cases of abductions elsewhere.

Reports: UK comedian Jimmy Tarbuck arrested
British media say comedian Jimmy Tarbuck has been arrested and questioned about alleged child abuse — the latest in a long list of British ...

Pope encourages protection of children from abuse
Pope Francis is calling for courageous defense of children to protect them from abuse. Francis made no mention of the church scandals in many ...
British soap opera star denies child sex charges
A longtime star of British soap opera "Coronation Street" has vowed to fight charges he raped a 15-year-old girl in 1967. William Roache said in a ...

Ohio executes man who killed, raped 6-month-old
One family wept loudly and another family cheered Wednesday as a man was executed for killing a 6-month-old as he raped her. Steve Smith, 46, was ...
Sex-offender registries: Should kids be listed?
Government authorities should end the practice of placing juveniles' names on publicly accessible sex-offender registries, Human Rights Watch says in ...

Grand jury begins work in Ohio rape investigation
A grand jury prepared to start examining evidence and hearing from witnesses in the case of a 16-year-old girl raped by two high school football ...

Man wounded after pulling gun in Utah police lobby
A man who told authorities months ago that he wanted to be killed by police entered a suburban Salt Lake City police station Monday and pointed a gun ...
UK police: Pedophile probe finds widespread abuse
A new investigation re-examining decades-old child abuse claims at 18 children's care homes in north Wales has identified 140 possible victims, ...

Daycare owners arraigned in Calif. swaddling case
Two sisters facing charges that they endangered the lives of infants at their Northern California daycare center by binding them too tightly in ...
NY DA: Too late to prosecute school abuse case
A systemic pattern of suspected sexual abuse existed at an elite New York City prep school from the 1970s until the mid-1990s, but the statute of ...