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Larry Nassar

Michigan lawmakers advance legislation on mandated reporters

Sports coaches, the types of paid employees who allegedly learned Larry Nassar was molesting gymnasts and other athletes ...

Susanne Lyons

Lawmakers: Funding, urgency lacking in Olympic abuse crisis

The tears and anger this time came from lawmakers who spent the day fuming over a growing sex-abuse problem in Olympic sports ...

Senators pushing fixes for kid-on-kid sex abuse in military

Senators have introduced sweeping, bipartisan legislation aimed at fixing the failures in juvenile justice in the U.S.

R. Kelly

Woman accuses R. Kelly of sexual battery, giving her herpes

R. Kelly sexually abused and demeaned a woman, locked her in rooms and vehicles for punishment and infected her with herpes, ...

Letter: USA Taekwondo wasn't shy about punishing Lopezes

Two-time Olympic champion Steven Lopez complained to the U.S. Olympic Committee that he was subject to an "institutionalized ...

USOC hires FBI executive as its athlete safety director

The U.S. Olympic Committee hired an FBI executive as senior director of athlete safety, marking its latest effort to ...

JAMES LEVINE, Jsmes Levine

Met says it has evidence Levine abused or harassed 7 people

The Metropolitan Opera said in court documents Friday that it found credible evidence that conductor James Levine engaged in ...

Chile's bishops resign en masse over sex abuse cover-up

In the biggest shake-up yet in the Catholic Church's long-running sex abuse scandal, every active Chilean bishop offered to ...

Larry Nassar

$500M settlement in Nassar case won't be shared equally

The $500 million settlement between Michigan State University and hundreds of Larry Nassar's victims will be divided up after ...

The Latest: Pope: Chile's bishops will get past sex scandal

The Latest on Pope Francis and the Chilean priest sex abuse scandal (all times local): 8 p.m. Pope Francis has wrapped up his ...

Larry Nassar

Michigan State agrees to pay $500M to settle Nassar claims

Michigan State University agreed to pay $500 million to settle claims from more than 300 women and girls who said they were ...

McKenna Denson

Mormon church wants 1984 rape suit against ex-leader tossed

The Mormon church has asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit accusing leaders of brushing aside rape allegations dating to 1984 ...

Germany charges 4 over darknet child abuse site Elysium

German prosecutors are charging four men with the organized distribution of images of child sexual abuse over their ...

Ex-student files sexual-abuse lawsuit against NH prep school

A former New Hampshire boarding school student says in a lawsuit the school violated her civil rights by failing to protect ...

Pope to give Chilean bishops a dressing-down on abuse errors

The Vatican made it clear Saturday that Pope Francis had summoned Chile's bishops to Rome for a papal dressing-down because ...

Nassar victims urge Texas to investigate Karolyis

Victims of disgraced sports doctor Larry Nassar are imploring Texas authorities to investigate whether Bela and Martha ...

Priest accused of abusing 2 boys, making 1 confess afterward

A Roman Catholic priest was arrested and charged Tuesday with sexually abusing at least two boys during his four decades in ...

Congress wants review of military child-on-child sex abuse

Congress has asked its watchdog agency to investigate the Pentagon's handling of child-on-child sex assaults on U.S.

Eric Schneiderman

New York attorney general resigns amid abuse allegations

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who had taken on high-profile roles as an advocate for women's issues and an ...

Eric Schneiderman

The Latest: NY attorney general resigns over abuse claims

The Latest on allegations of physical abuse against New York's attorney general (all times local): 10 p.m. New York's ...