Sexual Misconduct

A lawsuit seeking roughly $19 million in damages was filed Thursday against the LaPorte Community School Cor. and two of its employees. It alleges LaPorte High School varsity volleyball coach Marybeth Lebo and Athletic Director Ed Gilliland knew junior...

AURORA, Colo. (AP) — A 6-year-old boy is back at his suburban Denver school after being suspended for three days for reciting a racy line from a popular song. D'Avonte Meadows, a first-grader at Sable Elementary School in Aurora, returned to...

SOUTH BEND — A former school aid at Greene Intermediate Center who was convicted in 2006 of sexual misconduct with special needs students is now accused of another crime. Schmeca White, 34, was released and placed on probation in April 2010, after...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A former employee alleges that workers at a U.S. Cellular store in Iowa routinely searched customers' phones for naked pictures and showed them off to each other when they were found. Lisa Blazek alleges in a sexual...

NILES — Did poor legal advice prompt former Niles police officer Ivery Cross III to accept a plea bargain stemming from his admitted sexual assault of 19-year-old male inmate at the Niles Law Enforcement Complex? Or did his attorney, Andrew Burch,...

Otis B. Grant, a tenured professor at Indiana University South Bend, was dismissed for engaging in "serious personal and professional misconduct," according to the university. Grant's last day of employment on the IU faculty was Dec. 31, 2011. "The...

SOUTH BEND -- More than four years after he was charged with child molesting and sexual misconduct with a minor, a 60-year-old South Bend man was sentenced Wednesday to four years on probation. Kelvin Williams pleaded guilty in December to one count of...

NILES — Berrien Springs massage therapist Johan Abrahams pleaded guilty Tuesday in Berrien County Trial Court to two counts of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct. Abrahams, 70, of St. Jo-seph Avenue in Berrien Springs, is scheduled to be...

Two updates to a story we’ve been following: The St. Joseph County Prosecutor’s Office has filed Attempted Criminal Deviate Conduct charges against six juveniles in relation to an alleged sex assault at Mishawaka High School in 2010. And one...

MISHAWAKA – St. Joseph County Prosecutor’s office says they have not completed their investigation on the Mishawaka High School sex assault allegations. A 15-year-old Mishawaka student filed a report last Thursday claiming he had been...

A 17-year-old Mishawaka student appeared in juvenile court Monday afternoon for his role in an alleged sexual assault. A detention hearing was held to determine whether he should remain in custody or be turned over to his parents while police continue...

Police say a 17-year-old boy was arrested Thursday after they were told that another boy was sexually assaulted by five juveniles at Mishawaka High School between Jan. 1, 2010, and May 31, 2010. The suspect is currently being held at the JJC on charges...