Sexual Misconduct

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Inmates at jails in Indianapolis, Baltimore, St. Louis and Philadelphia face the nation's highest levels of sexual abuse at the hands of guards, according to a new federal report based on surveys of inmates at U.S. jails and...

SOUTH BEND — A local restaurant has agreed to settle a lawsuit the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed on behalf of two women who said they were discriminated against when they told management they were pregnant. Nick’s Patio, a...

WARSAW – Police have arrested a Warsaw man for having an inappropriate relationship with a 14-year-old girl. On Monday, Warsaw police were called to the Super 8 motel on Frontage Rd. after the grandfather of the teenager walked in on a sexual...

SAGINAW, Mich. (AP) — A 73-year-old Midland County man has been sentenced to up to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting a disabled woman beginning when she was 9 years old. MLive.com reports that a Saginaw County Circuit Court judge gave...

ROCKWOOD, Mich. (AP) — A former police officer in Wayne County has pleaded guilty to willful failure to uphold the law after he was accused of having inappropriate contact with a female prisoner. The prosecutor's office says 33-year-old...

SAGINAW, Mich. (AP) — A 73-year-old Midland County man accused of sexually assaulting a disabled woman beginning when she was 9 years old has accepted a plea deal to lesser charges. Robert E. Potts pleaded guilty Jan. 8 to three counts of third-...

KENT COUNTY, Mich. – Police in west Michigan say a sexual assault cold case from 1981 has been reopened and they have a suspect. The suspect is linked to a similar crime in Elkhart County. On December 17, 1981, a 23-year-old woman was at her...

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...

LONDON (AP) — Few seem to be enjoying the management meltdown at the venerable BBC more than Rupert Murdoch, the News Corp. chief whose rival British newspapers have been caught up in their own lengthy, embarrassing and expensive phone-hacking...

SOUTH BEND -- Four days. That's how long it took for police to be notified after South Bend school board Vice President Bill Sniadecki told Superintendent Carole Schmidt of the alleged sexual abuse of a special-needs student at Edison Intermediate Center...

A Warsaw pastor is accused of having sex with a handicapped teenager.  His family says he didn’t do it, but court documents say otherwise.  Robert Haywood, 77, is now facing three felony charges for alleged sexual encounters he had with a 14-year-...

LONDON (AP) — For decades, Jimmy Savile was a fixture on British television — an eccentric, aggressively jocular host of children's shows and a tireless charity fundraiser. When he died last year at 84 — by then knighted as Sir Jimmy...