Sexual Misconduct

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...

BENTON HARBOR – The Benton Harbor Police Department faces a federal lawsuit from a sexual assault investigation involving a former officer. Court documents claim Jared Graves assaulted 25-year-old Dominique Allen on two separate occasions at the...

NORTON SHORES, Mich. (AP) — An ex-high school music paraprofessional in western Michigan has been ordered to stand trial on accusations he had sexual contact with a student, and he also faces new charges involving two other boys. Muskegon County...

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...

A Niles teenager will pay a steep price for his role in a sex video extortion case. On Thursday after a three-day trial, a Berrien County Trial Court jury deliberated just one hour before convicting Martise Washington, 18, of all seven counts in a...

ATLANTA (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain — facing allegations of sexual harassment — is defending a joke he made about Anita Hill. Cain said he was approached at a recent event by a supporter who said Hill was trying...

NILES -- A Niles teenager linked to a secretly recorded sex video involving an underage girl was arraigned Monday in Berrien County Trial Court on an additional charge allegedly involving yet another underage victim. Judge Scott Schofield set bond at $7,...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The special Penn State investigative committee formed in the wake of child sex abuse allegations against former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky is set to hold a news conference. The trustees committee scheduled a news...

SOUTH BEND — In the wake of the Penn State scandal, University of Notre Dame President the Rev. John I. Jenkins recently sent an e-mail to students and employees reminding them of their obligation to report cases of suspected abuse and other...

MISHAWAKA — Authorities are investigating an 83-year-old woman’s claims that she was sexually assaulted by a nurse last week in a Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center hospital room. The victim reported to the hospital’s chief medical...

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,...

NILES -- A Niles teenager accused of participating in a plot to extort sex from an underage girl may not be required to testify against his co-defendants after all. On Monday in Berrien County Trial Court in Niles, Judge Scott Schofield initially granted...