Sexual Misconduct

Niles - Police arrested five Niles teenagers Thursday morning on allegations of sexual assault, extortion and possession of pornographic images of four girls. 18-year-olds Parnell Martin, Leon Murphy, Martise Washington, and Trey Nichols were arrested at...

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A southeastern Pennsylvania man accused of trading a tattoo for sex with an underage girl now faces sex charges involving more than a dozen other children as young as 4 years old, most of them the children of friends and...

A candidate running for Roseland Town Council has been arrested on charges of having a sexual relationship with a minor. Prosecutors say 41-year-old Micheal Gillam Jr., admitted to having between 100 and 200 sexual encounters with a young girl.   The...

Read Notre Dame University's official statement regarding this Chicago Tribune story here. And  St. Joseph County Prosecutor Michael Dvorak issued a news release Thursday afternoon stating no criminal charges will be filed in the case. Read that release...

MUMBAI/BANGALORE (Reuters) - IT outsourcing company iGate Corp said it had sacked its chief executive, Phaneesh Murthy, for not disclosing a relationship with a subordinate after investigating one of the industry's best-known executives for sexual...

A Sanford pastor accused of watching child porn while working at Disney's Port Orleans resort has been released from the Orange County Jail and removed as a church leader. Cedric Eugene Cuthbert "has been relieved of all of his pastoral duties" at the...

The suspensions meted out to 31 high school students in San Diego for being in a "twerking" video were "illegal and ill-advised" and should be reconsidered, the ACLU said in a letter to the school principal Thursday. The two-day suspensions do not fit...

The Baltimore City Detention Center had the nation's second-highest rate of sexual contact between jail staff and inmates, according to a U.S. Department of Justice study released less than a month after federal prosecutors accused corrections officers at...

  The San Diego school board has declined to overturn the two-day suspensions meted out to 31 high-school students for being part of a "twerking video" shot on campus. After hearing complaints from parents that the suspensions were too harsh and could...

A former Los Angeles Unified School District teacher was ordered to stand trial on 14 charges of sexually assaulting nine students and a relative, the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office said. A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge in...

WASHINGTON (AP) - More details are emerging about the allegations against an Army sergeant first class at Fort Hood in Texas. It's the second time this month that a member of the armed forces who'd been assigned to help prevent sexual assaults in the...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Disgraced Cardinal Keith O'Brien, who resigned as head of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland after admitting to sexual misconduct, will leave his country for months of "prayer and penance", the Vatican said on Wednesday. A...