Sexual Misconduct

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...

* Sergeant under investigation for pandering, other counts * Lawmakers, defense chief express renewed anger, disgust By David Alexander WASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters) - A U.S. Army sergeant who worked as a sexual assault prevention coordinator at Fort...

Prosecutors say that a husband-and-wife team held vulnerable young women against their will at motels and homes in Broward and Palm Beach counties, forcing them to work as prostitutes. But defense attorneys for Mackenley Desir, 34, and his wife, Genet...

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...

SOUTH BEND — St. Joseph County prosecutors have charged a New Carlisle man with sexual misconduct with a minor for allegedly having sex with a 15-year-old girl. David Tebout, 28, is charged with three counts of sexual misconduct with a minor, a...

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...

Yale University is facing $165,000 in fines for failing to properly report campus crime statistics, including sex offenses, after a review by the U.S. Department of Education that began in 2004. A letter from the DOE, dated April 19, said Yale will be...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The number of U.S. children who were exposed to violence, crime and abuse in 2011 was essentially unchanged from 2008, according to a new government survey. Researchers who interviewed 4,503 children and teenagers in 2011...

The first grand jury report described Orange County as being a "hotbed of corruption, conflict of interest and abuse of authority" while the next blamed political leaders for the "implosion" of the county's health plan for the poor. This week, jurors...

Lyman High School teacher Scott Kimbrough was granted $30,000 bond Saturday morning after his second arrest on child-sex-abuse charges, the Seminole County Sheriff's Office said. Kimbrough was ordered to wear a GPS-monitoring device if he makes bail....

A Seminole County high school teacher who was arrested and accused of having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old female student was re-arrested Friday after a second female student told investigators they had a sexual relationship when she was 15....