I’m a mother of three and criminalized survivor of domestic violence. We must do more to protect vulnerable women, not punish ...

As the opening of Sean "Diddy" Combs' sex-trafficking trial approaches, prosecutors have seemingly lost a victim-witness. The ...

Damon K. Perry, 52, of Youngstown, a former Mahoning County Sheriff’s deputy, pleaded guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court in Cleveland to two counts of sexual abuse of a federal detainee and two ...

The bill would bar those under 18 from checking out books with sexually explicit material without parental permission.

Tonight -- as the world celebrates a new pope leaders of the Catholic Church in Washington State are waging a fight against a new law that requires clergy to report sexual abuse they learn about ...

Former megachurch pastor Robert Morris stands before an Osage County judge, facing allegations of child sexual abuse stemming from the 1980s.

A Gloucester police officer was arrested on child sexual abuse material charges, officials say.Alexander Aiello, 34, of Gloucester, allegedly used<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More ...

Oklahoma's new law categorizes school resource officers and security guards as school employees for sexual misconduct cases.

Bishops often imposed such restrictions — with varying levels of enforcement and typically without warning the public — until the explosive sex-abuse scandal exposed by the Boston Globe in 2002 in the ...

A man was sentenced to 43 years to life in prison for sexually abusing a child over an eight-year period in Schenectady. Frank Mastroianni, 56, was convicted in March after a predatory sexual assault ...

Jacqueline Ma, once a celebrated teacher, received a 30-year-to-life sentence for sexually abusing two young boys.

A Glenville man convicted earlier this year of multiple counts of sexually abusing a child over the span of nearly a decade ...