A detailed lawsuit filed Thursday in New Jersey federal court claims the former headmaster of a prestigious Upper East Side private school sexually assaulted a Brooklyn teenager who was living with him in the 1980s and helping around the house in exchange for free tuition.
Read moreClaiming the youth organization was infiltrated by pedophiles, an Arkansas man filed a lawsuit saying the Boy Scouts allowed a scout leader accused of sexually assaulting boys in Georgia to relocate and abuse him several years later.
Read moreA 10th Circuit panel did not hide its disappointment Tuesday in granting qualified immunity to 14 Oklahoma social workers who repeatedly failed to protect 10 children from a shockingly abusive household that also contained dangerous pet monkeys.
Read moreThe Fifth Circuit on Monday heard Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office defend the state’s foster child care system, which one judge noted leaves the 12,000 children annually in its care with a five times greater risk of post-traumatic stress disorder than combat veterans.
Read moreA former Lithuanian judge sued the federal government Monday to block her extradition, claiming she faces possible persecution and even death in her home country after bringing to light child-molestation accusations against high-ranking officials.
Read moreThe State Department won’t intervene to halt the extradition of an ex-Lithuanian judge and parliamentarian wanted on charges stemming from her claim of a powerful pedophile network in Lithuania.
Read moreOrdered to redo sentencing in a military child-abuse case that made headlines, a federal judge imposed only probation for former Army Maj. John Jackson late Thursday but slightly upped the prison term for Carloyn Jackson
Read moreA former Lake County teacher convicted of attempting to entice an 11-year-old to engage in sex and asking her father to take part in a kidnap plot, asked the 11th Circuit to vacate his 30-year sentence Thursday arguing that kidnapping is not necessarily a crime of violence.
Read moreThe European Court of Human Rights on Thursday endorsed a move by German authorities to place children of members of the Twelve Tribes commune in foster care after news outlets reported the parents punish their children by caning.
Read moreA legislative effort to bolster Georgia’s Hidden Predator Act by granting additional protections to victims of childhood sexual assault is under fire by Atlanta’s Catholic Archdiocese and the Boy Scouts of America.
Read moreJudges from across the country Tuesday discussed best practices for helping child sex trafficking victims caught up in the juvenile justice system, which they said should not include detention as a means to keep children safe.
Read moreCongress reacted Thursday to an Associated Press investigation into sexual assault among children on U.S. military bases by demanding the Defense and Justice departments explain how they will solve the problem.
Read moreVictims of imprisoned former sports doctor Larry Nassar helped unveil what they described Monday as a sweeping rewrite of Michigan laws related to childhood sexual abuse, saying the changes would ease the ability to stop abuse and bring justice to survivors.
Read moreArizona social workers who removed children from a couple’s home after they had bath-time photos of the kids developed at a Walmart should not be granted immunity, the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday.
Read moreA 17-year-old girl plotted for two years to escape from the home where she and her siblings were chained and tortured by her parents for several years, according to the district attorney who filed formal charges in the case on Thursday.
Read moreThree families have sued the city of Deerfield, Florida, and a charter school, claiming lax employee screening and poor supervision at a municipal pool enabled a swim teacher to molest their children.
Read moreAs a court-appointed advocate for two foster boys, it was Nancy Burnette’s job to ensure they were in good hands. So as part of her casework, she visited Word of Faith Fellowship, the evangelical church they attended with the couple seeking to adopt them.
Read moreThe Seventh Circuit emphasized its concern Thursday for the protection of unborn children from “uncooperative mothers” in a case challenging the constitutionality of a Wisconsin law that allows the arrest of pregnant women suspected of drug or alcohol abuse.
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