France’s government wants to set the age of sexual consent at 15 and make it easier to punish long-ago child sexual abuse, amid growing public pressure and a wave of online testimonies about rape and other sexual violence by parents and authority figures.
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Two FBI agents killed Tuesday while serving a South Florida warrant were veterans of the bureau and key members of a division that tracks down sex offenders who prey on children.
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Pressure on one of France’s most prominent political commentators, under investigation for alleged incestuous sexual abuse, grew Tuesday when his stepson and alleged victim brought a lawsuit of his own.
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Israeli authorities on Monday extradited a former teacher accused of sexually abusing her former students in Australia, capping a six-year legal battle that had strained relations between the two governments and antagonized Australia’s Jewish community.
Read moreJohn Doe sued actor Charlie Sheen, his driver and many involved in the production of Sheen’s 1994 movie “Terminal Velocity” on Thursday, claiming the driver hired him as an assistant and sexually assaulted him nightly throughout the film shoot.
Read moreParents of a disabled boy who was abused by his in-home caregiver can pursue their negligent infliction of emotional distress claims because they were virtually present to witness the abuse through a livestream on a smartphone from a “nanny cam,” a California appeals court ruled.
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Credit card giants Visa and Mastercard said Sunday that they are investigating their business relationship with Pornhub after a prominent newspaper columnist alleged that the pornographic website shows videos of rape and underage sex.
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A retired French surgeon has been sentenced to 15 years in jail at the end of his closed-doors trial for the rape and sexual abuse of four children in the first part of France’s biggest ever pedophilia case.
Read moreSkewering the Diocese of Buffalo for its long-running failure to prevent its clergy from sexually abusing minors, New York asked a state judge for an injunction Monday to achieve stronger oversight.
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An Israeli court on Monday approved the extradition of a former teacher wanted in Australia on charges of child sex abuse, potentially paving the way for her to stand trial after a six-year legal battle.
Read moreA California appeals court revived negligent misrepresentation claims against a skating arena that did not disclose a coach’s suspected misconduct to another arena. The director of the latter arena recommended the coach to a minor victim he sexually abused.
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A Third Circuit panel grilled lawyers Tuesday about whether Penn State’s former president deserved to have his misdemeanor child endangerment conviction, related to his response to a complaint about Jerry Sandusky, overturned last year.
Read moreCardinal George Pell welcomed Australia’s highest court clearing him of child sex crimes Tuesday and said his trial had not been a referendum on the Catholic Church’s handling of the clergy abuse crisis.
Read moreThe federal judge who holds the key to secret records concerning the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein refused Tuesday afternoon to approve a monthlong delay in the case.
Read moreParents sued Peoria, Ariz., its unified school district and former teacher Ricky Ordway, 44, who has been accused of 11 counts of child molestation of students at Sun Valley Elementary School, in Maricopa County Court.
Read moreTwo lawsuits accuse a bus driver for Citizens Acting Together Can Help, LogistiCare Solutions, et al. of duct-taping children’s arms, legs, feet, hands and mouths while taking them to treatment, in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, filed for bankruptcy Wednesday, six months after disclosing it had paid millions of dollars to people sexually abused as children by its clerics.
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The New Orleans Saints head to court Thursday to try to block the release of hundreds of confidential emails detailing the behind-the-scenes public relations work the team did for the area’s Roman Catholic archdiocese in its sexual abuse scandals.
Read moreA woman seeks punitive damages from La Luz del Mundo, claiming she was “enslaved, trafficked, and sexually abused by (its) leaders,” and that the religious organization “has made the economic and sexual exploitation of children and others a centerpiece of its operations for decades,” in L.A. Federal Court.
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French police on Thursday searched the home of a writer accused of raping a minor and who repeatedly described relationships with young teens in his work, a source said.
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