In oral arguments Thursday, the American Civil Liberties Union urged a Ninth Circuit panel to order the Department of Homeland Security to reveal the names of agents accused of abusing immigrant children in custody.
Read moreA husband and wife who chained, tortured and starved their children for several years in their suburban Southern California home were sentenced to 25 years to life in prison Friday, but not before hearing their children still pray for them.
Read moreDemanding damages Thursday in a civil suit for sexual assault and battery, a New Hampshire woman says her stepfather Cleve Brown was convicted two weeks earlier of abusing her for years.
Read moreA former Pennsylvania pediatrician was sentenced Monday to at least 79 years in prison for sexually assaulting 31 children, most of them patients, as his now-adult victims blasted their abuser and the system that let him get away with it for so long.
Read moreA federal judge ruled that a public schoolteacher’s mandatory obligation to report suspected child abuse does not end when she leaves the classroom, and that the Colorado State Board of Education was justified in not renewing the contract of a teacher who knew her husband was sexually abusing their daughter for years, but did not report it.
Read moreAn Australian state prosecutor has sent letters threatening to charge media organizations and dozens of journalists with breaching a gag order that banned reporting of Cardinal George Pell’s convictions on charges of sexually molesting two choirboys, lawyers said Thursday.
Read moreAt least 28 priests are credibly accused of having sexually abused more than 100 boys and girls while working for a Roman Catholic diocese in Iowa, church officials said Monday.
Read moreTwo Southern California residents accused of torturing and starving their 12 children pleaded guilty Friday to torture, dependent adult abuse, child endangerment and false imprisonment charges in a plea deal with prosecutors.
Read moreA new study out of Florida found that incidents of child abuse increase after the release of school report cards on Fridays.
Read moreA Catholic priest said Friday that he has been punished by church leaders in France after he gathered more than 100,000 signatures for a petition calling for a cardinal to resign over his handling of child sexual abuse cases.
Read moreA Ninth Circuit panel rebuked the County of San Diego Wednesday for taking a couple’s children away and subjecting them to invasive gynecological and rectal exams as part of a child abuse investigation.
Read moreAccusing the Milton Hershey School of barely disguising its sectarian activities, two former employees claim in a federal complaint that the philanthropic boarding school threatens its nonevangelical staff and students with “isolation, death, hell, and demonic possession.”
Read moreTrust in Pope Francis among U.S. Catholics is declining in response to his handling of the renewed sex-abuse scandal sweeping the church, a Tuesday poll from the Pew Research Center shows.
Read moreA former Catholic priest has been extradited from Morocco to the United States to face federal child sex abuse charges in New Mexico, according to a U.S. Attorney’s Office announcement Friday.
Read moreThe Second Circuit affirmed Wednesday that an insurer should have indemnified the Hartford Roman Catholic Diocese for its settlements with four victims of pedophile priests from the 1970s and 1980s.
Read moreA British diver involved with the rescue of a Thai youth soccer team this summer sued Elon Musk on a defamation claim Monday over the Tesla Motors CEO’s accusations on social media that the diver is a pedophile.
Read morePope Francis is summoning the presidents of every bishops conference around the world for a February summit to discuss preventing clergy sex abuse and protecting children — evidence that he realizes the scandal is global and that inaction threatens to undermine his legacy.
Read moreA federal jury convicted Levian D. Pacheco of 10 counts of sexual abuse of children who were awaiting deportation, while he was a “youth care worker” in Mesa, Arizona.
Read moreOn the heels of a grand jury report detailing 70 years of sexual-misconduct allegations involving six of the Pennsylvania’s eight Roman Catholic dioceses, New York launched a state probe Thursday into the church’s handling of abuse allegations.
Read moreA Southern California judge on Friday denied a request to separate perjury counts from the more serious accusations against a man who along with his wife face child abuse and torture charges involving their 13 children.
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