Nearly 50 years after a Massachusetts teenager was murdered, officials announced Monday that a Catholic priest close to the family was responsible for the crime. On ...

NEW YORK—A U.S. judge rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s request to be moved into the general population at the Brooklyn jail where she is awaiting trial on charges ...

New Jersey has failed to stop rampant sexual abuse at its only prison for women despite decades of documented problems and the convictions of several employees, ...

A globe-trotting Jesuit priest with ties to Mother Teresa sexually abused an American boy “more than 1,000 times, in multiple states and countries,” a lawsuit filed ...

A Cottonwood man who admits he raped, sodomized, and sexually abused young children will serve 615 years for those crimes.

Nevada resident Christopher Sena was sentenced to 54 life sentences for a minimum of 341 years in prison on May 28.

Attorneys representing claims against Harvey Weinstein, his company and former associates have reached a $44 million settlement to resolve civil lawsuits over his alleged sexual misconduct.

R. Kelly spent much of Wednesday in court, with his lawyer explaining to one judge that the singer didn’t respond to a lawsuit brought by one ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill.—R&B singer R. Kelly made a paid appearance early Sunday at a club in Illinois’ capital city, but the fans who each shelled out $50 ...

PARIS—Migrants trying to reach Europe face routine rape and sexual torture throughout their journey and especially in Libya, with men facing abuse nearly as routinely as ...

Several women have accused singer-songwriter Ryan Adams of sexual and emotional abuse, according to a recent report. Most of the women say Adams was volatile and ...

NEWARK, N.J.—New Jersey’s five Roman Catholic dioceses listed more than 180 priests on Feb. 13, who have been credibly accused of sexually abusing minors over a ...

LONDON—Detectives in the United Kingdom have arrested 55 men over historic child sexual abuse. All the men were interviewed and released under investigation, according to detectives ...

Upon learning a patient gave birth after more than a decade in a vegetative state, parents who have children at the same facility are concerned about ...

Harvey Weinstein, who dozens of women have accused him of sexually abused them, sent an email recently to close friends criticizing the investigation into some of ...

A minor migrant was reportedly sexually abused by a Honduran man during her stay at a shelter located at Benito Juarez Sports Complex in Tijuana, Mexico. ...

Australia’s peak body for the aid sector, the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID), sent out a public apology for sexual misconduct committed by its aid ...

An 86-year-old man who raped two children when they were aged between four and 10, more than 60 years ago, has avoided jail after a judge ...

NEW YORK—A former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was arrested and charged with sexual abuse on Friday after being accused ...

A Roman Catholic priest from Pennsylvania has been accused of inappropriately touching a 17-year-old girl and sending her nude photos through social media, according to authorities on ...

Disgraced USA Gymnastics ex-team doctor Larry Nassar has been removed from a federal prison where he has been held, records showed on Aug. 19, less than ...

The Vatican on Aug. 16 broke its silence and responded for the first time on the Pennsylvania grand jury report that detailed widespread and decades-long sexual ...

A 34-year-old maths teacher was convicted for the sexual assault of a Year 11 girl with an intellectual disability and a Year 12 girl at a ...

The Department of Justice on June 12 announced it had arrested 2,300 suspects in a massive three-month operation targeting child sex abusers. The operation specifically targeted ...

NEWCASTLE, Australia—An Australian archbishop has become most the senior Roman Catholic cleric in the world to be convicted of covering up child sex abuse. A New ...

NEW YORK —Olympic swimmer Ariana Kukors said in an emotional interview Monday that her former coach “stole so much” from her in the decade she alleges ...