Elizabeth Smart talks to Kelly Wright about her story of triumph over child exploitation. Also, Sherice Brown, wife of NFL Hall of Fame great Tim Brown, shares how she was exploited as a child. We hear the stories of two courageous women actively caring for others, providing hope and healing in the battle against child […]
Jean Wehner was 14 when her abuse at the hands of Father Neil Magnus and Father Joseph Maskell began at Archbishop Keough High School in Baltimore. She says apart from the horrifying sexual abuse and rape, the pair also used verbal abuse and intimidation tactics.
If you have a child or children at home, have you ever wondered what they could be doing on their phones or when you lend them your iPad? Kimberly King became a sexual abuse prevention educator after an incident with her son. She says data from 2020 suggests that there have been 18 million explicit […]
BERLIN—A 45-year-old German man who had offered babysitting services online went on trial Tuesday in the western city of Cologne accused of almost 100 counts of child sexual abuse. Prosecutors told the Cologne regional court that the man documented the abuse of babies, children, and teenagers, and shared videos and images of “unimaginable brutality” with […]
A wake of destruction left in South West Florida. Hurricane Ian knocked out power for over 2.5 million people and destroyed homes. Some are now picking up the pieces.
Advocates for victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests release a list of more than 300 accused abusers. They are demanding action from the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
A new Illinois law is eliminating cash bail for most offenses. But the change has some fearing for their safety. Stay tuned to find out why.
NEW YORK—A once-prominent neurologist convicted last month of sexually abusing patients killed himself Monday at a New York City jail, two people familiar with the matter said. Dr. Ricardo Cruciani, 68, was found unresponsive in a shower area at the Eric M. Taylor Center, a jail at the notorious Rikers Island complex, the people said. […]
NEW YORK—A federal judge on Monday rejected Kevin Spacey’s bid to dismiss a civil lawsuit in which fellow actor Anthony Rapp accused the Oscar winner of making an unwanted sexual advance during a party at Spacey’s Manhattan home in 1986, when Rapp was 14. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan said there was a […]
LOS ANGELES—University of California officials have agreed to pay $243 million to settle the legal claims of about 200 women who have accused a former UCLA gynecologist of sexual abuse. The settlement by the University of California regents, the system’s governing board, marks the second in lawsuits stemming from the accusations against Dr. James Heaps, […]
Four top gymnasts are urging senators to hold accountable those who mishandled the investigation of former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar. When reports of sexual abuse first came out, the FBI reportedly failed to treat the matter seriously.
BOSTON—Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman was reunited with her beloved dog Mylo, a week after he ran off after being spooked by fireworks in Boston. Raisman announced Mylo’s return in a tweet Friday night, six days after she reported the 35-pound brown dog was missing. “HEROES!!!! MYLO IS SAFE. I HAVE HIM,” Raisman wrote on Twitter, […]
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 Friday, officials were obtaining an arrest warrant for Richard R. Lavigne, but he died that evening in the hospital, Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni’s office said in a statement […]
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 she aided the late financier Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of girls. Maxwell had objected to being treated worse than other pretrial inmates at the Metropolitan Detention Center, citing “onerous” […]
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, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a scathing report this week.
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 Monday in California state court in San Francisco alleges.
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 of his sexual abuse accusers because he is illiterate and with Kelly paying $62,000 in back child support during a second hearing.
