As the opening of Sean "Diddy" Combs' sex-trafficking trial approaches, prosecutors have seemingly lost a victim-witness. The ...

Damon K. Perry, 52, of Youngstown, a former Mahoning County Sheriff’s deputy, pleaded guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court in Cleveland to two counts of sexual abuse of a federal detainee and two ...

Pope Leo XIV's successor as bishop of Chiclayo in northern Peru on Friday rejected allegations that the new pontiff ever ...

The bill would bar those under 18 from checking out books with sexually explicit material without parental permission.

Former megachurch pastor Robert Morris stands before an Osage County judge, facing allegations of child sexual abuse stemming from the 1980s.

Tonight -- as the world celebrates a new pope leaders of the Catholic Church in Washington State are waging a fight against a new law that requires clergy to report sexual abuse they learn about ...

The papacy of Pope Leo XIV is just starting but some Catholics expect him to take on an issue that has plagued the Catholic Church for decades.

Five North Texas men have been arrested and are facing federal charges related to distribution and possession of child ...

A Gloucester police officer was arrested on child sexual abuse material charges, officials say.Alexander Aiello, 34, of Gloucester, allegedly used<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More ...

Oklahoma's new law categorizes school resource officers and security guards as school employees for sexual misconduct cases.

Resentencing hearings for Erik and Lyle Menendez will move forward next week after a series of delays. The brothers were sentenced in 1996 to life in prison without the possibility of parole for ...

Bishops often imposed such restrictions — with varying levels of enforcement and typically without warning the public — until the explosive sex-abuse scandal exposed by the Boston Globe in 2002 in the ...