Sexual Misconduct

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Disgraced Cardinal Keith O'Brien, who resigned as head of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland after admitting to sexual misconduct, will leave his country for months of "prayer and penance", the Vatican said on Wednesday. A...

* Sergeant under investigation for pandering, other counts * Lawmakers, defense chief express renewed anger, disgust By David Alexander WASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters) - A U.S. Army sergeant who worked as a sexual assault prevention coordinator at Fort...

Prosecutors say that a husband-and-wife team held vulnerable young women against their will at motels and homes in Broward and Palm Beach counties, forcing them to work as prostitutes. But defense attorneys for Mackenley Desir, 34, and his wife, Genet...

The first grand jury report described Orange County as being a "hotbed of corruption, conflict of interest and abuse of authority" while the next blamed political leaders for the "implosion" of the county's health plan for the poor. This week, jurors...

SOUTH BEND — St. Joseph County prosecutors have charged a New Carlisle man with sexual misconduct with a minor for allegedly having sex with a 15-year-old girl. David Tebout, 28, is charged with three counts of sexual misconduct with a minor, a...

Lyman High School teacher Scott Kimbrough was granted $30,000 bond Saturday morning after his second arrest on child-sex-abuse charges, the Seminole County Sheriff's Office said. Kimbrough was ordered to wear a GPS-monitoring device if he makes bail....

A Seminole County high school teacher who was arrested and accused of having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old female student was re-arrested Friday after a second female student told investigators they had a sexual relationship when she was 15....

An outside investigation into alleged hazing at Maine West High School found that District 207 officials "conducted themselves properly" and "responded appropriately" when they were reportedly first notified about the allegations. Those findings came in...

By Michael Holden LONDON, May 2 (Reuters) - Veteran BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall pleaded guilty to sex offences on Thursday, the latest British TV star from the 1970s and 1980s to be embroiled in abuse allegations. Hall, 83, who was best known for...

A University of Connecticut law student faces charges of second-degree harassment and second-degree breach of peace after allegedly sending anti-Semitic, racist, sexual and threatening emails to students and faculty. Anya Bargh, 32, of Middletown, was...

May 08 (TheWrap.com) - The Michael Jackson Estate is hitting back at Wade Robson's allegations that Michael Jackson sexually abused him as a child, by noting that the "So You Think You Can Dance" judge and choreographer previously testified that he was...

A Campbell County jury has acquitted a former sheriff's deputy of several serious charges. Samuel Candler, 27, was indicted last September on counts of rape, buying alcohol for a minor, and using an animate object for sexual penetration. According...