Sexual Misconduct

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...

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...

Anne Arundel County police are investigating sexual abuse allegations by a former student at Monsignor Slade Catholic School in Glen Burnie, officials of the Archdiocese of Baltimore said Wednesday. In a letter posted on the archdiocese website and...

Months before a federal indictment detailed allegations of corruption at the Baltimore City Detention Center, the smuggling and sexual improprieties at the core of that case had already been outlined in an inmate's lawsuit. Calvin Hemphill, in a...

Los Angeles school district officials knew of sexual misconduct allegations in 2009 against a teacher at a Wilmington campus who was arrested more than three years later, the district's top administrator confirmed Tuesday. The teacher, Robert Pimentel,...

The Pentagon estimated Tuesday that 26,000 members of the military were sexually assaulted last year, 36 percent more than a year earlier, in a trend so severe that senior officials warned it could threaten recruiting and retention of military personnel....

School district officials knew of sexual misconduct allegations in 2009 against a teacher at a Wilmington school but failed to act, an attorney suing the Los Angeles Unified School District said Tuesday. The teacher, Robert Pimentel, 57, was arrested in...