Child sex abuse

Seeking an abortion will become more difficult for victims, including young girls, in a post-Roe world, critics argued.

Duggar's lawyer Justin K. Gelfand told Newsweek, "We look forward to continuing the fight on appeal."

A 42-year-old man who police say contacted kids through online video games and bribed them over sex videos has been arrested.

Police found recordings of Arby's night manager Stephen Sharp engaging in the acts while investigating him for child pornography possession.

Phythian and her husband Victor Marke are facing a combined total of 14 charges of sexual activity with a child, with Marke facing a further four charges of indecently assaulting another child.

Johnathan George Skocik, 33, was charged with sexually abusing several 8-year-old girls at a Virginia elementary school.

A former aide to the Republican National Convention has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for downloading child pornography.

Michael Porter, 55, is accused of secretly recording children between the ages of 5 and 17 inside YMCAs around Chicago from for nearly 14 years.

Circuit Judge Alison Nathan rejected claims that Maxwell received an unfair trial due to a juror failing to disclose his history of childhood sexual abuse.

This week Josh Hawley claimed Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson has been soft on child sex offenders.

One student was reportedly "distraught" when he found the camera and told officials straight away.

Nancy Smith and Joseph Allen were charged with child sex abuse but have maintained their innocence.

The police became aware of the incident after they were contacted by an urgent care clinic that reported the child tested positive for an STD.

Two Yakima sisters will receive a multimillion-dollar settlement after the state did not do safety checks on the foster home where they were abused.

The now-former CNN producer allegedly paid for the travel of a 9-year-old girl and her mother to his Vermont ski lodge for sexual purposes in July 2020.

Richard Daschbach was accused by more than a dozen women in East Timor of sexually abusing them as children.

"I looked up to her very much," said Maxwell's former assistant, who worked with her from 1996 to 2002.

A proposed $800 million from Century Indemnity Co. would bring the fund for over 82,000 Boy Scouts sexual abuse victims to more than $2.6 billion.

Reports of online child sexual abuse significantly rose during the pandemic, and offenders are using sophisticated technological methods to get away with it.

Frederick Cecil McLean had been on the U.S. Marshals Service's 15 Most Wanted fugitive list since 2006.

Ghislaine Maxwell's brother said "America needs to be held to account" over the British socialite's treatment in jail.

The girl's mother told WRAL that she had been in a relationship with the man for four years prior to the incident, but was not aware that her daughter was being abused.

The man donned a blonde wig and used a pen camera attached to a shoe to film girls between the ages of 12 and 15.

The Southern Baptist Convention came under fire in 2019 after a news report documented hundreds of sex abuse cases in its churches.

The report said that an estimated 33,000 children were victims of sexual abuse in the past 70 years by 3,000 priests and other people involved in the church.

Walter A. Garner is listed on the Pennsylvania Megan's Law website, which provides the public with information about registered sex offenders.

Authorities said the former sheriff's deputy worked with the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department for 25 years.

English teacher Curtis Johnson demanded "a naked video" from his former student, a 12-year-old Chinese girl.

The longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House had been sued for breach of contract after allegedly refusing to pay $1.8 million in "hush money."

The FBI said he ate a camera memory card when legal authorities confronted him about recording naked boys in his hunting lodge.