ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Senate unanimously passed a bill Wednesday that would allow lawsuits against churches, schools and other organizations that may have covered up child sexual abuse decades ago. The bill passed the Senate by a ...

According to court documents, Blackford admitted he joined Dreamboard in December 2009 and contributed 84 posts to the online bulletin board that contained child pornography. The second man, 39-year-old William Davis of Bristol, N.H., pleaded ...

VICTIMS of abuse in Salvation Army children's homes have condemned the organization for not investigating allegations of abuse, after it revealed it had paid out more than $15 million in compensation and received 470 complaints, and that 50 ...

(CNN) - As Pope Benedict XVI steps down, the moral authority and future of the Roman Catholic Church depends on the next pope forcefully dealing with child sex abuse in its ranks. Benedict had the power to effect fundamental, institutional ...

A jury on Wednesday convicted a priest and teacher in a pivotal church-abuse case that rocked the Philadelphia archdiocese and sent a church official to prison for child endangerment.The verdict supports accounts by a 24-year-old policeman's son ...

A former child welfare worker is accused of sexually abusing children. The case is set for trial in Canadian County. News 9 found out his position with the state agency is not the only job that put him close to children. The suspect worked as a ...

A former elementary school teacher with the Los Angeles Unified School District has been arrested in a sexual abuse case involving at least 20 children and one adult. Robert Pimentel, 57, who taught at George de La Torre Jr. Elementary School in ...

San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis on Tuesday urged parents to pick up free "Computer Cop" software aimed at protecting children from online predators and bullying. The software, paid for with assets taken from drug dealers, ...

Documents from the late 1980s show that Archbishop Roger M. Mahony and another archdiocese official discussed strategies to keep police from discovering that children were being sexually abused by priests. Fifteen years before the clergy sex ...

More than 200 adults have been arrested in an international investigation of child pornography, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Thursday. The agency’s director, John Morton, said 123 child victims were identified during the ...