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Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, famed as a staunch gay rights advocate and a champion of progressive causes, has been accused of sexually molesting several teenaged boys 30 years ago, reports have revealed.

A Penn State Trustee has dropped his re-election bid and resigned his position after disparaging the Sandusky victims by calling them the “so-called victims” of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.

A Kansas man pleaded guilty last week to murdering his seven-year-old son and disposing of the body by feeding it to his pigs, a report reveals.

A Florida mother faces multiple charges after she went to her daughter’s high school around the end of the school day and beat up the girl who was her daughter’s rival, police say.

A dog that was once rescued from an abusive owner is being hailed as a hero for leading its new owner to a ditch where a naked three-year-old child was found shivering in the freezing Michigan weather last week.

A pregnant woman in Hollywood, Alabama, was arrested after identifying a 14-year-old boy as the father of her unborn child in an application for Medicaid, reports say.

McALLEN, Texas — A couple from this border region has pleaded guilty to federal sex trafficking charges for luring and pimping out a 14 and 15-year old female.

A former high school teacher has been arrested and accused of having an improper sexual relationship with a student, authorities in North Carolina say.

Swedish prosecutors have dropped a case involving a man who married an underage girl in Syria and got her pregnant at 13 or 14-years-old because the crime took place abroad. The allegations of child rape were brought to the prosecutor

Child Protective Services advocates and the commissioner that heads the agency think they have come up with one solution for the problems that are plaguing Texas. Their solution is to focus on prevention programs, including home visits.

Four members of a Muslim grooming gang look set to be deported after losing a legal batter to stop the government stripping them of their British citizenship.

There has been a 30 per cent rise in the number of women in Germany who have suffered female genital mutilation (FGM) in just 3 years, as migration from regions where it is common has increased by 40 per cent.

A Texas high school teacher convicted of sexually abusing two teenaged students will not have to register as a sex offender due to a quirk in state laws.

Britain’s most senior immigration judge has slammed barristers blocking members of a Muslim rape gang being stripped of British citizenship, accusing them of playing the system as they earn substantial fees at the taxpayer’s expense.

Members of a Muslim rape gang shouted “Allahu akbar” (my god is greatest) in court yesterday as they were jailed for raping, drugging and abusing girls aged 11 and 13 in the town of Rotherham.

“Last year, more than 100 children died in our Child Protective System. You can vote to end that,” said Texas Governor Greg Abbott during his State of the State Address on Tuesday.

Federal prosecutors are looking to file child porn charges against disgraced Democrat Representative Anthony Weiner for sexting with a teenaged girl, says a new report.

Five mostly Muslim men from Rotherham, including three brothers, have been found guilty of subjecting two young girls to two years of violent sexual abuse, including rape and false imprisonment.

A Utah high school teacher who pleaded guilty in 2015 to having sex with three students and was later sentenced to 30 years in prison is now asking for parole, insisting that her indiscretions stemmed from her “low self-esteem issues.”

A 22-year-old teacher is claiming that her strict Muslim childhood “repressed” her and contributed to her desires to have sex with students who attended a New Jersey high school, court records show.

The teenager who was stolen as a newborn from a Florida hospital is defending her “mother,” saying that the woman who stole her 18 years ago is not a criminal.

A Delaware woman was only sentenced to probation despite admitting to the court that she forced sexual conduct onto her daughter’s 13-year-old boyfriend, reports reveal.

Backpage.com has closed its adult advertising section after two state attorneys general and a U.S. Senate panel has focused a light on its ads. The classified ads website has long been criticized for facilitating the promotion of sex trafficking, sometimes allegedly involving minors. The CEO was arrested in October.

A Czech child abuser has claimed that the UK has failed to deport him to a prison in his home country, in spite of a transfer request by the Czech authorities and his own willingness to go. In a letter

Five men from Rotherham, alleged part of “Asian grooming gangs”, are facing 23 charges of sexually abusing two girls, aged 12 and 13, over a two-year period.

An English woman has claimed she was abducted when she was just 15, and held captive by a taxi driver who forced her to wear a head scarf, raped her every day for 13 years, and sold four children he fathered with her.

Five members of a sex grooming gang have been convicted for drugging, abusing, trafficking, and raping six teenage girls.

LONDON (AFP) – Fifty-five league and non league clubs have been referred to police in the child sex abuse scandal that has shattered English football’s image a source told The Observer newspaper on Sunday.

A Missouri woman convicted of raping and sodomizing two girls and holding them under water to force their compliance has been sentenced to 90 years in prison, court documents show.

The State of Texas has filed objections to the special masters’ report in the class action lawsuit filed on behalf of children in the care of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS).

A woman in Indiana has been accused of injecting human feces into the IV bag of her cancer-stricken son in a likely effort to hasten his death, authorities say.

A woman from Henderson, Tennessee, has been charged with sexually molesting a 15-year-old boy, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI).

A Houston area mother is under investigation after posting a video of her kicking her seven-year-old out of the house. She told him, “Since you voted for Donald Trump, you can get your s*** and get out.”

The Texas foster care system is in a crisis. How to settle the crisis has been a question for lawmakers, child advocates, and others. Now, two masters appointed by a federal judge in a class action suit filed against the state agency have issued their recommendations in a formal report.

Three men of Somali origin in an alleged Muslim rape gang have been jailed for the “chilling”, “degrading”, and sometimes “violent” sexual abuse of teenage girls in Bristol.

A handful of parents recently accused Texas public school employees of either bullying or abusing their children. School districts say they take these complaints very seriously and investigate them thoroughly.