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An Illinois kindergarten teacher was arrested Monday and is now facing charges of sexual assault and solicitation of child pornography.

ISLAMABAD (AP) – Pakistani authorities and the British Embassy say police have arrested a British citizen who fled to Pakistan in 2016 during his trial in Britain. He was later sentenced to 19 years for raping a child.

Two Essex police detectives are accused of intentionally sabotaging a number of child sex abuse cases through a combination of “laziness” and “cynical disdain” for the alleged victims, London’s Old Bailey court has heard.

A former Illinois high school teacher accused of sexually abusing a 14-year-old boy had her bail set at $1 million on Thursday.

“No person is above the law and no institution is immune from accountability,” the attorney general continued. “We will devote whatever resources are necessary to uncover the truth and bring justice to victims.”

22-year-old Joel Davis of the International Campaign to Stop Rape and Gender Violence in Conflict faces monstrous charges of child sexual abuse.

There have been more than 6,000 grooming crimes recorded in the UK in less than five years, with numbers dramatically rising in the past 12 months, Home Office statistics reveal.

Pop singer Lily Allen has claimed Muslim grooming gang victims could have been “raped or abused by somebody else at some point” if the gangs were not active in Britain.

The police in Birmingham are on the hunt for two ‘Asian’ men after a teen girl was brutally raped at a train station, and sexually abused again by another Asian man she asked for help after the incident. The 15-year-old

The Iraqi asylum seeker who raped a 10-year-old boy in a swimming centre in Vienna will have his sentence reduced from six to four years after a judge felt his punishment was too “draconian”.

A female asylum centre worker in Denmark is alleged to have engaged sexually with underage male migrants and filmed the acts, and the staff may have known for months.

A Texas man was sentenced in federal court to spend 25 years in prison after he was convicted of engaging in “illicit sexual contact in a foreign place.” The man was reported to have had sexual contact with at least eight minors who were orphans in an orphanage he managed in Malawi.

Former “Glee” co-star Mark Salling was indicted Friday by a federal grand jury on two counts of possessing child pornography, according to a report that first appeared on TMZ.

Detroit police have arrested a woman in a sting after she allegedly tried to arrange sex with a man and his underage daughter.

An illegal immigrant has been arrested and charged with raping and impregnating a 12-year-old Texas girl, authorities say.

A Pennsylvania man diagnosed with the HIV virus pleaded guilty to raping a six-year-old boy after arranging the meeting with another child molester.

An Alabama lawmaker is making another bid for a new law that would mandate the castration of any offender found guilty of sexually molesting anyone under 12 years of age.

An Indiana man, who pleaded guilty to sexually molesting his cancer-stricken daughter, will get no jail time, court documents reveal.

Renowned Roman Catholic priest Robert Sirico underlined Hollywood’s blatant hypocrisy this week, hammering the film industry for celebrating Best Picture winner Spotlight at the 88th Academy Awards on Sunday, while refusing to disavow convicted child rapist Roman Polanski.

A former Sunday school teacher was arrested in Acworth, Georgia, for sexually abusing the children in his charge and making a video of at least one encounter, but the large number of illegal immigrants in the community is complicating the

Police in Arizona made a shocking discovery in a closet in the apartment of a Hispanic couple when a three-year-old girl was found malnourished, bound in duct tape, and stuffed into a cloth bag.

Police in a Phoenix suburb are investigating a child-abuse case in which a 3-year-old malnourished girl was bound with duct tape, kept in a trash sack inside closet and offered for sex by a man babysitting the child, officials said Tuesday.

LONDON (AP) — Victims of childhood sexual abuse said Friday they were disappointed that prosecutors had dropped a sex-crimes prosecution against politician Greville Janner, who died before court proceedings could begin. Lord Janner, a former Labour Party lawmaker and peer,

An independent investigation found reports of sexual abuse of young boys by UN peacekeepers in the Central African Republic credible and said they suggested a broader pattern of abuse that should have been further investigated.

The desperate situation in which alleged victims of a Rotherham grooming gang found themselves continues to shock as the abuse trial at Sheffield Crown Court progresses. Although some early effort was made by victims to bring matters to light, it

New Jersey police arrested Guatemalan illegal alien Juan Campos-Morales, 33, and charged him with repeatedly “sexually assaulting” a child from 2014 to 2015. The victim, who’s younger than 16, told a teacher about the alleged assaults.

The Rotherham abuse trial currently being heard at Sheffield Crown Court continues with more terrible allegations coming to light regarding the sexual abuse of young girls at the hands of Muslim grooming gangs. The latest day of evidence at the

Labour peer Lord Janner has been given a team of publicly funded lawyers following a judge’s ruling on Monday that he is unfit to stand trial on child sex abuse charges. Earlier this week 87-year-old Lord Janner was ruled too ill to face trial

Hip-hop superstar and former Mitt Romney supporter Nicki Minaj’s older brother Jelani Maraj has been arrested on charges of first-degree rape and first-degree course of sexual conduct against a 12-year-old child, according to reports.

Maj. Jason Brezler is being kicked out of the military after more than 15 years of service for warning fellow Marines in 2012 that a Taliban-linked Afghan police commander working at their post in southern Afghanistan was corrupt and sexually abusing boys, the Washington Post recently reported.

The Office of the Inspector General (IG) at the Department of Defense (IG), the Pentagon’s top watchdog, announced Tuesday that it will “immediately” begin an investigation into the U.S. military’s response to allegations of child sexual abuse by Afghan security forces.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL) does not believe the Pentagon’s claim that U.S. troops in Afghanistan are not being told to ignore the sexual abuse of children by Afghan security forces, according to the lawmaker’s office.

Sgt. 1st Class Charles Martland, a decorated Green Beret, is being involuntary separated from the U.S. Army for standing up to an Afghan local police (ALP) commander accused of raping a 12-year-old boy in September 2011 and subsequently beating his mother when she reported the crime.

Many incidents of sexual exploitation perpetrated against children by United Nations peacekeepers go unreported, the U.N. acknowledged.