A federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected calls to overturn the Boy Scouts of America's $2.46 billion sex abuse settlement, ...

After reports of rampant abuse in youth prisons, lawmakers want more kids in adult prisons and seek to restrict watchdog ...

Amid Sean "Diddy" Combs' criminal sex-crimes trial, here are the people accusing him of sexual abuse and assault as far back ...

Pope Leo XIV is facing criticism from survivors over his record on clergy sexual abuse while he served in Chicago and Peru.

The new pope, Leo XIV, has something in common with many of his peers in the Catholic hierarchy. He’s been in positions of ...

Courtroom sketches capture the moments the R&B Singer Cassie Ventura testified in the Sean 'Diddy' Combs sexual trafficking trial.

The law set off a wave of child sex abuse litigation that has pushed some public institutions to the brink of financial ...

The Department of Justice announced Wednesday that in an organized enforcement effort to identify, track and arrest child sex ...

Groups representing survivors made last-minute appeals for the next pontiff to definitively resolve the crisis, which has ...

Jacqueline Ma, a 36-year-old former "Teacher of the Year" in California, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for sexually abusing two of her students.

The DuPage State’s Attorney’s Office said Monday that Murtaza Hameed will not be released pre-trial, and will appear in court on June 2.

The Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests is calling for the new pope to impose a zero-tolerance policy.