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| N.Y. elementary school aide accused of making child porn | A New York teacher's aide previously accused of distributing child pornography has been arrested again, this time on a charge of making such pornography, possible on school grounds. |
| Victims of military rape deserve justice | Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has announced new initiatives to curtail what he calls "the epidemic" of rape and sexual assaults in our armed forces. In 2010, an estimated 19,000 service members were raped or sexually assaulted by other service members. Clearly, more resources devoted to counseling for victims and training for prosecutors and judges will help. |
| Canadian authorities bust child porn rings | At least 60 people have been charged in connection with one of Canada's largest ever pornography busts, authorities said Thursday. |
| For men and boys, a silver lining amid sex abuse scandals | Advocates and therapists for survivors of male sex abuse say the recent scandals at Penn State and elsewhere may help men who were abused as children, and boys being abused today, step out of the shadows and get the support they deserve. |
| Penn State scandal sparks legislative debates | HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- The child sexual abuse scandal at Penn State University has prompted state lawmakers across the nation to take another look at laws designed to protect children and punish child predators. |
| Pentagon targets military sex assaults | Defense Secretary Leon Panetta outlined new measures Wednesday targeting sexual assaults against U.S military personnel, saying he has "no higher responsibility than to protect those who are protecting America." |
| End statute of limitations on child sex crimes | The Penn State scandal was just starting to reach a rolling boil last month when the Department of Education announced that it would be investigating the school for a possible violation of the Clery Act. A quarter century ago, Jeanne Clery was asleep in her Lehigh University dorm room when she was raped and killed by an intruder. |
| Survey: 1 in 3 women affected by partner's violent behavior | More than one in three women have experienced sexual assault, physical violence or stalking by an intimate partner during their lifetime, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey. |
| Sandusky's wife calls accusations 'absolutely untrue' | Former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky's wife, Dottie, told CNN that she is angry about accusations of child sexual abuse occurring in her home, calling them "absolutely untrue." |
| Men dare to share sex abuse stories | Chad, a 46-year-old father, is still afraid to tell his mother about the woman nearly 25 years his senior who used to sneak into his room at night and crawl into his bed. He doesn't want her to feel guilty. |
| Penn State and The Citadel: 'It's a desire to protect their own' | Two schools: one a football powerhouse, steeped in athletic glory, and the other a bastion of military tradition. |
| The myth of the 'monster' pedophile | I met Jerry Sandusky in the late 1990s. I was at Penn State conducting a workshop with coaches on sexual violence. It was a few years after my retirement from professional football and a decade removed from my days at Syracuse University, where I competed against Sandusky's defense on the playing field. |
| One of two suspects released in connection with sex attacks | Charges have been dropped against one of two men arrested in connection with a string of sex attacks in New York City, police said Wednesday. |
| South Florida ICE official arrested on child porn charges | The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement for South Florida has been arrested on child pornography charges, the Department of Justice said Wednesday. |
| Peace Corps needs new sex abuse policy | A former Peace Corps volunteer, Jessie Osmun, was arrested early this month in Milford, Connecticut, and charged with sexually abusing five girls under the age of 6 in an AIDS clinic in South Africa. |
| 72 charged in online global child porn ring | More than 50 members of a child pornography ring who engaged in what authorities describe as "horrific" and "unspeakable" crimes have been arrested for sexually exploiting children from 12 years old to as young as infants. |
| 5 years later, states struggle to comply with federal sex offender law | Five years ago this week, President George W. Bush signed the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act with the intention of making it the law of the land for keeping tabs on sex offenders. |
| Egyptian executive pleads guilty to sexually abusing hotel maid | An Egyptian executive accused of sexually abusing an employee at a luxury hotel in New York pleaded guilty Friday to sex abuse in the third degree and will also face a $5 million lawsuit tied to the case, his attorney said. |
| 26 accused in child cybercrime crackdown | Twenty-six people have been arrested for possession and trading of images of child sexual assault using the Internet, the Manhattan district attorney announced Tuesday. |
| Women journalists speak out on sexual attacks | Rebel soldiers gang-raped her, slapping and beating her while she was on assignment. She was a West African journalist trying to report a story that these soldiers didn't want told. Four years after the attack she still calls herself "empty" and "traumatized." She saw her doctor, but never told anyone else but me. Today, she insists on having her story reported -- with the hope that recounting her rape will help her quiet the terrors that replay in her mind. |
| Russia: Where keeping child porn is legal | Keen, bright-eyed and earnest, the little boy answers the Russian investigator's questions enthusiastically, as if describing a cartoon, not sexual abuse. |
| Psychologist: Proof of hundreds of rape cases during Libya's war | In the rebel stronghold of Benghazi, Libya the whispers and rumors about rape being used as a tool of war by Moammar Gadhafi's troops are coming from all corners of society, from rebel fighters to doctors and citizens, who have come in contact with families displaced by the conflict. |
| Why is sexual assault on campus tolerated? | Universities in the United States rarely expel students for sexual assault, according to an investigation by the federal government. And in the 42 years since it began admitting women, Yale University has not been an exception. |
| Utah man accused of sexually abusing kids to be freed | A Utah judge has ordered a registered sex offender who faces nearly two dozen charges of child sex abuse released on the basis that he is mentally incompetent to stand trial. |
| Author of pedophilia book pleads no contest, gets probation | The man extradited to Florida for writing, publishing and selling a controversial book considered a "how-to" for pedophiles pleaded no contest to criminal charges in exchange for two years' probation, authorities said Thursday. |
| Irish abuse victims 'disgusted' at Vatican letter | Irish victims of sexual abuse are "disgusted" by a newly revealed letter in which a Vatican official expresses "serious reservations" about requiring bishops to report suspected abuse by priests to police, they said Wednesday. |
| L.A. authorities find first victim in videotaped sexual assaults | Investigators have found the first victim in the videotaped sexual assaults of severely disabled women, and the woman alleges a suspect already in custody had raped her in a Los Angeles care home, authorities said. |
| Bail set at $15,000 for author of book on pedophilia | A Florida judge set bail at $15,000 Wednesday for a man who wrote a controversial book considered a "how-to" guide for pedophiles. |
| Holiday travel stokes sex crime victims' TSA pat-down fears | It was days after her pat down that Marcia reacted. |
| Author of pedophile book says Florida arrest is entrapment | A man who wrote a controversial book considered a "how-to" guide for pedophiles was booked into a Florida jail Tuesday after defending his book to reporters. |
| Sexual assault reports spike in military academies, report shows | Sexual assaults at the U.S. military's three service academies increased drastically in the 2009-2010 academic year after four years of declines, a new report shows. |
| Federal authorities say they broke up a global child porn ring | Federal authorities announced Tuesday they dismantled an international child pornography ring that allowed its 35 male members to trade thousands of images and videos of boys in sexually explicit situations through a website. |
| Pediatrician wanted on child porn charges flees | The FBI was searching Tuesday for an Arizona pediatrician who is accused of distributing child pornography. |
| U.N. puts Congo sex attacks at more than 500 | U.N. officials on Tuesday put the number of rapes and other sexual attacks in eastern Congo since late July at more than 500, more than double the previous estimate. |
| California Senate passes tougher sentencing laws for sex offenders | A bill that seeks to increase prison sentences and extend parole terms in California for certain sex crimes against minors was passed in a unanimous vote by the state Senate on Tuesday. |
| Former Alabama prosecutor arrested on enticement, child porn charges | A former Alabama assistant district attorney who specialized in prosecuting sex crimes against minors is accused of enticing what he thought was a teenage girl online for sexual purposes, authorities said. |
| Thousands of sex offenders receive U.S. passports | Thousands of registered sex offenders have received U.S. passports, including at least 30 federal employees, according to a Government Accountability Office report obtained by CNN. |
| Thailand fights to stem tide of child sex tourists | He seemed a little confused and unsure of his surroundings. Karl Kraus sat alone in a cell, his blue, watery eyes following me as I entered the holding area of a Chiang Mai courthouse. Karl Kraus is 90 years old, hard of hearing, frail and, according to the police, a dangerous pedophile. |
| Supreme Court: Sex offenders can be held indefinitely | The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday the federal government has the power to keep some sex offenders behind bars indefinitely after they have served their sentences if officials determine those inmates may prove "sexually dangerous" in the future. |
| Vatican says sex abuse suit lacks merit | The Vatican said a lawsuit accusing it and Pope Benedict XVI of covering up sexual abuse by a priest at a Catholic school in the United States has no merit. |
| Lawsuit demands Vatican name priests accused of sex abuse | An Illinois man is suing the Vatican and Pope Benedict XVI for allegedly covering up sexual abuse by a priest at a Catholic school in Wisconsin. |
| Pentagon: Sexual assault reporting up among troops | Reports of sexual assaults among U.S. military service members rose 11 percent last year, according to a study released by the Pentagon on Tuesday. |
| Can sex offenders be held after serving criminal sentences? | The police photograph is chilling. In grainy black and white tones, it shows 13-year-old Martin Andrews sitting in a makeshift box, his leg chained. The look in his eyes is one of fear, fatigue and disbelief. He had just been rescued from a nightmare. |
| Rape victims offer advice to today's college women | If you are already in college or headed there, sit down. If you're the parent or friend of a student, listen up. |
| Irish Catholic Church covered up child abuse, report says | The Archdiocese of Dublin and other Catholic Church authorities in Ireland covered up clerical child abuse until the mid-1990s, according to a government-commissioned report released Thursday. |
| Sex offender roundup nets 106 fugitives | Operation Shepard, a four-day sweep for fugitive sex offenders in Colorado, has led to 106 arrests, according to the US Marshals Service. |
| Girl, 9, details rape in Congo to photographer | The young girl whispered in a hushed tone. She looked down as she spoke, only glancing up from her dark round eyes every now and then. She wanted to tell more, but she was too ashamed. She was just 9 years old when, she says, Congolese soldiers gang-raped her on her way to school. |
| South Africa fights rape crisis | Alexandra township, north of Johannesburg, is a densely populated melting pot with some of South Africa's worst social ills: poverty, unemployment, HIV/AIDS and crime. |
| Court to consider delays in sex offenders' freedom | The Supreme Court will review a federal law allowing convicted sex offenders deemed "sexually dangerous" by the government to remain in prison even after they have completed their sentences. |
| Scottish court convicts 8 men over child sex abuse | A Scottish court has convicted eight men of child sexual abuse in what police say is the largest pedophile ring ever dismantled in Scotland. |
| 'Sexting' lands teen on sex offender list | When Vanessa Hudgens' naked photos hit the Internet, the "High School Musical" star quickly apologized. But sending nude or seminude pictures, a phenomenon known as sexting, is a fast-growing trend among teens. |
| Reports of sexual assault in military rise in 2008 | Reports of sexual assault among U.S. troops stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan rose 26 percent from the previous year, according to an annual Pentagon report presented to Congress on Tuesday. |
| Fritzl murder trial verdict could come this week | A verdict in the case of Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man accused of keeping his daughter in a cellar for decades and fathering her seven children, could come as early as Thursday, a court official told reporters Monday. |
| Commentary: Get tougher on sex offenders | Early last month, beautiful 25-year-old Laura Garza went missing. Her family holds out hope she is still alive. |
| Sex offender wins $500,000 Alaska lottery | An Alaska lottery held to raise money for a group that helps sexual abuse victims had a surprise winner: a convicted sex offender. |
| 170 arrested in global child porn investigation | More than 170 people around the globe, including at least 61 in the United States, have been arrested in a major operation targeting international child pornographers, officials said Friday. |
| More FLDS members indicted on sexual assault charges | Three more members of a polygamous sect led by Warren Jeffs are facing sexual assault charges, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said Tuesday. |
| Sexual assault in military 'jaw-dropping,' lawmaker says | A congresswoman said Thursday that her "jaw dropped" when military doctors told her that four in 10 women at a veterans hospital reported being sexually assaulted while in the military. |
| Net Providers Block Child Porn | Verizon, Sprint and Time Warner Cable have agreed with New York state officials to block access to child pornography |
| Charity: Aid workers raping, abusing children | Humanitarian aid workers and United Nation peacekeepers are sexually abusing small children in several war-ravaged and food-poor countries, a leading European charity has said. |
| Anonymous Rape Testing Expands | Starting in 2009, rape victims nationwide can have an emergency-room exam, and evidence will be kept on file in case they decide to press charges |
| Sex offenders locked down, in the dark for Halloween | Scores of sex offenders in Anderson, South Carolina, will be corralled for Halloween tonight in a move authorities say is needed to keep kids safe as they trick or treat. |
| Trailer park becomes 'paradise' for sex offenders | It's a community that seems serene, with just a wind chime breaking the silence. But look again and you will see many residents wearing ankle monitor systems that alert authorities if they wander too far away. |
| Putting the Term "Rape" on Trial | A judge bans the word from a sexual assault case, sparking debate over freedom of speech and the right to a fair trial |
| Florida housing sex offenders under bridge | The sparkling blue waters off Miami's Julia Tuttle Causeway look as if they were taken from a postcard. But the causeway's only inhabitants see little paradise in their surroundings. |
| Police: Accuser didn't pursue prior rape report | Police said Friday they did not pursue prior rape allegations by the woman at the center of the Duke University rape case because she apparently did not provide the additional details they requested. |
| Gonzales gives child porn 'wake-up call' | Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Thursday issued what he termed a "wake-up call" to the growing problems of pedophiles prowling the Internet and online images of sexual abuse of children. |
| Thirst led to sex crime suspect's capture | South Carolina fugitive and convicted sex offender Kenneth Hinson, suspected of kidnapping and sexually assaulting two teenage girls, was thirsty, so he showed up at a relative's house seeking a drink of water. That's when police caught up with him. |
| Katrina sent sex offenders off the radar | Governors in states that accepted Katrina evacuees are being urged to locate about 2,000 registered sex offenders who fled the Gulf region during the hurricane's mayhem and may have vanished from legally required tracking. |
| Ex-Scout official sentenced for child porn | A former official with the Boy Scouts of America was sentenced to eight years in prison Monday for receiving and distributing child pornography, according to the U.S. attorney's office in Dallas, Texas. |
| Records: Kin accused sex offender of abuse | Court documents indicate that family members of sex offender John Couey recently told police he sexually abused their daughters years before he was arrested for murdering 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford. |
| Teen pushes change in youth sex offender laws | A teenage girl who was abused as a child and convinced Wisconsin lawmakers to make public the records of juvenile sex offenders, urged Congress Thursday to create similar federal regulation. |
| Sex offenders get Viagra paid for by Medicaid | New York's comptroller urged the nation's top health official Sunday to ban high-risk sex offenders and convicted rapists from receiving Viagra paid for by Medicaid. |
| Bill would tighten tracking rules for sex offenders | A bill introduced in the House and Senate on Wednesday would require sex offenders to register with authorities before their release from prison and require two-time convicts to wear a monitoring device for life. |
| Escaped sex offender caught in Florida | A convicted sex offender who removed his tracking bracelet and bolted earlier this week is in police custody. |
| Police: Sex offender cut off tracking bracelet | Authorities are looking for a sex offender from Florida who remains missing after removing his ankle tracking bracelet and fleeing his mother's house. |
| Congress gets Lunsford legislation | Members of Congress on Thursday were introduced to legislation that would require states to keep closer tabs on convicted sex offenders not behind bars. |
| Documents give details of 9-year-old's death | New details emerged Wednesday on the last moments in the life of slain 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford, while Florida lawmakers moved forward on a bill named for her that would impose tougher penalties on sex offenders. |
| Florida Senate eyes tougher sex offender law | The Florida Senate will take up a measure that would impose tougher penalties for sex offenders after the House of Representatives unanimously approved a similar bill Tuesday. |
| Lunsford may have been buried alive | A convicted sex offender facing capital murder charges in the killing of a 9-year-old Florida girl told investigators he buried her alive, law enforcement sources told CNN Friday night. |
| Police admit computer mix-up in serial rape case | A DNA sample that might have identified an alleged serial rapist two months before a series of rapes in Colorado was not matched to the suspect because of a computer glitch, police said Monday. |
| Abuse experts can testify in Jackson trial | The judge in the Michael Jackson child molestation case ruled Friday that the prosecution can call expert witnesses to testify about the behavior of victims of child sexual abuse trauma. |
| No ruling on prior accusations in Jackson case | The judge in the Michael Jackson child molestation case Wednesday postponed hearing arguments on whether accusations of past sexual abuse against the pop star should be admitted as evidence at his upcoming trial. |
| D.A.'s clever tactic in child sex abuse wars | Last week, a Hampden County, Massachusetts prosecutor indicted Bishop Thomas L. Dupre for child rape with two boys .Dupre was the first Roman Catholic Church bishop to be charged with the crime. |
| Pornography raids net hundreds | Hundreds more people face arrest in Australia one day after police arrested more than 190 in a massive crackdown on child pornography. |
| Police seeing double in rape case involving identical twins | Identical twins not only look exactly alike, they have the same DNA. So what happens when that DNA is evidence in a sexual assault case? |
| Prosecutors try to keep child sex abuser locked up | Prosecutors in Massachusetts tried to convince a judge Friday that convicted pedophile and former Catholic priest James Porter should be held in prison. |
| Pacific command orders conduct review | At least 92 allegations of sexual assault, including rape, involving U.S. Air Force personnel in the Pacific were reported over the past three years, according to a review ordered by the region's commander. |
| Dutroux: I was child sex ring pawn | Former electrician Marc Dutroux has admitted kidnapping and raping young girls but denied murder, insisting he was a pawn of a child-sex gang protected by police and politicians. |
| Child sex abuse back in focus | The "trial of the century" of four people in Belgium on child kidnapping, abuse and murder charges has once again focused attention on child sex abuse and worldwide child pornography rings. |
| The pros and cons of statutory rape laws | Recently, the Georgia Supreme Court heard arguments in Dixon v. State. The case involves the conviction of Marcus Dwayne Dixon for statutory rape and aggravated child molestation. (Dixon was acquitted of rape and several other charges.) |
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