Sexual Misconduct

FRUITLAND PARK — The city could end up paying $150,000 to settle a federal sexual-harassment lawsuit that alleges former City Manager Ralph Bowers forced one of his employees to continue a sexual relationship with him, according to city records....

Internal church records released Tuesday show that Chicago Jesuits consciously concealed the crimes of convicted sex offender Donald McGuire for more than 40 years as the prominent Roman Catholic priest continued to sexually abuse dozens of children...

WASHINGTON — The Army suspended the commander of its main basic training camp Tuesday for alleged adultery, the latest in a string of military officers accused of sexual misconduct. Brig. Gen. Bryan T. Roberts, a 29-year Army veteran, was...

A North Lauderdale man is accused of sexually battering a 7-year-old girl, according to a Broward Sheriff's Office report. Hermann Londono, 57, was charged with sexual battery on a child under 12 and was ordered held without bond Tuesday during his...

The Baltimore City Detention Center had the nation's second-highest rate of sexual contact between jail staff and inmates, according to a U.S. Department of Justice study released less than a month after federal prosecutors accused corrections officers at...

The suspensions meted out to 31 high school students in San Diego for being in a "twerking" video were "illegal and ill-advised" and should be reconsidered, the ACLU said in a letter to the school principal Thursday. The two-day suspensions do not fit...

A Sanford pastor accused of watching child porn while working at Disney's Port Orleans resort has been released from the Orange County Jail and removed as a church leader. Cedric Eugene Cuthbert "has been relieved of all of his pastoral duties" at the...

  The San Diego school board has declined to overturn the two-day suspensions meted out to 31 high-school students for being part of a "twerking video" shot on campus. After hearing complaints from parents that the suspensions were too harsh and could...

A former Los Angeles Unified School District teacher was ordered to stand trial on 14 charges of sexually assaulting nine students and a relative, the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office said. A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge in...

Prosecutors say that a husband-and-wife team held vulnerable young women against their will at motels and homes in Broward and Palm Beach counties, forcing them to work as prostitutes. But defense attorneys for Mackenley Desir, 34, and his wife, Genet...

SOUTH BEND — St. Joseph County prosecutors have charged a New Carlisle man with sexual misconduct with a minor for allegedly having sex with a 15-year-old girl. David Tebout, 28, is charged with three counts of sexual misconduct with a minor, a...

Lyman High School teacher Scott Kimbrough was granted $30,000 bond Saturday morning after his second arrest on child-sex-abuse charges, the Seminole County Sheriff's Office said. Kimbrough was ordered to wear a GPS-monitoring device if he makes bail....