Sexual Misconduct

A former teacher arrested on sexual abuse allegations involving 20 children was previously alleged to have inappropriately touched students as early as 2002, but the accusations went unreported, a top LAUSD official said Thursday. Robert Pimentel, 57, a...

U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson has asked Attorney General Eric Holder to launch a federal investigation into deaths at the defunct Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna. His letter to Holder follows release of a report earlier this week by University of...

A well-known Orange County church has been roiled by allegations that a volunteer sexually assaulted children. A Sunday school volunteer at Rock Harbor Church in Costa Mesa allegedly formed relationships with children in his church and went on to...

Attorneys filed four more lawsuits this week in connection with lewd-conduct charges against a former teacher at Miramonte Elementary School....

A Sunday school volunteer at a Costa Mesa church has been arrested for sexually abusing children, according to church leaders and court documents....

Los Angeles school officials have been slow to act on some sexual misconduct allegations and often failed to notify, as required by law, the state agency that oversees the credentials of teachers, state auditors have concluded....

Puppeteer Kevin Clash, the voice of Elmo on "Sesame Street" for the better part of the last three decades, resigned Tuesday amid allegations of a second sexual relationship with a teenage boy. The development was as much a blow for Clash, whose name was...

A 17-year-old girl who was raised in Williamsburg’s Satmar Hasidic community testified in criminal court Tuesday that an older man who was supposed to counsel her instead sexually violated her, starting when she was just 12 years old. The thin,...

The Catholic-school teacher had a pre-teen student pinned to the ground in his Baltimore classroom, the girl's blouse open and her chest exposed when the doorknob suddenly turned and the school principal — a nun — burst in. The screaming...

No surprise: Fruitland Park officials are being threatened with a lawsuit from an employee who says she was sexually harassed by City Manager Ralph Bowers. The demand to avoid a suit: $100,000 within 30 days. Bowers, meanwhile, remains suspended...

Kevin Clash, the puppeteer who provides the voice of Elmo on "Sesame Street," resigned Tuesday after a man filed a lawsuit accusing him of conducting an underage sexual relationship. The lawsuit was filed in a New York court Tuesday, a week after another...

KENT COUNTY, Mich. – Police in west Michigan say a sexual assault cold case from 1981 has been reopened and they have a suspect. The suspect is linked to a similar crime in Elkhart County. On December 17, 1981, a 23-year-old woman was at her...