Sexual Misconduct

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...

The first grand jury report described Orange County as being a "hotbed of corruption, conflict of interest and abuse of authority" while the next blamed political leaders for the "implosion" of the county's health plan for the poor. This week, jurors...

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....

A Seminole County high school teacher who was arrested and accused of having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old female student was re-arrested Friday after a second female student told investigators they had a sexual relationship when she was 15....

An outside investigation into alleged hazing at Maine West High School found that District 207 officials "conducted themselves properly" and "responded appropriately" when they were reportedly first notified about the allegations. Those findings came in...

Authorities believe a Lake Forest man accused of sexually assaulting three girls could be in Laguna Beach, the Orange County District Attorney's office said Tuesday. Jesus Gomez Montes, 34, is charged with one felony count of alleged sexual...

Los Angeles school district officials knew of sexual misconduct allegations in 2009 against a teacher at a Wilmington campus who was arrested more than three years later, the district’s top administrator confirmed Tuesday. The teacher, Robert...

A Campbell County jury has acquitted a former sheriff's deputy of several serious charges. Samuel Candler, 27, was indicted last September on counts of rape, buying alcohol for a minor, and using an animate object for sexual penetration. According...

Anne Arundel County police are investigating sexual abuse allegations by a former student at Monsignor Slade Catholic School in Glen Burnie, officials of the Archdiocese of Baltimore said Wednesday. In a letter posted on the archdiocese website and...

Months before a federal indictment detailed allegations of corruption at the Baltimore City Detention Center, the smuggling and sexual improprieties at the core of that case had already been outlined in an inmate's lawsuit. Calvin Hemphill, in a...