Former megachurch pastor Robert Morris stands before an Osage County judge, facing allegations of child sexual abuse stemming from the 1980s.

Tonight -- as the world celebrates a new pope leaders of the Catholic Church in Washington State are waging a fight against a new law that requires clergy to report sexual abuse they learn about ...

Francisco Zavala, a 35-year-old Visalia man, was arrested on suspicion of possessing child sexual abuse material after a ...

Five North Texas men have been arrested and are facing federal charges related to distribution and possession of child ...

Pope Leo is under scrutiny for how he handled abuse cases as head of the Augustinians. Here’s what we’re learning.

Bishops often imposed such restrictions — with varying levels of enforcement and typically without warning the public — until the explosive sex-abuse scandal exposed by the Boston Globe in 2002 in the ...

A man was sentenced to 43 years to life in prison for sexually abusing a child over an eight-year period in Schenectady. Frank Mastroianni, 56, was convicted in March after a predatory sexual assault ...

Jacqueline Ma, once a celebrated teacher, received a 30-year-to-life sentence for sexually abusing two young boys.

During a brief hearing that lasted just minutes inside a Pawhuska courtroom, Robert Morris listened as a judge scheduled his ...

A Glenville man convicted earlier this year of multiple counts of sexually abusing a child over the span of nearly a decade ...

Alexander Aiello, 24, of Gloucester, was charged with one count of possession of child pornography and will appear in federal court in Boston at a later date, the US attorney's office said.

A former San Diego County Teacher of the Year who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing two of her sixth-grade students was ...