A sex-crazed English teacher who became pregnant by one of the students she sexually abused is facing a new lawsuit from another alleged victim.
A fourth former Redlands High School student alleges in a new lawsuit that he was sexually abused by former teacher Laura Whitehurst beginning in 2007 and that administrators, counselors, and teachers failed to prevent or report it.
Enrique Rodriguez Valladares, a former third-grade teacher at Bowling Green Chacon Language and Science Academy in Sacramento, is sentenced Sacramento Superior Court on April 25, 2025. Valladares, who taught in the Sacramento City Unified School District for 28 years, was sentenced to eight years in prison after he pleaded no contest to sexually abusing students. Read more at: https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article305094696.html#storylink=cpy
Thousands of documents that could contain key details about rampant childhood sexual abuse inside a defunct Santa Clarita detention camp — including so-called “grooming drawings” — were left scattered inside the facility and never turned over to the victims’ attorneys, according to a firm suing L.A. County over the decades-old incidents.
A Michigan couple accused of fraud in a timeshare contract dispute and held in a Mexican prison for 32 days has returned home following negotiations between U.S. and Mexican officials.
There is potentially good news for a Michigan couple held for weeks in a maximum-security Mexican prison because of a dispute over a timeshare.
Michigan Republican Rep. Tom Barrett is traveling to Mexico to visit a Michigan couple jailed because of a dispute with a resort company over timeshare payments.
Congressman Tom Barrett is traveling to Mexico today with the hope of getting a Michigan couple released from prison.
A Michigan couple has been detained in Mexico amid a dispute over timeshare payments with a resort company, and Michigan Rep. Tom Barrett is now on his way to Cancun to try and facilitate their release.
LANSING — Congressman Tom Barrett is traveling to Mexico today with the hope of getting a Michigan couple released from prison.
U.S. Rep. Tom Barrett (R-MI) traveled to Mexico in an effort to get a Spring Arbor couple out of prison and back to mid-Michigan.
A Michigan couple was arrested in Mexico for allegedly defrauding a hospitality company, but their family said they were wrongfully charged.
A Michigan couple is reportedly being "held captive" in a Mexico jail amid an alleged dispute with a timeshare company, the family has claimed
Beong-Soo Kim, a former federal prosecutor and the university’s general counsel, will take over as interim president when Carol Folt steps down.
Despite repeatedly defending his office’s handling of the sex abuse case against West Linn doctor David Farley, which ultimately led to no charges, Clackamas County District Attorney John Wentworth has now asked the Oregon Department of Justice to take on the case.
Clackamas County’s district attorney has asked Oregon’s attorney general to take over an investigation into a former West Linn doctor accused by dozens of former patients of sexual abuse.
The agreement, believed to be the largest single settlement of its kind by a Catholic archdiocese, will settle 1,353 claims of childhood sexual abuse.
The settlement is the highest single payout by an archdiocese, experts said, and brings Los Angeles’s cumulative payout in sex abuse lawsuits to more than $1.5 billion.
Testifying Wednesday before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee, Breane Wingfield said she was 14 when, in 2005, she was sexually assaulted in a van by a deputy probation officer employed at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey.
A band teacher for an Anaheim junior high school is facing consequences after a woman revealed what she calls a decades-old secret. Teacher Steve Graves, 61, is accused of sexual abuse of two teenage girls nearly 40 years ago.
The three women sit huddled together, hands and arms intertwined, heads on each other’s shoulders. For too long, each felt utterly alone and it’s as if their physical closeness gives them a boost of strength.
Anaheim police are investigating a 61-year-old band teacher after two women accused him of having inappropriate relationships with them while they were students of his at Loara High School in the 1980s, authorities said on Friday, Sept. 13.
A new report from the Inspector General reveals that the FBI continued to mishandle child sex abuse claims, despite training policy updates and system changes after the Larry Nassar abuse scandal.
ABC News’ Juju Chang speaks with John C. Manly, the attorney representing survivors of sexual assault by Larry Nassar, about the watchdog report from the DOJ regarding sexual abuse against children.
The Justice Department inspector general said Thursday that the FBI is still not adequately handling allegations of child sex abuse, years after the Larry Nassar scandal led to a series of new rules on such investigations.
Senior FBI official said bureau made mistakes in investigating crimes against children but that ‘vast majority of work’ handled appropriately.
The report comes three years after another report criticized the FBI's handling of allegations against convicted sexual abuser Larry Nassar.
The Justice Department’s inspector general cited significant improvements even as he identified structural issues, like high caseloads, that continue to hamper progress.
'They paid out everything they had in terms of coverage,' an attorney for the victims
The first known survivor of sexual abuse at the hands of prolific pedophile Larry Nassar is advocating for sex awareness education in children from when they are in kindergarten.
Two boys allegedly targeted by a Beaumont Unified School District teacher's aide suspected of sending them explicit images and repeatedly harassing them in an attempt to sleep with them sued her and the district for infliction of emotional distress and negligence, it was announced today.
SAN JOSE — Eleven girls who say they were sexually abused by a convicted former teacher are suing the Alum Rock Union School District, claiming administrators conspired to cover up his past misconduct and move him around schools instead of reporting him to authorities.
A new lawsuit filed on behalf of students accuses the Alum Rock Union School District of placing a “serial pedophile” in three San Jose schools where he allegedly abused more than thirty female students.
Eleven victims in a lawsuit filed on Wednesday, June 12, allege the current interim superintendent at the Alum Rock Union Elementary School District and former staff conspired to cover up sexual abuse by a former teacher.
NYS Supreme Court Judge Alexandra Murphy rejected motions filed by the Village of Mt. Kisco and the Boys & Girls Club to remove themselves from lawsuits filed by 11 alleged victims of James “Jimmy” Collins. Collins, now in prison, is accused of sexually abusing 16 boys over a period of 40 years, starting in the 1970’s in his role as a coach, counselor and janitor for the Village of Mt. Kisco, the Boys Club of Northern Westchester and Chappaqua School District.
