sexual abuse

A “violent fugitive” wanted on child rape and sexual abuse charges who fled New Bedford, Massachusetts, with his children this month has been captured in Connecticut, authorities said Friday. Leon Mejia-Vicente’s children, 17 and 5, were with him and placed into the custody of Connecticut youth services, according to the New Bedford Police Department and Bristol County District Attorney’s Office….

Recent weeks have seen an especially intense set of revelations about sexual assault and misconduct in U.S. churches.

A former Roman Catholic priest who served at several Rhode Island parishes has been indicted on a charge of sexually assaulting a juvenile about 40 years ago, the state attorney general’s office said Monday. Kevin Fisette, 66, is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday on a charge of first-degree sexual assault, authorities said. The alleged assault on a boy occurred in…

The U.S. Olympic Committee is “less focused on athlete well-being and more focused on winning,” says Marci Hamilton, chair of the Game Over Commission. She joined LX News to talk about the commission’s recent report, which says the current business of sports places athletes at risk of abuse.

Lawyers for Prince Andrew and his accuser Virginia Giuffre have filed their initial requests for witnesses in her lawsuit accusing the British royal of sexually abusing her at age 17.

British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted Wednesday of luring teenage girls to be sexually abused by late sex criminal and financier Jeffrey Epstein.

A woman testified at Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex crimes trial that Jeffrey Epstein took her to meet Donald Trump when she was 14 years old.

The complaint accuses Andrew Cuomo of forcible touching of a female executive assistant in December in the New York governor’s mansion.

The FBI and the U.S. Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service are looking for more information and potentially more victims of a former CIA employee who pleaded guilty to sexual abuse charges in July.

A former Drexel University neurologist accused of exploiting his patients’ severe pain and addiction to medication to sexually abuse them over a 15-year span in Philadelphia, New York and New Jersey, now faces a federal indictment.

The head of France’s Catholic bishops conference is asking forgiveness from the estimated 330,000 victims of child sex abuse by the church found in a groundbreaking report.

The National Women’s Soccer League has called off its weekend games amid sexual abuse allegations against former North Carolina Courage coach Paul Riley.

The Cuban-American superstar spoke for the first time publicly about the abuse and its effects on her during an episode of the Facebook Watch show “Red Table Talk: The Estefans.”

R&B singer R. Kelly was found guilty Monday on all counts in a high-profile sex-trafficking case by a federal jury in Brooklyn.

Sarah Klein was first abused by Larry Nassar in 1988 when she was just 8 years old. Today she is a pillar of support for the younger victims of the USA Gymnastics doctor’s abuse. They include Olympians Simone Biles and McKayla Maroney, who testified before the U.S. Senate on Wednesday about failures by the Department of Justice and FBI to...

Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney testifies at a U.S. Senate hearing on the FBI’s mishandling of the Larry Nassar sexual abuse case.

Olympic gymnast Simone Biles testifies at a U.S. Senate hearing on the FBI’s handling of the Larry Nassar sexual abuse case.

The lawsuits concern complaints about alleged abuse that occurred at Mount Saint John School, a former ministry and residential school for at-risk children in Deep River.

The Diocese of Norwich has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and church officials say it is a move to help manage a response to nearly 60 lawsuits filed against the Diocese over alleged abuse at the Mount Saint John School.

Actress and Howard University Dean Phylicia Rashad faced criticism after celebrating the release of Bill Cosby from prison.