A Texas first grade teacher at a private school in Humble is being accused of inappropriately touching one of her students, but claims the charge is false because she doesn’t like black people. The 7-year-old accuser is believed to be African American. The teacher, Irene Esther Stokes, 61, was charged with child indecency on April ... read more »

A 22-year-old Naperville, Ill. man has filed a lawsuit against Lifetime Fitness alleging one of their personal trainers groomed and molested him for an extended period of time starting when he was 16-years-old. The unidentified plaintiff claims that 60-year-0ld Robert Theodore went through an extensive grooming period where he wooed the teen’s parents and and ... read more »

An ex-Boy Scout is bringing a civil case against the Boys Scouts of America after claiming that he was 13-years-old when a leader molested him 2007.  As a result, about 120,000 pages of internal Boy Scouts files could be made public if the documents are used as evidence. The Boy Scouts of America tried to ... read more »

A Chicago family is suing the Chicago Board of Education for failing to keep their daughter safe and reporting a witnessed abduction. The victim was a student at Cook Elementary on Chicago’s south side back in May. The family filed their lawsuit this week. The lawsuit claims that their daughter was abducted by a stranger, ... read more »

Jerry Sandusky, the Penn State assistant football coach accused of molesting 10 boys during his 15-year-reign at the division one school, has been sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison on Tuesday for his sexual assault against children conviction. Eight of the children Sandusky was accused of molesting testified at his trial earlier this ... read more »

According to a report in the Los Angeles Times, the Boy Scouts of America’s confidential internal files revealed that the organization failed to report hundreds of child sex abuse cases to authorities over a period of twenty years. The Los Angeles Times obtained over 1,600 of the scouting organization’s documents dating from 1971-1991.  In those documents, BSA officials urged admitted child molesters to ... read more »

[trigger warning] Gawker editor Cord Jefferson responded to critics today on his tumblr page about his pedophile advocacy piece from Friday, entitled, “Born This Way: Sympathy and Science for Those Who Want to Have Sex With Children.” While Jefferson says he stands behind his piece, he says if he had to do it all over, ... read more »

A firestorm has erupted over an editorial published on Friday an editor of Gawker, advocating for pedophiles and suggesting that pedophile challenges are a civil rights issue. Its author, Cord Jefferson, fully acknowledged the article’s agenda, tweeting on Friday, “I wrote this big piece about trying to find sympathy and new treatments for pedophiles. Check it ... read more »

23-year-old Joshua Curtis Ritchie was arrested on August 21 after a 5-year-old boy told his parents that Ritchie had sexually abused him. After the arrest, Ritchie confessed to police that he had sexually abused 23 children ranging in age from 5-years-old to twelve-years-old. Ritchie’s employment gave him access to hundreds if not thousands of children.  He ... read more »

Sedro-Wooley, Washington, parents pulled off an elaborate sting to prove to their daughter that her registered sex offender boyfriend, Liam Elms, was bad news. Jesper and Julie Myrfors said that when their 16-year-old daughter first introduced them to Elms he seemed charming.  Then, they found out that he was a registered sex offender and tried, ... read more »

The son of an employee at at Momma’s Place Christian Academy has been accused of sexually and physically abusing four preschool-aged children while “helping out” at the Pinson, Alabama, day care.  According to the day care owners, he was not employed by the day care. Chief Deputy Randy Christian of the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office ... read more »

Former daycare teacher Harold Meyers, 44, of 104   Waldorf Ave., Bridgeport, Connecticut, has been charged with two counts each of third-degree sexual assault and two counts of risk of injury arising from allegations he molested two girls at a daycare center where he worked about two years ago.  He was held overnight on $150,000 ... read more »

19-year-old Jeremiah Christian Thompson was arraigned on Friday, charged with third-degree rape of a child, a Class C felony.  Thompson is a registered sex offender and was convicted of communicating with a minor for immoral purposes and fourth-degree assault in February 2010.  He also accepted a plea deal at the time to a misdemeanor charge ... read more »

The Zion Baptist church daycare center on the 1200 block of Kenilworth  Avenue in Northeast Washington, D.C. was closed on Wednesday amid accusations of sexual abuse to a three-year-old boy. On April 10th at 1 p.m. a daycare coordinator witnessed a male employee standing over the sleeping child.  According to a report by My Fox D.C., when ... read more »

The Rev. Terry W. Specht, a prominent priest in the diocese that oversees Northern Virginia, is being investegated following accusations of sexual misconduct with a minor boy which allegedly occurred during the late 1990s while he was a parochial vicar at St. Mary of Sorrows Church in Fairfax. According to the Washington Post, Specht was ... read more »