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 »

Robert Pimentel, 57, a former fourth grade teacher at George de la Torre Jr. Elementary School in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly committing lewd acts and sexually abusing 20 children and one adult.  According to court records, prosecutors have filed 15 charges involving sexual abuse and lewd ... read more »

Two of Octomom’s former nannies are alleging that one of Nadya Suleman’s sons was caught sexually abusing one of his sisters and that Nadya “Octomom” Suleman did nothing about it. CBS2 LA broke the story on Friday, claiming Suleman’s two former nannies went to authorities to report the new allegations of abuse. One of the nannies told ... 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 »

Father Benedict Groeschel, former head of the Office of Spiritual Development for the Archdiocese of New York, became of the ire of child advocates when he told the National Catholic Register recently that pedophiles are the victims, not the children they molest as most people are led to believe. The Rev. tried to turn the ... 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 »

The 18-year-old son of a couple running a home day care was arrested Monday on sexual abuse charges amid accusations from two girls authorities describe as “under the age of twelve.” Police say that the parents of the girls, who are sisters, told them that the girls got very upset every day last week when it was time for ... read more »

Myriah Moreland, 20, of Montesano, Washington, was arrested for allegedly sexually abusing her six-month-old son and sharing images and videos of it on the Internet. Moreland has been accused of sharing child pornography with Christopher Dupea, also 20, over social networking sites and through text messages. According to investigators, the pair initially began exchanging sexually ... read more »

On Wednesday, a federal judge sentenced Andrew Keith, 29, of Mason, Ohio to 80 years in prison for molesting boys at his mother’s in-home day care and sharing photos he had taken of the abuse over the Internet.  Keith plead guilty to 15 counts of producing child pornography and one count each of transportation and possession of ... 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 »

Richard Finkbiner, of Brazil, Indiana was taken into custody Friday, April 9, 2012. The 39 year-old is charged with two preliminary counts of sexual exploitation of a child. The criminal complaints states that a 14-year-old boy from Michigan was recorded by Finkbiner exposing himself to a webcam. Finkbiner then blackmailed the boy into producing child ... read more »

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has placed a former teacher at a prominent private elementary school in Washington, D.C. on its list of the 10 most wanted fugitives over allegations that he possessed and produced child pornography. The investigation into Eric Justin Toth started four years ago when somebody found pornographic images on Toth’s camera ... read more »

The teacher who left his wife and three children to move in with his 18-year-old former student was arrested Friday for allegedly sexually abusing a different student 14 years ago. Christopher James Hooker, 41, made national headlines in February when he revealed his relationship with 18-year-old Jordan Powers, who he met while teaching at Enochs ... read more »

For Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader Sarah Jones, maintaining a clean reputation isn’t easy. The 26-year-old ex-teacher’s first brush with scandal came when she sued TheDirty.com for publishing several derogatory posts about her. Now Jones will be the one facing legal action as a Kentucky grand jury indicted her Thursday on charges of first-degree sexual abuse for ... read more »

According to the New York Times, Penn State football coach Joe Paterno will not return next season as questions continue to pile up about how the 84-year-old coach handled the allegations of sexual abuse made against Jerry Sandusky,  the former defensive coordinator for the Nittany Lions. Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was ... read more »