A 14-year-old girl who was walking her dog on Tuesday morning, election day, near the Chicago home of President Barrack Obama, when was sexually assaulted. The girl told Chicago police that an African American male, who appeared to be between 30 and 40-years-old and stood approximately 6 feet tall, grabbed her from behind and forced ... read more »

The 17-year-old teenage boy who murdered a young Colorado girl and dismembered her body, was charged as an adult on Tuesday, according to prosecutors. Austin Reed Sigg confessed to police that he kidnapped 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway on October 5 while she was walking to school, and then brutally murdered her and chopped up her body ... 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 »

Four boys have been accused of gang raping a 14-year-old girl in her home multiple times in June and attempting to rape a 12-year-old in the home. The 14-year-old testified today via closed circuit television that the four boys – three 13-year-olds and one 12-year-old – entered her Ramapo, New York, home and repeatedly raped ... 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 »

In what is being described as one of the most horrific child sex abuse cases authorities in St. Charles County, Missouri, have ever seen, three babysitters were arrested and charged with sexually assaulting and sodomizing a baby and two young children. According to Lt. Craig McGuire of the St. Charles County Sheriff’s Department,  the three adults ... 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 »

After first being reported missing over two years ago, a Washington Park, Illinois, teen escaped from the home where she was allegedly being held by a man and his mother. The girl, who was 15 when she disappeared, was reported as a missing or runaway juvenile in April 2010, by St. Louis, Missouri, police. According to ... read more »

A man who is not being named to protect the identity of the victim, who is a staff sergeant with the Idaho National Guard who served in Iraq, has admitted to posting ads on Craigslist to solicit men to sexually assault his wife. The husband, 32, posed as his wife and claimed that she had ... read more »

Authorities say that Christopher Bradley Nutt of Escondido, California, was arrested on suspicion of having sex with a minor and several other related charges. 24-year-old Nutt had recently moved to the city from San Dimas, and authorities say he was arrestedin the bedroom of a house of Nightingale Place near East Lincoln Avenue. According to police, ... read more »

A North Brunswick, NJ, special education teacher’s aide employed by North Brunswick Township High School has been arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a 6-year-old girl and a 15-year-old girl on seperate occasions. According to a report by NJToday, Derrick Weeks, 34, of North Brunswick was arrested and charged on May 11 with endangering the welfare of a ... read more »

A woman who was spending the night at her boyfriend’s house told Arlington police that she awoke early Sunday morning to another man, the boyfriend’s neighbor, having sex with her. According to the Arlington Crime Report, Federico Alfonso Umana Barrera, 35, of Arlington, VA was arrested and charged with sexual assault and forgery of a ... read more »