Child endangerment tip leads to arrest of several sex offenders
A police tip of a child endangerment suspect has led to the arrest of several Pittsburgh-area sex offenders.
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A police tip of a child endangerment suspect has led to the arrest of several Pittsburgh-area sex offenders.
The four men are facing charges including possession of child pornography and enticing a minor for sex.
The men are accused of sexually assaulting and exploiting children while affiliated with Jehovah's Witness congregations.
A man arrested on child rape charges last month in Tennessee could have victims in nine other states, a prosecutor said Monday.
A retired priest who once oversaw the safety of children in a Catholic diocese in the Washington suburbs has been charged with sexually assaulting a child.
A youth sports coach who has worked at multiple programs in Maryland and Pennsylvania has been charged with child sexual assault.
The former Penn State president who was forced out as the school's top administrator when Jerry Sandusky was arrested a decade ago will soon have to report to jail after a judge on Wednesday upheld a sentence issued four years ago.
Child sexual abuse victims and their advocates took state Senator Kim Ward to task for blocking legislation that would provide a two-year window to sue their alleged abusers.
Victims of child sex abuse are looking for justice and their day in court.
For the first time, prominent Republican state senators on Wednesday put their support behind legislation in Pennsylvania to change the law to allow now-adult victims of child sexual abuse to sue the perpetrators or institutions that did not prevent it when it happened years or decades ago.
The state House of Representatives showed solid support Tuesday for enacting a two-year lawsuit window for child victims of sexual abuse as a regular bill, two weeks after the Legislature gave its first round of approval to a similar constitutional amendment.
Majority Republicans in the state Senate announced Monday they will not employ a rarely used emergency process to amend the Pennsylvania Constitution to give victims of child sexual abuse a 2-year window in which to file civil lawsuits.
Pennsylvania lawmakers on Monday launched a rarely used emergency process to amend the state constitution, advancing a proposal that would give victims of child sexual abuse a 2-year window to file otherwise outdated civil lawsuits.
The Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh is disclosing a report of sex abuse against a priest who died in 2019.
An Allegheny County Jail inmate and a woman are facing sexual abuse of children charges after a "disturbing" virtual visit.
A man from McKeesport accused of pretending to be a teen girl online to get sexually explicit photos of minors will spend 18 years behind bars.
A federal appeals court on Tuesday reinstated former Penn State President Graham Spanier's conviction for child endangerment over his handling of a report that former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky had sexually abused a boy in a team shower.
Tomorrow marks two years since a scathing grand jury report laid out in nauseating detail decades of the sexual abuse of underage victims at the hands of the clergy.
A lawsuit has been filed against the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh alleging that a man was sexually assaulted and raped by a priest when he was an altar boy.
A man from Ross Township was arrested on child sex charges.
The FBI's branch office in Pittsburgh wants to warn people about the dark side of Zoom.
The FBI is warning of a Zoom participant who is broadcasting a video depicting child sexual abuse material.
Cases have been filed for three men who accuse Pittsburgh-area Catholic priests for sexually abusing them.
Senators passed a measure relaxing criminal and civil statutes of limitations in sexual abuse cases where children and young adults are the victims.
State senators are hearing from victims, church advocates, lawyers, and others about whether Pennsylvania should alter rules for child sexual abuse claims that occurred too long ago to file a lawsuit.