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A federal appeals court in San Francisco Wednesday overturned the conviction and ordered a new trial for a former East Bay professor who had pleaded guilty to sexually abusing an infant in Missouri in 2009.
A 68-year-old man who lived at a child care facility in Sunnyvale operated by a relative has been arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing children there, police said.
A San Jose jury on Tuesday found a former day care worker guilty of sexually abusing nine children at two facilities in San Jose, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
A Hayward police officer was arrested over the weekend on suspicion of sexually abusing several girls in Livermore before he became part of the force, Livermore police said Monday.
Former Morgan Hill YMCA worker Nicolas Lhermine will face charges of lewd and lascivious behavior with children aged 7 and 3.5 years old.
A Salinas man was sentenced Thursday to 79 years in prison for sexual crimes against his teenage stepdaughter over a four-year period.
A former San Mateo child psychiatrist was sentenced to 8 years in prison Monday afternoon for molestations of five boys who came to him for counseling in the 1990s.
A Morgan Hill man was arrested earlier this week on suspicion of committing lewd and lascivious acts with a child.
A Brentwood man was arrested Tuesday after a victim alleged he had been sexually assaulted for years as a boy beginning about 20 years ago, Brentwood police said Thursday.
A former Aragon High School water polo coach convicted of sexually abusing a student collapsed to the floor of a San Mateo County courtroom Wednesday morning when he was sentenced to two years in state prison for his crimes, the district attorney said.
Three children have been arrested on charges of making threats online against one of the teen victims of Christine Hubbs, the so-called Hummer Mom convicted of sexually abusing two boys.
A prominent member of the US Catholic hierarchy who will take part in the selection of the next pope says retired Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony should also participate in the process.
The father of three children has sued Sacramento County's child protective services agency, claiming the kids were sexually assaulted by a registered sex offender who was living at their grandmother's house.
A young woman who was abused by a teacher during her days at a middle school in Clayton filed a lawsuit this week against that teacher, the school principal and the Mt. Diablo Unified School District.
Leaders of SNAP, Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, question why Cardinal Roger Mahoney is still being allowed to select a new pope.
Jurors began deliberating Friday morning in the trial of a San Jose elementary school principal accused of failing to report the suspected sexual abuse of a child by a teacher.
Santa Clara County prosecutors announced Wednesday they will not seek perjury charges against Fr. Jerold Lindner, a Jesuit priest who allegedly lied under oath at the trial of a man accused of attacking Lindner for molesting him more than 30 years ago.
Santa Clara County prosecutors Friday officially announced their decision not to re-file misdemeanor charges against William Lynch for beating Fr. Jerold Lindner, who Lynch claims molested him more than three decades ago.
The sports world - and in fact, much of the country and general public - continues to reel from Thursday's release of a 267-page report on the Penn State sexual molestation scandal.
A Petaluma man has been sentenced to 165 years to life in prison for molesting his two biological daughters under 14 years old, Sonoma County District Attorney Jill Ravitch said.
Santa Clara County prosecutors have decided not to re-file charges against a man acquitted of beating a priest who allegedly molested him more than 30 years ago.
After a Santa Clara County jury found him not guilty, William Lynch wants the priest that allegedly molested him as a child to be charged with perjury.
A San Francisco man was acquitted Thursday of assaulting a retired South Bay priest who he claimed had molested him decades ago as a boy.
The Moraga Country Club has reversed a decision to cancel a speech and swim clinic by a sex-abuse victim and has re-invited her with an apology, following a wave of criticism over the decision.
A Moraga School District official will not be charged with a crime for failing to report a former student's sex-abuse allegations against a science teacher, Moraga police Chief Robert Priebe said Friday.
