child sex abuse

Former Penn State President Graham Spanier is asking a county judge to throw out criminal charges accusing him of helping to cover up abuse allegations against former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.

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Working with children would be prohibited for sex offenders, who are considered a risk to repeat their crimes, under a bill that's been introduced by Assemblywomen Caroline Casagrande and Pamela Lampitt.

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The head of the NCAA says the organization's need to enforce its own rules is part of the reason it sued over a new Pennsylvania law designed to keep the $60 million Penn State fine over the Jerry Sandusky scandal in the state.

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A New Jersey lawmaker is pushing a plan to force convicted sex offenders to identify their status on any online social networking site.

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A young man who testified at the child sex abuse trial of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky last summer is suing him, his charity and the university.

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A young man whose sexual-abuse claims triggered the investigation of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky says in a new book Sandusky's wife once called down to the basement while he was being attacked and Sandusky told her he was busy.

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The Boy Scout's 14,000 so-called "perversion list" has now been posted online.

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An Essex County sheriff's officer has been arrested and charged with sexually abusing two minors.

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Its sentencing day for former Penn State Assistant Coach Jerry Sandusky, who was found guilty in June of 45 counts of child sex abuse.

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A former Penn State graduate assistant who says he saw former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky showering with a boy in 2001 and testified against him has sued the university for what he says is defamation and misrepresentation.

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