Scouts Canada's chief commissioner, Steve Kent, says he now accepts that his organization did not report all allegations of sexual abuse to the police in past decades, contrary to previous denials.
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Washington (CNN) -- A federal airport screener has been charged with sexual assault after he allegedly assaulted a woman near his home in Manassas, Virginia, police said Tuesday.
Police said Harold Glenn Rodman, 52, was wearing a uniform and displayed a badge at the time of the attack.
Rodman is...
Washington (CNN) -- Sexual assault incidents within the Veterans Affairs system are not being reported up the chain, a new government audit released Tuesday found.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO), the investigative arm of Congress, reported that of nearly 300 sexual assault incidents...
New York (CNN) -- Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former chief of the International Monetary Fund, pleaded not guilty Monday to seven charges involving a May 14 incident in which a housekeeping employee at New York's Sofitel hotel accused him of sexual assault.
Strauss-Kahn, who was considered a...
New York (CNN) -- Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former chief of the International Monetary Fund, pleaded not guilty Monday to seven charges involving a May 14 incident in which a housekeeping employee at New York's Sofitel hotel accused him of sexual assault.
Strauss-Kahn, who was considered a...
A woman cannot give advance consent to sexual activity while unconscious, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday.
The decision restores the conviction of an Ottawa man who regularly practised consensual erotic asphyxiation with his longtime girlfriend.
The case goes back to a particular...
New York (CNN) -- Ex-International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has a new place to stay under house arrest -- a luxury townhouse in New York's tony Tribeca, according to a source with knowledge of his whereabouts.
The judge presiding over his sexual assault case accepted a new...
<div><font size="4">A former Calgary foster parent already accused of numerous counts of sexual assault is facing new charges, police said Monday.
Garry Prokopishin, 52, has been charged with obtaining sex from someone under 18 and sexual contact with a youth by a person in authority.
The...
The Vatican told bishops around the world on Monday that they must make it a global priority to root out sexual abuse of children by priests.
The headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church told bishops in a letter that they should cooperate with civil authorities to end the abuse that has...
A man accused of sneaking into a Surrey, B.C., girl's bedroom in the middle of the night has been found guilty of sexual assault.
Kyle Wayne Berkson broke into the nine-year-old girl's home about 3:45 a.m. April 23, 2010.
The girl testified that she woke up with Berkson on top of her and that...
A former Vernon, B.C., elementary school teacher is on trial for allegedly having more than 200 sexual encounters with one of her students.
Deborah Ashton, now 45, was charged in 2008 with invitation to sexual touching, sexual assault and touching for sexual purposes a person under 14 years of...
A Shell Lake teacher has been found not criminally responsible due to mental illness in the sexual assault of a 15-year-old boy.
Michelle Francoeur was charged following a complaint she had an inappropriate sexual relationship with a boy who was formerly a student at the school where she taught...
A man found dead in Hermitage Park earlier this month was facing numerous sexual assault charges including some involving a minor.
The body of Daniel Nickel, 26, was found near 137th Avenue and 20th Street on Jan. 13.
CBC News has confirmed that Nickel, 26, was facing 11 charges at the time of...
-- A United Nations representative has condemned sexual violence in the Ivory Coast as the White House met with leaders urging the nation's incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo to give up power.
"Following reports of rapes in Cote d'Ivoire, I condemn in the strongest possible terms the employment of...
A Vancouver TV reporter has been charged with sexual offences involving a minor, police say.
Ron Bencze, who is employed by Global BC, has been charged with one count of sexual assault and two counts each of sexual interference of a person under 16 and invitation to sexual touching under 16...
An accused Manitoba sex-offender who was the recent subject of an RCMP search has been found.
Justin Reilly-Ducharme, 21, came in to the Beausejour detachment on Sunday and turned himself in RCMP said.
Last week, police said Reilly-Ducharme, 21, couldn't be located. He was wanted on charges of...
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-- Hall of Fame NFL linebacker Lawrence Taylor pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors Thursday and is expected to be sentenced to six years' probation with sex-offender status, according to the Rockland County, New York...
A Tel Aviv district court finds former Israeli president Moshe Katsav guilty of two cases of rape and one case of forceful sexual harassment.
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A Tel Aviv district court Thursday found former Israeli president Moshe...