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The attorney for the family of a California girl who committed suicide after she was sexually battered and then cyberbullied with a humiliating photo plans to file a civil action against the suspects Monday.

Orange County prosecutors Monday filed additional charges against a professional clown arrested Friday on suspicion of kidnapping and raping a girl nine years ago.

Moreno Valley police were looking Monday for a 19-year-old man suspected of taking part in what authorities said was the gang rape of an 11-year-old girl.

The executive director of Napa State Hospital, a Northern California mental institution whose patients include convicted child molesters, was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of sexually molesting a foster child in his care for more than a decade.

Roman Polanski seemed to have little to lose last summer when his lawyers pressed to dismiss the child rape case in California that has haunted him since he fled to France three decades ago.

California police investigating the alleged rape of a 15-year-old girl outside a high school homecoming dance have arrested five people, a police spokesman said today.

A 30-year-old Northern California woman has pleaded not guilty to charges that she had sex with three teenage boys.

Police are searching for any other alleged victims of a Sunday school teacher accused of raping and killing an 8-year-old girl from Tracy, California. While conceding "there has been no indication this has happened," Tracy Police Sgt. Tony Sheneman said the concern is that the suspect, Melissa Huckaby, is a Sunday school teacher and did have contact with children.