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Former NFL player Lawrence Taylor was also indicted on charges of endangering the welfare of a child and patronizing a prostitute. Former Giants great Lawrence Taylor was indicted Wednesday for having sex with a teenage prostitute.

Arizona police arrested the parents of an 8-year-old Liberian girl who was allegedly sexually assaulted by four boys in July.

Court records show Roman Polanski agreed to pay his sexual assault victim $500,000 to settle a lawsuit 15 years after he fled the United States.

For years, a man regularly confined his adolescent stepson to a bedroom rigged with an alarm, molested him several times a week and often denied him food and water, police said.

In a Tampa middle school locker room, prosecutors say four flag football players held down a younger teammate and committed a horrifying assault: Raping him with a hockey stick and a broom handle.

Joseph Brooks, 71, the songwriter and director behind "You Light Up My Life," has been indicted on charges of raping or sexually assaulting women who answered audition ads on Craigslist.