Teens, Sexual Abuse | featured news

An Oregon jury finds the Boy Scouts of America negligent in a case of repeated sexual abuse by an assistant Scoutmaster in the 1980s and awards the plaintiff $1.4 million.

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In the latest issue of Essence magazine, Latifah says the abuse occurred over a period of time, and at the hands of a teenager charged with watching her.

A young man at the Texas Youth Commission’s Crockett State School committed suicide early Monday – the first death at one of the state’s juvenile facilities since before the agency’s 2007 sexual abuse scandal.

Defense attorney for a high school track coach charged with sexually abusing one of her athletes has demanded the return of more than 200 photos seized as evidence.