SAN FRANCISCO—Two former officers of a federal women’s prison in California pleaded guilty Thursday to multiple counts of sexual abuse, the latest to be prosecuted following an Associated Press investigation last year resulting in prison sentences for the former warden and chaplain. Andrew Jones, a former cook supervisor at Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, pleaded…

MADISON, Wis.—The defrocked Roman Catholic cardinal who became the face of the church’s clergy sex abuse crisis has been charged in Wisconsin with sexually assaulting an 18-year-old man more than 45 years ago, court records show. A criminal complaint filed Friday alleges that Theodore McCarrick, who was removed from the priesthood in 2019 after a…

LAS VEGAS—A Nevada judge has thrown out a drug trafficking charge against a former “Dances With Wolves” actor but upheld a Las Vegas grand jury’s sweeping indictment on 18 sexual abuse-related felony crimes. In an order issued late Friday afternoon, Clark County District Court Judge Carli Kierny said state prosecutors presented enough evidence for “a…

Tennessee lawmakers are deliberating a bill that would define male and female in state law based on a person’s biological sex at birth. The proposed law would require government-issued IDs to “accurately reflect” the sex marker of a person’s original birth certificate. Tennessee Senate Bill 1440 would create a new subsection in the state’s legal…

LAS VEGAS—Charges are mounting against a “Dances With Wolves” actor who is accused of sexually abusing and trafficking indigenous women and girls in the United States and Canada for decades. A grand jury in Nevada indicted Nathan Chasing Horse on Wednesday on 19 counts, expanding on previous charges of sexual assault, trafficking and child abuse…

BRUSSELS—Belgian police detained 25 people Tuesday as part of a human trafficking probe targeting an alleged criminal organization suspected of sending Chinese women to Europe and forcing them into prostitution, the federal prosecutor’s office said. Police raided 26 places across Belgium, discovering 20 alleged victims, and one suspect was detained in Spain, the office said,…

BURLINGTON, Vt.—A former CNN television producer pleaded guilty Monday in federal court to using interstate commerce to entice and coerce a 9-year-old girl to engage in sexual activity at his Vermont ski house. As part of the plea deal, the government will drop the two remaining counts of enticement of a minor against John Griffin,…

SAN ANTONIO—A former Border Patrol agent who confessed to killing four sex workers in 2018 was convicted Wednesday of capital murder, after jurors heard recordings of him telling investigators he was trying to “clean up the streets” of his South Texas hometown. Juan David Ortiz, 39, receives an automatic sentence of life in prison without…

DALLAS, Texas—Four families left one of the richest and most prestigious school districts in Texas over a curriculum they say was increasingly focused on sex, gender, and race, instead of classical education. Parents said in an interview with The Epoch Times that the pandemic exposed problems within the Highland Park Independent School District (ISD) in…

Parents in Katy, Texas, are pushing school libraries to remove books with sexual content, including one with step-by-step instructions on how to have gay sex and use sex apps to find partners. The book was featured on The Katy Railway, an Instagram site fighting to remove sexualized content from schools in the highly-rated Katy ISD…