Friday marked six years since passage of New York's Child Victims Act (CVA) − a landmark law empowering survivors of childhood sexual abuse to seek justice after years of silence.

The law provides the right to a victim of sexual assault to terminate her pregnancy medically, the Allahabad High Court has ...

The teenager who allegedly fathered a child with his middle school teacher, Laura Caron, said he was the one who initiated the relationship.

Maryland senators are revealing which budget items are on the chopping block as anxiety regarding federal funding under President Donald Trump continues to loom large during an already fraught fiscal ...

Pa., have reintroduced the Stopping Harmful Image Exploitation and Limiting Distribution (SHIELD) Act, Van Drew said Tuesday.

Dear PAO, Sergio is my friend, and he was accused of illegal trafficking in persons. He narrated that the victim is a minor ...

New documents explain what led to a Cañon City man being charged with the alleged sexual assault of a child, at a youth ...

Following the death of Ashton Provost on Aug. 20, 2023 and her Jan. 2025 murder trial, the Provost family said they've ...

Judicial reasoning that perpetuates the problematic belief that marriage is a remedy for rape not only violates the autonomy ...

A Homestead man is facing two felony charges after authorities said he went up to a homeless woman in the city, then beat and sexually battered her in an apparent act of revenge over a stolen mountain ...

The Chhattisgarh High Court has found Section 377, which provides punishment for unnatural offences, to be repugnant to ...