sexual abuse

Illinois’ attorney general has released the results of a sweeping investigation into allegations of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy, saying investigators found that 451 clergy sexually abused nearly 2,000 children since 1950. That's far more than the 103 individuals the church had named when the state review began in 2018.

Two high school teachers in Hopkins County Schools are facing charges — including alleged sexual abuse and distributing “obscene matter” to minors — after being arrested by local law enforcement this week.

Members of Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee met Tuesday to respond to an investigative report showing decades of sex abuse cover-ups.

Gov. Andy Beshear said that if Roe v Wade is overturned, it will mean a near total ban on abortion in the state.

The Vatican has restored a priest of his duties within the Catholic Diocese of Owensboro. Father Joseph Edward Bradley was permanently suspended from…

Federal prosecutors in New York say that Donnell Russell placed a phone call threatening gun violence in order to stop an advance screening of the Lifetime docuseries in December 2018.

In one of his last acts before leaving office, Governor Matt Bevin has pardoned a Kentucky man convicted of sexually abusing his young stepdaughter. The…

More than a decade after the Southern Baptist Convention rejected the idea of creating a database of ministers credibly accused of sexual abuse, leaders…

A report issued Friday by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville says 22 of its priests have been “credibly accused” of child sexual abuse dating…

A jury in Kentucky has convicted a former assistant basketball coach and instructional assistant at Bowling Green High School of a child sex charge.The…