The Boy Scouts of America has filed for bankruptcy protection as it faces a barrage of new sex-abuse lawsuits.

A jury has convicted a former Michigan State University gymnastics coach of lying to police when she denied that two teen athletes told her of sexual abuse by sports doctor Larry Nassar in 1997, nearly 20 years before he was charged

Pope Francis abolished the use of the Vatican’s highest level of secrecy in clergy sexual abuse cases Tuesday, responding to mounting criticism that the rule of “pontifical secrecy” has been used to protect pedophiles, silence victims and prevent police from investigating crimes.

An Associated Press investigation of Catholic review boards across the country shows that the bishop-appointed boards, operating in secrecy, have routinely undermined sex abuse claims from victims, shielded accused priests and helped the church avoid payouts.

A former altar boy says in a lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence as well as its current and former bishops that he was sexually abused by a priest decades ago. The 53-year-old plaintiff says in the suit filed this week that the Rev. Philip Magaldi, pastor at St. Anthony Church in North Providence, abused him 100 to...

Rhode Island’s governor is planning a ceremony to mark the signing of a bill to give victims of childhood sexual abuse more time to sue.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Manchester has released a list of priests accused of sexually abusing children that stretches back almost 70 years. The diocese posted the list of 73 names on its website Wednesday as far back as 1950, including two names that were never made public before. The priests are deceased or have either left the ministry or...

A filmmaker who co-founded the Sundance Film Festival and produced an Oscar-winning movie in the mid-1980s pleaded guilty Tuesday to sexual abuse of a child. Sterling Van Wagenen, 71, entered the plea as part of an agreement that includes a sentence of six years to life. He plans to plead guilty to a second charge involving the same victim later...

A newly-released grand jury report detailing decades of alleged abuse in six Pennsylvania dioceses has Boston reflecting on its own past.

A judge on Tuesday dismissed the lawsuit brought by a choreographer who alleged Michael Jackson molested him as a child, resolving one of the last major claims against the late singer’s holdings. Judge Mitchell L. Beckloff’s summary judgment ruling against the now-35-year-old Wade Robson found that the two Jackson-owned corporations, which were the remaining defendants in the case, were not...

The son of former Penn State assistant football coach and convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky was charged Monday with suspicion of child abuse.