BALTIMORE, MARYLAND - A settlement has been reached between one of the victims of Bart Mazer, a former math teacher at Mountain Ridge High School in Allegany County. In June, Mazer was sentenced to a year in jail after pleading guilty to two counts of fourth-degree sex offense against two teenage girls. In her...

Scott Nichols, 42, formerly a teacher at West High School in Billings MT, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison, followed by 15 years of supervised release, KBZK news reported. On June 3, 2015, Nichols agrees to pleas guilty to two counts of coercion and enticement of a child, two counts of attempted...

TULARE COUNTY — James Magana, 20, a volunteer coach for Granite Hills High School was arrested Monday on multiple charges of sexual crimes against minors, including suspicion of oral copulation with a minor, communication with a minor with the intent to molest, sexual penetration by force, child endangerment, and assault with intent to commit...

SANTA CLARA COUNTY, CA  -- A 5th-grade teacher at Paradise Valley Elementary School in Morgan Hill received a 40-year prison sentence Monday after pleading guilty in August to molesting his students. Teacher John Loyd’s four victims ranged in age from 9 to 11 years old. Three were molested at some point during a three-year...

In 2008, Matthew Cooper was employed by  a Utah company called Northeastern Services (NES), to work at a group home for mentally and behaviorally disabled adults in a residential family neighborhood. NES encouraged children in the neighborhood to interact with group home residents and employees. According to a lawsuit that was later filed, this...

VANCOUVER, WA -- Stephanie McCrea, 36, a former drama teacher at Evergreen High School was sentenced to five years in prison Wednesday, KPTV.com and multiple news sources reported. McCrea was arrested in January and in July, pleaded guilty to four counts of child rape and tampering with a witness. According to the news reported,...

SAN DIEGO COUNTY - Opening statements began Tuesday in the trial of Jeffrey Scott Barton, the former Army and Navy Academy headmaster who allegedly molested boys in his care at the military boarding school in Carlsbad. According to the Union Tribune report, Barton’s lawyer adamantly insisted to the Vista Superior Court jury during opening...

Christopher Brown, 42, of Orange, was arrested Friday on multiple criminal charges, including possession and manufacturing of child pornography and digital penetration and oral copulation with a child.  The arrest came following an investigation by the Orange County Child Exploitation Task Force and the Los Angeles Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. Brown, who...

A former Minnesota boy scout has filed a lawsuit against the Boy Scouts of America, claiming he was molested by a serial abuser in St. Paul in 1969 and 1970. According to the suit, the victim was 11 or 12 when he was aused by David Leonard Keys, a former leader in the organization....

The Paterson Roman Catholic Diocese has reached a “six-figure” settlement with a woman who alleged that she was repeatedly abused by Monsignor Ronald Tully, her vice-principal at Passaic Catholic High School. According to her suit, Tully fondled her 20 times in 1977 when she was 16-year-old student at Pope Pius XII Retional High School....