Sexual Misconduct

The president of the Oak View Youth Soccer League released a statement Monday underscoring that the allegations of sex abuse by a soccer referee have only a tenuous link to the organization. Anaheim resident Jorge Serafin was arrested Jan. 15 on...

Four allegations of sexual abuse among Boy Scouts of America troop leaders in Huntington Beach appear in a Los Angeles Times database recently compiled from Scouting and court records. The Times, which owns the Huntington Beach Independent, last month...

An Ocean View School District employee has filed a lawsuit against the superintendent and board of trustees claiming they pressured her to resign and harassed her because of her age and sexual orientation. Holly Marvin, 49, a communications supervisor...

A fifth potential victim has come forward in the case of a man who allegedly exposed himself to an adult and four minors while they were on their way to schools in Fountain Valley and Santa Ana. John Rodriguez, 20, of Santa Ana is charged with one felony...

A Mesa View Middle School teacher charged with having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old boy has been placed on administrative leave, the district's superintendent said Friday. William V. Loose of the Ocean View School District said in a...

A Sanford pastor accused of watching child porn while working at Disney's Port Orleans resort has been released from the Orange County Jail and removed as a church leader. Cedric Eugene Cuthbert "has been relieved of all of his pastoral duties" at the...

The suspensions meted out to 31 high school students in San Diego for being in a "twerking" video were "illegal and ill-advised" and should be reconsidered, the ACLU said in a letter to the school principal Thursday. The two-day suspensions do not fit...

The Baltimore City Detention Center had the nation's second-highest rate of sexual contact between jail staff and inmates, according to a U.S. Department of Justice study released less than a month after federal prosecutors accused corrections officers at...

  The San Diego school board has declined to overturn the two-day suspensions meted out to 31 high-school students for being part of a "twerking video" shot on campus. After hearing complaints from parents that the suspensions were too harsh and could...

A former Los Angeles Unified School District teacher was ordered to stand trial on 14 charges of sexually assaulting nine students and a relative, the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office said. A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge in...

Prosecutors say that a husband-and-wife team held vulnerable young women against their will at motels and homes in Broward and Palm Beach counties, forcing them to work as prostitutes. But defense attorneys for Mackenley Desir, 34, and his wife, Genet...

A Seminole County high school teacher who was arrested and accused of having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old female student was re-arrested Friday after a second female student told investigators they had a sexual relationship when she was 15....