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A disgraced Louisiana teacher has pleaded guilty to “horrific crimes” against children and admitted to serving her students cupcakes that contained sperm from her ex-husband, who is awaiting his own trial on child sex crime charges, according to authorities.

Cynthia Perkins, 36, agreed to plead guilty and testify against her ex, 44-year-old former Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office SWAT member Dennis Perkins, who is also charged with dozens of child sex crimes, according to prosecutors.

“She not only waived any right to appeal, and attempt to avoid conviction, but she also spared the

The San Francisco Police Department immediately will start reviewing its DNA collection practices and policies after the city’s top prosecutor accused it of using a law enforcement database with the DNA of rape and sexual assault victims to search for and identify possible suspects in unrelated investigations, its chief said Monday.

The pledge followed San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin’s claim that the police department’s crime lab tries to identify crime suspects by searching a database of DNA evidence that contains DNA collected from rape and sexual assault victims, but Boudin

A driver was arrested after allegedly attempting to rape a teenage girl.

Police say Eudy Mejia is a driver with an unregistered car service.

They say he locked the doors of his car and tried to rape a 13-year-old girl.

Investigators say he stopped the car, asked for a kiss and took her cellphone.

The girl tried to get out, but police say Mejia took off – making it impossible for her to escape.

Police say Mejia parked the car and tried to attack her.

Investigators say the girl grabbed a plastic bottle, hit him and

Sexual harassment was formally added to the Uniform Code of Military Justice on Wednesday, a move that advocates hope can both help punish offenders and prevent other serious crimes from developing.

The executive order from President Joe Biden also ends some legal questions about whether military officials could prosecute the crime directly or would need to use other misconduct charges to effectively punish violators.

“This is a mechanism for there to be accountability when that’s appropriate, and we really don’t have that right now with these crimes,” said Lynn Rosenthal, who led

A former Turlock band teacher accused of child sex crimes will face more charges after being arrested for the third time, authorities said.

Daniel Baudino, 38, turned himself in most recently on Thursday, the Turlock Police Department said in a release on Friday.

Police are investigating several sex crimes he’s accused of involving former students between 2015 and August 2019. He was first arrested on Nov. 1, 2021, accused of having had sex with a minor in 2016. He faced nine counts of felonies.

Two additional victims came forward along with investigators finding

Former Parlier High School boys basketball coach Anthony Lepore was sentenced to probation Friday for having sexual contact with a student in 2014. Lepore, who was a 25-year-old, first-year teacher at the time, was originally charged with two felonies related to having an inappropriate relationship with one of his 16-year-old students – he also taught math. He pleaded no contest in November to a felony charge of sexual penetration by foreign object of a victim under the age of 18. The district attorney’s office dropped the charge of arranging a