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As all Americans know by now, Rep. Todd Akin last week told a St. Louis TV station thatrnwomen do not become pregnant as a result of rape.  If it’s a legitimate rape, the female bodyrnhas ways to try to shut that whole thing down, he said.  RAINN quickly responded, saying in arnstatement to media, Simply put, Rep. Akin’s claim is ridiculous.  While there was such a timernwhen it was commonly believed that pregnancy couldn’t result from rape, that time was hundreds ofrnyears ago.  Now we know better.  Each year,

A former Bronx high school teacher who pleaded guilty to receiving child pornography has beensentenced to seven years in prison.

Jon Cruz was sentenced in Manhattan federal court on Thursday. Authorities said he paid at leastfive victims in different states to send him sexually explicit pictures while he was employed as ateacher and debate coach at Bronx High School for Science.

Prosecutors say the 34-year-old Manhattan resident carried out the crimes from July 2014 throughDecember 2015 on a school computer. They said he posted a picture of a former student as he

Serial child molester Dennis Hastert is back in Illinois for a month of supervised confinementto wrap up his 15-month federal prison sentence. Let’s not pretend he’s paid his debt tosociety.

The former U.S. House speaker, now 75, caught a break, pleading guilty to a financial crimebecause it was too late to prosecute him for sexually abusing boys while he was the wrestling coachat Yorkville High School in the 1960s and ’70s.

For decades, Hastert’s victims struggled with confusion and shame as they watched their formerteacher rise from the Illinois General Assembly to

Authorities say a 14-year-old Missouri girl remains missing after the arrest of the registeredsex offender from New York who may have been with her.

An endangered person advisory was issued early Wednesday for Mersadiez Shiann Rohr, of Smithton,according to The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The town is about 150 miles west of St.

Louis, between Jefferson City and Kansas City.

Police say the girl and her family’s 2004 GMC Yukon were discovered missing at about 9:30 p.m.Tuesday.

At the time, police say they thought the girl may have gone with the sex offender, identified asMatthew

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has upheld a 60-year prison sentence for a former Lewistonkarate school operator convicted of drugging and raping two boys.

But Wade Hoover won’t begin serving the state sentence until he completes a 40-year federalsentence for producing and possessing child pornography.

The supreme court ruling Tuesday upheld the sentence imposed in Superior Court. The courtpreviously rejected Hoover’s argument that dual prosecutions in state and federal court violatedhis constitutional protections against double jeopardy.

In the state case, Hoover pleaded guilty to four counts of gross sexual assault for drugging,abusing and

Three men, including two who are student employees at Miami University, are facing multiplecharges in connection with rape of a teen girl in an apartment near the campus, reports say.

According to the Journal News, Roger Richard Michael Simpson, 23, of Cincinnati, is charged with23 felony counts, including 10 counts of rape, sexual battery, complicity to rape andkidnapping.

Also charged with 23 felony counts is EliljahLee Mincy, 21, of Oxford, including three counts ofrape, complicity to rape, sexual battery, kidnapping and complicity to rape.

Rodney Adrian Louis Gibson II, 21, of Cincinnati, is