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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

Former Cleveland Catholic Diocese priest Robert McWilliams took his own life while serving his sentence for child sex crimes at a Pennsylvania prison.

McWilliams, 41, pleaded guilty in federal court in July to two counts of sex trafficking of a minor, three counts of sexual exploitation of a child, and one count each of transportation of child pornography, receipt and distribution of visual depiction of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct and possession of child pornography. He was sentenced to life in prison.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons said McWilliams, who

A 59-year-old man planned to travel to Cheshire to have sex with a nine-year-old boy, a court heard.

Ian Watson, 56, of Churchfields in St Helens, started speaking to another adult online to make arrangements to meet a nine-year-old boy in Cheshire with the intention of engaging in sexual activity.

But Watson didn’t know that he had actually been speaking to officers from North West Regional Organised Crime Unit (NWROCU).

On March 30, 2020 he was arrested at his home address and appeared in Liverpool Crown Court on Friday, January 28 charged with

Marshall Ruskin, 63, is a former civilian webmaster for the Department of National Defence in Winnipeg. According to search warrant documents, investigators allege he paid to watch the sexual abuse of children in the Philippines through the video-conferencing service Skype. (Facebook)

WARNING: This article contains details of abuse.

One of three men wanted in connection with a notorious child sex abuse case in the Philippines is living in Winnipeg, say search warrant documents obtained by CBC News.

Marshall Ruskin, 63, a former civilian webmaster for the Department of National Defence in Winnipeg, is