Ex-Pastor Convicted of Rape in Arkansas
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A former pastor was sentenced to 35 years in prison for raping a young girl who said the man had told her that God approved of their sexual relationship.
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A preacher was convicted Monday of stealing nearly $9 million from hundreds of small black churches across the country that were promised hundreds of thousands of dollars in exchange for small investments.
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OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Sentencing is Tuesday for a former Oklahoma man convicted of deliberately exposing 17 women to the AIDS virus. Anthony Whitfield, 32, was convicted in November in an Olympia, Wash.
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Defrocked priest Paul Shanley, the most notorious figure in the sex scandal that rocked the Boston Archdiocese, was convicted Monday of repeatedly raping and fondling a boy at his Roman Catholic church during the 1980s.
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JACKSON, Mississippi  - A former Ku Klux Klansman was found guilty of kidnapping on Thursday in the 1964 deaths of two black men in Mississippi, a case that highlighted white supremacist violence during the civil rights era.
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In the second ecclesiastical trial of a gay Methodist minister in less than a year, a jury of 13 clergy members in eastern Pennsylvania convicted a fellow pastor of violating church law by
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ST. GEORGE, Utah -- The leader of a polygamous Mormon splinter group was convicted Tuesday of being an accomplice to rape for forcing a 14-year-old girl to marry her 19-year-old cousin.
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A U.S. Marine was convicted Monday of raping a Filipino woman and sentenced to 40 years in prison, ending an emotional trial that has strained U.S.-Philippine ties and tested a joint military pact.
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A US marine is sentenced to 40 years in prison for raping a woman in the Philippines, while three men are cleared.
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A homeless convicted rapist who told police he stabbed a woman to death because she was white was convicted Tuesday of murder as a hate crime.
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A former Muslim cleric is jailed for 10 years for raping a 13-year-old girl in a mosque.
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PARIS, Feb. 11 -- A Swedish appeals court on Friday overturned the conviction of a Pentecostal pastor found guilty of violating the country's strict hate-speech law with a sermon that labeled homosexuality "a deep cancerous tumor in the entire society" and equated it with pedophilia.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - Bishop Thomas Dupre, the former head of the Springfield Diocese, was indicted on child rape charges, accused of molesting two boys in the 1970s, the county prosecutor said Monday...
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Bishop Thomas L. Dupre, the former head of the Springfield, Mass., Catholic archdiocese, was indicted on two counts of child rape yesterday, but the prosecutor announced shortly
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The leader of a polygamous Mormon splinter group was convicted Tuesday of being an accomplice to rape for forcing a 14-year-old girl to marry her 19-year-old cousin.
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A man wrongly jailed for 18 years in a child rape case was released from prison Tuesday after new DNA testing cleared him of the crime.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. A former Roman Catholic bishop has been indicted on child rape charges in Massachusetts. Prosectutors are accusing Thomas Dupre (doo-PRAY&#39;) of molesting two boys in the 1970s while he was a parish priest.