Sect leader convicted on rape charges
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Utah court finds polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs guilty of forcing 14-year-old girl to marrying cousin.
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A man accused at a congressional hearing of molesting a teenage boy has been convicted of charges including enticing a child to engage in sexually abusive activity.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.  - A judge sentenced defrocked  priest Paul Shanley to 12 to 15 years in prison on Tuesday for  his child rape conviction last week in one of the most  high-profile cases to stem from a U.S. Catholic clergy abuse  scandal.
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Verdicts are expected within hours for seven men facing sex abuse charges on Pitcairn Island. Our New Zealand correspondent, Gillian Bradford, says the men have been charged with offences ranging from indecency to rape.
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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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Jurors neared a verdict before heading home Monday in the case against the leader of a polygamous sect who is accused of rape in the arranged marriage of a 14-year-old girl to her older cousin.
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The island&#39;s mayor Steve Christian, the most powerful man on Pitcairn Island, has been found guilty of five counts of rape against island girls as young as 12.
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Utah court finds polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs guilty of abetting in the rape of a 14-year-old girl.
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A County Londonderry priest is acquitted on two charges of sexually abusing a teenager 30 years ago.
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A leading member of the LVF is found guilty of the murder of Portadown grandmother Elizabeth O'Neill.
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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 raping and fondling a boy at his church during the 1980s.
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There is outrage in Venezuela as a man accused of torturing and raping a woman is acquitted.
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A paedophile who filmed an attack on a 12-year-old girl is found guilty of rape and attempted rape.
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BOSTON -- Defrocked priest Paul Shanley, a central figure in the Boston Archdiocese clergy sex abuse scandal, was sentenced Tuesday to 12 to 15 years in prison for raping a boy repeatedly in the 1980s, sometimes in a church confessional.
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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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Farc leader Ricardo Palmera is convicted in the US over the kidnapping of three Americans in Colombia.
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A Polish student priest at the centre of a sex scandal at a Catholic seminary in Austria is convicted.