Priest is cleared of sex charges
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A Roman Catholic priest is found not guilty of committing gross indecency with a seven-year-old girl.
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The Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth in Texas said on Wednesday that it had reached a settlement for an undisclosed sum of money with 11 men who said they had been sexually abused by a local priest.
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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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On Tuesday, Ambrose Kappos, former Navy diver, was cleared of the charges of trailing and harassing Sheryl Crow during the past year.
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A doctor who admitted hastening the deaths of two dying babies is cleared of misconduct.
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Former Mexican pop superstar Gloria Trevi has been cleared of sex abuse charges after a court ruled there was not enough evidence against her.
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Sydney - A teacher who had sex with a 15-year-old pupil walked free from a Melbourne court on Wednesday in a decision that was slammed as sexist.
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A former Irish priest famous for stunts  that disrupted the marathon at the Athens Olympics and  Britain's Grand Prix denied charges on Wednesday of indecency  with a schoolgirl.
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A former priest accused of sexually abusing children in two states is HIV positive, Catholic diocese officials said Thursday.
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Soldiers accused of raping hundreds of Kenyan women while on training exercises there have been cleared after an investigation into the allegations, a spokesman for the ministry of defence told AFP.
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A local court in the Philippines has   freed a British man on trial for sexually abusing young girls   after three witnesses disappeared, a Roman Catholic priest said   Wednesday.
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BBC Radio 4 presenter Nigel Wrench is cleared of raping a man he met at a party.
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A judge tossed out a drunken driving charge against Redskins rookie safety Sean Taylor on Wednesday but convicted him of refusing to take a blood alcohol test.
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NEW YORK -- A Roman Catholic priest who has been charged with sexually abusing an 11-year-old altar boy committed the crimes while decades-old allegations against him were making headlines, prosecutors allege.
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A California judge on Thursday dismissed five-year-old child pornography charges against John Mark Karr, the teacher arrested in August for the murder of child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey and then released without charge.
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British soldiers accused of raping hundreds of Kenyan women while on training exercises there have been cleared after an investigation into the allegations, a spokesman for the British defence ministry told AFP.
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A man who has spent 19 years behind bars for rape and murder was cleared by new DNA testing and will be released from prison, his lawyer said Tuesday.