Wife of Ex-Priest's Accuser Takes Stand
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The wife of the man who has accused defrocked priest Paul Shanley of raping him as a child testified Friday that he had night sweats and curled up in the fetal position on the floor after recovering memories of the alleged abuse.
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The former priest from Ireland who sabotaged the men&#39;s Olympic marathon by tackling the race leader was ordered Thursday to stand trial in Britain next month on child indecency charges dating to events from more than 10 years ago.
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By Ben Winslow Deseret Morning News  While Fundamentalist LDS Church leader Warren Jeffs is remaining silent on a personal-injury lawsuit filed against him, lawyers for the polygamist church's financial arm are registering their objections.
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The mother of the boy who has accused pop star Michael Jackson of molestation took the stand Friday in a pretrial hearing over disputed evidence.
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Jurors began deliberations Wednesday following closing arguments in the trial of a former priest accused of sexually molesting an altar boy, who shot the cleric on a city street a decade after the alleged abuse.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden  - A bizarre murder case involving a Pentecostal pastor convicted of manipulating his former nanny to shoot his wife will go another round in court as both prosecutors and defence lawyers appealed the initial ruling.
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A judge said he will close the courtroom Friday to hear arguments over evidence in the case of the leader of a polygamous sect accused of sex crimes.
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Lawyers defending the husband of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto has failed to stop the Islamabad government from pursuing a lawsuit against him in the English courts.
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An emotionally charged case pitting a husband against his wife&#39;s parents, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and the Pope moves Tuesday to the Florida Supreme
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A former follower of a polygamous-sect leader sobbed on the witness stand Friday as she described the terror and despair she felt on the eve of her wedding at age 14, and said she became intensely depressed after having sex. "I kept thinking I felt like I was getting ready for death," she testified on the second day of the trial of Warren Jeffs, leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
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Protests greet a leading Islamic cleric's opposition to new laws to protect women from rape within marriage.
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The former husband of the woman at the center of a Utah polygamist leader's trial has been charged with rape, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
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Prosecutors filed a rape charge Wednesday against the ex-husband whose marriage was at the center of polygamous-sect leader Warren Jeffs' trial.
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A former Iraqi foreign minister and deputy prime minister took the stand Wednesday as a defense witness in the trial of Saddam Hussein.
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The self-proclaimed widow admits she's been a bit of a drama queen, and she's not about to apologize for it. The lawyer feels brushed aside after more than two decades of dedication. The preacher had trouble dealing with the death of a man who took the role of the father who abandoned him.
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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.
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A County Antrim woman goes on trial accused of sexually assaulting her two-year-old daughter.