US priest convicted of raping boy
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A court convicts an ex-priest of raping a boy in the 1980s in a scandal which has shaken the Church in Boston.
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Two priests from the Republic of Ireland convicted of child sex abuse are dismissed by the Pope.
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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 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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Man found guilty of raping 12-year-old girl kept video record of his offences.
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A US man jailed for having consensual oral sex with a teenage girl has his sentence overturned.
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A former altar boy who accused a Roman Catholic priest of molesting him more than five years ago has reached a $1.2 million settlement with the priest's religious order, according to the man's parents and attorneys.
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A Brooklyn priest, who continued in active ministry after church officials cleared him of sexual abuse accusations leveled in 1998, yesterday was charged with repeatedly molesting an altar boy as recently ...
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.  - Defrocked priest Paul Shanley  was sentenced to 12 to 15 years in prison on Tuesday for raping  a boy in the 1980s in one of the most high-profile cases to  stem from a U.S. Catholic clergy abuse scandal.
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A grand jury has charged a former  Massachusetts bishop, Thomas Dupre, with raping two children in  the 1970s, a state court said on Monday, in the first such  action against a high-ranking member of the U.S. Roman Catholic  Church.
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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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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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The Philippines has sentenced a US marine to 40 years in jail for the rape of a young woman in an attack a court here described as &quot;chilling, naked sadism&quot;.
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ST. GEORGE, Utah  - Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs, whose word was considered God's will to his fundamentalist church of breakaway Mormons, was convicted on Tuesday of being an accomplice to rape by forcing a 14-year-old girl to marry her first cousin.
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The polygamist "prophet" is found guilty of accessory to rape, a victory for a novel legal tactic focusing on child abuse
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A priest who worked in Roslea, County Fermanagh, is jailed for five years for aiding the rape of a young girl.
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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.