Prosecutors on Wednesday charged two couples here with conspiring to sell a newborn baby for $300 in a deal that would have put the child in the care of a convicted child molester and convicted child abuser. Full story
Police have charged four people from Indianapolis in a scheme to sell a baby girl to a convicted child molester and his sister. Full story
The U.S. Roman Catholic Church and its insurers paid $124 million last year to settle allegations of child sexual abuse, up from $104 million a year earlier, a church-commissioned audit showed on Monday. Full story
The national accreditation of a Massachusetts summer camp attended by a young U.S. Sen. Scott Brown has been revoked while state authorities investigate allegations of child sex abuse. Full story
Carl Sutphin was a problem priest who left ministry in the Roman Catholic church just before being charged nearly a decade ago with 14 counts of molestation for sexually abusing six children. Full story
A convicted child molester has undergone surgical castration in order to be released from prison on parole. Full story
Actress Mackenzie Phillips tells TODAY’s Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb that her stepmother, the Mamas & the Papas singer Michelle Phillips, knew of the abuse she suffered at the hands of her father, but chose to ignore it to protect the image of the band.
