Sexual Abuse

On the latest edition of the Politically Speaking podcast, St. Louis Public Radio’s Jason Rosenbaum and Jo Mannies welcome Brittany Burke to the program.…

As Catholic bishops from across the country gather in St. Louis this week for their annual Spring General Assembly meeting, many local Catholics are…

Magdalene is a residential program which provides services to women who are involved in prostitution, trafficking and addiction.The program was founded in…

As many as 19,000 service members are sexually assaulted each year. A small fraction of those cases -- around 2,500 a year -- are actually reported, and a…

Confidential files kept for years by Boy Scouts of America detailing allegations of sexual abuse against boys include 46 cases from Missouri. A majority…

Nixon announces emergency assistance for farmersMissouri Governor Jay Nixon was in Springfield Tuesday to announce emergency assistance to farmers who…

A former eastern Missouri detective has pleaded guilty to federal charges for sexually abusing five women who were participants of a drug court program…

An attorney whose client got a $6.3 million payout in a case against a southwestern Illinois diocese says that diocese has settled three more lawsuits…

The director of a sexual abuse support group is denying that he helped violate a gag order in a lawsuit against a Catholic priest in Kansas City.David…

In an update to a story we've been following and told you more about earlier this morning:A nine-year legal fight by a man sexually abused by a priest in…