A former St. Louis-area pastor has been ordered to spend three years and one month in federal prison on child pornography charges.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that 50-year-old Andrew Spallek of Florissant was sentenced Tuesday in St. Louis, three months after he pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography.
Spallek was pastor of [...]
BERLIN — The Roman Catholic Church faces yet another child abuse scandal, this time in Pope Benedict XVI’s native Germany.
The widening public scandal began last month with allegations that three priests at the elite Canisius Jesuit high school in Berlin had sexually abused students in the 1970s and ’80s. In the midst of a steadily [...]
WAYNE COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) — A man from Wayne County has been charged in the death of his three-and-a-half month old child.
Delton “Shane” Collins is in the Western Regional Jail after being charged with Child Abuse or Neglect Resulting in Death.
The Wayne County Sheriff’s Department says Collins called 9-1-1 at about 3:30 Friday [...]
In 2001, Steven McCarter was accused of killing his 3-month-old daughter, Anna, by shaking her to death.
He initially was charged in the Chester County case with homicide by child abuse, which carries a minimum 20-year sentence. McCarter contended her death was an accident, though five years later, he pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of [...]
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