The assistant director of Chaparral Baptist Assembly Camp in Iowa Park has been jailed on charges of Indecency with a Child through Sexual Contact. Nathan Lee McDonald was arrested Wednesday by Wichita County Sheriff’s deputies.

Ben Leonard, 16, from Stockport, Greater Manchester, slipped 200ft (61m) from the Great Orme in Llandudno, Conwy, on an Explorer Scouts trip in August 2018. Lawyers for the Scout Association told an inquest in Manchester they accepted they were at fault.

A scout who fell to his death on a trip would still be alive if the walk he was on had been properly planned, a police officer has told an inquest.  Ben Leonard, 16, from Stockport, Greater Manchester, slipped 200ft (61m) from the Great Orme in Llandudno, Conwy, in August 2018. Ben and two friends were walking away from the rest of the group when he slipped and fell, the inquest heard.

The Scout Association has been criticised by a coroner for its "lamentable" disclosure of documents to a teenager's inquest. A hearing into Ben Leonard's death was adjourned by coroner David Pojur after he said the evidence was incomplete.  Ben, 16, from Stockport, Greater Manchester, slipped 200ft (61m) to his death from the Great Orme in Llandudno while on a Scout trip in August 2018. The hearing at Wrexham's Catrin Finch Centre was due to start on Wednesday. The jury at a previous inquest into Ben's death was discharged in February 2021 after the court heard the...

The Scout Association has apologised to the family of a teenager after his inquest was delayed due to concerns a jury was misled. Ben Leonard, from Stockport in Greater Manchester, died after falling from the Great Orme, Conwy, in August 2018.  The 16-year-old was on a trip with Reddish Explorer Scouts at the time. Last year, Mr Pojur issued a report to prevent future deaths, which contained 20 points of concern, to be sent to the Scout Association, after hearing Ben had been unaccompanied by a leader when he fell from the cliff edge.

A 16-year-old boy who died falling from cliffs on the north Wales coast has been described as a "kind, caring, witty and wonderful". Ben Leonard died when he fell on The Great Orme at Llandudno on Sunday.  Paramedics and emergency personnel tried to revive Ben, from Stockport in Greater Manchester, but he died at the scene.

Rikki Lynn Laughlin, 25, stands accused of one count each of possession of child pornography, tampering with a witness, tampering with physical evidence, attempted statutory rape in the second degree, promoting obscenity in the first degree, and furnishing pornographic materials to a minor, authorities said. According to the Maries County Sheriff’s Office, the illicit relationship largely consisted of the teacher pursuing the student while the student hesitated and made excuses not to engage with her. The teacher requested nude pictures from him, sent him nude pictures, and sent him a video of herself using a dildo, the student...

- Charging documents show prosecutors charged Rikki Lyn Laughlin, 25, with promoting obscenity in the first degree, furnishing pornographic material to a minor, attempted statutory rape in the second degree, tampering with a witness, possession of child pornography, and tampering with physical evidence. - A probable cause statement against Laughlin alleges she sent pornographic videos of herself to a 16-year-old student and received child sex abuse material from him. It alleges Laughlin invited the student to her home and said she wanted to have sex with him.  - The probable cause statement goes on to say that Laughlin...

John Shores was charged with attempted sexual exploitation of a minor and attempted enticement of a minor. The judge decided to release the 54-year-old before the trial with GPS tracking. Another condition of his release was to have no contact with any children, including his family. According to court documents, he was in possession of four different cellphones, and he used the Whisper app to request child pornography or to trade pictures for child pornography. Court documents said Shores was texting an 11-year-old girl, asking for sexually explicit photos. He also asked a 14-year-old and a 16-year-old...

The billionaire investor Leon Black was sued on Tuesday by an autistic woman who says he raped her in the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein's mansion in Manhattan in 2002, when she was 16. In a complaint filed in Manhattan federal court, the woman, using the pseudonym Jane Doe, said that as she was preparing to give Black a massage, Black pinned her down and penetrated her with sex toys, causing her to bleed.