A teacher at Christian High School in El Cajon accused of sexually abusing a child over the course of several years pleaded not guilty Thursday to 14 felony sex crimes counts. Kevin Conover, 49, was arrested on Tuesday following an investigation into reports that he had abused a minor identified in court only as Jane Doe. The sheriff says the alleged victim was a family member, and one of the charges indicates she was under the age of 10. Sheriff's investigators were first alerted to the allegations in October, according to the San Diego County Sheriff's Office. He was...

A former elementary school teacher, who now performs as Santa for photographs and area events, has been arrested on charges of having and sharing child pornography on the internet. Law enforcement officials in Mercer County, New Jersey announced Monday that Mark Paulino, 64, of Hamilton Township, has been arrested and charged with possession and distribution on child sexual abuse materials as well as endangering the welfare of a child.  According to police, an investigation into Paulino began on Dec. 4, 2025, after detectives were alerted to an individual, allegedly, uploading images of child pornography at a home in...

NBC News uncovered a 50-year pattern of sex abuse, silence and cover-up in the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination. A children’s pastor was caught filming girls in a church bathroom in Arkansas. Elders suspended him for a few weeks. In Illinois, a preacher was accused of sexually abusing children. Church leaders sent him to therapy rather than call police. In California, a worship minister went to prison for molesting boys. His congregation threw him a party when he returned. All of these men remained in ministry in the Assemblies of God, the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination. All...

Prince Andrew is being stripped of his titles and must surrender his lease to Royal Lodge, the mansion in Windsor where he lives, according to a statement from Buckingham Palace. "Prince Andrew will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor," the statement said. "Formal notice has now been served to surrender the lease and he will move to alternative private accommodation."  Andrew had recently said he would stop using his royal titles and honors, including the Duke of York, but Thursday's statement on behalf of King Charles III and Queen Camilla initiated the formal process of revoking all his titles,...

A California man faces a murder charge after he was accused of conducting a targeted, vigilante-style slaying of a registered sex offender in the San Francisco Bay Area, authorities said. The Fremont Police Department responded to a call of an altercation between two men on Sept. 18 and found a 71-year-old man unresponsive and bleeding from significant stab wounds. Another man, 29-year-old Varun Suresh, was found standing outside the residence on the 600 block of Upper Vintners Circle. Suresh was arrested and a knife was recovered from the scene, authorities said. ---------------------- Here are the key details...

Jeffrey Epstein’s private emails show the support and advice the disgraced financier got in his “hour of terror.” When investigators were closing in on Jeffrey Epstein, he thought about saying sorry. Merrie Spaeth, a sought-after crisis strategist who once served as the director of media relations for Ronald Reagan’s White House, helped him pick his words. She sent Epstein three versions of a public apology in February 2008, according to emails obtained by Bloomberg News. The first was meek: “As a child growing up, I was taught to apologize,” it read. “I fervently hope it will be acceptable...

Sandra Birchmore, 23, texted a friend the news in late January 2021. Farwell, then a police officer in Stoughton, Massachusetts, near Boston, had visited Birchmore’s apartment the night before, according to an affidavit accompanying Farwell’s indictment and arrest for killing her. She thought Farwell bringing soda might be a sign that their relationship was improving. “He’s coming around,” her friend texted. “A lot more than I thought he was going to yes,” Birchmore wrote back. His behavior toward her that night had been markedly different, a “complete 180 from where we were at,” Birchmore texted another person, according to...

A verdict of suicide has been recorded at an inquest following the death of a former scout leader who had been accused of the historical sexual abuse of boys in Dublin in the 1980s and 1990s. Neville Kearns (69) died in a single-vehicle collision in Churchtown, south Dublin, shortly after 6am on April 7th last year. He was pronounced dead at the scene. He had been due to stand trial the following day on 113 counts including charges of indecent assault, sexual assault, rape and attempted rape. These related to allegations, made by five complainants, dating back to...

Disgraced socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the sex-trafficking ring of young teens she helped financier Jeffrey Epstein run for a decade. The punishment doled out by U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan on Tuesday marks the most concrete punishment yet for the years of abuse Maxwell and Epstein imposed on young girls. Several of those girls, now adults, testified during the trial, bravely pulling the curtain back on years of abuse they suffered after Maxwell and Epstein tugged them into their orbit. The two often used the allure of wealth and their...

An inmate at an east Arkansas prison serving multiple life sentences for raping and assaulting Boy Scouts as a troop leader in the 1990s has died. A spokesperson for the Arkansas Department of Corrections told KNWA/FOX24 that Charles “Jack” Walls, 75, died of natural causes on Aug. 23 at the East Arkansas Regional Unit in Brickeys. Walls was given three life sentences and two 40-year sentences, to be served consecutively, for six counts of rape in Lonoke County, according to court documents. Court records said that Walls was a Boy Scouts troop leader who sexually assaulted boys...