sexual abuse

EMPORIUM — The Emporium Police Department’s K-9 officer, Novak, will not return to Emporium for duty. The K-9 was sent back to its training facility w...

SMETHPORT — A Port Allegany man will serve six to 12 years in state prison for three criminal cases related to the sexual abuse of children. Gage Orti...

SMETHPORT — A Mount Jewett man accused of asking for sexual images from two children over social media will serve time in state prison. Dustin T. Sher...

A Kane man is facing charges including unlawful contact and sexual abuse of a minor for allegedly exchanging nude photos with an underage girl. Michae...

A Smethport man accused of having child pornography was sentenced Thursday in McKean County Court to a term in state prison. Chad M. Caldwell, 26, wil...

SMETHPORT — A Mount Jewett man has pleaded guilty to allegations that he sought sexual images from two children over social media. Dustin T. Sherwood,...

ERIE — After a brief hiatus, the Diocese of Erie has announced it will return to its work with the Independent Survivors’ Reparation Program (ISRP) es...

A Port Allegany man who faced sexual abuse charges in three cases has pleaded guilty. A last-day-to-plea conference for Gage Ortiz-Rodriguez, 21, was ...

Bradford business owner Edward E. Wright was sent to McKean County Jail on $75,000 bail late Wednesday for allegedly having sexual contact with a fema...

Kane man accused of uploading child porn image to internet A Kane man is accused of uploading an image of child pornography to the internet in January...

Retired Erie Catholic Bishop Donald W. Trautman has been named as a defendant in a lawsuit that claims he covered up clergy sexual abuse when he was a...

EMPORIUM — Emporium Hardwoods, a Cameron County lumber company had a prominent visitor Tuesday afternoon: Gov. Tom Wolf. The visit comes more than two...

Second child abuse cased filed against Port Allegany man A Port Allegany man accused in June of sexual abuse was arraigned Tuesday on similar allegati...

Sexual abuse charges against a Port Allegany man were bound to McKean County Court at a preliminary hearing Monday before District Judge William Todd....

The Most Rev. Lawrence T. Persico, bishop of Erie, is featured on the cover of the summer 2019 edition of Content Evangelist, a national publication c...

Msgr. Charles Kaza, pastor of St. Tobias Parish, Brockway, and president of DuBois Central Catholic School Board, has been removed from active ministr...

Survivors of childhood sexual abuse stand together figuratively. And on May 18 in Bradford, they will be standing together literally as well. Clergy a...

SHINGLEHOUSE — A Roulette couple is facing charges relating to sexually abusing a child and a dog, and filming the alleged acts. Robert W. Sutherland ...

The Diocese of Erie has removed from public ministry a priest who once served in Port Allegany and was an administrator in Emporium. The diocese annou...

Recommending “bold, decisive and collaborative action,” on Thursday, Erie’s Bishop Lawrence Persico called for a compensation fund for victim/survivor...