Sexual abuse in immigration detention: A growing concern
theGRIO REPORT - Advocates for undocumented immigrants see them as highly susceptible to abuse, including sexual abuse, while under U.S. government custody...
Kevin Clash sued for 5th time for underage sex
NEW YORK (AP) — A puppeteer who was the voice of Elmo on "Sesame Street" is being sued for the fifth time, accused of sexually abusing a teenage boy.
Childhood trauma, fibroids linked
theGRIO REPORT - Research conducted within the Black Women's Health Study at Boston University School of Public Health recently found a link between childhood abuse and fibroids...
Sugar Ray Leonard recounts sex abuse
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) - Retired boxing champion Sugar Ray Leonard said Monday he cried for Jerry Sandusky's accusers after hearing of the former Penn State assistant football coach's arrest on child sex abuse charges nearly a year ago...
DC sniper Lee Boyd Malvo says he was sexually abused by accomplice
WASHINGTON (AP) - Convicted D.C. sniper Lee Boyd Malvo said in a television interview that aired Thursday that he was sexually abused by John Allen Muhammad, his adult accomplice in shootings that terrorized the Washington area 10 years ago...
Florida ex-pastor faked suicide attempt after sex abuse verdicts
theGRIO REPORT - James Richard Harris shocked onlookers on Thursday by staging a fake suicide attempt after being found guilty of sexual abuses against teens by a Florida court...
Study: HIV/AIDS, child molestation linked in black community
theGRIO REPORT - New research raises the question of a link between childhood sexual abuse and a higher risk for HIV/AIDS...
Relative claims Zimmerman sexually abused her
theGRIO REPORT - A woman identified as Witness 9, whose statements to officials were released by prosecutors in the case of George Zimmerman today, alleged that he had unwanted sexual contact with her children...
Study: Obesity in black women linked to childhood abuse
theGRIO REPORT - The journal Pediatrics has reported that obesity in black women has an association with sexual and physical abuse in childhood, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Protecting your son from sexual abuse
EBONY.COM - Far more important than the salaciousness of the Long and Sandusky cases is the reality that boys, too, are the victims of sexual abuse far too often. By age 18, nearly one of three boys experiences some form of unwanted sexual interaction.
