SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A Chilean bishop apologized Saturday for not promptly investigating a reported case of sexual abuse in his diocese,

VATICAN CITY (AP) — In the biggest shake-up yet in the Catholic Church’s long-running sex abuse scandal, every active Chilean bishop offered to resign Friday over what Pope Francis said was their “grave negligence” in investigating abuse and protecting children.

A gymnastics coach who owned gyms in Rockland County has been accused of sexually abusing at least five young children over a 13-year period, police said Thursday.

AIRFIELD, Calif. (AP) — Prosecutors allege in court documents filed Wednesday that the 10 children rescued from a Northern California home were punched, kicked, strangled, shot with a BB gun and subjected to waterboarding by their father and their mother did nothing to stop it.

A Michigan man who was arrested for fathering a son with his 20-year-old daughter claims he gave her his semen in a cup but doesn’t know “what she did with it,” police said.

FAIRFIELD, Calif. (AP) — Children removed from a squalid California home described acts of intentional abuse that resulted in puncture wounds, burns, bruising and injuries consistent with being shot with a pellet gun, authorities said Monday.

A Rockford man has been sentenced to life in prison for sexually assaulting a child.

A former New Hampshire boarding school student says in a lawsuit the school violated her civil rights by failing to protect her from sexual assault in a “hypersexualized environment” where older students scored points for having sex with younger ones.