Moral Outrage

A teacher has been accused of having sex with eight members of a school baseball team. Julie Pritchett began a relationship with a 15-year-old boy in February. The 34-year-old married teacher later approached other members of the team for sex. The incidents allegedly took place both on school premises and at the boys’ homes while their parents were out. She was discovered when one of the 15-year-old boys

A Cook County jury Friday acquitted R&B superstar R. Kelly of child pornography charges, ending a high-profile case that began more than six years ago. Jurors said they put little stock in the prosecution’s star witness, a woman who claimed she participated in videotaped sex acts with Kelly and a person the government alleged was Kelly’s then-underage goddaughter. Jurors also said they were doub

When Arizona investigators probing possible illegal activities by a polygamist sect pulled health records, one birth certificate showed that a baby boy was born to a 17-year-old girl. The father was listed as 44-year-old David Romaine Bateman, a member of the polygamist sect, Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS). As one of eight indicted in a sweep, Bateman was charged with committ