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The French political bigshot who heads the International Monetary Fund was arrested for allegedly sodomizing a Manhattan hotel maid today — hauled off an Air France flight just moments before takeoff from Kennedy Airport, police said.

A New Hope math teacher pleaded not guilty to the sexual battery of a 17-year-old student Tuesday after she was indicted by a grand jury. Katherine Robbins, of 4097 New Hope Road in Lowndes County, had been on administrative leave since allegations surfaced in March. Robbins, who is married with two young children, is accused of having a sexual relationship with the male student over an extended period of time, according to sources at the school. According to one of her students, Robbins often flirted with male classmates, even to the point of giving them hugs and inappropriately touching them...

It's outlandish to call same-sex marriage a 'civil right.' [...] The issue before the Minnesota Legislature is not whether same-sex marriage should be allowed in Minnesota. It is whether the people of Minnesota should have the right to vote on the issue, just as voters in 31 other states have already done. The paper is out on a ledge with its "no vote of the people" position. Seventy-four percent of Minnesotans believe voters, not the courts or the Legislature, should decide this issue. Even some homosexual-marriage activists apparently believe that voters should be able to decide, since same-sex marriage groups...

The class of Monte del Sol Charter School students watched and listened intently as senior Emma Campbell, with the help of a visual aid, demonstrated how to use a condom. The 18-year-old is one of 10 teens trained by the local Planned Parenthood to give presentations on sexuality to their peers. "We're trying to normalize sex," said Denise Jennings, Planned Parenthood in Santa Fe health educator, who trains the students and is present when they visit the schools. "We know kids don't always go to adults to discuss sex," she said. "They will go online or to friends who may...

Northwestern University will not offer a controversial human sexuality class next academic year after its professor came under fire for allowing a live sex-toy demonstration during an after-class lecture. About 100 of psychology professor J. Michael Bailey's students observed a naked woman being penetrated by a motorized sex toy on Feb. 21. The university said in March that it would investigate the incident; officials said Monday that the review continues.

How much is too much when it comes to sex education on college campuses? A controversial video now has conservative groups taking aim at Texas A&M officials. The extremely graphic video posted online by the group Texas Aggie Conservatives shows a sex therapist using pictures and videos to teach gays and lesbians how to safely engage in certain activities. Student Justin Pulliam says how-to sex lessons for gays have no place on his college campus. "Most people at the university do not agree with having casual sex, or homosexual sex, or having sex outside of marriage," he says. "That the...

The Illinois Senate has rejected legislation that would have given the State Board of Education control over which sex-ed curricula could be taught in public schools. Under the bill, schools would have had to teach “developmentally appropriate” content — which was left undefined. Republican Sen. Kyle McCarter challenged bill sponsor Sen. Heather Steans, a Democrat, on proposed materials that suggested teachers have “races by putting condoms on bananas.” “Who determines what’s age-appropriate? The Legislature?” he asked. “Let (local school districts) decide what’s age-appropriate. Let them decide what’s medically accurate. They don’t need our help.” Chad Hills, CitizenLink’s analyst for sexual...

A La Joya man is behind bars after he allegedly sexually abused an 8-year-old girl several times. La Joya police arrested Eduardo Agustin Mottu on an indecency with a child charge on Thursday. Investigatoros told Action 4 News that what’s even more shocking is that it’s not the first time he's committed this type of crime. Police said the mother of the child filed the complaint earlier this week. She told police that her daughter told her that Mottu had allegedly touched her inappropriately and penetrated her. Investigators said Mottu is an illegal immigrant and was using one of ten...

City officials failed to discipline two traffic officers who appeared in a pornographic film while on the job, NBC4 LA has found. The Los Angeles Department of Transportation has opened an investigation into the behavior of two uniformed, on-duty officers who appear in the sexually explicit movie. The investigation was prompted by the NBC4 LA expose, which will air in full Friday at 11 p.m. "It's absolutely disgusting," said Amir Sedadi, general manager of LADOT, after viewing a copy of the movie shown to him by NBC4 LA. "Immediately, we will conduct a full investigation. This is not acceptable to...

A former high school band teacher in North Carolina was arrested on sex charges after a young woman wrote in an essay in her college newspaper that he got her pregnant — and took her to get an abortion — when she was his student. The essay, "I had an affair with my high school teacher," used some fake names but identified the Winston-Salem school, and the principal there tipped off authorities. It was originally written for a composition class at North Carolina Central University and appeared in the campus paper this month as part of an annual special section....

A homeless man with a long criminal history broke into a Christian radio station in Pine Hills today and performed a sex act in front of the program host while threatening to rape her, deputies said. Donald Destin, 30, was arrested about 4:30 p.m. on charges of attempted sexual battery, burglary of an occupied structure and battery. He was being held without bail late today in the Orange County Jail. The incident happened about 6 a.m. while listeners tuned in to the live religious programming.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) - A Montana judge on Thursday rejected a lawsuit that sought to extend to gay couples the same legal protections as married couples, saying in his decision that he can't grant the benefits partly because of the state's voter-approved constitutional definition of marriage as between a man and a woman. Last year, the American Civil Liberties Union filed the lawsuit on behalf of the gay couples, arguing that the guarantees in the Montana Constitution of equal protection, privacy and dignity should require the state to afford the legal rights to the gay couples. The ACLU said it...

A 23-year-old man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly molesting an 8-year-old girl for three years, the Merced County Sheriff's Department reported. Detective Dustin Witt began investigating suspect Oscar Garcia earlier this month, after the victim came forward and said he's been touching her inappropriately. Garcia's the boyfriend of the victim's older sister and has been living at her Los Banos residence for the last month, according to Deputy Tom MacKenzie, sheriff’s spokesman. Witt discovered Garcia had been abusing the victim since she was 5 years old at various locations in the Los Banos area. The detective obtained an arrest warrant...

HOUSTON - An illegal immigrant has been charged with attempted aggravated sexual assault of a child, according to Harris County Constable Pct. 4. The constable office’s High Tech Crimes Unit and Houston Metro ICAC worked with the office of Homeland Security Investigations to arrest Jose Fernando Salas Zerate, 38. The arrest occurred Monday following an investigation into Zerate’s online activities. Zerate, an alleged illegal immigrant from Mexico, traveled from south of Houston to an area near Airtex and the North Freeway to meet with a woman he befriended on the Internet. According to Precinct 4, the man and woman had...

It’s a proven fact that girls are getting their periods as young as 7 years old, as detailed in last year’s Pediatrics journal, and both mom and daughter might not feel ready for such a life-changing event. In order to help with the transition, Kotex has created a new line of pads and panty liners designed to fit a tween. U by Kotex Tween are smaller and come in glittery, tween-inspired packages with an information booklet, the company said in a press release.

UNITED KINGDOM, April 8, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An English judge has ruled that a 24-year-old male pedophile was “seduced” by a 13-year-old girl after the man watched the teen perform intimate acts over a webcam. Twenty-four-year-old David Barnes of Darlington, Co Durham was arrested in 2009 when police began investigating communication the 13-year-old was having with older males on the internet. Police found over 600 downloaded photos and videos of child pornography in Barnes’ possession and later charged him with 17 counts of making indecent images and forcing a child into sexual activity. Despite the evidence and Barnes’ probation officer...

Canada’s ban on polygamy should be upheld because it protects women and children, attorneys said Friday in a landmark case to decide whether the ban violates religious freedom. Polygamy is “legally, morally, socially and economically wrong,” Jonathan Baker, legal counsel for Real Women of Canada, told British Columbia Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert Bauman. Even if a polygamous union has been made with consent, the state has an interest in prohibiting it because of the harm or potential for harm, said Mr. Baker, whose nonprofit organization supports conservative family values in women’s issues. Testimony continues Monday and is scheduled to...

Revolutions are always unpredictable, depending on the way always unpredictable people adapt to them. That's true of high-tech revolutions as well as revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and a lot of other places. Humans are curious creatures. The revolution in communications, for example, for all of its benign access -- and success -- comes with social consequences that continue to surprise and occasionally alarm. Nothing seemed simpler for increasing opportunities for adults to stay in touch with their children's comings and goings than the cell phone. The cell phone that seems to grow out of the ears on every teenager's...

A senior at Proviso East High School, Belinda Sanchez hopes to one day become a civil rights attorney. On Thursday, the 18-year-old got her first taste of victory, winning the right to wear a tuxedo to her upcoming senior prom. Sanchez was initially told by the Maywood school's principal, Milton Patch, that she could not wear a tuxedo to her prom and needed to wear a dress. "I was just shocked," Sanchez said.

<p>MESQUITE, Texas — A couple that teaches in Dallas public schools has been arrested on sex charges after police received a report of misconduct at their suburban Dallas home involving "several" minors, Mesquite police said Thursday.</p> <p>Jesse Castillo, 50, has been charged with two counts of indecency with a child and one of sexual performance by a child. Virginia Castillo, 46, has been charged with a single count of sexual performance by a child. Both are being held in the Dallas County jail with bonds set at $150,000 bond.</p>