More than 100 Nevadans and at least 10,000 nationwide have filed claims against the BSA alleging the organization failed to stop sexual abuse.
Courts
The Nevada Supreme Court threw out a kidnapping conviction Thursday against a former Clark County teacher behind bars for a sexual relationship with a student.
A Las Vegas jury convicted a 52-year-old man Friday of first-degree murder and sexual assault in the rape and killing of a woman inside an east valley apartment.
A woman was sentenced Tuesday to up to six years behind bars after prosecutors accused her of using an 11-year-old girl as a prop while prostituting on the Strip.
A woman accused of trafficking an 11-year-old girl on the Las Vegas Strip has agreed to a plea deal, her attorney said Tuesday.
An 11-year-old girl called herself a Las Vegas “hustler,” admitting that she drank and flirted with men in Strip casinos, according to courtroom testimony Thursday.
A Las Vegas man who sexually tortured children for a decade was sentenced Tuesday to 54 life prison sentences. A judge called him “highly selfish” with “a very perverted mind.”
A 40-year-old woman prosecutors say took an 11-year-old girl to the Las Vegas Strip to work as a prostitute is charged with sex trafficking and child abuse.
Former Metropolitan Police Department officer Bret Theil, 39, was found guilty of having sexually abused a woman, now 21, from the time she was 8 until she was 19.
Las Vegas police officer Matthew Terry, who is accused of lewdness with at least three boys, was formally charged Monday morning in Henderson Justice Court.
A former security guard for the Nevada National Security Site filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against a government security contractor Monday.
A man who sexually assaulted and killed a 7-year-old girl more than two decades ago was back in a Las Vegas courtroom Thursday.
A former Las Vegas police explorer must spend at least 25 years in prison for sexually assaulting an underage girl, but a judge said he may remain free while appealing his conviction.
Nearly 34 years after Nancy Menke was raped and murdered, Scotty Sloan admitted his guilt for the first time to the Nevada Parole Board, which granted his release. He is scheduled to walk free in less than a month.
Bryan Clay was formally sentenced Thursday on charges related to the murders of Ignacia “Yadira” Martinez, 38, and her 10-year-old daughter, Karla. Clay alluded to an appeal, telling District Judge Douglas Herndon, “We’re not done yet. It’s not complete.”