A judge has sentenced the longtime USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University doctor to 60 years in federal prison for child abuse imagery crimes

Port St. Lucie’s Scott Trader, 32, got an unusually long sentence Thursday — life in federal prison — even for someone pleading guilty to multiple child pornography and sexual abuse charges. Then again, when Homeland Security investigators executed a search warrant on Trader’s home on June 1, they found him in the bedroom with his wife — and 10 media storage cards, three phones, an external hard drive and a laptop all with child pornography, some of it involving a 2-year-old put in Trader’s care. One of the videos includes Trader making that toddler kiss his penis.

A Burke County mother, whose 3-year-old son froze to death earlier this year, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in court Monday and could soon walk out of jail. Jamie Basinger, 24, faced one count each of involuntary manslaughter and child abuse.

Harry Thomas, 74, has been arrested for molesting four children from 1999 to 2015. He is a pastor at Come Alive New Testament Church in New Jersey, although he is known to more people as the founder of the Creation Festival. The event, sometimes called the “grandfather of Christian music festivals,” is a multi-day music festival that draws crowds of around 100,000 to see the biggest names in Christian music.

An Oklahoma man is behind bars after police say he beat his girlfriend's 5-year-old because the little boy opened a Christmas present early. The child's mother says her boyfriend was watching her children while she was Christmas shopping Saturday. She came home to something she never thought she would see. She saw bruises on her 5-year-old son's back and arms, welts on his forehead and an apparent hand print on his cheek.

Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints President Warren Jeffs, in addition to other church leaders and its former land trust, face accusations of carrying out a "calculated plan" to sexually abuse underage girls as part of religious rituals, according to court documents filed Wednesday. The lawsuit further levels accusations against the United Effort Plan Trust, Warren Jeffs' brothers Lyle and Seth Jeffs, former FLDS President and convicted bigamist Wendell Nielsen, and the church.

A group of Mormon cult leaders is being charged with organizing sexual religious rituals with underage girls and threatening them with damnation if they did not participate, according to court documents filed in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Wednesday. Defendants Warren Jeffs, Lyle Jeffs, Seth Jeffs and Wendell Leroy Nielsen are members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), an offshoot of the Mormon Church that still practices polygamy over a hundred years after the mainstream Mormon Church abandoned it.

A Pennsylvania mother is suing a local school district, claiming teachers mocked her daughter, who has disabilities. Those are some of the insults that were allegedly left in a voicemail on Beth Suhon's phone. The voices on the other end allegedly are her daughter’s former Claysville Elementary School teachers..

A 29-year old undocumented immigrant previously removed from the U.S. after convictions for child exploitation and maintaining child pornography has been arrested again. Wellton Station Border Patrol agents patrolling near Gila Bend Wednesday arrested three undocumented immigrants from Mexico. One of them was Esau Rios-Osorio, who had been convicted in New Jersey.

Three Pakistani celebrities have become the first women in the conservative nation’s history to publicly reveal that they were sexually abused as children, amid a national furore over the rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl. The actor Nadia Jamil, designer Maheen Khan, and PR guru Frieha Altaf shared their stories on social media.

News broke on Monday that 13 children were found chained to their beds and starving in a Southern California home. Half of the children were over the age of 18, which surprised responders, who witnessed their stunted growth and assumed many were teens or preteens. And what has disturbed many as well is that the family and the reality TV family the Duggars may be part of the same religion.

A 14-year-old girl who was the angelic face of an iconic Australian bushmen's hat brand was remembered by hundreds of mourners Friday after her suicide focused attention on the dangers of cyberbullying. The memorial service for Amy "Dolly" Everett was held in the tiny Northern Territory town of Katherine near her family's cattle ranch. Most mourners dressed in her favorite color, blue, and many had driven hundreds of miles from distant ranches.

The oldest of the 13 California siblings who authorities said were imprisoned by their parents was frail, smelly and picked on as a grade school student in Texas, one of her classmates said in a heart-wrenching Facebook post. The now-29-year-old woman was rescued with her starving brothers and sisters from their home in Perris, California, on Jan. 14. Neighbors and relatives said they were unaware of the children's treatment until authorities arrested the parents and revealed what they found inside.

A woman could face up to 20 years in prison after her 14-year-old daughter died from an infection. The story of Amina Krouser's life is difficult to hear, especially when you consider the conditions she and her siblings were living in, according to a criminal complaint. Investigators say Aziyza Ababneh is facing a charge of neglecting a child causing death after she would not give doctors permission to perform an emergency surgery to clear an infection on her daughter's brain, WISN-TV reports.

A Florida couple were arrested on Super Bowl Sunday after they left their 6-year-old autistic son outside a bar while they drank and rooted for the Philadelphia Eagles, according to an arrest affidavit. Robert and Kristal Valenti face charges of child neglect without great bodily harm.

A foster parent in Indianapolis admitted to injuring a 2-month-old baby in his care, and child welfare advocates are calling the case alarming. Doctors discovered that the baby had bruises on her body and 35 broken bones from her ribs to her hands, and now her foster parent is charged with neglect and battery.

A man convicted of a felony sex crime against a 4-year-old girl has been elected to his second term as chief of a Pennsylvania town's volunteer fire department, The Corry Journal reports. Roger Gilbert Jr. of Spartansburg was convicted in 2001 of "involuntary deviate sexual intercourse" for forcing a 4-year-old girl to perform oral sex, according to the Journal. He was sentenced to five to 10 years in prison.

When Ogden police Officer Sitka Hrabal went into Miller Costello and Brenda Emile’s Grant Avenue home in July, she couldn’t believe what she saw. In the middle of a bare living room, a little girl lay dead on the beige carpet, swaddled in a pink blanket. “I was told she was 3,” the officer testified Friday. “She didn’t look 3 to me. She looked like a Holocaust victim.”

The parents of a North Carolina girl who was missing for years before her father led them to her skeletal remains in 2016 will be charged with murder, reports CBS affiliate WBTV. A grand jury on Monday indicted Sandy and Casey Parsons on charges of first-degree murder, felony child abuse, felony concealment of death and felony obstruction of justice in the death of their daughter Erica, the station reports.

The number of girls getting married in India has nearly halved in a decade, leading to a global decline in child marriage, the United Nations children's agency (UNICEF) says. UNICEF said 25 million child marriages were prevented worldwide in the last decade, with the largest reduction seen in south Asia — where India was at the forefront.