In addition to the conspiracy charge, Mr. Jackson faces nine charges of child molesting and giving alcohol to a minor to aid the sexual abuse.

A19 Aiding Abuse Prosecutions Changes in California state law have made it easier to prosecute child molesting cases, legal scholars and veteran prosecutors said.

Mr. Wilson went to trial on charges of rape and aggravated child molesting.

Some of the strongest prosecution testimony concerned instances of reported child molesting by Mr. Jackson, some from more than 15 years ago.

Lawyers for Michael Jackson are preparing to challenge a grand jury indictment on child molesting charges on legal and procedural grounds.

Two weeks before the accident, Bishop O'Brien had narrowly escaped prosecution for concealing instances of child molesting by priests in the diocese.

John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize-winning parable is about a priest suspected of child molesting in a parochial school in 1964.

It was just a joke, of course, but child molesting itself was no joke and older men in all walks of life were not immune from the disease.

Why don't these folks just sign up to be priests and get on with their child molesting?

Reuters disclosed that, according to the scouting association itself, he had been sacked not for child molesting but for incompetence.