A retired Mesa police sergeant has pleaded not guilty to charges of child molestation and sexual exploitation of a minor.

A Mesa man is in custody for allegedly sending an explicit photo to a 16-year-old girl online.

October 21, 2004

LOS ANGELES - Mira Sorvino is the ambassador for Amnesty International's Stop Violence Against Women program, so she deemed it "a perfect fit" to star in a miniseries about the problem of women forced into sex slavery

Douglas John Arnold Houk toured in a minivan converted into a mobile sex chamber where, according to authorities, he raped a 16-year-old acquaintance he had lured away by saying he’d teach her how to drive.

June 9, 2004

Arizona should have a zero tolerance policy for men who engage in sexual intercourse with underage prostitutes, a former congresswoman said Tuesday.

Child-sex trafficking — it sounds like such a foreign problem.

"Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter": Those four words, strung together in that order, sound like a lot of fun, don't they?

Karl Frisch

Gilbert pastor Mark Connelly’s heart broke when he first heard the stories of young, defenseless girls who were being sold into sexual slavery.

As repeatedly demonstrated in “The Silence of the Lambs” and its sequels, Hannibal Lecter will kill and eat just about anybody.

If only “never meanin' no harm” were the same as “never doin' no harm.” That way you could watch “The Dukes of Hazzard” and retain your current inventory of brain cells, the one part of the human anatomy that this numbing redneck farce undeniably puts in harm's way.

Christian singer Natalie Grant, who is nominated for seven Dove awards in next month’s 37th annual Gospel Music Association Awards show in Nashville, Tenn., says her musical career journey was changed forever by an episode of NBC’s “Law & Order,” which focused on human trafficking and the exploitation of children in the sexual slave trade.

NEW YORK - A global women's rights treaty completed 30 years ago has a better-than-ever chance for U.S. Senate ratification this year, yet the hunt for the needed 67 favorable votes is likely to incur the wrath of activists on both the left and right.

Barring divine intervention, today marks the end of my newspaper career. I had planned to retire in 2012. That would have been my 40th anniversary of writing for daily newspapers. That's the year the Mayan calendar purportedly prophesies the end of things anyway.

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Workers broke ground Wednesday for four refugee camps on the devastated island of Sumatra, where an estimated 1 million are homeless from last week's deadly tsunami, and pledges of aid - led by a new donation from Australia - topped $3 billion.