Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said in an interview he's aiming for “the most full assault on child poverty” to ever happen in Maryland during his first legislative session.

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Maryland's Senate passed a bill Thursday that will open a retroactive "lookback window" allowing childhood sexual abuse survivors to bring lawsuits.

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A key Senate committee voted to advance a bill that would revive out-of-date civil claims related to childhood sexual abuse.

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The Maryland Supreme Court has reinstated the child sexual abuse conviction of a middle school substitute teacher who sent a student sexually charged texts outside of class.

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Maryland’s criminal law provision outlawing child sexual abuse by a “parent” applies only to a biological or adoptive parent, an appeals court ruled.

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The Boy Scouts of America has reached an $850 million agreement with attorneys representing some 60,000 victims of child sex abuse in one of the largest sums in U.S. history involving cases of sexual abuse.

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a former Silver Spring elementary school teacher’s argument that his conviction for having sexually abused students should be overturned because the trial judge refused to allow testimony regarding his appropriate behavior ...

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A former Silver Spring elementary school teacher convicted of having sexually abused students has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to review and overturn his conviction, saying testimony regarding his appropriate behavior toward pupils should have been permitted at trial. In ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Attorneys for a convicted human trafficker and for the state grappled at Maryland’s top court Friday with whether a person’s name can be placed on the state’s Sex Offender Registry for a crime against a child when the ...

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