A police officer has been charged with seven sex assaults against a child - a year after he was charged with raping a woman. PC Joe Lavender, who served with West Yorkshire Police, is alleged to have committed the crimes while off-duty against three girls and the attacks have been described as "non-recent".

The chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee is looking into how a former police officer landed an investigator's job at the U.S. Center for SafeSport despite sex-crime allegations that littered his past,

The chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee is looking into how a former Allentown police officer landed an investigator’s job at the U.S. Center for SafeSport despite sex-crime allegations.