12 million girls are married each year before the age of 18. Fiordaliso via Getty Images Last November, Colombia passed a law prohibiting child marriage, giving 10.3 million girls the chance to ...

This undated photo provided by the Coconino County Sheriff's Office shows Samuel Bateman. (Coconino County Sheriff's Office via AP, File) PHOENIX (CN) — Two more witnesses in a federal child sex abuse ...

A self-proclaimed religious “prophet” declared 20 women and children as his “wives” while leading a yearslong sexual abuse ring, according to federal prosecutors. Now he’ll spend the next five decades ...

I Was a Child Bride: The Courtney Stodden Story, Lifetime’s newest true story true-crime movie, premieres tonight, Saturday, September 27 at 8 p.m. on Lifetime. You can watch for free by streaming ...

It’s been 14 years since model and influencer Courtney Stodden married Doug Hutchison, a former actor 35 years her senior. Stodden, just 16 at the time, shocked the world with the announcement. The ...