For more than half a century John Crawford's crime has cast a shadow over his life; a permanent stigma etched into the files of the national police database. His conviction in 1959 was for consensual ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - A South Carolina man is suing Attorney General Alan Wilson and SLED Chief Mark Keel, claiming that he still has to register as a sex offender for a buggery charge in which he ...

Over 6,000 people are still in Canadian police databases because they were convicted of the now-extinct crimes of gross indecency and buggery, RCMP data shows. The oldest conviction in the data was in ...

Whoever shall commit the abominable crime of buggery, whether with mankind or with beast, shall, on conviction, be guilty of felony and shall be imprisoned in the Penitentiary for five years or shall ...

More details have emerged in sexual misconduct allegations against a male teacher at a prominent high school in St Ann. The 24-year-old teacher has been charged by the St Ann CIB with one count of ...

The country is once again embroiled in a debate over whether Jamaica should remove buggery from the list of offences known to our criminal law. Let me make it clear, I am not against debate. Also, I ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A Supreme Court majority decision today halting the trial of a priest on a charge of alleged buggery of a teenage boy in 1970 has important implications for other persons charged with buggery offences ...

People who identify themselves as gay, lesbian, homosexual or transgender should not have the same rights as “normal” people. That is the view expressed by the Christian non-governmental organisation, ...

Two men on a gay cruise through the Caribbean were arrested in the Commonwealth of Dominica on Wednesday and charged with indecent exposure and buggery, a term equivalent to sodomy on the island.