At prayer meetings and other gatherings, Bibb County residents have grappled with the realization that horrific crimes may have been happening in their town.

A sheriff called it the worst child abuse case he’d seen in his 33-year career. Victims as young as 3 are now in state care ...

Seven people have been charged in connection with an alleged sex trafficking operation that Alabama officials say was run out of a concrete bunker and involved children as young as 3.