(posted April 23, 2:00 p.m.)- A tourist visiting Nicaragua provided the FBI with the tip that led to this week’s arrest and deportation of U.S. citizen and accused pedophile Eric Justin Toth, one of the FBI’s Top Ten Most Wanted...

(posted April 22, 5:50 p.m.)- One of the FBI’s Top Ten Most Wanted Fugitives in the world was handed over to U.S. officials Monday afternoon at Managua’s International Airport to be deported immediately back to the United States to face...

(posted April 22, 2:45 p.m.)- Nicaragua’s National Police has captured one of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, according to National Police spokesman Fernando Borge and confirmed by FBI authorities in Washington, D.C. After more than three years on the...

(posted Jan. 24, 4:30 p.m.)-Three former police officers assigned to protect the grounds surrounding President Daniel Ortega’s presidential compound were found guilty in criminal court Wednesday night for raping and sexually abusing a 12-year-old disabled girl on Aug. 9, 2012....

A young Nicaraguan girl who accused four policemen and a private security agent of gang raping her in an empty house 30 meters from the presidential compound has tried to commit suicide twice in the past week, according to the...

(posted Sept. 2, 1:53 p.m.)- Three Nicaraguan police officers who protected President Daniel Ortega’s family compound are facing criminal accusations for allegedly raping and sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl with physical disabilities. The three officers, ages 21, 24 and 26,...

The U.S. government is giving Nicaragua good marks for “significantly improving its anti-trafficking law-enforcement efforts,” according to the State Department’s 2012 Trafficking in Persons Report, released yesterday. “The Government of Nicaragua fully complies with the minimum standards for the elimination...

(posted May 24, 8:00 a.m.)- Rape and sexual abuse “were widespread” in Nicaragua in 2012, according to Amnesty International’s 2012 annual report, released May 24. “Rape and sexual abuse remained a concern,” the report on Nicaragua reads. “Despite this, in...

(posted Dec.9, 12:30 p.m.)- Every 20 minutes a Nicaraguan woman or girl falls victim to domestic violence or sexual abuse, according to Philippe Barrange-Bigot, Nicaragua’s country representative for UNICEF. As part of UNICEF’s campaign “Let’s unite for a life without...

As awareness of sex crimes grows gradually in Nicaragua, several communities are starting to round the wagons to defend children and punish perpetrators—sometimes extrajudicially. On Dec. 5, a 70-year-old drunken pervert with a penchant for exposing himself to young girls...