(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...

The recent scandal over the arrest of repeat sex offender Ron Leno has raised harrumphs of indignation from foreign expats and Nicaraguans alike. But the Boston bête noire is only the visible tip of a giant sex-crime scumberg that protrudes...

Opinion. Prior to the night of July 20, 2009, Fátima Hernández was just a regular young Managua woman, busy with work and studies. She was not actively involved in the women’s rights movement or politics. Yet, within a few months,...

GRANADA—One muggy evening back in October 2010, the Granada police got a phone call reporting a drugged and disoriented teenage girl wandering about in front of the Shell gasoline station, entirely unaware of her surroundings. When police arrived, they found...

GRANADA—Slightly more than a decade ago, Massachusetts defense attorney Bruce Carroll argued that his client, repeat sex offender Ronald J. Leno, was no longer a threat to society and deserved another chance at a fresh start. At the time, Leno,...