Study Links Friday Report Cards to Child Abuse
A new study out of Florida found that incidents of child abuse increase after the release of school report cards on Fridays.
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French Priest Says Bishops Punished Him for Abuse Petition
A Catholic priest said Friday that he has been punished by church leaders in France after he gathered more than 100,000 signatures for a petition calling for a cardinal to resign over his handling of child sexual abuse cases.
Read moreNinth Circuit Finds County Violated Parents’ Rights on Kids’ Medical Exams
A Ninth Circuit panel rebuked the County of San Diego Wednesday for taking a couple’s children away and subjecting them to invasive gynecological and rectal exams as part of a child abuse investigation.
Read moreHershey School ‘House Parents’ Decry Rampant Proselytization
Accusing the Milton Hershey School of barely disguising its sectarian activities, two former employees claim in a federal complaint that the philanthropic boarding school threatens its nonevangelical staff and students with “isolation, death, hell, and demonic possession.”
Read morePew Poll Shows New Trust Issues for Popular Pope
Trust in Pope Francis among U.S. Catholics is declining in response to his handling of the renewed sex-abuse scandal sweeping the church, a Tuesday poll from the Pew Research Center shows.
Read moreAccused Pedophile Priest Faces Charges in New Mexico
A former Catholic priest has been extradited from Morocco to the United States to face federal child sex abuse charges in New Mexico, according to a U.S. Attorney’s Office announcement Friday.
Read moreInsurer Loses Appeal Over Pedophile-Priest Settlements
The Second Circuit affirmed Wednesday that an insurer should have indemnified the Hartford Roman Catholic Diocese for its settlements with four victims of pedophile priests from the 1970s and 1980s.
Read moreThai Cave Rescuer Sues Elon Musk Over ‘Pedo Guy’ Tweet
A British diver involved with the rescue of a Thai youth soccer team this summer sued Elon Musk on a defamation claim Monday over the Tesla Motors CEO’s accusations on social media that the diver is a pedophile.
Read morePope Summons Bishops for February Abuse Prevention Summit
Pope Francis is summoning the presidents of every bishops conference around the world for a February summit to discuss preventing clergy sex abuse and protecting children — evidence that he realizes the scandal is global and that inaction threatens to undermine his legacy.
Read moreContract Molester
A federal jury convicted Levian D. Pacheco of 10 counts of sexual abuse of children who were awaiting deportation, while he was a “youth care worker” in Mesa, Arizona.
Read moreNY Subpoenas Catholic Church on Probes of Abuse
On the heels of a grand jury report detailing 70 years of sexual-misconduct allegations involving six of the Pennsylvania’s eight Roman Catholic dioceses, New York launched a state probe Thursday into the church’s handling of abuse allegations.
Read moreBid to Separate Perjury Charges Denied in Southern California Abuse Case
A Southern California judge on Friday denied a request to separate perjury counts from the more serious accusations against a man who along with his wife face child abuse and torture charges involving their 13 children.
Read moreVatican in ‘Shame and Sorrow’ Over Abuses in Pennsylvania
The Vatican expressed “shame and sorrow” Thursday over a scathing Pennsylvania grand jury report about clergy who raped and molested children in six dioceses in that state, calling the abuse “criminally and morally reprehensible” and saying Pope Francis wants to eradicate “this tragic horror.”
Read moreOnline Extortion
Reflex Media accused five businesses in a federal complaint of setting up fake accounts on its Seeking Arrangement dating site to get personal information about users that they use to extort the men by threatening to post the information online with false claims of child predation.
Read moreAbuse of 1,000 Children Detailed in Report on Pennsylvania Churches
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court released a damning grand jury report Tuesday that details 70 years of sexual abuse and cover-ups in six of the state’s eight Roman Catholic dioceses.
Read moreAustralia Archbishop Gets House Detention for Abuse Cover-Up
The most senior Roman Catholic cleric convicted of covering up child sex abuse was ordered by an Australian court Tuesday to serve his one-year sentence in home detention rather than jail.
Read moreElite School Faces Claims of Sexual Abuse by Headmaster
A detailed lawsuit filed Thursday in New Jersey federal court claims the former headmaster of a prestigious Upper East Side private school sexually assaulted a Brooklyn teenager who was living with him in the 1980s and helping around the house in exchange for free tuition.
Read moreLawsuit Against Boy Scouts Details ‘Perversion Files’
Claiming the youth organization was infiltrated by pedophiles, an Arkansas man filed a lawsuit saying the Boy Scouts allowed a scout leader accused of sexually assaulting boys in Georgia to relocate and abuse him several years later.
Read moreTenth Circuit Reluctantly Grants Immunity in Horrific Abuse Case
A 10th Circuit panel did not hide its disappointment Tuesday in granting qualified immunity to 14 Oklahoma social workers who repeatedly failed to protect 10 children from a shockingly abusive household that also contained dangerous pet monkeys.
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