In the 11th Circuit, government prosecutors at long last uttered the word “sorry” in open court to victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s underage sex ring, after years of refusing to apologize for keeping them in the dark about a deal that protected the wealthy money manager from federal charges.
Read moreThe Montana Supreme Court reversed a $35 million award in a negligence case against Jehovah’s Witnesses, finding that they are exempt from mandatory child abuse reporting because “canon law, church doctrine, or established church practice required that the reports of abuse in this case be kept confidential.”
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One day in May of 1970, an 11-year-old boy and his disabled sister were sitting on the curb outside a Chicago tavern, waiting for their mother to come out. When a priest with crinkly eyes and a ready smile happened by and offered the family a ride home, they could not have been happier.
Read moreA Colorado woman accused of hiding 26 children behind a false wall at her daycare center was arrested for investigation of misdemeanor child abuse, police said Thursday.
Read moreA Native American woman claims that British Columbia Ministry of Children and Family Development officials not only placed her in extremely abusive homes as a child, but that one of her supervisors stole money from a joint bank account he opened with her, in B.C. Supreme Court.
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Pope Francis has abolished the “pontifical secret” used in clergy sexual abuse cases, after mounting criticism that the high degree of confidentiality has been used to protect pedophiles, silence victims and keep law enforcement from investigating crimes.
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One of the brothers behind a string of fatal home robberies told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that it was wrong to put him on death row without letting a jury hear about the difficult circumstances of his childhood.
Read moreOn top of an already pending child-sex indictment, federal prosecutors brought campaign-finance charges late Tuesday against a lobbyist cited dozens of times in the Mueller report.
Read moreFive people sued the Diocese of Metuchen, N.J., separately, claiming they were sexually abused as minors, and six others filed separate sexual abuse complaints against the Boy Scouts on similar charges, all in Middlesex County Court.
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Fifteen states have revised their laws in the past two years extending or suspending statutes of limitation to allow child sex abuse claims stretching back decades, unleashing potentially thousands of new lawsuits against the U.S. Roman Catholic Church.
Read moreBritain’s Prince Andrew continues to face many hurdles despite his decision to step down from royal duties because of his friendship with billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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Attorneys for the victims of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein say Prince Andrew should speak to U.S. investigators immediately, after the prince withdrew from public duties over what he called his “ill-judged association” with the convicted pedophile.
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A California appeals court appeared strongly inclined Monday to give new life to lawsuits filed by two men who accuse Michael Jackson of repeatedly molesting them when they were boys.
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After being forcibly separated at the border by government officials, sexually abused in U.S. foster care and deported, a once bright and beaming 3-year-old girl arrived back in Honduras withdrawn, anxious and angry, convinced her father abandoned her.
Read moreA Jane Doe claims that Eagle Quest of Nevada counselor Marcelo Gellert “repeatedly raped” her and her two sisters while allegedly giving them counseling when they were minors, in Clark County Court.
Read moreA Jane Doe sued Los Angeles Unified School District and its former wrestling coach Terrell Gillard, who has been sentenced to 71 years in state prison for sexually molesting nine children, in superior court.
Read moreThe woman who implicated Alan Dershowitz in Jeffrey Epstein’s pedophile ring must find new counsel as she sues the famed lawyer for defamation, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
Read moreA minor claims Sequel Youth and Family Services, of Washington state, and profit-seeking Clarinda Academy Youth Corp., of Iowa, have an “unholy partnership” in which codefendant Washington state turns a blind eye to “consistent and alarming reports of abuse and neglect occurring at Clarinda Academy,” after it receives foster children from Washington.
Read moreThe director of a prestigious research lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology resigned Saturday, and the school’s president ordered an independent investigation amid an uproar over the lab’s ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
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