Feds Bring Fresh Indictment of Trump Campaign’s Nader
On 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.
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Sexual Abuse
Five 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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15 States Make It Easier to Sue Church for Sex Abuse
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 morePrince Andrew’s Troubles Not Over Despite Change in Status
Britain’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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Epstein Victims Want Prince Andrew Questioned by US
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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Lawsuits by Michael Jackson Accusers May Be Restored
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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US Jailed 69,500 Immigrant Children So Far This Year
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sexually abused in U.S. foster care and deported, a once bright and beaming 3-year-old girl arrived back in Honduras withdrawn, anxious and angry, convinced her father abandoned her.
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A 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.
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A 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 moreLawyer for Epstein Accuser Ejected From Dershowitz Suit
The 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 moreUnholy Alliance
A 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 moreDirector of MIT’s Media Lab Steps Down Over Epstein Ties
The 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.
Read moreDragon Con Co-Founder’s Legal Saga Marked by Strange Twists
In the nearly two decades since a co-founder of Dragon Con was accused of molesting teenage boys, a strange legal odyssey has unfolded, including a proposed move to Israel, a trial delay because of a presidential election and an extradition by air ambulance. Now, Ed Kramer faces new charges that could send him to prison for the rest of his life.
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Diocese Settles Lawsuit Accusing Ex-Bishop of Sexual Assault
A lawsuit accusing the former bishop of West Virginia’s Roman Catholic diocese of molesting boys and men has been settled.
Read moreAustralian Court Upholds Sex Abuse Verdict of Cardinal Pell
An Australian appeals court Wednesday upheld convictions against Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Catholic to be found guilty of sexually abusing children.
Read moreBritain’s Prince Andrew ‘Appalled’ by Epstein Abuse Claims
Britain’s Prince Andrew has said he was “appalled” by allegations of sexual abuse surrounding Jeffrey Epstein after a video was released purporting to show him at the home of the convicted pedophile in 2010.
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Parents of a foster child who raped two of their other children claim in a federal complaint that Chinese Children Adoption International never told them the teenager they adopted had been “raped and prostituted at the orphanage he was adopted from in China.”
Read moreNew Yorkers Celebrate Second Chance in Sex-Crimes Justice
Celebrating a law over a decade in the making, New York lawmakers who survived sex abuse as children praised the state Tuesday for giving future generations more opportunities to seek justice.
Read moreEx-Dean With Oversight of Larry Nassar Gets 1 Year in Jail
A former Michigan State University dean with oversight of now-imprisoned sports doctor Larry Nassar was ordered Wednesday to serve up to a year in jail after being convicted of neglect of duty and misconduct in office that stemmed from claims he sexually harassed students.
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