Hollywood
Ricardo Rene Garcia Jr., actor and musician, sued his manager Joby Harte, claiming the “power broker” sexually abused him repeatedly when he was underage, in L.A. Superior Court.
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Unholy 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.
Read moreFeds Say Evidence Is Piling Up Daily Against Epstein
Federal prosecutors, preparing for a bail fight Monday, say evidence against financier Jeffrey Epstein is growing “stronger by the day” after several more women contacted them in recent days to say he abused them when they were minors.
Read moreFeds Eye Suspicious Epstein Payments After Herald Exposé
Two days after the Miami Herald renewed national attention to his decade-old plea deal, wealthy sex offender Jeffrey Epstein started sending out wire payments from a trust under his control.
Read moreLock Me Up in My New York Mansion, Jeffrey Epstein Says
Wealthy pedophile Jeffrey Epstein asked a federal judge Thursday for leave to await trial inside his $77 million mansion — an Upper East Side building that allegedly doubled as his sex-trafficking hub, where authorities claim to have recovered a large stash of child pornography.
Read moreAcosta Unrepentant as New Epstein Accuser Goes to Court
President Trump’s Labor Secretary Alex Acosta blamed Florida. He blamed how trauma distorts the memories of the victims of sexual assault. He blamed a pre-#MeToo society that viewed women accusing powerful men of sexual assault with a jaundiced eye.
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Trump Defends Acosta Despite Epstein’s Sweetheart Deal
President Trump says he’ll look “very closely” at Labor Secretary Alex Acosta’s handling of a sex trafficking case involving jailed billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein, but he stood by his Cabinet official, praising Acosta’s performance on the job and saying he felt “very badly” for him.
Read moreArchdiocese Removes Longtime Detroit Priest From Pulpit
A conservative Detroit priest renowned for his orchestral Masses and traditional Latin services has been removed from public ministry after the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit reviewed what it described as a “credible allegation” that he abused a child decades ago.
Read moreFinancier Jeffrey Epstein Due in Court Over Sex Charges
Wealthy financier and registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is due in court following an arrest in New York on new sex-trafficking charges involving allegations that date to the early 2000s, according to law enforcement officials.
Read moreSundance Co-Founder Gets 6 Years to Life for Sex Abuse
A filmmaker who co-founded the Sundance Film Festival and produced a movie whose lead actress won an Oscar in the mid-1980s was sentenced Tuesday to six years to life in prison after pleading guilty to sexual abuse of a child.
Read moreUK Police Arrest 44 on Historic Child Sex Abuse Allegations
Police in northern England say they have arrested 44 people in connection with allegations of child sex abuse between 1995 and 2002.
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