Charges Dropped Against Man Who Kept Family Isolated
Prosecutors say the father of nine is too ill after a stroke to be tried on charges that included sexually abusing two of his children.
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Top NY Court Leery of Slippery Slope in Sex-Crime Prosecutions
A system in which special prosecutors go after state employees for sex crimes against people with special needs has the New York Court of Appeals worried about granting the governor too much power.
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Australian Media Companies Admit Breaching Pell Gag Order
Australian media companies admitted in court Monday they breached a gag order in publishing references to Cardinal George Pell’s since-overturned convictions in 2018 for child sexual abuse. The plea agreement avoids any journalist being sent to prison.
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Stepson Files Charges in Explosive French Sex Abuse Case
Pressure on one of France’s most prominent political commentators, under investigation for alleged incestuous sexual abuse, grew Tuesday when his stepson and alleged victim brought a lawsuit of his own.
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Vatican Clears Retired US Bishop of Multiple Abuse Claims
The Vatican has cleared a retired U.S. bishop of multiple allegations he sexually abused minors and teenagers, rejecting lay experts’ determination that a half-dozen claims were credible and instead slapping him on the wrist for what it called “flagrant” imprudent behavior.
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German Serial Killer Charged Over French Cold Case
A German serial killer already in prison for the murders of three children has been charged in France over the killing of a 10-year-old boy in 2004 that horrified the country.
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Israel Extradites Woman Wanted for Sex Crimes to Australia
Israeli authorities on Monday extradited a former teacher accused of sexually abusing her former students in Australia, capping a six-year legal battle that had strained relations between the two governments and antagonized Australia’s Jewish community.
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In a First for Spain, Jesuits Admit to Decades of Sex Abuse
The first comprehensive internal inquiry on sex abuse allegations by a religious order in Spain has identified 81 children and 37 adult victims by 96 Jesuits since the late 1920s, a much higher number than the cases that had so far been publicly known.
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Cartoonist Quits France’s Le Monde in Free Speech Row
A leading French cartoonist on Wednesday said he would no longer work for Le Monde after the newspaper apologized for a cartoon he drew that tackled a sex-abuse scandal.
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A federal court in New York ordered the Indian Health Service to release to the New York Times a report it commissioned of a private investigation into “numerous acts of rape and sexual abuse” committed against Native American children by former IHS pediatrician Stanley Patrick Weber. In 2018 and 2019, Weber was convicted of several charges in Montana and South Dakota.
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A federal court in California approved a $73 million settlement in a class action against the University of California brought by women who accused a former UCLA gynecologist of making inappropriate comments and performing “sexually invasive ‘examinations.’” The women say UCLA allowed James Heaps to continue seeing patients despite a “reputation for disturbing behavior since the 1980s.”
Read moreAbusive Coach
Gregory Stephen, a former youth basketball coach who sexually exploited more than 400 children over two decades was properly sentenced to 180 years in prison, the Eighth Circuit ruled.
Read moreRemoved From the Bench
The Kentucky Supreme Court upheld the removal of Judge Dawn M. Gentry from her position as a family court judge for the state’s 16th Judicial Circuit. In August, the Judicial Conduct Commission found Gentry guilty of 10 charges stemming from accusations of sexual misconduct and retaliation.
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Model’s ‘Tears of Joy’ as Agent Held Over Alleged Sex Crimes
A former model who testified to French police that she was drugged and raped as a teenager by an associate of disgraced late financier Jeffrey Epstein said she wept “tears of joy” Thursday after the modeling agent was taken into custody at Paris’ main airport for an array of suspected sex crimes.
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Skewering the Diocese of Buffalo for its long-running failure to prevent its clergy from sexually abusing minors, New York asked a state judge for an injunction Monday to achieve stronger oversight.
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Ex-Priest Blames Unfair Testimony in Appeal of Sex-Abuse Conviction
A former Catholic priest convicted of sexually abusing minors in the 1990s told a 10th Circuit panel Thursday that the jury that found him guilty was clearly predisposed to distrust him after listening to several other witnesses who said they saw him commit similar acts of abuse.
Read moreDeceptive Practices
The deceptive practices provision of the West Virginia Consumer Credit and Protection Act do not apply to educational and recreational services offered by religious institutions, the state’s Supreme Court ruled. The state’s Attorney General had alleged the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston violated the Act by knowingly employing sexual abusers and hiding that danger.
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The University of California has agreed to pay $73 million to settle a class action lawsuit brought by seven women who accused a former UCLA gynecologist of sexual abuse.
Read moreAbuse at Camp
A federal court in Texas recommended that a former summer camper who is no longer a minor can pursue some of his claims against a camp counselor who is currently serving a 40-year sentence after pleading guilty to sexually abusing other young boys at Camp Stewart in 2009.
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Acosta Used ‘Poor Judgment’ in Epstein Plea Deal, DOJ Finds
The Justice Department on Thursday reported that former Labor Secretary Alex Acosta exhibited “poor judgment” in his handling of a generous plea deal for Jeffrey Epstein in 2007 but did not commit professional misconduct.
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