Woody Allen’s autobiography was released in the United States Monday, swiftly finding a new home after its original publisher pulled out after protests due to abuse allegations against the filmmaker.
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Three former students claim in a federal class action Wednesday that the National Collegiate Athletic Association has categorically failed to prevent sexual harassment and abuse by coaches and should be forced to enact policies that protect student-athletes.
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A New York judge sentenced ex-Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein to 23 years in prison Wednesday for two forced sex acts perpetrated against women in the entertainment business in 2006 and 2013.
Read moreA Missouri woman claims in a federal complaint that the former superintendent of Lone Jack C-6 School District “is a sexual predator who serially preyed on female students, including” herself when she was a minor, and that the school board president and high school principal “actively assisted” the superintendent’s cover-up.
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The first woman who publicly accused convicted sports doctor Larry Nassar of sexual abuse said she is “horrified,” and “deeply disappointed” with the University of Michigan for how it handled allegations of abuse by a late doctor at the school.
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The New Orleans Saints head to court Thursday to try to block the release of hundreds of confidential emails detailing the behind-the-scenes public relations work the team did for the area’s Roman Catholic archdiocese in its sexual abuse scandals.
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The Boy Scouts of America filed for bankruptcy protection Tuesday, seeking to shield its local councils from hundreds of sex-abuse lawsuits while establishing a victims’ compensation trust to pay settlements.
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The cardinal’s response was not what Yolanda Martínez had expected — or could abide — after her son was sexually abused by a priest of the Legion of Christ, a disgraced Catholic order.
Read moreAs he indicated he would at a hearing in January, a federal judge signed off on a $215 million settlement in the University of Southern California sex abuse scandal with one small change: a three-person panel will decide on payouts rather than a single person.
Read moreAn Indiana woman sued Massage Envy in federal court, claiming it failed to take action against a repeat customer who sexually attacked her and other masseuses — it’s the 26th lawsuit against Massage Envy involving sexual behavior since Jan. 1, 2019, according to the CNS database.
Read moreA woman seeks punitive damages from La Luz del Mundo, claiming she was “enslaved, trafficked, and sexually abused by (its) leaders,” and that the religious organization “has made the economic and sexual exploitation of children and others a centerpiece of its operations for decades,” in L.A. Federal Court.
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French police on Thursday searched the home of a writer accused of raping a minor and who repeatedly described relationships with young teens in his work, a source said.
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New Orleans news outlets on Thursday will ask a judge for an open hearing on the confidentiality of emails between Roman Catholic officials and the city’s NFL franchise, the New Orleans Saints, concerning clergy sex-abuse scandals.
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A French appeals court on Thursday acquitted a French cardinal of covering up the sexual abuse of minors in his flock, a decision culminating a drama that has produced angst for the Roman Catholic Church and reawakened a past of pain and shame for some victims seeking justice.
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The Alabama Supreme Court ruled Friday two bishops in the United Methodist Church must answer questions about what they did to prevent child sex abuse around the time a boy was allegedly victimized by a former youth leader.
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The administrator of the elite Catholic school in Cancun, Mexico, used to take the girls out of class and send them to the chapel, where a priest from the Legion of Christ religious order would sexually abuse them.
Read moreA new complaint in Orange County Court, Calif., claims the Boy Scouts hid files on “the names of 7,819 Scout leaders and volunteers who have been accused of child sexual abuse” and that “the total number of their victims would be close to 40,000.”
Read moreA former resident claims staff members of The Glen Mills Schools, for court-adjudicated juvenile delinquents in Glenn Mills, Pa., subjected him to “repeated and severe sexual abuse, rape, and violence,” in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas.
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A team of lawyers filed a lawsuit Monday in federal court in Washington, D.C., seeking to establish the nation’s capital as a venue for men across the country to sue the Boy Scouts of America for failing to protect them from long-ago sexual abuse at the hands of scoutmasters and other leaders.
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A federal judge in Los Angeles signaled Monday he will approve the University of Southern California’s $215 million settlement over claims by former patients of campus gynecologist George Tyndall that he sexually abused them for decades.
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