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.
Read moreW.S. sued the United States Tennis Association and Normandie Burgos in Alameda County Court, claiming coach Burgos sexually abused him when he was 13, and the USTA let his Burgos Tennis Foundation become a member though he had a “history of sexual misconduct with children.”
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Richard J. Poster served time for possessing child pornography, violated his probation by having contact with children, admitted masturbating in the bushes near a church school and in 2005 was put on a sex offender registry. Yet the former Catholic priest was just this month added to a list of clergy members credibly accused of child sexual abuse — after The Associated Press asked why he was not included.
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A U.S. cardinal gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to powerful Catholic clerics including two popes while facing accusations of sexual harassment, The Washington Post reported on Friday.
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Over a year after the release of an unprecedented grand jury report that consolidated decades of sexual abuse allegations made against Catholic clergy members across Pennsylvania, the Roman Catholic Church has forked over millions to victims.
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State Attorney General Dana Nessel has suspended a nearly two-year-long criminal investigation into Michigan State University’s handling of complaints against imprisoned serial sexual abuser Larry Nassar, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.
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The Vatican office responsible for processing clergy sex abuse complaints has seen a record 1,000 cases reported from around the world this year, including from countries it had not heard from before — suggesting that the worst may be yet to come in a crisis that has plagued the Catholic Church.
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R. Kelly pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a new Brooklyn indictment that charges the rapper with paying bribes so that Aaliyah, the hip-hop ingenue who died in a 2001 plane crash, could get a fake ID to marry him when she was just 15.
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For decades, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was one of Boy Scouts of America’s greatest allies and the largest sponsor of troops. But on Jan. 1, it will deliver the latest blow to the struggling organization when it pulls out more than 400,000 Scouts and moves them into a new global program of its own.
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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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During Pope Francis’ recent visit to Japan, Harumi Suzuki stood where his motorcade passed by holding a sign that read: “I am a survivor.”
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Bishop Richard Malone of Buffalo resigned Wednesday, forced to step aside amid mounting calls for his ouster from his staff, priests and public over his handling of allegations of clergy sexual misconduct.
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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Prince Andrew suffered fresh scrutiny Monday night when the woman who says she was a trafficking victim made to have sex with him when she was 17 asked the British public to support her quest for justice.
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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.
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