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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Ohio State University is committed to a “monetary resolution” for men sexually abused decades ago by team doctor Richard Strauss, school leaders said Thursday, though no settlement has been reached in lawsuits saying school officials ignored complaints and failed to stop him.
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Facing thousands of cases of clergy sex abuse, U.S. Catholic leaders promised to reform through mandatory review boards. But 17 years later, review boards appointed by bishops, operating in secrecy, have routinely undermined sex abuse claims from victims, shielded accused priests and helped the church avoid payouts.
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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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A Roman Catholic bishop named by Pope Francis to investigate the church’s response to clergy sexual abuse in Buffalo, New York, has himself been accused of sexual abuse of a child, an attorney for the alleged victim notified the church this week.
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Australia’s highest court agreed Wednesday to hear an appeal from the most senior Catholic to be found guilty of sexually abusing children, giving Cardinal George Pell his last chance at getting his convictions overturned.
Read moreA federal judge Thursday granted entertainment network HBO’s bid to pause arbitration proceedings with the estate of Michael Jackson over the “Leaving Neverland” documentary pending HBO’s appeal to the Ninth Circuit.
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The Boy Scouts of America’s chief executive took a medical leave of absence as the youth organization faces financial difficulties related to sex-abuse litigation.
Read moreThe United Nations botched its investigation into accusations of sexual abuse in Central African Republic, letting down victims, according to a draft report.
Read moreProsecutors added a second accuser to the delayed trial of actor Cuba Gooding Jr., first charged in June with groping a woman at a New York nightclub.
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A Polish novelist and an Austrian writer were awarded Noble Prizes for literature Thursday, a rare double award that came after no prize was given last year due to sex abuse allegations in the organization that decides the winners.
Read moreR. Kelly must await his May 2020 trial in Brooklyn from behind bars, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
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There is a difference between knowing you had sexual contact and knowing that you were injured by that contact, a Cook County judge told R. Kelly’s attorneys Tuesday before denying the R&B singer’s motion to dismiss a pending civil sexual abuse case against him.
Read moreNineteen Jane Does accuse Massage Envy Franchising of having “an incomprehensible policy and procedure of directing franchisees to conceal allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior involving its massage therapists,” in San Mateo County Court.
Read moreCatholic sex abuse survivors in Mississippi and Wisconsin on Thursday demanded that federal authorities investigate allegations from three black Mississippi men who say they were molested by Franciscan friars during the mid-1990s, when they were as young as 9 years old.
Read moreA former inmate brought a federal complaint against the police department in Jasper, Ala., saying a jail guard forced her to perform oral sex, among other abuses against female inmates.
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In his second run for U.S. Senate, former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore on Monday asked an Alabama state judge to dismiss a defamation lawsuit from a woman who said he molested her when she was 14 — allegations that derailed his campaign in the 2017 special election.
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