Believe Victims if We Want to End Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
Ft. Hood is the latest scandal where victims of sexual mistreatment and DV were retraumatized by people supposed to protect them.
Healing from scandal and abuse
Healing from scandal and abuse is good. But healing necessitates acknowledging the injury. You can’t heal from a wound that is never treated.
#Churchtoo means shut up and listen
many scandals that have rocked the Catholic church. Unfortunately, they have rocked every other denomination, faith, countless secular institutions and countless families. And the pain and tumult these scandals leave for non-offending members is massive. With that in mind, we wanted to share this piece.
California opens three-year window for child sexual assault lawsuits
California’s new law extends the deadline for civil lawsuits going forward and opens a three-year window for claims that were barred under the old rules.
New York Child Victims Act. How do I get justice?
New York’s Child Victims Act allows previously lapsed claims to be filed in court, the next issue for victims and survivors is how to access justice.
The Church Settled Sexual Abuse Cases Against This Priest. Why Is He Still Saying Mass?
By Sharon Otterman New York Times Dec. 20, 2018 MIDDLETOWN, N.Y. — The Rev. Donald G. Timone, cloaked in the purple and gold robes of Advent, led the procession down the central aisle of St. Joseph’s Church here on the first Sunday of December. Celebrating the 11:30...
The Roman Catholic Church Have Forgiven Their Own Sins For Too Long
The Roman Catholic Church has covered up years of child sexual abuse by priests. The crisis is institutional. With the involvement, and cooperation, of bishops, archbishops, and even cardinals. The Pennsylvania Grand Jury report, now supported by investigations in...
Lists of Priests Accused of Sexual Abuse Are Spilling Out Across the Country
By Campbell Robertson New York Times PITTSBURGH — It was a list Charles L. Bailey Jr. had wanted to see for years: the names of the priests in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse who had been credibly accused of sexual abuse. Mr. Bailey, 67, a longtime local...
How Buffalo NY Bishop Richard Malone Concealed Sexual Abuse
60 Minutes: Whistleblower says Bishop Richard Malone knew of sexual abuse allegations, but did nothing. For the first time on television, the former executive assistant to Buffalo’s Bishop Richard Malone explains why she decided to speak out against the bishop...
Stop partisan politics over sexual abuse bill
The Child Victims Act has languished in the New York State Senate. The horrific report from the Pennsylvania grand jury about rampant sexual abuse and cover-ups by church officials makes it clear that New York must pass a final version of this bill.
Clerical Sex Abuse in New York A child advocate calls for research into the predator profile.
New York State Attorney General, Barbara Underwood, has launched an investigation into whether Roman Catholic Institutions covered up allegations of sexual abuse of minors. Author Mary L. Pulido As the leader of one of the first child protection agencies in the...
Aurora priest charged with child abuse
Author Hannah Leone Alfredo Pedraza Arias was sentenced to 205 days in county jail with credit for time served after his guilty plea. With credit for time already spent in jail, Arias was set to be released Saturday morning, Attorney David Camic said. Kane County jail...
Letter Suggests Pope Knew About Abuse Complaints, Despite Denials
Author ELISABETTA POVOLEDO New York Times ROME — Things keep getting worse for Pope Francis. Late last month, the pope reiterated his defense of a Chilean bishop, contending that he had never received any complaints that the prelate knew of abuse by the country’s most...
Is there more sexual abuse in the Protestant Churches than the Catholic Church?
Is the Protestant world teetering on the edge of a sex abuse scandal similar to the one that had rocked the Catholic Church.
Rome Fiddles While Children Are Raped
All the saints together can’t stop priests and other religions from sexually abusing children. Why does Rome fiddle while children are raped?
Clergy Sex Abuse: Cardinal Dolan Protects Predator Priests, not Kids
Cardinal Dolan refuses to condemn a colleague who refuses to get rid of a predatory priest
Cardinal George Pell
The Cardinal Pell scandal is shocking, but it’s important to remember that the Catholic church isn’t the only place where children get sexually abused.
Another New York Cover Up
At least seven youngsters were sexually abused at a Jesuit school in another New York cover-up. Catholic officials kept secret for a year.
Are the Catholic Church hiding their sins?
The Catholic Church, Seattle diocese, fights statute of limitations reform while they released names of 77 abusive church employees. What are they hiding?
34 Years, Six Victims, One Day In Court
Lawsuit filed by childhood clergy sexual abuse victim in Essex County, NJ Superior Court against Fr. Michael “Mitch” Walters; the Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey; its former Archbishop, Cardinal Theodore Mc Carrick; and St. John Nepomucene Parish, Guttenberg, NJ Fr....
Sexual abuse. Will my child be next?
New York’s politicians refuse to protect children from sexual predators. That forces parents to ask “will my child be next?”
Spotlight 2.0: Child Sexual Abuse and The New York Times
First published in Medium If silence is the jet fuel of child sexual abuse, why would any media outlet keep mum on reporting related news? Why didn’t The New York Times cover news about the NY Child Victims Act in New York State? Does the newspaper have a conflict of...
Victory for victims!
← Custody Court Crisis. Why must a 14 year old fight her abuser alone? April is child abuse prevention month → Cardinal Dolan Announces Support for Child Victims Act In a move reflecting the massive change from a church in crisis to “humble, people’s pope...
The cost of child sexual abuse
The National Catholic Reporter released a study saying the cost of child sexual abuse within the Catholic church has cost them $3.99 billion over the last 65 years.The cost of child sexual abuse to the church is an odd thing to research. I have never seen research...
