Jan 17, 2019 | Trauma, Trauma: Prevention
Understanding the stages of sexual grooming can help to protect your child In the fall of 2011, Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was charged with 52 counts of sex crimes against young boys. As the investigation unfurled, the public learned...
Jan 17, 2019 | news, SOL reform
By The Associated Press DENTON, Tex. — John Wetteland, a former pitcher who was named the most valuable player of the Yankees’ 1996 World Series victory, has been charged in Texas with continual sex abuse of a child under 14. Wetteland, 52, was arrested Monday and...
Jan 14, 2019 | news, SOL reform, Trauma
Tennessee: Despite calls from protesters — and the previous House speaker — for his resignation, a state lawmaker accused of inappropriate sexual conduct against multiple teens has been named chairman of an education subcommittee. Rep. David Byrd, R-Waynesboro, has...
Jan 13, 2019 | news, SOL reform
By Rick Rojas SYDNEY, Australia — Australia sought to atone for a decades-long epidemic of child sexual abuse on Monday, as Prime Minister Scott Morrison issued an official apology that acknowledged the government’s systemic failures to protect the nation’s...
Dec 25, 2018 | Campaigns, news, SOL reform
By Sharon Otterman New York Times The Archdiocese of New York has suspended a priest who had continued his clerical duties despite two settlements paid for allegations of sexual abuse of teenage boys. The Rev. Donald G. Timone, 84, is the subject of an internal...
