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.
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.
I come from a family of pedophiles, it’s OK to like Michael Jackson
I grew up in a family where everyone was either sexually abused, was an abuser, or facilitated abuse. And I still like Michael Jackson’s music.
Even from jail, sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein manipulated the system. His victims were kept in the dark
BY JULIE K. BROWN NOV. 28, 2018 A decade before #MeToo, a multimillionaire sex offender from Florida got the ultimate break. Palm Beach County Courthouse June 30, 2008 Jeffrey Edward Epstein appeared at his sentencing dressed comfortably in a blue blazer, blue shirt,...
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...
Pope Francis meets with U.S. bishops as more leaders face allegations of harassment and cover-ups
Top American bishops met in the Vatican with Pope Francis on Thursday to discuss the sexual-abuse crisis that the leader of the U.S. church said has “lacerated” the church. That leader, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, president of the U.S....
Adverse Childhood Experiences, addiction and prostitution
An interview with the Stop Abuse Campaign’s Melanie Blow about ACEs, addiction, prostitution and child sex abuse laws and policy.
When victims take matters into their own hands
Wayne Chapman was convicted of abusing 11 children in 3 states, and admitted to molesting 100, but he was nearly released from prison recently .
There’s an epidemic of denial about sexual abuse in the evangelical church
Author: Joshua Pease. The Washington Post Rachael Denhollander’s college-aged abuser began grooming her when she was 7. Each week, as Denhollander left Sunday school at Westwood Baptist Church in Kalamazoo, Michigan, he was there to walk her to her...
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...
The Stop Abuse Campaign submits testimony on the Child Victims Act
The Stop Abuse Campaign had the privilege of submitting testimony in support of the Child Victims Act that will protect children from sex abuse in New York
Roy Moore, Senator Flanagan and Governor Cuomo
Republicans won’t disavow Roy Moore bringing them dangerously close to being the Pro Child Sexual Abuse party. In NY that’s been the case for 10 years
An Allhallows Eve Treat for our readers
Halloween is when parents worry about children abducted by pedophiles while they trick-or-treat, despite experts saying that doesn’t happen.
Who pays for child sex abuse
The cost to institutions of sex abuse does not reflect the whole picture. There’s a cost to society as well, and we pick that tab up as taxpayers.
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?
Advocates protest President of Agudath Israel of America for protecting secrets, not children
End New York’s statutes of limitations New York on child sexual abuse. Protesters at Agudath Israel of America for protecting secrets not children.
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
The Silence of the Children (Locked Away in the Secret Archives of the Archdiocese of New York City)
New York lawmakers last week closed their 2017 session in “legislative hell,” as one Senator called it, without resolving a number of important issues, including the Child Victims Act, which would reform New York’s antiquated child sex abuse statutes of limitations...
Child sex-abuse law reform would save kids in the future
Removing New York’s statute of limitations for child sexual abuse is the right thing to do now and a major step in protecting tomorrow’s children
Penn State Revisited
Penn State is back in the news, making now a good time to remember exactly what happened there
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.
“No One Is More Vulnerable…”
Sexually abused children are the most vulnerable people, and that they need to be protected by passing the Child Victims Act. NY Attorney General
Why The Boy Scouts Are Lobbying Against Children
Boy Scouts of America have a history of protecting the secrets of abusers, not the safety of children, and that why they are against reform.
Make A call And save a child from sex abuse
We’re working together to pass the Child Victims Act in New York. Will you make a call and save a child from sex abuse. Click for numbers and scripts.
The man who raped me is dead
The man who raped me is dead. The start of an emotional roller coaster. Because every day we are surviving…even the day our rapist dies.
