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.
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 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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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....
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...
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...
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 had the privilege of submitting testimony in support of the Child Victims Act that will protect children from sex abuse in New York
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...