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BBC News
April 26, 2018
A Spanish court has jailed five men for sexually abusing a young woman during the famous San Fermin bull-running festival but acquitted them of rape. All five were sentenced to ... Under Spanish law, the charge of sexual abuse differs from rape in that it does not involve violence or intimidation. But seniorÃâà...
Vox
April 26, 2018
After the New York Times and the New Yorker reported on the widespread allegations of sexual abuse by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, more and more stories came pouring out about high-profile men who abused their power. Bill Cosby leaving the Courthouse after being found guilty on April 26,Ãâà...
10News
April 26, 2018
The diocese was on the hook for the payments because Spielman took Husted and other students on a trip to Hawaii in the 1980s, where Husted said he was abused. Hawaii — unlike New York — re-opened its statute of limitations on child sex crimes a few years ago, which allowed Husted to sue.
BBC News
April 26, 2018
A mother who says her son was raped by a boy from school during a play date told Victoria Derbyshire even primary-age children were capable of sex abuse. ... Mosac, which supports non-abusive parents and carers of children who have been sexually abused, says it believes the scale of the problem is far greater.
WKBW-TV
April 26, 2018
The diocese was on the hook for the payments because Spielman took Husted and other students on a trip to Hawaii in the 1980s, where Husted said he was abused. Hawaii — unlike New York — re-opened its statute of limitations on child sex crimes a few years ago, which allowed Husted to sue.
Atlanta Journal Constitution
April 26, 2018
A new national investigation by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has uncovered 450 cases of doctors who were brought before medical regulators or courts for sexual misconduct or sex crimes in 2016 and 2017. In nearly half of those cases, the AJC found, the doctors remain licensed to practice medicine,Ãâà...
Greenville News
April 26, 2018
"One in four girls will be sexually abused before they turn 18 years old. 96 percent of people who sexually abuse children are male, and 76.8 percent of people who sexually abuse children are adults," according to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center. Our law and justice system is lorded byÃâà...
New York Times
April 25, 2018
ROME — Pope Francis will host three victims of Chile's sexual abuse scandal this weekend at the Vatican hotel where he lives, to ask their forgiveness and listen to their suggestions, the Vatican announced on Wednesday, as he tries to make amends for voicing doubts about their accusations. The threeÃâà...
New York Times
April 24, 2018
This week, Mr. Cruz and two other victims of Father Karadima's will stay at the Vatican in an extended visit with Pope Francis, who issued an extraordinary apology this month for “grave errors” in the handling of sexual abuse cases in Chile. Pope Francis had long defended a Chilean bishop who FatherÃâà...
Chicago Tonight | WTTW
March 31, 2018
While they made her uncomfortable, she did not recall any sexual contact, according to the police report. Then in seventh grade, she said Vilchis would frequently take her to a private room at the Wheeling gym and perform oral sex on her, according to the police report. Romagnoli says she “felt helpless toÃâà...
CBS News
March 31, 2018
Survivors of sexual abuse by Michigan State University doctor Larry Nassar are upset with the university after news of social media monitoring, the ... of girls and women said he'd sexually abused them under the guide of medical treatment, including while he worked with the school and USA Gymnastics.
Sherman Denison Herald Democrat
March 31, 2018
April is Child Abuse Awareness and Prevention Month and Grayson County Commissioners will take note of that fact with a proclamation on Tuesday. Commissioners will meet at 10 a.m. at the Grayson County Courthouse in Sherman. Information from the agenda for the meeting showed that there wereÃâà...
KGO-TV
March 31, 2018
Police said some of the children were drugged and abused during sex parties organized by several adults. The Western Australia Police Force posted an update on its Facebook page saying, "the Taskforce was launched last month following the discovery of a recording device by a member of the public,Ãâà...
Herald-Mail Media
March 31, 2018
Settlement ends civil jury trial in Mormon Church sexual-abuse case ... A 2013 lawsuit that claimed Mormon church leaders covered up the sexual abuse of several children by a church member who has been ... Jensen was convicted of sexually abusing two boys while babysitting them in 2007.
NBC Bay Area
March 31, 2018
After Grace Leonis spoke exclusively to NBC Bay Area's Investigative Unit alleging she was sexually abused by a female water polo coach in 2013, ... “[The school] worked to cover up the subsequent sexual abuse by bringing in a lawyer who worked to settle clergy sex abuse cases confidentially in theÃâà...
wivb.com
March 31, 2018
Another former priest accused of sexual abuse ... In the days after the Buffalo Diocese released a list of 42 former priests accused of sexually abusing children, Lynch reached out to News 4 via email. ... The Buffalo Diocese has set up a fund for victims of child sex abuse at the hands of former priests.
Science Daily
March 30, 2018
They estimated the total lifetime economic burden of child sexual abuse in the United States to be $9.3 billion, based on child sexual abuse data from 2015. For nonfatal cases of child sexual abuse, the estimated lifetime cost is $282,734 per female victim. There was insufficient information on productivityÃâà...
The Guardian
March 30, 2018
A wide-ranging inquiry into child sexual abuse is to interview victims and survivors in Telford following calls for a fresh examination of police and local authority failures in the town. The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) is taking an initiative called the Truth Project to the Shropshire townÃâà...
wnep.com
March 30, 2018
Both were arraigned on charges of institutional sexual assault, because of their jobs as teachers. They're also charged with corruption of minors and endangering the welfare of children. Ruth is also charged with failure to report child abuse because she allegedly knew about her husband's relationship withÃâà...
Norman Transcript
March 29, 2018
Bethesda, 1181 E. Main St., specializes in treating child victims of sexual abuse. “Certainly, I can agree with that sentiment,” Humphrey said. “I wish we didn't have to exist, but at the same time, I'm so glad we're here, in our community, serving children who have gone through horrific trauma.” Brooks saidÃâà...
CBS46 News Atlanta
March 29, 2018
A woman claims the singer is training underage girls to be his "sex pets." Her story is in a new documentary called "R Kelly: Sex, Girls and Videotapes." The woman, Kitti Jones, is a former radio DJ and says she started dating Kelly when she was 27 years-old. She says the singer told her what to eat andÃâà...
The Daily News Online
March 29, 2018
PAVILION — A new trial has been ordered for a Pavilion man who has been in prison for three years for a sex abuse and rape conviction involving a girl less than 17 ... Ruiz was convicted after a jury trial of first-degree sexual abuse, third-degree rape, and three counts of third-degree criminal sexual act.
Tulsa World
March 29, 2018
Brian Paul Campbell, 39, was accused of four counts of child sexual abuse and one count of child neglect related to allegations he sexually assaulted ... child sexual abuse counts against Campbell addressed the report from the 22-year-old relative, who testified that Campbell propositioned her for sex andÃâà...
Psychology Today (blog)
March 29, 2018
We accept the false premise that child sexual abuse is solely a criminal justice problem. We wait for harm to occur—sometimes for decades—before intervening and putting the offender behind bars, and then we congratulate ourselves that "justice has been served." This is not a win. This is the culminationÃâà...
ABC15 Arizona
March 29, 2018
MESA, AZ - A bus aide with Mesa Public Schools has been arrested for the sexual abuse of a preteen boy with autism. Mesa police report that on Tuesday they arrested 18-year-old Samantha Rose Poirier. They say she reported to them that the preteen boy tried to kiss her and asked to see her "girl parts.".
Crux: Covering all things Catholic
March 29, 2018
Pell was charged last June with sexually abusing multiple people in his Australian home state of Victoria. ... which is the country's highest form of inquiry - had been investigating since 2012 how the Catholic Church and other institutions responded to sexual abuse of children in Australia over 90 years.
Crux: Covering all things Catholic
March 29, 2018
ROME - Father Hans Zollner, an earnest 51-year-old Bavarian Jesuit psychologist and vice-rector at Rome's prestigious Gregorian University, who's considered perhaps Catholicism's leading expert on sexual abuse and child protection, is, in almost every sense of the word, a man on a mission. In the 21stÃâà...
BBC News
March 27, 2018
They often fled their homelands to escape sexual abuse - but for many asylum seekers, it continues in the UK. Fear of ... At the age of 37, Grace has never had consensual sex. "I am not ... She has lived in more than a dozen homes during 20 years in the UK and in nearly all she has been sexually abused.
KCCI Des Moines
March 26, 2018
A former Johnston High School teacher goes on trial for sexual abuse and exploitation Monday. Share. Shares. Copy Link. Copy. {copyShortcut} to copy Link copied! KCCI. Updated: 6:50 AM CDT Mar 26, 2018. Trial begins for teacher accused of sexual abuse, exploitation. A former Johnston High School teacher goes onÃâà...
BBC News
March 26, 2018
Almost a quarter of child abusers on the sex offenders register committed their crimes online, Police Scotland has revealed. ... A spokesman from NSPCC Scotland said: "Child sexual abuse is increasingly happening online, with the perpetrators often using fake profiles to try and hide who they really areÃâà...
DutchNews.nl
March 26, 2018
Brewing giant Heineken has pledged to do more to protect its sales agents in Africa after NRC published allegations of widespread sexual abuse in 10 countries where it operates. Around 2,000 women work for the Amsterdam-based multinational firm as 'promotional girls' on the continent as part of aÃâà...
The Guardian
March 26, 2018
A rule set by the main governing body of the religion that means for child sexual abuse to be taken seriously there must be two witnesses to it. Alleged child sex abuse victims claiming they were forced to recount allegations in front of their abuser. Young girls who engage in sexual activity before marriageÃâà...
CBS Baltimore / WJZ
March 26, 2018
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Several survivors of sexual abuse in Baltimore's Catholic schools are demanding action against a nun who they say turned a blind eye ... Sister Eileen Weisman, who they claim knew but never reported a teacher at her former school, John Merzbacher, was sexually abusing students.
Crux: Covering all things Catholic
March 26, 2018
We won't really know until the Synod of Bishops gets underway, but if 300 young people from around the world who met in Rome this week to provide input to the bishops have anything to do with it, two tough subjects will be unavoidable: The Church's sexual abuse scandals, and the role of women inÃâà...
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
March 26, 2018
According to a criminal complaint, Alaska State Troopers began investigating Phillip Kiser on March 9 after receiving a report that he had sexually abused several children. Three of the children told investigators that Kiser engaged in sexual penetration and oral sex with them at his North Pole home.
NEWS.com.au
March 26, 2018
While the movie isn't graphic in terms of nudity, it doesn't gloss over the disturbing sex scenes. Isabelle Nelisse, the then 11-year-old who plays the young Fox, was filmed separately from Ritter, with an adult woman playing her body double. Fox directed Nelisse to perform the deeply uncomfortable reactionÃâà...
NBCNews.com
March 26, 2018
Dozens of women have accused Cosby of sexual misconduct stretching back decades, allegations he vigorously denies. For the last trial, Montgomery County Judge Steven O'Neill allowed just one woman other than Constand to testify: Kelley Johnson, who worked for his talent agent and says the starÃâà...
KTUU.com
March 26, 2018
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) - An Alaska man was arraigned in Fairbanks on multiple charges of child sexual abuse, child pornography and animal sexual abuse of a dog. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports the 36-year-old North Pole man, who appeared Saturday before District Court Judge EarlÃâà...
Plattsburgh Press Republican
March 26, 2018
PLATTSBURGH — The SUNY Plattsburgh Title IX Office, in collaboration with RADIUS and other campus and community resources, is sponsoring a series of programs designed to inform and educate on sexual assault. To mark Sexual Assault Awareness Month, events will include displays in AngellÃâà...
Salt Lake Tribune
March 25, 2018
Some Mormons say their church needs a culture change, after watching the sex abuse scandal at the Missionary Training Center unfold ... as a predator during his tenure in the 1980s as president of the Missionary Training Center — triggering emotional distress for many LDS victims of sexual abuse.
WSAZ-TV
March 23, 2018
KANAWHA COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- Sexual assault and abuse charges have a 51-year-old man in Putnam County awaiting a preliminary hearing. Jeffrey Curtis Craig, of Buffalo, is charged with several counts of first-degree sexual assault and sexual abuse by a parent or guardian. Kanawha CountyÃâà...
WILX-TV
March 23, 2018
HILLSDALE COUNTY, Mich. (WILX) The Somerset Township Police Department is asking for the public's help in locating Daniel Stephan Lasecki. The 51 year old is wanted on a felony warrant for child sexually abusive activity. Lasecki is 5'8", 180 pounds with grey hair. His last known address was on SaukÃâà...
News 12 Long Island
March 23, 2018
They say he's blocking a bill that would provide justice to sexual abuse victims. The group is pushing for support of the Child Victims Act. The state bill would extend the current statute of limitations for cases from the current age of 23 to age 28 for criminal prosecution, and extend it to age 50 for civil claims.
NECN
March 23, 2018
A Massachusetts youth hockey coach returned to court Friday morning to face 10 new counts of child sex abuse charges. Thirty-one-year-old Christopher Prew pleaded not guilty to the new charges during his arraignment in Salem Superior Court after an Essex County grand jury returned 10 indictments onÃâà...
WKBW-TV
March 23, 2018
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) - More and more sexual abuse victims have been coming forward over the past two weeks, and the founder of a local support group says he is receiving phone calls every single day. Tom Travers says part of the healing process for sexual abuse victims is being able to speak toÃâà...
Salt Lake Tribune
March 23, 2018
Woman accusing former Mormon Missionary Training Center leader of sexual abuse says she may sue the LDS Church. Woman accusing former Mormon Missionary Training Center leader of sexual abuse says she may sue the. (Tribune file photo) Joseph L. Bishop, in 1972, about a decade before heÃâà...
PEOPLE.com
March 23, 2018
A survivor of childhood sexual abuse is hoping to make a difference for other victims by raising money for charity during an excruciating 3,000-mile run ... “When you're abused, especially by other men, it's not really something that anyone would ever talk about, want to talk about or be willing to talk about.
New York Times
March 23, 2018
Ms. Sullivan said that she was sexually abused and then raped by a former teacher when she was a student at the Emma Willard School in Troy, N.Y., in the 1990s. A report commissioned by Emma Willard concluded that a teacher there named Scott Sargent had been fired for sexually abusing a studentÃâà...
MyAJC
March 22, 2018
GOP senators exclude Democrats, public, from meeting about weakening legislation for child sex abuse victims ... When a Georgia Senate committee tried unsuccessfully to resolve differences over child sexual abuse legislation Wednesday, they excluded some key players: fellow members who happen toÃâà...
Galesburg Register-Mail
March 1, 2018
Police began their investigation in September with a teenage girl who alleged during an interview at the McLean County Children's Advocacy Center that she was sexually abused as a teen during piano lessons. During his interview with police at the CAC in December, Parlier admitted having a sexualÃâà...
