Abuse Survivor Calls on Orthodox Jews for Support with Law Reform
Sexual Abuse Survivor Seeks Support from Orthodox Jewish Community for Support with Law Reform. A young man, Chaim Levin, growing up in the Crown Heights Section of Brooklyn in an Ultra Conservative Orthodox Jewish Community, goes public with allegations that his cousin sexually abused him repeatedly from age six until he was ten. … [Read more...]
Priest Child Abuse Cases Victimizing Families, Bishops Lack Policy Response
Priest Child Abuse Scandals. In cases throughout the nation, the Catholic church is facing scandals and being forced to pay millions of dollars in claims to families whose sons have been molested by Catholic priests. These are serious and damaging matters that have victimized the young and innocent and fuel old suspicions against … [Read more...]
Baltimore Officials Probe ’98 Claims Against Priest
Sex Abuse Claims Against Priest. The Baltimore state's attorney's office is trying to determine what actions prosecutors took following allegations of child sex abuse made against Baltimore priest Maurice J. Blackwell in 1998, a spokeswoman said yesterday. The allegations did not involve Dontee D. Stokes, the 26-year-old Baltimore … [Read more...]
Cardinal’s Answers No Answer At All
The stories are all too familiar by now, stories of shocking conduct by Catholic priests guilty of the repeated and often horrifying abuse of children. The names have become a dishonor roll of men who have abused their authority and taken advantage of children - Geoghan, Shanley, Tourigney, Birmingham, O'Sullivan. But to listen to … [Read more...]
Spokane Bishop At Center Of Crisis
Spokane Bishop Is At The Center Of Scandal. Bishop William Skylstad of Spokane was among a group of Roman Catholic leaders who traveled to Rome in April to brief the pope on the child sex abuse scandal rocking the U.S. church. Five months later, Skylstad's leadership is in question after revelations that a former priest in the … [Read more...]
Activists To Put Database of Accused Priests Online
Database Of Accused Priests. Roman Catholic activists have compiled an Internet database listing at least 600 U.S. priests who have faced public accusations of child sex abuse since 1996. The list, assembled by 10 Boston-area Catholics operating as a group called Survivors First, is drawn from U.S. newspaper articles and, in some … [Read more...]
Law Says He Considered Resigning
Bernard Law Resigning In Response To Scandal. Calling the past 10 months the hardest period of his life, Boston's embattled Cardinal Bernard Law says he considered resigning in response to the child sexual abuse scandal that has swept the U.S. Catholic church. In his first extensive interview since the scandal made national … [Read more...]
