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...]
Nineteen Catholic Bishops Have Resigned
Resigned since 1990 in the context of sex scandals. Nineteen Roman Catholic bishops, nine of them Americans, have resigned since 1990 in the context of sex scandals. U.S. cases: Cardinal Bernard Law, archbishop of Boston, on Friday, following months of criticism for his mishandling of sex abuse claims against priests. Bishop … [Read more...]
McShane Leaving As Pastor of IHM
Rev. McShane Charged With Sexual Abuse. A Rutland priest charged with child sexual abuse is stepping down as pastor of a city Catholic church. The Rev. James McShane announced his departure as leader of Immaculate Heart of Mary in a letter read to 1,000 member families at Masses Saturday and Sunday. McShane’s exit comes as the … [Read more...]
Hong Kong’s Former Trainee Priest Convicted for Child Sex Abuse
Trainee Priest Convicted For child Sex Abuse. A former trainee priest has been jailed in Hong Kong for child sex abuse. Insurance agent Michael Lau was found guilty of sexually abusing a teenager in the dormitory of a church 12 years ago. Lau, who trained to become a priest in 1991, was jailed for four-and-a-half years. the … [Read more...]
Committee Endorses Extended Time Period for Child Sex Abuse Lawsuits
Victims of Child Sex Abuse More Time To Sue. A proposal that would allow victims of childhood sexual abuse more time to sue alleged abusers is headed to the Senate floor after winning overwhelming endorsement in a committee. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill that would essentially bring current civil law in line with … [Read more...]
Families relate impact of crimes
Impact Of Crimes In Families. It was a bittersweet reunion for a gathering of Pocatello families on Thursday. Driven to the state Capitol by the power of their collective memories and a desire to toughen the state's laws on prosecuting sex offenders, the group bared their souls to members of a House committee. Some, like Paul … [Read more...]
Statute of limitations for sex crimes targeted
Statute of Limitations For Sex Crimes. A House committee Thursday voted to remove Colorado's statute of limitations on sex crimes against children after a former Miss America and a high school football star testified. "We are usually in our 40s before we can even begin to speak about it," said Marilyn Van Derbur Atler, a former … [Read more...]
Witness says he wouldn’t commit violence against molesting priest
Wempe Lost Control of the Car While Assaulting Him. Accident and Wempe "was sent away to pedophile camp." The 36-year-old witness also said he believes the accident happened when Wempe lost control of the car while assaulting him. He acknowledged under cross-examination by Wempe's lawyer that he previously said that while he … [Read more...]
State Must End Statute of Limitations on Child Sex Abuse
A “Zero-Tolerance” Policy. Massachusetts has an historic opportunity to establish a “zero-tolerance” policy for child sexual abuse. The Legislature must pass, before the upcoming recess, bills that would eliminate the civil and criminal statutes of limitation for these heinous crimes. Reform is necessary if the state is serious about … [Read more...]
Judge’s Ruling May Give New York Child Sex Abuse Victims a Way Around Statute of Limitations
Child Sex Abuse Statute Of Limitations. Some attorneys are saying that a judge's ruling in a New York child sexual abuse lawsuit may have opened a window for victims of abuse that occurred long ago to file legal claims against their victimizers. New York, noted The Wall Street Journal, currently has the most stringent statute of … [Read more...]
In Groundbreaking Child Sex Abuse Settlement Brooklyn Yeshiva Agrees to Pay $2.1 Million
Child Sex Abuse Allegations. In the first settlement of its kind, an Orthodox Brooklyn yeshiva has agreed to pay $2.1 million to resolve allegations of child sex abuse. Yeshiva Torah Temimah, located on Brooklyn's Ocean Parkway, agreed to settle cases filed by two former students who alleged that a senior rabbi on the school faculty … [Read more...]
Unprecedented $2.1 Million Settlement by Yeshiva in Child Sex Abuse Settlement
Yeshiva Torah Temimah, a Jewish Orthodox school in Brooklyn, has agreed to pay two former students $2.1 million for alleged molestation when the boys were 6 years of age by a senior rabbi on the faculty of the school, reports the Forward. This is the first known settlement of its kind by a Jewish day school. These are two rare … [Read more...]
Extending Statute Of Limitations On Child Sex-abuse Victims
A Bill Extending The Statute Of Limitations On Child Sex-Abuse Claims. A strong show of support was made in Albany on May 3 and 4 in a two-day lobbying effort to win passage of a bill extending the statute of limitations on civil claims that involve child sex-abuse victims. The current law limits the victims to bring charges against … [Read more...]
