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Jacob Roloff Says He Was Molested by Former ‘Little People, Big World' Producer
In a candid Instagram post, Jacob Roloff claims he was molested by a former “Little People, Big World” field producer.
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Priest Among McCarrick Accusers in Lawsuit Filed Against Vatican
A sitting priest is among the four accusers in a new sexual abuse lawsuit filed against the Vatican this week.
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Manhattan Doctor Indicted for Alleged Sexual Abuse of Dozens of Female Patients
A one-time Manhattan doctor has been indicted by a federal grand jury on allegations that he sexually abused dozens of female patients over a period of decades. Federal prosecutors say Robert Hadden, formerly affiliated with Columbia University, allegedly abused both minors and adults from the early 1990s through 2012. Among his victims, they say, was a young woman he delivered…
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Disabled Girl Suffered ‘Horrific' Sexual Abuse, Rape on School Bus, Suit Claims
A federal lawsuit says a student with physical and mental disabilities was sexually assaulted by two boys over the span of 17 days on a school bus in Georgia.
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Former Michigan Wrestlers Urge More Victims to ‘speak Up'
Former University of Michigan wrestler Tad DeLuca has identified himself as the whistleblower whose 2018 complaint accusing the late Dr. Robert E
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University of Michigan Officials Told of Abuse Decades Ago
Documents obtained Friday by The Associated Press show University of Michigan officials were warned more than four decades ago that one of its doctors was fondling patients during medical exams. But the records show Dr. Robert E
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Wrestler Adds to Abuse Allegations Against University Doctor
An Olympic wrestler is accusing a University of Michigan doctor of touching him inappropriately during medical exams at the school
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NFL's Saints Accused of Helping Shape Clergy Sex Abuse List
The New Orleans Saints maintain their PR work on the area’s Roman Catholic sexual abuse crisis was “minimal
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NFL's Saints Fight to Shield Emails in Catholic Abuse Crisis
The New Orleans Saints are going to court to keep the public from seeing hundreds of emails that allegedly show team executives doing public relations damage control for the area’s Roman Catholic archdiocese to help it contain the fallout from a burgeoning sexual abuse crisis
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Lifetime Returns to R. Kelly With a New Powerful Series
Few documentary TV series can argue to having a more powerful real world impact than “Surviving R. Kelly.” Although allegations of sexual abuse against minors followed Kelly for years, it was a six-part series aired by Lifetime featuring testimonials by alleged abuse survivors that sparked new attention from authorities. A year later, Lifetime is readying the follow-up series “Surviving R....
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New Wave of Abuse Suits Could Hit Church Like Never Before
At the end of another long day trying to sign up new clients accusing the Roman Catholic Church of sexual abuse, lawyer Adam Slater gazes out the window of his high-rise Manhattan office at one of the great symbols of the church, St. Patrick’s Cathedral.
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Providence, RI Diocese Releases List of Priests Credibly Accused of Sexual Abuse
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence, Rhode Island has released a list of clergy, religious order priests and deacons who have been credibly accused of sexually abusing children. The list of roughly 50 names posted on the diocese website Monday includes 17 men who are still alive, although all have been removed from ministry.
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Australian Cardinal Pell, Most Senior Catholic Charged With Child Sex, to Spend His First Night in Prison
The most senior Catholic cleric ever convicted of child sex abuse was sent to prison on Wednesday and will wait two weeks to learn his sentence for molesting two choirboys in a Melbourne cathedral two decades ago. Victorian state County Court Chief Judge Peter Kidd revoked Cardinal George Pell’s bail at the end of a sentencing hearing in a packed,...
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Ex-Priest Found Guilty of 11 Sexual Misconduct Charges
A defrocked Roman Catholic priest who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing an altar boy in Massachusetts was convicted Thursday of abusing another boy in Maine in the 1980s. Ronald Paquin, 76, was convicted of 11 of 24 counts against him following a three-day trial in Superior Court in Maine. He was originally charged with 31 counts, but seven were dropped on Wednesday.
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Bridgeport Diocese Shares Names of Accused Priests and Financial Data of Settlements on Church Sex Abuse Claims
The Diocese of Bridgeport is taking steps to deal with the fall-out from allegations of the sexual abuse of minors and it has launched a website to share what the diocese is doing to protect minors and information learned from an investigation.
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‘Absolutely Absurd': Olympian Aly Raisman Calls for Transparency From USAG on ‘TODAY'
She’s been an Olympic gold medalist, a source of support for her fellow gymnasts and an outspoken voice following the conviction of a former USA Gymnastics doctor. Aly Raisman spoke with the “Today” Show on Tuesday to call for transparency from USAG after a recent string of scandals.
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AP: Ex-Priest Who Abused Child Allowed Access to Chicago Schools
Chicago Public Schools correspondence provided to The Associated Press shows that the nation’s third largest school district gave a former Roman Catholic priest access to its schools for months despite knowing he was forced to leave the priesthood for sexually abusing a boy of 6 when he was around 15.
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Ex-Michigan State Dean Charged Amid Nassar Probe
William Strampel, former dean of Michigan State’s College of Osteopathic Medicine, is the first person charged in the broad investigation into how the university handled complaints against longtime sports doctor Larry Nassar.
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‘Me Too' Marchers Take to Hollywood to Protest Sexual Abuse
Survivors of sexual harassment, sexual assault and sexual abuse are expected to take part in a #MeToo march and rally Sunday in Hollywood, organizers said.
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District Attorney Creates Special Task Force to Evaluate Hollywood Sexual Abuse Allegations
In response to the recent sexual assault allegations against major Hollywood figures, Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey has launched a special task force who will evaluate the complaints, she announced Thursday.