Iowa men who were victims of child sexual molestation while they were in the Boy Scouts of America could get higher legal compensation under a measure lawmakers approved and the governor signed into law last week. The legislation, which retroactively …
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Six years have passed since David Meehan told police he was brutally beaten and raped as a child at New Hampshire’s youth detention center. It’s been three years since he sued the state and almost two …
SEATTLE (AP) — A Seattle nursing home’s insurer has agreed to pay $8 million to settle a lawsuit brought on behalf of a disabled woman who was sexually assaulted while in the facility’s care. Foss Home and Village agreed to …
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Abuse allegations against New Hampshire’s state-run youth detention center now span six decades, with 150 staffers during that time accused of physically or sexually harming 230 children at a facility the victims’ attorney calls a “magnet …
An Iowa woman says officials in one southeast Nebraska county didn’t respond properly to the abuse she endured in jail, so she is suing Cass County. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday on behalf of 27-year-old …
The families of two girls who say they were molested by an aide at a San Jose elementary school program are suing the child care provider. The civil lawsuit filed in November claims Child Development Inc. failed to do an …
A former Kansas City priest is named in a seventh lawsuit accusing him of sexual abuse. The lawsuit filed Monday against the Rev. Hugh Monahan also alleges that the Kansas City-St. Joseph Diocese covered up the abuse. The lawsuit alleges …
A Phoenix man has sued the Philadelphia archdiocese over the actions of a priest named as an alleged serial abuser in a 2005 grand jury report. The lawsuit filed Monday involves former priest Robert L. Brennan. The explosive 2005 grand …
The parents of a mentally impaired boy who was allegedly manhandled by his special-education school principal have filed a lawsuit against Terrebonne school system. John and Jane Smith, identified in the suit as the parents of 12-year-old student, are seeking …
A suburban Chicago priest who also serves as an Indy race car chaplain has been accused in a federal lawsuit of child sex abuse. The alleged victim, who is now in his 40s and living in Maryland, contends the Rev. …