Boy Scout Abuse Claims Fund Shouldn`t Pay $21 Million in Lawyers’ Fees, Judge Says December 8, 2023 By Randall Chase DOVER, Del. (AP) — The judge presiding over the Boys Scouts of America’s bankruptcy has rejected a $21 million fee...
Recordings Show How the Mormon Church Protects Itself from Child Sex Abuse Claims December 5, 2023 By Michael Rezendes and Jason Dearen HAILEY, Idaho (AP) — Paul Rytting listened as a woman, voice quavering, told him her story. When she was a...
Baltimore Archdiocese Says it Will File for Bankruptcy Before New Law Takes Effect October 2, 2023 By Lea Skene BALTIMORE (AP) — The Archdiocese of Baltimore announced Friday it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization days before a new...
Crump: Abuse Victims Set to Sue Baltimore Archdiocese May 11, 2023 By Lea Skene BALTIMORE (AP) — After Maryland lawmakers recently eliminated the statute of limitations for child sex abuse lawsuits amid heightened scrutiny...
California Jury Awards $2.28 Billion in Child Sex Abuse Suit April 28, 2023 RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California jury has awarded $2.28 billion to a woman who was molested for years...
Charges Put Focus on Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Handling of Abuse April 20, 2023 By Mark Scolforo and Peter Smith YORK HAVEN, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania grand jury in recent months accused nine men with connections to the Jehovah’s...
Push to Require Clergy to Report Abuse Stalls in Mormon Utah March 2, 2023 By Sam Metz SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – Lindsey Lundholm looked out over hundreds of people at the Utah State Capitol last year...
Clergy Sex Abuse Suits Could Bankrupt San Diego Diocese February 13, 2023 SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego said Friday it may declare bankruptcy in the coming...
Boy Scouts, Catholic Dioceses Find Haven from Sex Abuse Suits in Bankruptcy January 3, 2023 By Kristina Cooke, Mike Spector, Benjamin Lesser, Dan Levine and Disha Raychaudhuri Lawmakers around the United States have tried to grant justice to victims of decades-old incidents of child sexual abuse by...
Sex-Abuse Video Victimizes Child Long After Abuser is Gone December 27, 2022 By Michael Rezendes and Helen Wieffering The video of a man raping his 9-year-old daughter was discovered in New Zealand in 2016 and triggered a global...