A woman who claims she was sexually abused by an ex Stuyvesant High School Assistant Principal when she was 16 has sued her perpetrator. Nicole Erlichman, now 52, claims that Richard Plass, assistant principal and chairman of the Biology [...]
Brian David Trostel, a teacher at Sherwood High School, has been charged with 29 charges of sexual abuse of a child, according to court documents. Trostel, age 60, lived in Portland and taught at Sherwood High. He turned [...]
Two new lawsuits have been filed against the Archdiocese of New York and St. Mary's by adult survivors of child sex abuse under the Child Victims Act which allows adult survivors of childhood abuse to file claims against [...]
The leader of St. Sabina Church, Father Michael Pfleger, was an anti-violence activist, has been accused of sexual abuse of a minor dating back more than 4 decades. He has been removed from his post. A statement was [...]
Fairbridge Restored Limited, a former Christian group often described as a "cult" has become the only institution that has not joined the National Redress Scheme for victims of child sexual abuse, despite having a combined 77 claims of [...]
The School District in Shaker Heights City announced last week that an employee at Onaway Elementary School was charged with felony child sex abuse. Joan L. Meyer, 45, was the library media specialist at Onaway Elementary School ad charges [...]
Republican and Democratic state legislatures are trying to revise North Dakota's statute of limitation laws to open up new windows of time for survivors of child sex abuse to file civil lawsuits against their perpetrators in courts. North Dakota [...]
Rev. Michael Tierney, a priest from the Kansas City-area, also one of the named priests on the list of clergy credibly accused of sexually abusing minors, has passed away at age 76. The Rev. Michael Tierney died on [...]
Arizona lawmakers extended the Child Victims Act last year, which allowed a one year window on the statute of limitations for adults who were sexually abused as children to come forward to file a civil suit. Unfortunately, that [...]
The Diocese of Brooklyn is represented by an insurance company that claims it should not be responsible for any payments to the victims who were sexually abused by the Diocese's priests. The federal lawsuit was filed this week [...]
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