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June 30, 2020

Tony Brown Sr., House Of Montessori Education Day Care employee charged with molesting two children under age 10

Tony Brown Sr., 63, has been charged with statutory sodomy and five counts of child molestation after police reported that he molested two girls under the age of 10 at House Of Montessori Education, a south St. Louis day care facility where he was employed. Brown was working at the day care at 7814 South Broadway when he allegedly molested the girls. Brown inappropriately touched one of the girls and forced her to touch him inappropriately over his clothing, according to the probable cause statement. He touched another girl inappropriately over her clothing on the same day as […]

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June 30, 2020

Priest and Catholic school Teacher accused of repeatedly molesting young girl when she was just 5 years old

Sex abuse attorney Jeff Herman announces the filing of a lawsuit, under the Child Victims Act, against the DIOCESE OF BROOKLYN and ST. BENEDICT JOSEPH LABRE PARISH regarding a teacher who allegedly raped a kindergarten student when she was just 5 years old back in 1983. The victim, now age 42, remains anonymous and known as C.L., said that when she was just 5 years old, she was brought by her teacher and the Priest to a private teachers lounge, told to get undressed, and both men raped her. This alleged abuse took place on over several occasions until […]

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June 19, 2020

Former Catholic High School Coach accused of sexually abusing student more than 50 years ago

A lawsuit filed under the Child Victims Act last month in the state Supreme Court of Broome County claims a former Seton Catholic High School in Endicott sexually abused a child more than two dozen times back in the early 1970’s. Former Coach Vincent Dutkowski, who died in 2012, is accused of leveraging his position to gain the victim’s trust and confidence before abusing him. According to the suit, in 1972, the 14-year-old boy helped out as a ballboy and assistant during basketball practices where Dutkowski allegedly used those encounters to sexually abuse the teen on approximately 25 […]

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June 18, 2020

Former Edison High School student claims teacher abused him in the 1980’s

Under the Child Victims Act, a former Edison High School student is suing The township Board of Education claiming he was sexually abused by a teacher in the 1980s. The suit, filed in Superior Court last week, alleges that the school board “failed to take reasonable steps” to protect the student from the abuse. ITh suit claims that the shop teacher Frederick Burkley, from 1983 to 1985, “groomed” the student “to gain his trust and to obtain control over him” as part of a plan to sexually molest and abuse him. Burkley, who has since died, also served as […]

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June 16, 2020

Prestigious NY Private School facing lawsuit claiming decades old sex abuse of students by teacher

At $50,000 year tuition, New York’s Saint David’s School in Manhattan is considered a highly prestigious all-boys private school. However, it now faces allegations by former students of unreported sex abuse by teachers spanning decades. Peter Defeo III, now 59, claims that 50 years ago he was abused repeatedly by teacher Robert Ludlow, who is now deceased. He claims that he was abused as young as 8 years old. He also claims that a female administrator witnessed the crime, literally looked the other way and did nothing to stop it. The sexual abuse continued for another two years. Peter […]

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June 14, 2020

Woman suing school under the Child Victims Act decades after alleged sex abuse

A woman who claims she was sexually assaulted by a janitor while she was a student at the prestigious Horace Mann Elementary School in Binghamton is now filing a lawsuit 33 years later, under New York’s Child Victims Act. According to the lawsuit, which was filed Friday in the state Supreme Court of Broome County, the abuse happened while she was in first grade back in 1987. In the lawsuit, the girl said she was approached by a janitorial employee — who was not named in court records — inside the school building, then taken to a house about […]

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June 10, 2020

Salamanca Teacher accused of sexually abusing two students

Now that courts are opening again, two lawsuits have been filed by two former students of the Salamanca City School District. The law suits have been filed in state Supreme Court in Cattaraugus County alleging a teacher sexually abused them. The students claims against the same teacher come ten years apart from one another. sexual abuse of two students by the same teacher almost 10 years apart. The plaintiff remained anonymous and claimed that David Bemus, a now retired teacher at the Jefferson Street School of the Salamanca City School District, allegedly had sexual contact with a 10-year-old child […]

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June 9, 2020

High School Teacher arrested for alleged child sex abuse of student

Stephen E. Raught, a teacher at Owen J. Roberts High School in Chester county has been charged with sexually assaulting a female student in the school. School administrators allegedly have known about his prior record of inappropriate behavior with students and did not take action. There is an ongoing investigation into how the school board mishandled the report of the teachers inappropriate behavior with students in the past. As a result of this teacher’s arrest the school has received a number of complaints from other students and reports of prior disclosures of possible abuse from students that may not […]

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May 19, 2020

Lawsuit against University Of Michigan alleging decades of College doctor sex abuse against student athletes

The University of Michigan has been facing lawsuits amidst hundreds of allegations that the sports doctor employed in the mid 1960’s -2003, Dr. Robert Anderson, sexually abused student athletes while working there dating back to the 1970’s. The investigations began when campus police started looking into allegations against Dr Anderson that were brought to attention after a former student athlete wrote to the athletic director in 2018 about being molested by Anderson during medical exams in the early 1970’s. Dr Anderson was the University Doctor from the mid-1960s through 2003. He died in 2008. The sexual abuse allegations against […]

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May 14, 2020

Ohio State university to pay out $42 Million in settlements for sex abuse by School Doctor

Friday Ohio State University announced that 162 men will receive a payout of $40.9 million as a settlement for lawsuits against Richard Strauss, a longtime athletics doctor at the school, for sexually abusing them when they were students. The investigation began in 2018 amid allegations against Strauss who had worked-as a doctor at Ohio State University from 1978-1998 and committed suicide in 2005 at age 67. Throughout his entire tenure, Strauss abused students and administration “failed to appropriately respond.” The settlement was announced in March as part of a settlement to students who sued Ohio State University for its failure […]

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