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April 22, 2020

University Of Michigan Doctor accused of sexually abusing at least 40 African American Men when they were young athletes

A former doctor at the University of Michigan, who is now deceased, is accused in a lawsuit against University Of Michigan, of sexually abusing at least 40 African American men when they were young athletes at the University between 1968-2003. At least a dozen men have come forward to publicly to athletes former University of Michigan doctor Robert Anderson, of sexual assault while he worked at the University. The majority of the men who came forward were from vulnerable communities and depended on their athletic scholarships so they believed at the time they had no choice but to remain quiet […]

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April 17, 2020

Inmates at Womens Prison in New Jersey endured years of sexual abuse by guards

According to a Justice Department report released this week, Edna Mahan, New Jersey’s only state women’s prison, violated the inmates’ constitutional protections from cruel and unusual punishment. The report indicated that female inmates in the New Jersey prison were regularly forced to perform sex acts on guards and were sexually assaulted while staff members looked on. Apparently sexual assault and coercion was so prevalent that the Justice Department was in violation of the inmates rights to the point where one inmate reported that she had to act as a lookout for the guard while he was assaulting her. […]

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April 13, 2020

Man serving just 6 years in prison for sexually abusing over 18 boys in Maple Leaf Garden Arena scandal has died

Gordon Stuckless , who was the man known as the sex abuse predator in the Maple Leaf Gardens sexual abuse scandal has died from a brain hemorrhage. Stuckless, wh owas in his early 70’s, was sentenced back in 2016 to 6 1/2 years in prison, which included his time on house arrest. He was accused of over 100 offenses of sexual abuse of 18 boys over the course of three decades. He was released to a halfway house on day parole in December. “Mr. Stuckless left a trail of devastation in his wake. Of that there can be […]

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April 8, 2020

Wife of Child molester suing Church for $9.5 Million despite fact that father sexually abused their own daughter

An Oregon man is currently serving 15 years for sexually abusing a little girl after he confessed to a clergy member of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He confessed to the.crime in 2016 to “repent for his sins”(under the eyes of God and to seek spiritual healing) “to bring peace within his life and family.” He was arrested and charged in 2017 and convicted in 2018 of four counts of second-degree sexual abuse. The abuser’s wife is now suing the Church for $9.5 Million and claims that the family went through emotional distress and […]

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April 7, 2020

High Court Overturns sex abuse conviction of High Ranking Catholic Official Cardinal Pell

Australia’s High Court unanimously overturned the conviction of Cardinal George Pell and he has been freed from prison. Pell had been convicted of five counts of historical child sex abuse. Yesterday, Chief Justice Susan Kiefel, after a five-year legal battle, put an end to what began when a man in his 30s approached police and accused Cardinal Pell of sexually abusing him as a child in the mid-1990s. In the 90’s, Cardinal Pell was the Vatican Treasurer and the highest ranking Catholic official to ever be publicly accused of child sex offenses. Pell has continued to deny the charges […]

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April 6, 2020

Online Child sex abuse to increase during COVID-19

The number of online child sexual abuse cases during Covid-19 could spike according to The National Crime Agency (NCA) and intelligence from recent weeks shows that there are at least 300,000 people in the UK who pose a sexual threat to children. This new assessment of the threat for more sexual abuse cases is much higher than previously believed and investigators discovered that access to child sexual abuse content on the open web i s as easy as just three clicks. The 300,000 estimate is from the NCA’s latest national strategic assessment, which comes from warnings from charities […]

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April 6, 2020

$21.7 Million verdict is upheld in Rabbi Sex abuse case

A Connecticut Rabbi accused of repeatedly sexually abusing a teenage boy in the early 2000’s was sentenced to 12 years in prison last month. The accuser, Eliyahu Mirlis, now 32, filed a civil lawsuit in federal court against Rabbi Daniel Greer, now 79 in 2016. Mirlis said Greer sexually abused him in 2002 and 2003 when he attended the Yeshiva of New Haven that Rabbi Greer founded. A federal appeals court last month upheld a $21.7 million verdict against Rabbi Greer and a three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City rejected the […]

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April 5, 2020

16 cases of child sex abuse by catholic priests spanning 70 years uncovered in Japan

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Japan recenty discovered cases of sexual abuse against minors spanning 70 years. Tokyo confernece discoverd in its internal probe of churches that from the 1950s to the 2010s 16 cases of sex abuse. SInce last May, the Tokyo-based organization has been investigating all its convents and dioceses and encouraged people to come forward with reports of sexual abuse regardless of when it occurred. The investigation uncovered some elementary school students, girls and boys even as young as under age of 6, were among those who had been allegedly abused in a priest’s […]

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April 3, 2020

Ringleader of sex abuse chat room used cryptocurrency to cover his tracks

An investigation into a sex abuse chat room discovered that chat room leader was using the privacy enhancing cryptocurrency called Monero (XMR) to accept payments without tracking abilities. Cho Ju-bin, age 25, is accused of charging users between 200,000 to 1.5 million Korean won (around $160 to $1,200) for access to videos and images of young women, many younger than 16, who were forced to perform sex acts on themselves. Cho was named as the alleged ringleader of a Telegram chat group known as the Doctor’s Room, and is accused of violating the child protection, privacy and sexual abuse […]

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April 3, 2020

Catholic Priest steps down from his postition amid accusations of sex abuse

Bishop Alan Hopes and the Diocese of East Anglia released a statement last week explaining that Father Michael Ryan had recently been accused of the sexual abuse of children in the past. Father Michael Ryan voluntarily left his position during the investigation and the accusations have been reported to police and to the relevant authorities. This is an ongoing investigation. The Catholic Church website, reads: “Whilst the investigation is ongoing, Father Ryan has voluntarily withdrawn from all public ministry. “This is a neutral act which makes no judgement on his guilt or innocence and is in keeping with […]

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