Harvey Weinstein arrives at court ahead of sex assault trial

NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers and a judge are handling the final preparations Monday for his trial on charges of rape and sexual assault. After more than two years since the allegations first came to widespread public attention and catalyzed the #MeToo movement, jury selection is scheduled to start this week. Weinstein, using... Read More

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Harvey Weinstein

January 2, 2020

Lawsuit: Famed Jesuit abused boy 1,000 times around world

CHICAGO (AP) — One day in May of 1970, an 11-year-old boy and his disabled sister were sitting on the curb outside a Chicago tavern, waiting for their mother to come out. When a priest with crinkly eyes and a ready smile happened by and offered the family a ride home, they could not have... Read More

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Donald McGuire

December 31, 2019

Woman sues Epstein estate, says she was 14 during encounter

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A woman who says she was 14 when she had a sexual encounter with financier Jeffrey Epstein at his mansion sued his estate in Florida court on Monday for coercion, inflicting emotional distress and battery. The lawsuit filed in Palm Beach County asks for an undisclosed amount of money.... Read More

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Jeffrey Epstein

December 31, 2019

Lawsuit: Famed Jesuit abused boy 1,000 times around world

CHICAGO (AP) — A globe-trotting Jesuit priest with ties to Mother Teresa sexually abused an American boy “more than 1,000 times, in multiple states and countries,” a lawsuit filed Monday in California state court in San Francisco alleges. In the lawsuit and in interviews with The Associated Press, Robert J. Goldberg, now 61, describes years... Read More

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Robert J. Goldberg

December 30, 2019

Hundreds of accused clergy left off church’s sex abuse lists

Richard J. Poster served time for possessing child pornography, violated his probation by having contact with children, admitted masturbating in the bushes near a church school and in 2005 was put on a sex offender registry. And yet the former Catholic priest was only just this month added to a list of clergy members credibly... Read More

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Catholic Church, Sexual Abuse

December 27, 2019

Pennsylvania dioceses offer $84M to 564 clergy abuse victims

Pennsylvania’s Roman Catholic dioceses have paid nearly $84 million to 564 victims of sexual abuse, a tally that’s sure to grow substantially in the new year as compensation fund administrators work through a backlog of claims, according to an Associated Press review. Seven of the state’s eight dioceses launched victim compensation funds in the wake... Read More

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Catholic Church

December 27, 2019

California court restores case by therapists on porn privacy

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Supreme Court revived a long-running debate Thursday when it reinstated a lawsuit over whether psychotherapists must tell authorities when patients report they are attracted to child pornography. Lower courts had tossed out the lawsuit by three therapists who argued that California’s mandatory reporting law violates patient confidentiality and dissuades... Read More

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December 27, 2019

Los Angeles prosecutors reviewing 8 cases against Weinstein

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors in Los Angeles are reviewing eight cases accusing disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault, an official said Thursday. The Los Angeles and Beverly Hills police departments each brought four investigations to prosecutors, according to Ricardo Santiago, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. The office... Read More

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Harvey Weinstein

December 24, 2019

Bill aims to open lawsuit window for adult sex abuse suits

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Churches, youth groups and schools were hit by a tsunami of lawsuits in 2019 after New York gave survivors of childhood sexual abuse a one-year window to sue over allegations ordinarily barred by statutes of limitation. Now, some lawmakers want to open the same window for people abused as adults, a... Read More

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December 23, 2019

Critics attack Bevin’s pardon of man convicted of child rape

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin defended his controversial pardon of a man who was convicted of raping a child, saying there was no physical evidence of an assault. Bevin’s comments sparked a flurry of harsh criticism from medical and law enforcement officials. Micah Schoettle was in the second year of a... Read More

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Matt Bevin

December 23, 2019

Suspect in student death will stand trial in assault case

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A man accused of killing a Utah college student was ordered Friday to stand trial on charges he sexually assaulted another woman he met on a dating site more than a year before the slaying. Ayoola Ajayi, 31, pleaded not guilty to felony kidnapping and three counts of forcible sexual... Read More

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Ayoola Ajayi

December 20, 2019

In Nome, Alaska, review of rape ‘cold cases’ hits a wall

NOME, Alaska (AP) — The two cops — the cold case detective from Virginia and the evidence technician from Alaska — had a mission. Sift through more than a decade of grim stories from this small city set between the Bering Strait and Alaska’s western tundra. Nome’s new police chief, another Virginia transplant, asked the... Read More

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December 19, 2019

R. Kelly arraigned on bribe charge linked to Aaliyah wedding

NEW YORK (AP) — Singer R. Kelly pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges he schemed with others to pay for a fake ID for an unnamed female a day before he married R&B singer Aaliyah, then 15 years old, in a secret ceremony in 1994. Kelly entered the plea in New York via a video... Read More

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R. Kelly

December 19, 2019

Court grants woman anonymity in suit alleging sexual assault

HOUSTON (AP) — A federal appeals court on Wednesday stopped a judge from forcing a Texas woman to make her name public in a lawsuit alleging she was sexually assaulted by a co-worker. The woman identified herself only as “Jane Doe” in a lawsuit she filed in Houston federal court over an arbitration dispute she... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Sexual Abuse

Harvey Weinstein arrives at court ahead of sex assault trial

Lawsuit: Famed Jesuit abused boy 1,000 times around world

Woman sues Epstein estate, says she was 14 during encounter

Lawsuit: Famed Jesuit abused boy 1,000 times around world

Hundreds of accused clergy left off church’s sex abuse lists

Pennsylvania dioceses offer $84M to 564 clergy abuse victims

California court restores case by therapists on porn privacy

Los Angeles prosecutors reviewing 8 cases against Weinstein

Bill aims to open lawsuit window for adult sex abuse suits

Critics attack Bevin’s pardon of man convicted of child rape

Suspect in student death will stand trial in assault case

In Nome, Alaska, review of rape ‘cold cases’ hits a wall

R. Kelly arraigned on bribe charge linked to Aaliyah wedding

Court grants woman anonymity in suit alleging sexual assault

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