Hearing scheduled in Mario Batali’s indecent assault case

BOSTON (AP) — A hearing is scheduled in the indecent assault and battery case against celebrity chef Mario Batali. Batali is not required to attend Friday’s hearing at Boston Municipal Court. A spokeswoman for Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins says the hearing will address legal motions. Batali pleaded not guilty in May to a charge... Read More

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Mario Batali

August 29, 2019

Suits allege abuse, cover-up in Pennsylvania diocese

SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — Frustrated by the Pennsylvania Legislature, four men are taking advantage of a shifting legal landscape to file suit against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Scranton over decades-old allegations of clergy sexual abuse. The plaintiffs, who range in age from 45 to 57, cite a recent Pennsylvania appeals court ruling that could... Read More

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Catholic Church

August 28, 2019

‘Coward’: Epstein accusers pour out their anger in court

NEW YORK (AP) — One by one, 16 women who say they were sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein poured out their anger Tuesday, lashing out at him as a coward and a manipulator, after a judge gave them the day in court they were denied when he killed himself behind bars. “The fact I will... Read More

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Jeffrey Epstein

August 27, 2019

In Mississippi Delta, Catholic abuse cases settled on cheap

GREENWOOD, Mississippi (AP) — The IHOP in Southhaven, Mississippi, was an unlikely place to settle a sex abuse claim against the Catholic Church. But in January a white official from the Franciscan religious order slid into a booth across from a 35-year-old black man and offered to pay him $15,000 to keep years of alleged... Read More

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Catholic Church, Sexual Abuse

August 27, 2019

Scores of accusers to speak at hearing after Epstein’s death

NEW YORK (AP) — Up to 30 women were expected to take a judge up on his invitation to speak at a hearing after financier Jeffrey Epstein killed himself before facing sex trafficking charges. The hearing Tuesday morning was scheduled last week by U.S. District Judge Richard Berman, who presided over the case prosecutors brought... Read More

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Jeffrey Epstein

August 27, 2019

Jailed man’s wife, mom trafficked girls to pay his bond

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Federal prosecutors announced long sentences for the wife and mother of a man jailed in North Carolina. All three pleaded guilty to trafficking underage girls for sex to raise money for his bond. A Monday statement by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Western District of North Carolina says Brianna Leshay... Read More

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Brianna Leshay Wright

August 26, 2019

Former NY congressman denies sex abuse allegations

NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer for former U.S. Rep. Gary Ackerman denied on Sunday accusations leveled in a lawsuit that the New York Democrat is a sexual “predator” who violated a teenager at a Boy Scout camp five decades ago. In a suit filed this month in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, Ackerman is... Read More

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Gary Ackerman

August 26, 2019

Harvey Weinstein due back in court in sex assault case

NEW YORK (AP) — Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein is due back in court on Monday to face a new indictment that prosecutors say would open the door for an actress to testify against him in his sexual assault case. Prosecutors say Weinstein will appear in state court in Manhattan, where he’s expected to enter a... Read More

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Harvey Weinstein

August 23, 2019

Weinstein to be rearraigned as DA seeks actress’s testimony

NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors are bringing a new indictment against Harvey Weinstein in an attempt to bolster their case with testimony from an actress who says he raped her in 1993 . The disgraced movie mogul is set to be arraigned Monday on the revised charges, which Weinstein’s lawyers called an unfair ploy to... Read More

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Harvey Weinstein

August 23, 2019

Yeshiva University hit with sexual abuse lawsuit

NEW YORK (AP) — Thirty-eight former students of an Orthodox Jewish school in New York City operated by Yeshiva University sued Thursday over claims they were molested by two prominent rabbis in the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s. The suit, filed in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, alleges that the university failed to protect students at... Read More

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George Finkelstein

August 22, 2019

Lawsuit accusing ex-bishop of drunken sexual assault settled

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A lawsuit accusing the former bishop of West Virginia’s Roman Catholic diocese of molesting boys and men has been settled. The terms of the recent settlement are confidential, Wheeling-Charleston Diocese spokesman Tim Bishop said in a statement. The diocese declined further comment. A former personal altar server sued ex-Bishop Michael Bransfield... Read More

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Michael Bransfield

August 22, 2019

Epstein may have gamed the system from beyond the grave

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The will that Jeffrey Epstein signed just two days before his jailhouse suicide puts more than $577 million in assets into a trust fund that could make it more difficult for his dozens of accusers to collect damages. Estate lawyers and other experts say prying open the trust and dividing... Read More

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Jeffrey Epstein

August 21, 2019

Suit alleges security guards had sex with Illinois students

CHICAGO (AP) — A federal lawsuit filed Tuesday alleges two security guards who worked at a public high school in suburban Chicago had sex with female students, and the school failed to adequately protect girls from purported predators. The 22-page suit says school officials knew or should have known the staffers posed a risk at... Read More

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Michael B. Haywood

August 21, 2019

Ex-Michigan State star Cleaves acquitted in sex assault case

FLINT, Mich. (AP) — A jury acquitted former Michigan State basketball star Mateen Cleaves on Tuesday of allegations he sexually assaulted a woman in a motel room four years ago. The verdict announced in a Genesee County courtroom in Cleaves’ hometown of Flint came after a nearly-two week trial that included the testimony of the... Read More

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Mateen Cleaves

Hearing scheduled in Mario Batali’s indecent assault case

Suits allege abuse, cover-up in Pennsylvania diocese

‘Coward’: Epstein accusers pour out their anger in court

In Mississippi Delta, Catholic abuse cases settled on cheap

Scores of accusers to speak at hearing after Epstein’s death

Jailed man’s wife, mom trafficked girls to pay his bond

Former NY congressman denies sex abuse allegations

Harvey Weinstein due back in court in sex assault case

Weinstein to be rearraigned as DA seeks actress’s testimony

Yeshiva University hit with sexual abuse lawsuit

Lawsuit accusing ex-bishop of drunken sexual assault settled

Epstein may have gamed the system from beyond the grave

Suit alleges security guards had sex with Illinois students

Ex-Michigan State star Cleaves acquitted in sex assault case

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