Parents of four Lehighton Area School District students filed a lawsuit in Carbon County Court late last month alleging the students were sodomized while left unsupervised before Lehighton Area Middle School football practice in 2019. Article Reprint - Source: TOnline by Jarrad Hedes : [email protected] December 2021 The lawsuit names the district as well as two [...]
The Vatican Has Updated Its Laws to Target Sexual Abuse in the Church, Yet Still Leaving Gray Areas to Be Explored The revision of "Book VI: Penal Sanctions in the Church" was promulgated June 1, 2021 and will go into effect on December 8, 2021, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. Book VI is one of [...]
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The Catholic Church is not the only religious organization that has been hiding decades’ worth of sexual abuse within its walls. The Jehovah’s Witnesses have tried to conceal the sexual abuse of children within that religious order as well. With more than 8.5 million followers worldwide, Jehovah’s Witnesses have an organizational structure that, not only has [...]
The Boy Scouts of America is one of the oldest and largest youth organizations in the United States. In 2017, there were nearly 2.3 million youth members across the country and nearly 1 million adult volunteers leading those members. Over the years, the organization has changed and no longer mirrors the program that was originally founded [...]
My Father Is A Catholic Priest The problem of sexual abuse of children and young adolescents burst into the public’s consciousness in late 1984 during the trial of Gilbert Gauthe of the Diocese of Lafayette, Louisiana. Over the last three decades, evidence has been disgorged from the Catholic Church demonstrating an alarming effort at concealment that [...]
In February of 2019, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed into law a Bill lengthening the statute of limitations for childhood sex abuse survivors. This law effectively allows increased time for survivors of childhood sex abuse to file civil lawsuits against their abusers and the negligent institutions that harbored these perpetrators. Prior to this legislation, the [...]
Victims of Pennsylvania Child Sex Abuse by Clergy Can Seek Compensation Through The Survivors’ Compensation / Reparations Fund Program When the Pennsylvania State Grand Jury report was released earlier this year, it highlighted horrible accounts of child abuse involving more than 300 priests throughout six Dioceses in the State of Pennsylvania. More than 1,000 child victims [...]
