Latest Sexual abuse News

Victims of Catholic nuns rely on each other after being overlooked in the clergy sex abuse crisis

Mar. 16, 2024 20:46 PM EDT

On Wednesdays, the support group meets over Zoom. The members talk about their lives, their religious families and their old parochial schools. But mostly, they are there to talk about the sexual abuse they suffered at the hands of Catholic nuns. The topic deserves more attention,...

Judge appoints special master to oversee California federal women's prison following rampant sexual abuse of inmates

Mar. 15, 2024 19:17 PM EDT
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Judge appoints special master to oversee California federal women's prison following rampant sexual abuse of inmates.

Polish Catholics get a new leader as the church struggles to reckon with sexual abuse

Mar. 14, 2024 15:33 PM EDT

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The leaders of Poland’s influential Catholic Church on Thursday chose moderate Archbishop Tadeusz Wojda to be their new principal, at a time when the church is still struggling to reckon with the abuse of minors by some Polish clergy, while the number of Poles going to...

Nearly 500 victims of church sex abuse in France have received financial compensation

Mar. 14, 2024 11:23 AM EDT

NICE, France (AP) — Hundreds of victims of child sexual abuse by priests or church representatives have received financial compensation so far from France’s Catholic Church under a sweeping reparations program, an independent body in charge of the process said Thursday. An annual...

Former Mormon bishop highlighted in AP investigation arrested on felony child sex abuse charges

Mar. 13, 2024 20:14 PM EDT

A former bishop in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who was featured in an Associated Press investigation into how the church protects itself from allegations of sexual abuse was arrested by police in Virginia this week after being indicted on charges he sexually abused his daughter...

New Hampshire AG’s office to play both offense and defense in youth center abuse trials

Mar. 12, 2024 17:31 PM EDT

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Lawyers defending New Hampshire’s state-run youth detention center against allegations of horrific abuse will be allowed to undermine an accuser’s credibility when the first of more than 1,000 lawsuits goes to trial next month, even as a separate team of state lawyers...

Dozens allege child sexual abuse in Maryland treatment program under newly filed lawsuits

Mar. 12, 2024 17:18 PM EDT

BALTIMORE (AP) — More than three dozen people allege in two lawsuits filed Tuesday that they were sexually abused as children at a Maryland residential program for youths that closed in 2017 following similar allegations. In the separate lawsuits, atorneys detailed decades of...

Warden ousted as FBI again searches California federal women's prison plagued by sexual abuse

Mar. 11, 2024 20:38 PM EDT

The warden of a troubled federal women’s prison in California has been ousted months into his tenure as FBI agents on Monday hauled boxes of evidence from the facility in an apparent escalation of a yearslong investigation that put a former warden and other employees behind bars for sexually...

FBI agents conducting search at federal women's prison in California that's plagued by allegations of rampant sex abuse

Mar. 11, 2024 12:46 PM EDT
DUBLIN, Calif. (AP) — FBI agents conducting search at federal women's prison in California that's plagued by allegations of rampant sex abuse.

A West Virginia bill to remove marital exemption for sexual abuse wins final passage

Mar. 08, 2024 17:21 PM EST

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Certain sexual assaults against a spouse would be criminalized in West Virginia for the first time under a bill passed Friday by the Republican-dominated House of Delegates. The bill would remove marriage as a defense to first- and third-degree sexual...