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Missouri to restrict gender-affirming care for minors
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s Republican attorney general on Monday said he will limit access to gender-affirming care for minors, sidestepping the GOP-led Senate as it struggles to pass a law banning the practice for children completely. As hundreds of activists rallied...
Judge OKs release of Baltimore church sex abuse report
BALTIMORE (AP) — A judge on Tuesday granted the Maryland Attorney General’s Office permission to publicly release a redacted version of an investigative report detailing sex abuse allegations against more than 150 Roman Catholic priests and examining the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s response. ...
Polish Church defends John Paul sainthood after abuse claims
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The leaders of Poland’s Catholic Church on Tuesday defended the late John Paul II’s sainthood and fast-track canonization process in response to a Polish TV report alleging that he covered up clergy sex abuses while archbishop in Poland. The Polish Church...
California ‘Teacher of the Year’ accused of child sex abuse
NATIONAL CITY, Calif. (AP) — A onetime Teacher of the Year at a Southern California school pleaded not guilty Monday to multiple child sex abuse charges involving a former student, prosecutors said. Jacqueline Ma, a 34-year-old teacher at Lincoln Acres Elementary in National City...
Maryland panel OKs time limit end on sex abuse lawsuits
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A key panel of Maryland lawmakers on Friday advanced a measure that would end the state's statute of limitations for when civil lawsuits can be filed against public and private institutions related to child sexual abuse. The Maryland Senate Judicial...
France: About 200 church sex abuse victims get compensation
PARIS (AP) — About 190 victims of child sexual abuse by priests or other church representatives have been promised financial compensation so far from France’s Catholic Church under a sweeping reparations program, the independent body in charge of the process said Thursday. A...
2 Missouri women charged after 5-year-old girl found dead
WAYNESVILLE, Mo. (AP) — Two southwest Missouri women are charged with second-degree murder in the death of a 5-year-old girl at their home, police said. The Waynesville police department said in a news release that one of the girl's siblings told a school resource officer on...
2 convicted in torture-murder of 10-year-old California boy
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The mother of a 10-year-old boy and her boyfriend were found guilty Tuesday of torturing and murdering the Southern California child, who was beaten, brutalized and starved. Heather Barron, 33, and Kareem Leiva, 37, were convicted by the judge in a non-jury trial...
Suicide of lawmaker's son in Poland unleashes grief, anger
The suicide death of the son of an opposition lawmaker, a teenage boy who had been victimized by a pedophile, has unleashed grief in Poland and criticism of state media. The 15-year-old boy killed himself after state TV and radio revealed some details about his case. While they did...
Utah man who killed family was investigated by child agency
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Child protective services had opened an investigation of a Utah man over alleged child abuse and threats to his family just weeks before he killed seven of his family members and then himself, new documents reveal. Caseworkers were at the Haight house in the...
