Tag: Child Sexual Abuse
Ultra-Orthodox Shun Their Own For Reporting Child Sexual Abuse
By Sharon Otterman and Ray Rivera May 10, 2012.
Print: The New York Times
In confronting Jewish laws that forbid airing allegations against fellow Jews or turning them in to the police, families of ultra-Orthodox victims who have been molested face intimidation by their communities.
Bishops Won’t Focus on Abuse Policies
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN June 16, 2011.
Print: New York Times
Despite recent cases in which Roman Catholic bishops failed to report or suspend priests accused of child sexual abuse, the bishops head into a meeting in Seattle on Wednesday proposing no significant revisions to the abuse prevention policies they passed in 2002 at the height of the scandal.
Child abuse common in other churches says Vatican
John Bingham September 28, 2009.
Print: Telegraph.co.uk
The Roman Catholic church has hit back at criticisms of its record on paedophilia suggesting that child abuse could be rife in other religious groups it was reported.
Jaycee Lee Dugard: Phillip Garrido, the religious fanatic with a dark secret neighbours never guesse
John Bingham August 28, 2009.
Print: Telegraph.co.uk
Phillip Garrido’s neighbours and clients knew him as a religious zealot who made bizarre claims about being able to to control sound with his mind but no one suspected him of one California’s oldest unsolved crimes.
Yearning for Zion: Texas Polygamists Prep for Criminal Trials
Hilary Hylton July 25, 2009.
Print: Time
Lawyers for a dozen male members of the Texas polygamist sect are trying to keep out evidence seized during last year’s raid
Retired Orange County Catholic priest arrested in alleged molestation
Paloma Esquivel July 21, 2009.
Print: Los Angeles Times
Denis Lyons is held on suspicion of molesting a boy in the 1990s while assigned to a Costa Mesa church.
New report into Catholic Church’s coverup of child abuse details ‘horrific acts’
July 21, 2009.
Print: Telegraph.co.uk
A new report by investigators into the Catholic Church’s cover-up of child abuse in Dublin details “horrific acts of depravity” that went for decades without prosecution, Ireland’s justice minister said on Tuesday.
FBI: Girls Told Agent Evangelist Alamo Abused Them
Peggy Harris, Associated Press July 13, 2009.
Print: abc NEWS
FBI affidavit: Girls said evangelist Alamo married them, raped them, took photos of them naked
For Ireland’s Catholic Schools, a Catalog of Horrors
Bryan Coll May 21, 2009.
Print: Time
A report released in Ireland reveals endemic child abuse in schools and institutions run by the Roman Catholic Church
Judge orders records of priests accused of molestation released
Victoria Kim April 2, 2009.
Los Angeles Times
He overrules attorneys for the Franciscan order and the alleged molesters, who argued that personnel documents should remain private due to privilege and constitutional issues.
