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Crimes against children
March 16, 2020
Monsignor in landmark church abuse case goes back on trial
Nearly two decades after the Roman Catholic priest-abuse scandal exploded in the U.S. in 2002, only one church official has ...
March 16, 2020
5-year sentence for French priest who abused boy scouts
A French priest who acknowledged sexually abusing at least 75 boys over decades was sentenced Monday to five years in prison, ...
March 13, 2020
Accused of abusing 349 children, French surgeon faces trial
A retired surgeon accused of sexually abusing as many as 349 young children over decades – primarily his patients, in their ...
March 12, 2020
Australian highest court to rule on Cardinal's appeal later
Australia's highest court on Thursday said it will deliver a verdict at a later date on whether to overturn the convictions ...
March 11, 2020
Australia's High Court hears what may be Pell's last appeal
The most senior Catholic to be convicted of child sex abuse took his appeal to Australia’s highest court Wednesday in ...
March 10, 2020
Australia's High Court to hear Pell abuse appeal Wednesday
The most senior Catholic to be convicted of child sex abuse will take his appeal to Australia’s highest court on Wednesday ...
March 10, 2020
Australia's High Court to hear Pell abuse appeal Wednesday
The most senior Catholic to be convicted of child sex abuse will take his appeal to Australia’s highest court on Wednesday ...
March 06, 2020
Pope lets French cardinal embroiled in abuse cover-up resign
Pope Francis on Friday accepted the resignation of a French cardinal who was convicted and then acquitted of covering up for ...
March 03, 2020
Vatican sends top 2 sex crimes investigators to Mexico
The Vatican is sending its top two sex crimes investigators to Mexico on a fact-finding and assistance mission as the ...
February 28, 2020
Vatican task force offers help to church on abuse prevention
The Vatican is launching a task force of experts to help Catholic dioceses and religious orders develop guidelines to handle ...
February 25, 2020
Victims turn to media to expose sex abuse by college doctors
Robert Julian Stone was tired of waiting, afraid that complaints of sexual abuse at the hands of a former University of ...
February 20, 2020
Jury clears hospital in controversial medical abuse case
Boston Children’s Hospital wasn't medically negligent in its treatment of a Connecticut teen who spent nearly a year in state ...
February 20, 2020
Abuse survivors seek more progress 1 year after papal summit
Survivors of church sex abuse have descended on Rome this week, marking the first anniversary of Pope Francis’ summit of ...
February 20, 2020
9 killed in suspected far-right attack in Germany
A 43-year-old German man shot and killed nine people at several locations in a Frankfurt suburb in attacks that appeared to ...
February 19, 2020
Another Catholic diocese seeks bankruptcy after abuse deals
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, filed for bankruptcy Wednesday, six months after disclosing it had ...
February 19, 2020
Abuse victims look to Vatican after UN meetings in Geneva
Three deaf victims of sexual abuse by priests in Argentina wrapped up a string of meetings with United Nations human rights ...
February 17, 2020
Priests of disgraced Legion face trial for obstruction claim
The Vatican effort to reform the disgraced Legion of Christ religious order is coming under new scrutiny, with four Legion ...
February 17, 2020
Disgraced religious order tried to get abuse victim to lie
The cardinal’s response was not what Yolanda Martínez had expected — or could abide. Her son had been sexually abused by a ...
February 13, 2020
Military still struggles to handle kid-on-kid sex assaults
The U.S. Department of Defense is struggling to change how it handles the abuse of military kids, including cases involving ...
February 12, 2020
Raid, court case against writer mark France's #MeToo moment
Police raided a noted French publishing house Wednesday in their investigation of an 83-year-old writer who celebrated ...
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