ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Another $50.75 million was added to the total settlement reached by survivors in the Diocese of Rochester’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy case Friday. According to the law firm Jeff Anderson & Associates, the total settlement is now…[Continue Reading...]
SEATTLE - The Archdiocese of Seattle announced final settlements for two separate claims related to allegations of sexual abuse by clergy members a few decades ago. The claims involved Brother D.P. Ryan who served at O'Dea High School in Seattle…[Continue Reading...]
Five members of Jehovah’s Witnesses congregations were charged with child sexual abuse by the Pennsylvania’s attorney general on Friday, following a yearslong investigation into allegations of sexual abuse in the religious community. The children were all also members of Jehovah’s…[Continue Reading...]
Around 2011, the family of a Pensacola middle-school student, who was struggling with bullying, moved the boy to a new school hoping the change would help. The boy’s mother enrolled him at St. John the Evangelist, a private Catholic school…[Continue Reading...]
SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – The former pastor of Santa Maria de la Paz Catholic Community in New Mexico has been arrested. The Archdiocese of Santa Fe said the arrest is related to a clergy sexual abuse case. Daniel Balizan was booked…[Continue Reading...]
The first person to tell Elly Sapper that she was loved was Malka Leifer, her school principal and a woman highly revered in her ultra Orthodox Jewish community. Sapper was raised in a home devoid of love and affection, and…[Continue Reading...]
The fallout of the Danny Masterson verdict has begun. An explosive lawsuit filed on the eve of the trial and kept secret during the trial of That 70’s Show has been unsealed, accusing Scientology and its leader, David Miscavige, of…[Continue Reading...]
After Church of Scientology officials learned in 1991 that a 16-year-old religious worker claimed to have been sexually assaulted, they failed to report the allegations to police and instead arranged for the girl to marry her abuser, according to a…[Continue Reading...]
Today, the Upper West Side is one of the wealthiest and most wholesome zip codes in Manhattan - yet just three decades ago, it was also home to an extremely closed-off and sordid sex cult that courted high-profile members and…[Continue Reading...]
Children of God is a terrifying look inside a treacherous sex cult that weaponized members’ faith to control the flock. The documentary recounts the Padilla family’s harrowing experience within the religion, what made them susceptible to the teachings, and how they…[Continue Reading...]
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