Last week, a video of a controversial religious guru, who is serving long jail sentences for rape and murder, went viral in India. It showed Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, leader of the Dera Sacha Sauda sect, out of prison on…[Continue Reading...]
The Catholic religious order that runs Marmion Academy in Aurora is acknowledging for the first time that one of its members had “established allegations” of child sex abuse in the 1970s and remained at the school for years. During that…[Continue Reading...]
An NBC Bay Area analysis of nearly 700 lawsuits filed against Catholic institutions across Northern California over the past three years suggests the church’s child sexual abuse scandal in the region is significantly worse than the public previously knew. More…[Continue Reading...]
The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego indicates it may soon have to file for bankruptcy protection, as it faces about 400 clergy abuse lawsuits alleging it failed to address credible incidents and enable known predators. On February 10, the…[Continue Reading...]
A federal bankruptcy court on Wednesday approved a plan calling for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg to establish an $18 million trust to pay settlements with victims of clergy sex abuse. The so-called reorganization plan approved by the U.S.…[Continue Reading...]
When Larry Ray was convicted of having physically, even sexually, and psychologically abusing his daughter's college roommates, the story was almost too much to believe: He had moved into her dorm and brainwashed her roommates to the point they cut…[Continue Reading...]
Catholic clergy in Portugal have abused nearly 5,000 children since 1950, an independent commission said on Monday after hearing hundreds of victims' accounts. Thousands of reports of paedophilia within the Catholic Church have surfaced around the world and Pope Francis…[Continue Reading...]
SAN DIEGO -- The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego said Friday it may declare bankruptcy in the coming months as it faces “staggering" legal costs in dealing with some 400 lawsuits alleging priests and others sexually abused children. In…[Continue Reading...]
NORTH LAS VEGAS — Nevada prosecutors told a judge Wednesday that a former "Dances With Wolves" actor accused of sexually abusing Indigenous women and girls for decades should remain in custody because he was "grooming young children" to replace his older…[Continue Reading...]
A man was sentenced to 60 years in prison after moving into his daughter’s dorm and exploiting her roommates, and now two of his victims are speaking out.[Continue Reading...]
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