Eighty more names were added to the list of men and women accusing a New York City hospital of knowing, and not preventing, a prominent pediatric specialist from sexually abusing and taking naked photographs of child patients. Over the past year, more…
Lawsuit accuses ex-Rockefeller University Hospital doctor of sexually abusing 80 children
A lawsuit filed Wednesday accuses a former doctor at Rockefeller University Hospital in Manhattan of sexually abusing 80 children — mostly boys — over a four-decade span under the guise of treating them for growth disorders. The lawsuit follows one…
Girl Scouts sex-abuse claim included in NY civil case flurry
As a Girl Scout growing up in upstate New York, Alice Weiss-Russell says she lived with a dark secret: The husband of her troop leader was sexually abusing her in the bathroom of a church basement where scout meetings were…
Child Victims Act gets one-year extension, giving child sex abuse survivors more time to sue
The civil courts were closed for months during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York, so the State Legislature has decided to grant the survivors of child sexual abuse more time to file lawsuits under the Child Victims…
Hundreds of new child sex abuse lawsuits flood in due to deadline uncertainty
Victims of child sexual abuse are rushing lawsuits into New York state court, fearful that two attempts to extend the deadline for such suits will amount to nothing. More than 400 child sexual abuse suits have been filed in the…
Sexual Abuse Survivor Calls Mandatory Reporter Bill a Good Start
Advocates are calling a bill making priests and other clergy mandatory reporters of sexual abuse a first step. The bill that passed the Assembly includes a provision missing from the original draft. The original would have required priests report child…