A woman who says she was exploited for years starting at age 12 by a sex trafficker who used the shuttered website Backpage.com to sell her is suing the founders of the site under New York‘s Child Victims Act, which…
Attorney Discusses Level Of Response To Groundbreaking ‘Child Victims Act’
Statute of Limitations Can Thwart Child Sex Abuse Victims’ Search For Justice: Lawyer
A decades-old sex abuse investigation into a retired Sarasota pastor is raising questions about Florida’s statute of limitations law and how it affects a victim’s search for justice. When police arrested Henry Porter earlier this month, they said they knew…
Surge of new abuse claims threatens church like never before
It’s a financial reckoning playing out in such populous Catholic strongholds as New York, California and New Jersey, among the eight states that go the furthest with “lookback windows” that allow sex abuse claims no matter how old. Never before…
The Boy in the Video
The story starts with an everyday event – a WhatsApp message to a group set up by mums at the school gates to discuss missing jumpers and school trips. But this message contains a video of a little boy being…
2 more sue alleging sex abuse by late Orange County priest
Two more men have filed lawsuits alleging that a priest at Holy Cross Church in Wawayanda sexually abused them for years while their families belonged to the church and they were altar boys in the 1970s and 1980s. The cases…