More than 60 people were arrested and hundreds of charges were filed in a series of investigations into child sexual abuse in Ontario, Canadian police said Wednesday. Provincial Police Det. Staff Sgt. Tim Brown said the investigations were carried out over 10 days in February and led to the arrest of dozens of suspects accused…
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News Delaware police investigating possible abuse of special needs students at elementary school
Special needs children at a Delaware elementary school may have been abused inside the classroom by three teachers, according to police. Families in Smyrna, Delaware, met with school administrators after learning their special needs children may have been the victims of abuse inside the classroom. Smyrna Police are investigating the possibility that three teachers at…
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News French actors accuse directors of abuse during their teens in new #MeToo step
As French cinema basks in Academy Awards attention, actors who allege they were teenage victims of sexual and physical abuse by directors decades older than them are shining the light on the repulsive underside of the country’s industry. The latest step in the #MeToo movement could come at the French cinema awards on Friday. French…
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News Supreme Court allows $2.5 billion Boy Scouts settlement with sex abuse victims to proceed
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News Haiti orphanage founder accused of sex abuse to be sent to Florida for trial
An American founder of a Haitian orphanage who is accused of sexually abusing four boys there more than a decade ago has been ordered to be sent from Colorado to Florida to face prosecution. Michael Geilenfeld, 71, was arrested in Colorado on Jan. 20 after being indicted in Florida, accused of traveling from Miami to…
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News Victim of sexual and spiritual abuse by famous Jesuit goes public
One of the first women who accused a once-exalted Jesuit artist of spiritual, psychological and sexual abuse went public Wednesday to demand transparency from the Vatican and a full accounting of the hierarchs who covered for him for 30 years. Gloria Branciani, 59, appeared at a news conference with one of the most prominent Vatican-accredited…
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News Ruby Franke, a Former YouTube Host, Sentenced for Child Abuse
Ruby Franke documented her strict parenting strategies, which included punishing her children by refusing to feed them, on social media. She was arrested last fall.
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News Despite Interpol Fixes, Strongmen Find New Ways to Abuse It
For years, strongmen and autocrats had a novel weapon in their hunt for political enemies. They used Interpol, the world’s largest police organization, to reach across borders and grab them — even in democracies. An award-winning Venezuelan journalist was detained in Peru. An Egyptian asylum seeker was stopped in Australia. And Russia has tried repeatedly…
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News Alito pauses Boy Scouts $2.46 billion abuse settlement
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito temporarily halted the Boy Scouts of America’s $2.46 billion settlement Friday following decades of sexual abuse claims after a group of claimants appealed. Alito issued the stay “pending further order of the undersigned or of the Court.” The stay gives the court additional time to decide a February 9 request…
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News NJ school district to pay out $6M to settle sex abuse case
A southern New Jersey school district will pay $6 million to settle a lawsuit brought by two students who claim they were sexually assaulted for years by a former high school teacher. The male students had filed separate lawsuits weeks apart alleging they were assaulted by Nicholas Zaccaria, a social studies and history teacher at…
0 5 0February 17, 2024