Recent Posts in Clergy Abuse Category
Posted on Aug 5, 2013
A now adult male, whose identity has remained protected as John Doe, in a sexual abuse lawsuit against the El Paso Catholic Diocese and Jesuit Society that stemmed from abuse that allegedly occurred ...
Posted on Nov 12, 2012
As reported by the Courthouse News Service, the mother of a young girl that was sexually abused by a church elder, has filed a lawsuit naming several members of the East Side United Methodist church ...
Posted on May 30, 2012
As reported by the Courier Post Online, the Diocese of Camden is at the center of a priest abuse lawsuit in which the plaintiff has stated that church officials failed to protect her from a ...
Posted on Apr 11, 2012
The Californian has reported that Palma High in Salinas has been named, along with a former teacher and the teacher’s former religious order, in a priest abuse lawsuit filed by a man that ...
Posted on Mar 28, 2012
Two brothers have filed a sexual abuse lawsuit accusing St. Mary’s Abbey for failing to protect them from two priests on their Catholic school campus, though they had reported the abuse to the ...
Posted on Mar 5, 2012
As read in the Courthouse News Service, a woman has filed a lawsuit naming the United Methodist Church for its failure to protect her from a pastor that adopted her, molested her, impregnated her ...
Posted on Feb 6, 2012
As reported by The Inquirer for Philly.com a victim of priest abuse has filed a lawsuit naming the Diocese of Camden, claiming repressed memories from the early 1970s have caused a “late ...
Posted on Oct 10, 2011
While an elderly priest has already been the subject of a $6 million payout for the Catholic Diocese of Belleville on a sexual abuse charge, now his caretaker has recollections of abuse, and has filed ...
Posted on Aug 1, 2011
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Charlotte is facing a lawsuit for its alleged concealment of a former priest's sexual abuse, and for conspiring with others, as reported by the Salisbury Post. The suit, ...
Posted on May 31, 2011
Bloomberg Business Week has reported that the Illinois Supreme Court, ending 9 years of litigation and finalizing a $5 million award for a victim, has rejected the Belleville diocese’s request for an ...
Posted on May 10, 2011
Attorneys for the La Crosse Roman Catholic Diocese are asking the courts to toss out a sex abuse lawsuit, as reported by the La Crosse Tribune, because the complaint is based on misrepresentation of a ...
Posted on May 2, 2011
A lawsuit filed in Buncombe County Superior Court, by the parent’s of an abused girl, alleges that a music minister, and the church officials that hired him, were duplicitous in hiding a history of ...
Posted on Mar 29, 2011
According to The Daily Nonpareil in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and KETV Omaha News, a former youth pastor, that told teens that he could help them with homosexual urges by having sexual contact, has been ...
Posted on Mar 24, 2011
The family of a sexual-abuse victim, now deceased, has settled with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport for $200,000 in a case that involved allegations against a church gardener and a priest. ...
Posted on Mar 17, 2011
As the Archdiocese of Philadelphia deals with 21 of their priests suspended to investigate allegations of the sexual abuse of minors, Jeff Anderson, a sexual-abuse attorney from Minnesota, has added a ...
Posted on Mar 7, 2011
In a landmark decision a U.S. federal judge has ruled that a Mexican citizen can file a clergy abuse lawsuit against a priest – who is also a Mexican citizen – in the U.S., though the abuse occurred ...
Posted on Feb 24, 2011
Point Loma Nazarene is being sued for unspecified monetary compensation because they placed a ministry student in a pastor’s home, 30 years ago, but neglected to tell the family that the student had a ...