Pope Francis deflected questions from reporters about his alleged lifting of sanctions imposed on Cardinal Theodore McCarrick for sexual abuse, telling reporters Saturday to read the accusations and make their own assessment of their credibility.
Pennsylvania Bishop Lawrence T. Persico has called for “complete transparency” in investigating the latest clerical sex abuse scandals, noting late last week that regaining lost trust entails ousting bishops who failed to deal effectively with abuse.
In a gesture destined to anger more than console, Pope Francis has issued a letter to “the people of God” acknowledging the recent sex abuse scandals but ignoring the root causes of the crisis as well as the concrete steps needed to overcome it.
Sexual abuse of the most vulnerable and poverty-stricken is “endemic” across the international aid sector, according to a new government report, which accused NGOs of “complacency verging on complicity” regarding the problem.
The bishop of Fort Worth, Texas, has called for further investigation and decisive action in the case of alleged serial homosexual abuser Theodore McCarrick, the former archbishop of Washington, DC.
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Washington, DC, Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick from the college of cardinals after a series of public accusations of sexual impropriety and abuse spanning decades.
Poverty-stricken children in third world countries were gang raped and paid for sex by staff working for foreign aid NGO, MPs have been told.
“Medical providers like Planned Parenthood are mandatory reporters of sex abuse and criminal sexual harassment in all 50 states,” according to Aden. “The certification requirement is simply an attempt to ensure that Title X providers – to be eligible as grantees – simply follow the law. If Planned Parenthood or any other Title X providers are not willing to follow the law, they’re not eligible for funding under this rule.”
Pope Francis met with three Chilean victims of clerical sex abuse in the Vatican last weekend, in which he apologized to them for being “part of the problem.”
A Chilean lay Catholic group has sharply criticized Pope Francis for defending Bishop Juan Barros while claiming he had no knowledge of sex abuse charges involving a cover-up by the bishop.
An Arkansas man told a woman he raped for nearly a decade to “get over it” when she initiated contact on social media in a police sting, officials report.
Scotland Yard has announced a major review of rape and sexual assault investigations after two cases collapsed within a week amidst claims that police withheld vital evidence. The announcement that every live sex crime investigation on the books will be
A report by think tank Quilliam has found that more than eight out of ten men convicted of grooming gang offences have an ‘Asian’ background, while victims are “almost exclusively white girls”.
Disney’s director of music publishing, Jon Heeley, has been charged with three counts of sexually abusing children, Variety reports.
Oscar-winning actress Emma Thompson has claimed that the sexual abuse and harassment scandal surrounding disgraced Hollywood producer and Democratic Party donor Harvey Weinstein is just “the top of a very particular iceberg” in Hollywood’s overall culture.
An Indiana man accused of sexually molesting chickens, dogs, and other animals has asked a judge for chemical castration instead of jail time, reports say.
The New York Police have arrested three men they say were involved in the abduction and brutal rape of a Christian woman who had just left a Queens church on Tuesday.
Australian Cardinal George Pell, who was already investigated and exonerated from sex abuse charges in 2002, is once more being tried for similar charges by a Melbourne court.
A Texas high school teacher convicted of sexually abusing two teenaged students will not have to register as a sex offender due to a quirk in state laws.
An illegal immigrant from El Salvador is being accused of sexually assaulting a 5 year-old girl in Fullerton, California.
In a letter to all the bishops of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis said that the Church “weeps” over the sins of clerical sex abuse, while renewing a “complete commitment” to protect children so that these “atrocities” will never be repeated.
An elementary schoolteacher and his partner engaged in ongoing sexual contact with eight underage boys over several years and then killed themselves when discovered, according to documents released by police in South St. Paul Minnesota Tuesday.
An 83-year-old registered sex offender in Utah has reportedly admitted to several new crimes after police confronted him over the molestations of a local girl, a report says.
The three top political leaders in Texas have ordered Child Protective Services to take action to protect children in the state after reports surfaced that the most vulnerable were left unattended.
Police in Fort Worth, Texas, arrested an illegal immigrant and charged him with kidnapping and raping a six-year-old girl, reports reveal.
A bizarre case has emerged in Fort Worth, Texas, after a Navy veteran couple was arrested for sex abuse after the case was ignored by a detective assigned to crimes against children. The couple allegedly confessed to “teaching the teens about sex.”
The search by police in Houston, Texas, for a 24-year-old middle school English teacher who became impregnated by a 13-year-old student has ended, as the woman turned herself in Wednesday.
A New Jersey man has been arrested and accused of using a mirror secreted in a basket to look up the dresses of women at a local Target store.
A Texas man has pleaded guilty to sexually abusing orphans. He used his position in a foreign country as orphanage manager, and access to better accommodations and amenities like hot water, to lure the minor victims. One of these children was suffering from HIV.
Some wounded veterans of America’s wars in the Middle East are finding a new calling. They are taking jobs helping law enforcement use the Internet to identify and track down child predators.
The Afghan practice of bacha bazi, or “boy play,” has made a resurgence in recent years. Men use orphans and poor young males to become their “dancing boys” as forms of entertainment. These exploitations often end up in rape and sexual abuse of the vulnerable young males.
Authorities in Beverly Hills arrested Saudi prince Majed Abdulaziz Al-Saud on Wednesday after he allegedly tried to force a house worker to perform sex acts on him.
Swedish police have arrested two Afghan men after they locked a local woman in an apartment for seven days over March this year. The Swedish Free Press (Fria Tider) reports the arrests, in ethnic-conflict city Malmo, took place this week
A man who kept a harem of sex slaves in Oldham, Greater Manchester, subjecting them to rape and torture over a 14-year period, has been sentenced to life imprisonment. Iqbal Ali, 33, kept four women as his slaves, often subjecting
“The film Hollywood doesn’t want you to see” dropped its first trailer on Wednesday.
The most common complaint about the way the Catholic Church handled the 2001 sex abuse crisis was not the way it dealt with victims or with offending priests, but the way it dealt with bishops who were seen as either complicit or culpably negligent. Now the Vatican seems poised to change that.
A Seattle elementary school teacher has been charged with child rape for allegedly having sex with a former student—beginning when he was 14 years old—while he was also living in her Renton, WA, home with her and her husband and children.
Charles Chipps, Sr., is a world famous spiritual leader who for decades has inspired members of the Oglala Lakota Nation with his guidance at South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian reservation. But shocking charges that he sexually molested a long list of teen girls have divided the community.
