VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Roman Catholic Church has sometimes been in denial over the sexual abuse of children by clergy but must now move forward to face up to the scandal, the Vatican's top official for the issue said on Friday. In an ...

SALEM — In the wake of a child sexual abuse scandal that rocked Penn State University, lawmakers in Oregon are considering a new requirement for coaches and other university employees to report child abuse to authorities. The proposal also would apply to ...

Unfortunately, both left this Earth amid controversies rooted in child sexual abuse. Paterno came under fire not for what he did, but rather for what he did not do in the conflagration that engulfed Happy Valley in the wake of the molestation ...

A federal judge said Friday that he is inclined to allow an explosive lawsuit that alleges Poly Prep Country Day School officials covered up decades of sexual abuse by its longtime football coach to go forward. “You have a very sympathetic ...

One of the areas of intervention for the Department of Children is child protection, where the department ensures the safety of children from child and sexual abuse, child trafficking, domestic violence, child prostitution and ritual servitude, among others.

Martin Springer is the second man at a Los Angeles Elementary School to be arrested for sexual abuse. Springer, 49 was arrested on Friday for allegedly sexual abuse at Miramonte Elementary School. His arrest came after two seven year old students made ...

IOWA CITY, IA. — Prosecutors have charged the director of an Iowa City neighborhood center with failing to report allegations of child sexual abuse by a teacher she oversees — a charge that has been rarely if ever used, a state official said.

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The prospect of paying more big damage awards to victims of long-ago priest sexual abuse will put the state’s Roman Catholic diocese out of business and violate constitutional protections regarding religious freedom, the diocese is claiming in ...

The effects of sexual abuse cannot be predicted: each case, each individual finds his or her own way to survive, and as we will see, some effects can have very detrimental and long lasting results. For those individuals who do not receive the appropriate ...