'Thousands of US child migrants sexually abused'

The US health department has received more than 4,500 complaints of sexual abuse against detained migrant children from 2014-2018, documents show.

The Department of Justice reportedly received an additional 1,303 sex abuse complaints against unaccompanied minors during the same period. read more »

Resorts Fined $20 Million Over Handling of Steve Wynn Misconduct Claims

Wynn Resorts was fined $20 million by the Nevada Gaming Commission on Tuesday for not investigating sexual misconduct claims against Steve Wynn, the company’s founder.

The commission members unanimously approved the fine, which is the largest imposed against a gambling licensee in Nevada. The previous record was a $5.5 million fine in 2014.

Mr. Wynn resigned as the company’s chairman and chief executive last February after a Wall Street Journal report described a decades-long pattern of sexual misconduct, including accusations that he pressured employees for sex. read more »

Pope Francis demanded ‘concrete’ measures against child sex abuse. Where are they?

WAS THE Vatican’s just-completed summit on child sex abuse, convened by Pope Francis amid a crisis of credibility that has crippled the Catholic Church’s moral authority, really intended simply to prepare the way for genuine reforms in the indefinite future? Victims’ groups had hoped for much more, as had many of the faithful in the United States and elsewhere. They were heartened, briefly, when the pope opened the unprecedented four-day conference by demanding what he called “concrete” measures to deliver something real that would uproot the scourge of clerical sex abuse and hierarchical coverup.

In the end, those concrete measures were a chimera — widely debated, held up to intense canonical scrutiny, but ultimately put off to some future date. The contrast with the pope’s own words could not have been sharper, or more disappointing.

Child sex abuse, the pope declared in his various remarks, is akin to human sacrifice, and the “wrath of God” should be visited upon the “ravenous wolves” who commit it. He called for an “all-out battle.” read more »