West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey sued the Catholic diocese of Wheeling-Charleston and its former bishop Michael J. Bransfield on Tuesday
"It's not a clergy abuse scandal anymore," said David Gibson, the director for the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University. "It's a bishop accountability scandal now."
Sexual assault and harassment in the U.S. military is largely under-reported and came under renewed scrutiny two years ago after a scandal involving Marines sharing nude photos of women online came to light.
Not long after Tony West joined Uber as chief legal officer in November 2017, he began a delicate task: crafting a transparency report to quantify how many people had been sexually assaulted during Uber rides.
The two-part film, which airs March 3-4 on HBO, offers damning evidence to support the longstanding child molestation accusations against Michael Jackson.
Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Catholic cleric ever convicted of child sexual abuse, has been taken in custody following a sentencing hearing in which his lawyer described one of Pell's offences as a "plain vanilla sexual penetration case where the child is not actively participating".
The Department of Health and Human Services received more than 4,500 complaints of sexual abuse against unaccompanied minors from 2014-2018, according to internal agency documents released Tuesday by Florida Democratic Rep. Ted Deutch.
For victims of sexual abuse, mere moments can affect lifetimes, and short windows can predicate decades. When the New York state legislature passed The Child Victims Act last month, the bill ushered in a new era for victims of child sexual abuse and sexual misconduct.
With survivors of sexual abuse in attendance, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, flanked by lawmakers and victims' advocates, signed into law the Child Victims Act, ending a 13-year fight and decades of personal pain for many.