The Seattle Archdiocese will pay six men $6,975,000 to settle claims of sexual abuse by Western Washington priests in the 1960's to 1980's.
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A 31-year-old former research coordinator, is suing the University of Maryland, Baltimore, and its School of Medicine, saying officials ignored her pleas to intervene and failed to take action to stop persistent harassment.
A trove of documents central to a sexual abuse investigation and long sought by investigators in Texas were found by U.S.A. Gymnastics officials at their headquarters in Indianapolis, pushing the United States Olympic Committee this week to avert the possibility of another scandal and move to take over the sports federation.
In every state, patient protection is supposed to be the prime directive when it comes to licensing and disciplining doctors.
A Charleston doctor was sentenced Monday to up to five years in prison after sexually abusing a patient.
The U.S. Olympic Committee is moving to revoke USA Gymnastics' status as the governing body for the sport at the Olympic level, meting out the nuclear option to an organization that has botched its own reorganization in the wake of a sex-abuse scandal involving former team doctor Larry Nassar.
Elizabeth Fegan, who has filed a class action suit against the disgraced movie mogul, said: "I think we are talking about hundreds, I think it could be near a thousand.'
A former model says Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted her when she was 16 years old and a virgin, then derailed her acting career because she refused his repeated attempts to have sex with her.
A newly expanded civil lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein alleges that the disgraced movie producer sexually harassed a 16-year-old girl.
An executive at Google parent company Alphabet's X division has resigned after being named in a high-profile New York Times investigation into the company's mishandling of sexual harassment claims, according to Axios.
It's been just over a year since the #MeToo movement began to spread virally, on the heels of the initial allegations of sexual misconduct by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.
At Google's weekly staff meeting on Thursday, the top question that employees voted to ask Larry Page, a co-founder, and Sundar Pichai, the chief executive, was one about sexual harassment.
The internet giant paid Mr. Rubin $90 million and praised him, while keeping silent about a misconduct claim.
A private school system in Hawaii has paid $65 million to 32 people who sued the institution for the sexual abuse perpetrated decades ago by a psychiatric consultant.
Several Harvey Weinstein accusers open up about their experiences with the disgraced producer in the powerful new trailer for the upcoming documentary, The Reckoning: Hollywood's Worst Kept Secret. Barry Avrich directed the film, which is set to arrive on demand November 6th.
The charges brought by the Medical Board of California come as Tyndall and USC face hundreds of civil claims from women who allege sexual abuse and harassment.
LGBTQ leaders across the U.S. reacted with fury Monday to a report that the Trump administration is considering adoption of a new definition of gender that would effectively deny federal recognition and civil rights protections to transgender Americans.
DoJ served subpoenas last week following report that found 301 'predator priests' molested over 1,000 children in the state
It began with the mesmerizing spectacle of dominoes falling: Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, Louis C.K., Charlie Rose, Matt Lauer, Russell Simmons, and so on, name after famous face, all disgraced by the end of November, 2017.
The Archdiocese of Washington said Tuesday that 31 priests who had worked in either its churches or schools since 1948 had been "credibly accused" of sexual abuse.
