VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis issued a groundbreaking law Thursday ... to become their spokesman when they first adopted measures to combat child sex abuse in 2002. The law goes into effect June 1 ...
Francis underlined the advances which recent reforms to canon law ... abuse scandal to impact the Catholic Church. Earlier this week, the 94-year-old former pope denied he knew about allegations ...
after a series of liberal declarations by Pope Francis. The new treatise denounced attempts to obscure the “sexual difference between man and woman” and stated that “any sex-change ...
More states are removing time limits on child sex abuse lawsuits Advocates ... information about alleged child abuse to police or child welfare officials. Pope announces mandate to audit church ...
The bill was authored after the faces of female Demopolis Middle School students were superimposed over pornographic images.
They were not really parts of the community and they didn't comply with the mandatory abuse reporting law. I mean, even now, they don't comply with it. So, this is very troubling. If you're a ...
In 2019 state law opened a legal window for child sex abuse victims to bring decades-old claims, otherwise barred by statute of limitations, to court. Each case could settle for $1 million or more ...
Chapter 11 has been used to address mass child sex abuse claims for 20 years ... If the bill becomes law, child sexual abuse claims would be allowed in Chapter 11 even if they’d be barred ...
In 2019, New York passed the Child Victims Act, a law that changed the statute of ... Statute-of-Limitation Laws Can Leave Few Choices for Child Sex-Abuse Victims. That’s Why These People ...
On Wednesday, Hampton sent a letter to State Attorney General Rob Bonta accusing California’s highest law enforcement official ... time of reporting child sex abuse is about 52 years old.
Sacramento City Unified and the city of Sacramento have settled lawsuits totaling more than $52 million related to sexual abuse at an elementary school after-school program a decade ago, the ...
For four hours, local students and crime enthusiasts were enthralled and brought into the minds of the law enforcement officers who prosecuted David Pope, the stepfather of two-year-old Hodgie who ...