The bill was authored after the faces of female Demopolis Middle School students were superimposed over pornographic images.
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 ...
Pope Francis has changed Catholic Church law to explicitly criminalize the sexual abuse of adults by priests who abuse their authority and to say that laypeople who hold church office also can be ...
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 ...
McSwain, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, last month asked the U.S. bishops to preserve their files on sex-abuse complaints ... in a court of law.
While Prowell certainly expands the scope of “sex stereotyping” claims ... Prowell claimed that the abuse did not end there, but continued with messages on the wall of the men’s bathroom ...
Pope Francis has introduced sweeping new rules for reporting and investigating clerical sex abuse in the Catholic Church. The new norms were issued Thursday in a motu proprio, which is a law decreed ...
Bishops who are negligent in dealing with sexual-abuse cases can be removed from office, according to a decree from Pope Francis. The pontiff issued an Apostolic Letter on Saturday. It sets forth ...
A Florida priest who was recently arrested on sex abuse charges was permitted to continue ... ministry for the Diocese of Venice” to contact law enforcement as well as the diocese itself.
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 ...
He was convicted in 2022 on three charges of producing child sexual abuse images ... of child sex crime charges within 10 years - should have applied, rather than the current law permitting ...