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10 New Accusers Come Forward in Sandusky Sex Case

Police investigating new allegations, says 'New York Times '

(Newser) - Some 10 new accusers have come forward with complaints concerning former defensive coach Jerry Sandusky since his arrest earlier this month, the New York Times reports. Detectives are currently investigating all accusation against Sandusky, who has already been hit with 40 counts of sexually abusing young boys, says the newspaper....

Penn State Victim's Mom: He Didn't Want Another Boy Hurt

Something should have been done earlier, says furious parent

(Newser) - Angry mothers of two victims in the Penn State sex abuse scandal are revealing their sons' heartbreaking pain, frustration, and their bravery at pressing charges. "I'm very proud of him," said one mom. “He’s a brave kid. And his major concern was for anybody else....

Sex Abuse Scandal Rocks Penn State

Former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky charged with 40 counts of sexually abusing boys

(Newser) - Penn State's storied football program is reeling from a sex scandal that touches its top ranks: Longtime former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was yesterday charged with sexually molesting up to eight boys, and the school's athletic director and a vice president are expected to surrender tomorrow on perjury...

Activists: Vatican Guilty of Crimes Against Humanity
Activists: Vatican Guilty of Crimes Against Humanity
FOR SEX ABUSE SCANDAL
Sep 13, 2011 7:50 AM CDT

Activists: Vatican Guilty of Crimes Against Humanity

Pope, 3 officials named as responsible for rampant sex abuse

(Newser) - In the most substantial effort yet to hold the Vatican's feet to the fire for clergy sexual abuse, human rights lawyers will file a complaint today asking the International Criminal Court to investigate and prosecute Pope Benedict XVI and three top Vatican officials for crimes against humanity. According to...

Vatican Recalls Ireland Envoy Over New Sex Abuse Row

Irish investigative committee says church instructed bishops to ignore abuse

(Newser) - The Vatican recalled its Irish ambassador today amid a firestorm in Dublin over claims that the church refused to report child sex abuse to police as recently as 2009. A Vatican spokesman says Archbishop Giuseppe Leanza will return to Rome to meet with church officials, reports the New York Times ...

Vatican Back in the Black
 Vatican Back in the Black 
Jul 2, 2011 7:28 AM CDT

Vatican Back in the Black

Church pulls in $14.3M, makes profit for first time in three years

(Newser) - Good news: The Vatican returned to the black last year, after three straight years in the red. The Catholic Church pulled in $14.3 million, it said in its annual financial report today, while the Vatican city state made $30.6 million, fueled largely by ticket sales at the Vatican...

Ashley Judd Memoir Reveals Sex Abuse

Childhood was filled with drugs, neglect, she writes

(Newser) - Ashley Judd's memoir details a family faced with troubles ranging "from depression, suicide, alcoholism, and compulsive gambling to incest and suspected murder," she writes. Radar and MSNBC received advance copies of All That Is Bitter & Sweet, out today. Judd writes that "there was always marijuana inside...

Jesuits Settle Sex-Abuse Suit for $166M

Staggering case involves 470 victims in Pacific Northwest

(Newser) - A Catholic order will pay $166 million to some 470 survivors of sexual abuse and "spiritual incest" in a case of staggering scale that dates back to the 1940s at Jesuit-run schools in the Pacific Northwest. The victims were almost all Native Americans and Native Alaskans, notes the Seattle ...

Archdiocese of Milwaukee Files for Bankruptcy

Hit stalemate over transparency in sex abuse lawsuits

(Newser) - Overwhelmed by 23 sex abuse lawsuits, the Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee filed for bankruptcy yesterday. In so doing, Milwaukee followed seven other dioceses also forced into bankruptcy by the costs of litigating and settling claims against their priests for sexual abuse. The bankruptcy filing followed a failed mediation effort that...

Ga. Pastor's Boys Carried 'Sex-Check' Card
 Ga. Pastor's 
 Boys Carried 
 'Sex-Check' Card 


Fourth MAN FILES SUIT
Sep 25, 2010 8:39 AM CDT

Ga. Pastor's Boys Carried 'Sex-Check' Card

Fourth man files suit; Long expected to break silence tomorrow

(Newser) - A fourth man is suing Bishop Eddie Long for sexual impropriety, reports the AP, even as new details emerge of the young men's program Long allegedly used to groom sex partners. Spencer LeGrande, now 22, filed suit yesterday, claiming Long told him "I will be your dad"—then...

Gore Assaulted Us: 2 More Masseuses
 Gore Assaulted Us: 
 2 More Masseuses 
NATIONAL ENQUIRER SCOOPS
Jul 21, 2010 10:16 AM CDT

Gore Assaulted Us: 2 More Masseuses

Police are investigating claims, tabloid reports

(Newser) - Al Gore—allegedly—really likes massage therapists. Two more have come forward claiming sex abuse at his hands, and police are investigating, the National Enquirer reports. One incident allegedly took place at a Beverly Hills hotel when Gore was attending the 2007 Academy Awards; the other reportedly happened a year...

'Misogynistic' Church Would Let Polanski Stay a Priest

Maureen Dowd unimpressed by new edict on sexual abuse

(Newser) - If Pope Benedict was trying to do penance for the sex abuse scandal this week, he'd better say a few billion more Hail Marys, because equating the ordination of women as priests with the rape of young children wasn't quite the way to do it, writes Maureen Dowd in the...

Priest With 'Erotic Dungeon' Runs From Police

Brazil seeks Polish-born cleric accused of sexually abusing minors

(Newser) - A priest who was allegedly sexually abusing minors in his "erotic dungeon" is wanted by Brazilian police but has gone missing. A 16-year-old boy accused the Polish-born cleric of handcuffing and assaulting him, and an arrest warrant has been issued, CNN reports . The judge in the case says Marcin...

Wisconsin Sex Abuse Victim Sues Benedict

Claims then-cardinal knew of abuse, did not act

(Newser) - After years of the Vatican ignoring his claims of sexual abuse, an American man is suing the pope himself. The suit, filed in a US Federal Court, does not ask for money, but demands that the Vatican "come clean" by disclosing all files related to cases of child abuse....

Teary Pope: We'll Protect Young From Abuse

Benedict expresses shame in Malta visit

(Newser) - Pope Benedict met with a group of clerical abuse victims today and promised them the church would do everything in its power to punish abusive priests and protect young people in the future. The Vatican said Benedict expressed his shame and sorrow at the pain the men and their families...

Pope Finally Talks Sex Abuse—Sort Of

Benedict says Church must do 'penance'

(Newser) - He might not have mentioned it explicitly, but Pope Benedict has apparently broken his deafening silence on the sex abuse scandals roiling the Catholic Church. The comments, which called for the church to do "penance" for its "sins," came in a homily delivered in the papal palace,...

Priest Calls for Pope to Resign, Applauded at Mass

Mass. Rev. James Scahill says Benedict lied, gets standing ovations

(Newser) - One Massachusetts priest says Pope Benedict is lying when he says the Vatican hasn’t covered up the sexual abuse of children. In four sermons over the weekend, Rev. James Scahill called on Benedict to resign over the scandal, the Longmeadow Republican reports. “There were standing ovations at two...

Vatican to Bishops: Report Sex Abuse to Cops

Guidelines the first to mandate clergy obey civil law

(Newser) - The Vatican today responded to allegations that it had concealed years of clerical sex abuse by mandating for the first time that bishops and other high-ranking clerics should report such crimes to police if required by law. "Where the civil state creates an obligation to report, bishops are required...

Calif. Priest's Victim: 'He Was God'

Four decades later, Stephen Kiesle's victim speaks out

(Newser) - It started with a 7-year-old girl innocently sitting on the lap of the playful "big kid" priest with the purple sneakers, and it quickly turned to sexual abuse that he framed as exorcisms. "He told me I had the devil inside me" as he touched her chest and...

Calif. Priest Was Immature, Obsessed By Kids

Peers were suspicious of Stephen Kiesle from the start

(Newser) - Even in his seminary days in the early '70s, there were questions about California priest Stephen Kiesle: "He was not grown up. He spent more time with kids than with people his own age. You get suspicious of that. There's something wrong there," says a former Oakland bishop....

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