CINCINNATI — A former seminary student who pleaded guilty to charges tied to child sexual abuse materials he uploaded using the IP address of Mount St. Mary's Seminary has been sentenced to probation.
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Archdiocese of New Orleans offers $62 million abuse settlement; survivors ask for $1 billion
The St. Louis Cathedral and Jackson Square on March 27, 2020, in New Orleans. | Credit: Chris Graythen/Getty Images
CNA Staff, Sep 17, 2024 / 11:35 am
The Archdiocese of New Orleans has proposed a bankruptcy settlement as part of its plan for addressing sexual abuse by clergy, offering a $62.5 million payout to victims of abuse even as the victims themselves are demanding hundreds of millions more.
Ex-seminarian who used seminary's IP address to upload child sexual abuse videos sentenced to probation
Judge Jennifer Branch sentenced 28-year-old Broderick Witt to five years probation; Prosecutors were seeking 12 years in prison. He pleaded guilty on Aug. 9 to eight counts of pandering sexually oriented matter involving a minor; he'd initially faced 15 counts.
Posted 11:44 AM, Sep 12, 2024
and last updated 5:46 PM, Sep 12, 2024
Criminal investigation reopened after alleged sexual abuse by a former pastor at south King County church
KING 5 reveals the Renton Police Department has reopened a three-year-old criminal case into allegations of sexual abuse by a former pastor at a Renton-based church.
6:56 PM PDT September 12, 2024
6:57 PM PDT September 12, 2024
RENTON, Wash. — The KING 5 Investigators have found that in a report released last year, 37 people told Highlands Community Church investigators that they either experienced or witnessed the pastor grooming, manipulating, or sexually abusing boys and young men for two decades. The former youth pastor from the church in Renton denies engaging in any illegal activity.
Maryland Supreme Court hears arguments on child sex abuse lawsuits
David Lorenz, the Maryland director of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, talks to journalists Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024, outside of the Supreme Court of Maryland in Annapolis, Md. (AP Photo/Brian Witte)
Updated 4:00 PM EDT, September 10, 2024
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The Supreme Court of Maryland heard arguments on Tuesday about the constitutionality of a 2023 law that ended the state’s statute of limitations for child sexual abuse lawsuits following a report that exposed widespread wrongdoing within the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
New abuse allegations emerge against once-venerated French priest
Hugh Schofield
BBC Paris correspondent
Abbé Pierre died in 2007 aged 94
More abuse allegations have been made against Abbé Pierre, the late French Roman Catholic priest and campaigner who was long venerated as a modern-day saint.
In the Pacific, a ‘Dumping Ground’ for Priests Accused or Convicted of Abuse
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New York Times [New York NY]
September 6, 2024
By Pete McKenzie
Over a decades-long period, more than 30 Catholic priests and missionaries moved to remote island nations after they had allegedly abused children in the West, or had been found to do so.
2,395 allegations of sexual abuse at religious schools - inquiry finds
Updated / Tuesday, 3 Sep 2024 20:24
The report has found that there were 2,395 allegations of sexual abuse in respect of 308 schools recorded by the religious orders that ran those schools
By Ailbhe Conneely
Questions on abuse claims remain after bankruptcy judge rules against survivor
The Archdiocese of Santa Fe offices are pictured in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in a 2018 file photo. (AP photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, file)
by Elizabeth Hardin-Burrola
August 26, 2024
When a New Mexico bankruptcy judge ruled against a clergy sex abuse claimant earlier this summer in her legal dispute with the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, he may have issued more than a routine legal opinion and order.
Catholic Church in Hong Kong introduces major initiatives to combat child abuse
The Diocese of Hong Kong is taking a significant step towards enhancing child protection mechanisms with the establishment of the Diocesan Safeguarding Minors and Vulnerable Persons Office – St. Goretti’s Centre, set to be operational in 2025.
Aug 29, 2024
Father Dominic Lui, Bridget Lee, and Davis Hui, members of the Diocesan Safeguarding Minors and Vulnerable Persons Office-St. Goretti’s Centre, during a seminar at St. Jude’s parish in North Point, where they discussed new measures for protecting children and vulnerable individuals within the Hong Kong Diocese. Photo by Sunday Examiner
HONG KONG: This initiative aligns with global Church efforts to fortify safeguards for children and vulnerable individuals, according to Sunday Examiner, the official news service of the Bishop of Hong Kong.
