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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New Orleans priest accused of molesting children will not go to trial today after judge recuses himself
By Aubry Killion
Investigative Reporter
A trial for a former New Orleans priest accused of molesting children will not move forward Tuesday after the judge in the case recused himself.
Judge Ben Willard announced in court that the trial against Lawrence Hecker would not move forward and recused himself.
Catholic order hasn't kept promise to name abusive clergy in the Midwest
The former leader of the Chicago-area arm of the Passionists order made the promise two years ago after a Sun-Times investigation. Its current leader won’t say why that hasn’t been kept or whether that’s still in the works.
Sept 20, 2024, 8:00am EDT
Immaculate Conception Church and the Rev. John Baptist Ormechea (inset), who was assigned there from the late 1970s to the late 1980s
Robert Herguth/Sun-Times; Passionists
Two years after the Chicago-area arm of the Passionists religious order announced it would establish a sex offender registry of abusive members, the Catholic group hasn’t done so. Its leaders won’t say why or whether that’s still in the works.
Cardinal Prevost never investigated abuse claims, alleged victims say
September 18, 2024
Cardinal Robert Prevost
The prefect for the Dicastery of Bishops, Cardinal Robert Prevost, has been publicly accused of never having opened a canonical case into alleged sexual abuse carried out by two priests in the Diocese of Chiclayo, Peru, which he led from 2014 until 2023, when he was called to Rome.
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.
