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By Conall Ó Fátharta, Irish Examiner, Friday, August 07, 2015

The 2014 inter-departmental report on mother-and-baby homes listed just 25 infant deaths in Bessborough mother-and-baby home, in Cork, despite two departments having figures that showed 500 deaths.

By RANDALL CHASE  Associated Press, August 05, 2015 - 3:04 pm EDT

DOVER, Delaware — The Delaware attorney general's office is suing a Jehovah's Witnesses congregation in Sussex County, claiming that elders failed to report an unlawful sexual relationship between a woman and a 14-year-old boy, both of whom were congregation members.

Marie Rohde, Aug. 5, 2015, National Catholic Reporter

The Milwaukee archdiocese has put forth what it hopes is the final settlement plan that will end the church's nearly 5-year-old bankruptcy case, but victims of childhood sex abuse who filed claims against the archdiocese said they are stunned by the latest proposal. They allege that the $21 million allocated to victims is much smaller than that awarded in other bankruptcies and that it pits victim against victim.

Bill White, The Morning Call , Monday August 3, 2015

Robert Corby of Bethlehem tells a story about the time ex-football star Franco Harris visited Northampton Community College to lead a town hall meeting about how Penn State handled the Jerry Sandusky scandal.

By Mark Mueller | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com  on July 30, 2015 at 7:15 AM, updated July 30, 2015 at 9:26 AM

Twelve years ago, amid allegations he raped a 15-year-old boy in the rectory of a Plainfield church, the Rev. Manuel Gallo Espinoza vanished.

Created on Wednesday, 29 July 2015 01:00 | Written by Seth Gordon 

PORTLAND — A lawsuit filed July 17 in Multnomah County Circuit Court alleges that child sexual abuse occurred in the Friends (Quaker) church in Newberg from approximately 1987 to 1991.

Australian Associated Press Monday 27 July 2015 05.56 EDT

Jehovah’s Witnesses destroyed notes about child sexual abuse to stop them falling into the wrong hands and to “protect their wives”, a church elder has told a national hearing in Sydney.

By Alex Burness Staff Writer POSTED: 07/23/2015 07:08:03 PM MDT

Seeking to send a message, a Boulder County judge exceeded prosecutors' requests Thursday in ordering two VineLife Church officials to serve 10 days in jail or on a work crew for failing to report sexual-assault allegations levied against the church's youth pastor in 2013.

JULIE SHAW, Daily News Staff Writer [email protected], 215-854-2592 Posted: Thursday, July 23, 2015, 12:16 AM

A MAN WHO has claimed he was sexually abused as a child by a Catholic priest in the rectory of St. John Cantius Parish in Bridesburg has filed a lawsuit against the priest and the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.

Rev. Jeremiah N. Murasso, current pastor of two Waterbury parishes since 2012, has been suspended after he was accused of sexually abusing a minor at the St. Francis Home for Children, a school which he was the director from 1992 to 1995, according to the New Haven Register.