More than 25 years after his teacher sexually molested him, a former Cherokee Middle School student sued the Madison School District, claiming the district should have known about the teacher’s history of molesting students at other schools.
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Mahony, who once served in Fresno’s Roman Catholic diocese, was subpoenaed by attorneys for two brothers who say they were molested at a Central Valley church from 1959 to 1973.
Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles made a rare court appearance to testify that he knew nothing of sexual abuse two brothers claim they suffered years ago at the hands of a priest in rural central California.
Pa. man alleges then-Capuchin the Rev. Paul Daleo molested him from 1978-1979
Oregon has found itself at the center of an international story after a federal appellate court ruled that a former Portland man can sue the Vatican in a U.S. court over his alleged molestation as a teenager by a parish priest.
A federal Appeals Court says the Vatican can be sued for sexual abuse if it knowingly reassigns priests who have been accused of such acts in their previous parishes.
A Portland man can sue the Vatican in a United States court over his alleged molestation as a teenager by a parish priest, a federal appellate panel ruled Tuesday.
Friday’s ruling throwing out limits on punitive damages came in a case in which a jury awarded a Greene County man $5,000 in compensatory damages in his sexual abuse lawsuit against a priest. Jurors also added $150,000 in punitive damages.
A recently impaneled federal grand jury is investigating how the Los Angeles archdiocese managed accusations that dozens of priests molested hundreds of teenagers and younger children over many years.
For many service members, the return from an overseas assignment can be bittersweet. Reunion with wives, husbands, children and other family members is sweet, but some of the emotional baggage brought back is bitter.
A legal settlement with the Crosier Catholic religious order over clergy sex abuse cases could reverberate from Little Falls to Milaca to Forest Lake
A former Roman Catholic priest who took a boy on religious retreats to have sex with him was sentenced today to 25 years in prison.
This district’s Court of Appeal upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit against Cardinal Norberto Rivera of Mexico City and a Mexican diocese for allegedly conspiring to protect a priest accused of sexual misconduct due to a lack of jurisdiction.
David Bidney trusted the man he knew as “Father Jerry” at St. Odilia Catholic parish in Shoreview. He was 10 years old when the Rev. Gerald Funcheon started sexually abusing him in the early 1970s, he said Thursday, bribing him with ice cream from the Dairy Queen on Lexington Avenue and then molesting him
A St. Paul attorney who for years has defended victims of sexual abuse by Roman Catholic clergy today is announcing settlements in nine cases for $1.7 million on behalf of his clients.