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Society & Culture News tagged with sexual abuse

After Clergy Abuse Settlements, a New Suffering
Society & Culture  (tags: society, Roman Catholic church, children, abuse, sexual abuse, crime, sadness )

Dee
- 42 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
David Guerrero, 41, is an abuse victim who received a settlement from the Roman Catholic church. For Guerrero, the money has seeped like a poison into his every relationship.
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Do What Lorena Bobbitt Did: Defendant Got Idea From Famous Abuse Case, Lawyer Says
Society & Culture  (tags: sexual abuse, murder, women, violence, crime, police )

Lone
- 54 days ago - nydailynews.com
Accused killer Brigitte Harris learned one important lesson from Lorena Bobbitt, her lawyer told a Queens jury on Monday: Destroy the evidence.
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Female Inmates Sue Over Coffee Creek Sex Assaults
Society & Culture  (tags: prisoners, sexual abuse, women, guards, drugs )

Lone
- 78 days ago - oregonlive.com
The agency that runs the state's prisons is being sued by female inmates who say they were preyed upon sexually by state employees. Two former corrections workers have pleaded guilty to having sex with prisoners
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Afghanistan's US-Backed Child-Raping Police
Society & Culture  (tags: rape, children, police, sexual abuse, inhumane, crime )

Lone
- 97 days ago - counterpunch.org
The strategy of the major U.S. and British military offensive in Afghanistan's Helmand province aimed at wresting it from the Taliban is based on bringing back Afghan army and police to maintain permanent control of the population, so the foreign forces
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Springfield Man Accused of Child Sex Trafficking
Society & Culture  (tags: children, prostitution, sexual abuse, crime, pimps )

Lone
- 97 days ago - oregonlive.com
EUGENE -- An investigation into an alleged prostitution ring that advertised underage girls on the Internet has resulted in a federal child sex trafficking charge against a Springfield man
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Help Change the Laws Pertaining to Sexual Child Abuse ! TAKE ACTION !
Society & Culture  (tags: children, sexual abuse, suffering, laws, protection, children's welfare )

Cher
- 106 days ago - change.org
With over 80,000 reported cases a year of sexual abuse in the United States alone, and with it estimated to be at least that number of unreported cases, it's become clear child sexual abuse has come to be commonly regarded as a great cause of mental
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Inviting Sex Offenders Home: When Mom's Relationship Puts Children at Risk
Society & Culture  (tags: society, sex offenders, sexual abuse, children, crime, death, violence, women, police, law, sadness, murder )

Dee
- 136 days ago - abcnews.go.com
Two Midwest Children Disappeared, Third Killed After Moms Associated With Sex Offenders. Losing a child to a sex offender is a mother's nightmare. But what if that mother is the one who brought the sex offender into her home?
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Bremerton Man Arrested for Sex Abuse in Alaska
Society & Culture  (tags: sexual abuse, children )

Kathy
- 520 days ago - kitsapsun.com
A Bremerton man was arraigned on sexual abuse charges in Anchorage Jail Court on Wednesday, according to the Anchorage Police Department.
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52 Girls Are Taken From Mormon Sect's Ranch in Texas
Society & Culture  (tags: religion, child abuse, sexual abuse, physical abuse )

Nancy
- 583 days ago - select.nytimes.com
After responding to a report of sexual and physical abuse of a 16 year old, authorities removed 52 girls, ages 6 months to 17 years from break-away fundamentallist church compound. 18 of the girls are believed to have been abused or at risk of abuse.
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Police Searching for Suspected Serial Child Molester
Society & Culture  (tags: abuse, crime, children, violence, safety, sexual abuse )

Sherry
- 604 days ago - signonsandiego.com
SAN DIEGO - Police Thursday said they are looking for a polygamist and suspected serial child molester who claimed to be an emissary of God and is accused of sexually abusing three daughters and a step-daughter.
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Notorious Mississippi Girls' Prison Closed
Society & Culture  (tags: US, Mississippi, Girls' prison, prison facility, teenage girls, physical abuse, sexual abuse )

Thankful
- 626 days ago - feminist.org
State officials in Mississippi closed the Columbia Training School prison facility for teenaged girls last week. The facility has been under fire for years over allegations of physical and sexual abuse by the staff
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Locate Registered Sex Offenders With Family Watchdog
Society & Culture  (tags: children, violence, safety, sex offenders, sexual abuse )

Sherry
- 636 days ago - northcountrygazette.org
Unknown sex offenders in our communities represent a danger to our children unlike any other. The 1994 murder of 7-year-old Megan Kanka by a convicted sex offender led New Jersey, and all states in the U.S. to pass Megan's Law.
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Man Accused of Molesting 5-Year-Old, Giving Her Herpes
Society & Culture  (tags: children, std, sexual abuse, child abuse, crime, child molester, violence, safety, sadness, abuse )

Sherry
- 636 days ago - chicagotribune.com
An Indianapolis man accused of molesting a 5-year-old girl also infected the child with a sexually transmitted disease. The girl told an interviewer that Oviedo had threatened to kill her mother if she told anyone, the affidavit says.
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Nun, 79, Jailed for Sexually Abusing Boys - USA
Society & Culture  (tags: usa, nun, religion, us court, jail, abuse, sexual abuse, boys, catholic )

Chrissy
- 645 days ago - news.com.au
A 79-YEAR-old nun will spend a year in jail for sexually abusing two boys in the 1960s, US court officials said today. Norma Giannani pleaded no contest to the charges of engaging in dozens of sexual encounters with the two boys some four decades ago.
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Hospital Sued Over Alleged Sexual Abuse By Doctor
Society & Culture  (tags: child, abuse, sexual abuse, society, crime, children, ChildAbuse, safety )


- 704 days ago - stamfordadvocate.com
HARTFORD, Conn. -- A man who claims he was one of Dr. George Reardon's child sexual abuse victims has filed a lawsuit claiming St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford failed to protect him. The plaintiff is listed in the lawsuit as John Doe
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