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Minnesota Archdiocese Reaches $210 Million Settlement With 450 Clergy Abuse Victims
June 4, 2018 · By VANESSA ROMOfor www.npr.org
The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has reached a $210 million settlement agreement with 450 victims of clergy sexual abuse as part of a bankruptcy reorganization, officials announced Thursday. At $210,290,724, it is estimated to be the second-largest payout by the Catholic church in the U.S., according to the Associated Press. It comes after […]
Read More...In letter to Chileans, Francis decries church’s ‘culture of abuse and cover-up’
June 4, 2018 · By Joshua J. McElwee for www.ncronline.orgu
ROME — Pope Francis has become the first leader of the Catholic Church to publicly decry a “culture of abuse and cover-up” in the global institution, admitting in a strikingly blunt letter to the people of Chile that clergy sexual abuse has continued because church leaders have not taken victims seriously. In an eight-page May […]
Read More...Britain’s wealth was built on black backs. Windrush is a scandal of forgetting
June 4, 2018 · By Andrea Stuart for www.theguardian.com
Images of the 1948 arrivals still move black Britons like me. This moment is a chance for the UK to remember its debt to us I am sitting beside my mother, watching the Windrush coverage. Both of us are saddened by the reports of black Britons, who are still being treated so cavalierly by the […]
Read More...Outrage as man, 79, is sentenced to just 90 DAYS house arrest for raping a five-year-old girl
June 1, 2018 · By HANNAH PARRY for www.dailymail.co.uk
A wealthy business owner has been sentenced to just 90 days on house arrest for raping a five-year-old girl. Lyle Burgess, 79, of Stockton, California, will face no jail and does not even have to register as a sex offender, after he pleaded no contest to statutory rape. Burgess raped the little girl, the daughter […]
Read More...Pope Francis reveals he meets with victims of sex abuse on Fridays
May 31, 2018 · By Austen Ivereigh for cruxnow.com
Pope Francis has revealed that “regularly” on Fridays, he meets quietly with a group of survivors of sexual abuse, saying it’s important for him to hear their stories because “what they have been through is so hard, they are destroyed.” The pontiff also said that clerical sex abuse is “the greatest desolation that the Church […]
Read More...Father who attacked his four children with a hammer and drove them into dry stone wall has sentence increased
May 30, 2018 · By Staff Reporter for www.independent.co.uk
A father who attacked his four young children with a hammer before driving them into a wall at 92 mph, has had his jail term increased by 10 years. Owen Scott admitted four counts of attempted murder and dangerous driving after the incident, which occurred while he was in a drug-induced psychosis. The 29-year-old from […]
Read More...Father accused of ‘sadistically torturing’ ten children found living amid human faeces and rotten food
May 30, 2018 · By Tom Embury-Dennis for www.independent.co.uk
Ten children found living with their parents amid human faeces and rotten food were “sadistically tortured” at a home in northern California, authorities said. Ina Rogers denied she or her husband abused their offspring, but police in the city of Fairfield said they had suffered puncture wounds, burns, bruising and injuries consistent with being shot […]
Read More...Jastine Valdez killed ‘less than an hour’ after apparently random abduction, gardai believe
May 29, 2018 · By Independent.ie Newsdesk, Robin Schiller and Ken Foy for www.independent.ie
GARDAI are investigating if Jastine Valdez was killed within an hour of apparently being randomly abducted on Saturday evening. The Filipino student, 24, was spotted being bundled into a black jeep in Enniskerry at approximately 6.15pm on Saturday. A body, believed to be that of Ms Valdez, was found in a disused golf course in […]
Read More...Archbishop Philip Wilson to step down after sex abuse cover-up
May 28, 2018 · By www.bbc.com
A Catholic archbishop in Australia convicted of concealing child sexual abuse will step down from his position. Philip Wilson, the archbishop of Adelaide, South Australia, was found guilty of covering up the crimes of a paedophile priest by a court on Tuesday. He is the most senior Catholic in the world to be convicted of […]
Read More...Ex-Celtic youth coach and kitman pleads guilty to child sex offences
May 25, 2018 · By Independent.ie Newsdesk for www.independent.ie
A former Celtic Football Club youth coach and kitman has plead guilty to a series of child sex offences. Jim McCafferty, 72, was involved in football in Scotland and Ireland from the 1980s. He was arrested in Belfast by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) after walking into a police station in December 2016. […]
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