A Tulsa Christian school, the Grace Fellowship Christian School, has been accused of hiding millions in assets during a trial for one of their teachers charged with sexual molestation of young student, reports courthousenews.com. The teacher accused, an Aaron Thompson,...
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A lawsuit has been filed against former university professor, a Jesuit priest, Donald McGuire reports sfweekly.com. McGuire was one of Mother Theresa's spiritual advisors and was associated with her convent in Noe Valley. In the 1980's, an 11 year old...
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A retired 75-year-old priest, Father Denis Lyons has been charged with sexually abusing a boy repeatedly in the sacristy and rectory of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Costa Mesa, reports calcatholic.com. Father Lyons was charged in 2003 with...
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A Brazilian Priest, Rev. Jose Amazio, was suspended for adult sexual misconduct reports boston.com. The Catholic priest, who had served at St. Anthony of Padua for 10 years, was suspended for accusations of adult sexual misconduct. The popular Brazilian priest...
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An ex-area Catholic priest has been defrocked by the Vatican reports timesleader.com. The Luzerne County priest, Reverend Edward J. Shoback had served as a priest in the Diocese of Scranton from 1967 - 2004 when he was removed from pastoral...
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A civil complaint has been filed against the Diocese of Trenton, reports app.com. The complaint alleges a Spring Lake priest committed sexual abuse more than 35 years ago during his ministry at St. Catharine's Church and St. Margaret's Church, both...
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The Chicago Archdiocese has released a 180-page deposition that describes how sexual abuse was covered up by their second highest ranking bishop, reports the Chicago Tribune. Retired Auxiliary Bishop Raymond Goedert testified in his deposition that most of the priests...
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The OC Register reports that a priest has been arrested on charges of molesting a boy at St. John the Baptist Catholic School in the early 1990's. The Catholic priest, Denis Lyons, age 75, was taken into custody and booked...
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A lawsuit has been filed against Washington state reports seattlepi.com. The plaintiff alleges that child services placed him in a Kent boarding school which has since been the target of several clergy abuse lawsuits. The man alleges that as a child,...
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A Catholic Priest in Margaretville is facing 20 charges of sexual abuse, reports The Oneonta Daily Star. The priest, a Rev. James McDevitt is pastor of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church, and has pleaded not guilty. It is alleged that McDevitt committed...
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It is reported by chicagobreakingnews.com that convicted pedophile ex-priest, Daniel McCormack may continue to be incarcerated under the Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Act in September when he is eligible for parole. This state law allows prosecutors to fight for indefinite...
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A St. Louis Roman Catholic Priest and is being sued for the sexual abuse of a young boy in the early 1980's, reports fox2now.com. The accused priest is Reverend Michael Freymuth. Rev. Freymuth, the St. Louis Archdiocese as well as Archbishop...
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Reverend Aaron Cote has been convicted of a third degree sex offense, reports the Associated Press. He was sentenced to 10 years probation and must register as a sex offender. The Catholic priest pleaded not guilty, but was convicted by...
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Three men have filed a clergy abuse lawsuit against Father Joseph Muench, pastor the Mary Queen of the Holy Rosary Parish in Lexington, reports Lex18.com. The three men claim that when they were children at the Good Shepherd Parish in Frankfort, the...
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The Naperville Sun Times reports that a former Naperville priest who was convicted as a pedophile may soon be released. The priest, Fred Lenczycki, was imprisoned in 2004 for the sexual abuse of three young boys that occurred when he was serving...
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Vermont's Roman Catholic Diocese has had two new lawsuits filed against it reports the Burlington Free Press. The lawsuits claim that the Diocese deliberately transferred assets to other separate entities to cause it to be more difficult for victims of clergy...
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The Bangor Daily News reports that a ruling by the Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Tuesday means that the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland is not immune to a lawsuit by an Augusta man. The man claims to have been...
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It is reported by the courant.com that the Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport is running out of legal options in their effort to block the public release of thousands of documents that give the details of alleged sexual abuses by Priests. There are more than...
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A Las Vegas self-proclaimed "prophet" has been charged with 29 felonies in a child sex abuse scandal. The minister, Benito Catello, ran the church out of his home, reports the Las Vegas Sun. The minister apparently used threats of damnation...
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A lawsuit was filed against the Diocese of Crookston on Thursday by a young woman who claims she was sexually abused by a Greenbush, Minnesota parish priest named Joseph Jeyapaul reports The Grand Forks Herald. The priest is no longer in...
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The California Supreme Court is set to have a hearing to rule on whether six brothers can sue the Catholic Diocese of Oakland for alleged clergy abuse from the 1970's, reports sfgate.com. Earlier the plaintiff's lawsuit had been dismissed, as it...
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A suit has been filed against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange, reports the OC Register. The suit claims that the unnamed man, a child at the time, was molested by a priest, Monsignor Sinon Falvey. Falvey, who had served...
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