A former minister of music of the Benton First Baptist Church, David Pierce, has been arrested and charged with 54 counts of sexual indecency with a child, reports the Benton Courier. The charges stem from incidents that happened over the...
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An employee of the Christ Church United Methodist Church has been put in jail reports the newsleader.com. Steven B. Joplin, the Director of Christian Education is charged with aggravated sexual battery. The alleged sexual assaults are claimed to have taken...
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The Pastor of St. Leo the Great in Pawtucket, Reverend Kevin Fisette, has resigned and has been placed on administrative leave by the Providence Roman Catholic Diocese, reports abc6.com. Fisette has been accused of sexually abusing a boy more than...
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A Madison-area priest, Joseph Gibbs Clauder, has been accused of child sexual abuse and the Madison Catholic Diocese has admitted the claim is credible, reports wkowtv.com. The priest has been on administrative leave since 1999 when he was accused of...
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The Indystar reports that a hearing today will decide whether a lawsuit can go forward regarding alleged sexual abuse by a priest in the mid-70's. The suit names the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis. The alleged victim claims that he...
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A former youth minister of the East Tucson Baptist Church was convicted of child molestation charges on Wednesday reports the Arizona Daily Star. The victim was a 13-year-old girl who was sexually molested over the period of a year. The...
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A former assistant pastor of the Vineyard of Faith Lutheran Church, Christopher Benson, is being sued for unspecified monetary damages for alleged inappropriate touching when the accuser was 13 years old, reports the PressDemocrat.com. The church, the ex-pastor and the Missouri...
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A lawsuit has been filed against former pastor Sandy Martin Cook and the Shrewsbury Church of God, reports The West Virginia Record. Four men who claim that their families were members of the Shrewsbury Church of God in Belle are...
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A former Roman Catholic Priest, Michael Baker, who has been convicted of sexually molesting children, has been called to testify to the Grand Jury regarding how the Los Angeles Diocese handled abuse claims reports the StarTribune.com. The ex-priest had been...
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A lawsuit was settled for $600,000 in a case in which a former priest admitted to molesting a boy in Jersey City, reports nj.com. The former Catholic priest, a Rev. Carmine Sita who had served at the St. Aloysius Church in Jersey...
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A sexual abuse review board from the Madison Catholic Diocese has determined that an allegation of child sexual abuse against a priest, the Reverend Joseph Gibbs Clauder is "credible", reports the Wisconsin State Journal. Clauder had been placed on administrative...
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Charles E. Carfrey, a 59 year old pastor of the Lord's House Church in Buckeye has pleaded guilty to sexual conduct with a minor, reports azcentral. Carfrey has been held in custody since March 20 when he was arrested on...
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A small group picketed a meeting of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious in Silver Spring reports wjla.com. The protesting group alleges that they were sexually abused by Catholic nuns, and that the accused should be investigated and held accountable...
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A sex abuse claim against a Priest, Richard McCormick, 68, was settled with three men who claimed the priest abused them when they were children reports lohud.com. The priest was a well-known former head of the Salesian of John Bosco...
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The U.S. Supreme Court has been asked by the Bridgeport Catholic Diocese to keep under seal 12,600 pages of documents including depositions, exhibits and other legal documents related to 23 sexual abuse lawsuits involving 7 priests in their diocese, reports...
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Sex abuse claims against a now-deceased minister from Bremerton were settled by the Catholic Diocese of Seattle reports the Kitsap Sun. A man, now 67, claims he had been a victim of clergy abuse by a Father James Knelleken who had...
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It is reported by wjz.com that former Catholic schoolteacher John Merzbacher who is serving a life sentence for rape and child abuse has gone before a judge asking to be released. He was convicted in 1995, and a number of...
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Court records detailing allegations of child sexual abuse by Memphis Catholic priests may be released by the end of the summer reports the Memphis Daily News. The issue being currently being determined by a judge is which priest's names will be...
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Archbishop Robert J. Carlson apologized to the parish for the arrest of Reverend James P. Grady at a Saturday mass at St. Raphael the Archangel Catholic Church, reports upi.com. The priest was arrested Wednesday on charges that he agreed to...
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