Child Victims Act: The accused

A number of lawsuits alleging sexual abuse within the Albany Roman Catholic Diocese were filed Wednesday. What follows is a list of some of the religious leaders and others who were accused of sexually abusing children: Bishop Howard Hubbard, former leader of the Albany Roman Catholic Diocese, accused of sexually abusing a 16-year-old parishioner at St. Mary's Church in Ballston Spa in 1990s. A lawyer for Hubbard said the accusation is false.

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Child-Victims-Act-the-accused-14304243.php 

New England dioceses join reporting system for sexual abuse

Several Roman Catholic dioceses in New England announced Wednesday that they were joining an independent system for reporting misconduct or abuse by church leaders. The system, started this year by the Diocese of Boston, was joined by the Diocese of Manchester in New Hampshire, the Diocese of Burlington in Vermont and the Diocese of Portland in Maine, as well as several dioceses in Massachusetts.

https://www.concordmonitor.com/New-England-dioceses-join-reporting-system-for-sexual-abuse-27739877 

Window opens for filing of lawsuits by childhood sexual abuse survivors

Susanne Robertson and her two sisters were orphans at St. Colman's Home in Watervliet, near Albany, where she said they were routinely abused by the nuns and other staff there. When one of the girls reported the sexual abuse to a nun at the home, she was transferred to an orphanage for mentally disabled children.

https://www.wxxinews.org/post/window-opens-filing-lawsuits-childhood-sexual-abuse-survivors 

Nuns, staff, priests sexually abused homeless kids at Catholic mission on Staten Island for decades: suit

Seven adult men and women charged in a 127-page lawsuit that they endured disturbing abuse at Mount Loretto Catholic Mission that was so brutal it left one of them brain damaged. In one instance around 1962, plaintiff Zaida Rivera said she was surrounded by a group of four or five nuns who forced her to lie down naked. They then made an older boy get on type of her and “grind and gyrate” his crotch on her privates as the nuns laughed, the suit says.

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-staten-island-mission-abuse-20190814-kzgvb3utcfgyphosko5c3uc4z4-story.html 

Sisters prepare for decades-old indecent assault case

Sisters Lisa van der Merwe and Claudine Shiels are ready for the long haul after hearing that one of the two men who face decades-old indecent assault allegations will not be ready for the start of the trial in Cape Town on Thursday “I don’t know anything else, but trying to survive,” Van der Merwe said at a press briefing ahead of the case in the Wynberg Regional Court on Wednesday.

https://www.all4women.co.za/1822117/news/south-african-news/sisters-prepare-for-decades-old-indecent-assault-case 

Child Victims Act sex-abuse window sends shockwaves across Staten Island; churches, clergy, coaches, parents accused

A one-year window allowing adults who allege they were sexually abused as children to sue opened on Wednesday and sent shockwaves across Staten Island, with lawsuits being filed against Roman Catholic schools and churches, a youth athletic institution and even one man’s parents. The alleged abusers included the names of prominent borough clergy, coaches, educators and school principals.

https://www.silive.com/news/2019/08/child-victims-act-sex-abuse-window-sends-shockwaves-across-staten-island-churches-clergy-coaches-parents-accused.html

Window for Child Victims Act sex-abuse lawsuits opens Wednesday: What it means

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Attorneys are poised to file hundreds if not thousands of lawsuits beginning on Wednesday for adults on Staten Island and throughout New York who allege they were sexually abused as children. A one-year window of opportunity exists for victims of any age who were abused at any time as minors to file lawsuits against their alleged abusers and institutions that purportedly turned a blind eye to those crimes.

https://www.silive.com/news/2019/08/window-for-child-victims-act-sex-abuse-lawsuits-opens-wednesday-what-it-means.html 

Shocking, graphic suit alleges child abuse over nearly 40 years at Staten Island orphanage

A bombshell lawsuit filed against The Mission of the Immaculate Virgin at Mount Loretto alleges that multiple people endured appalling abuse, over decades, at the hands of nuns, priests and lay employees at the former orphanage. The lawsuit is one in a flurry filed as the Child Victims Act took effect Wednesday, sending shockwaves across Staten Island.

https://www.silive.com/news/2019/08/shocking-graphic-suit-alleges-child-abuse-over-nearly-40-years-at-staten-island-orphanage.html 

CVA lawsuits bring spotlight back to St. Colman's Home

Susanne Robertson was one of seven children. When their mother had a nervous breakdown in 1957, the children were sent to St. Colman’s Home, under the eyes of the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. There, Robertson and two of her sisters say, one nun sexually abused them, and the order’s leaders permitted other adults to sexually abuse them and failed to notify authorities of the crimes.

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/CVA-lawsuits-bring-spotlight-back-to-St-Colman-s-14308054.php 

Face facts, says LCWR official, sisters have been part of abuse scandal

Catholic sisters must face the reality that they have also been part of the sexual abuse scandal in the church, said Holy Cross Sister Sharlet Wagner. “We have all been affected by this scandal. We have listened to the trauma of survivors, and we have felt shame for the church we love and outrage over the crimes committed,” Sister Wagner said Aug. 15 during the Leadership Conference of Women Religious Assembly in Scottsdale.

http://catholicphilly.com/2019/08/news/national-news/face-facts-says-lcwr-official-sisters-have-been-part-of-abuse-scandal/ 

A Tidal Wave of Sex Abuse Lawsuits Is About to Hit New York's Catholic Churches and Boy Scouts

An unprecedented wave of lawsuits from sex abuse survivors is expected to flood New York courthouses on Wednesday, when the state hands survivors a one-time-only opportunity to sue their attackers — no matter how long ago the abuse took place. Only a handful of states have ever opened up so-called “lookback windows,” which temporarily suspend statute of limitation laws and let child sex abuse survivors, of any age, sue their abusers and the institution they represented.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ywazax/a-tidal-wave-of-sex-abuse-lawsuits-is-about-to-hit-new-yorks-catholic-churches-and-boy-scouts 

One year after explosive Catholic church investigation in Pennsylvania: 300 priests, 1,000 victims, no state action

The cries for justice were deafening last August after a Pennsylvania grand jury disclosed accusations that hundreds of priests sexually abused more than 1,000 children, and that their sins were covered up by the Catholic church and others. Those cries still haven’t been answered.

https://www.mcall.com/opinion/mc-opi-catholic-church-sex-abuse-grand-jury-investigation-muschick-20190809-s45l6ergwveevbj2jf5iafzqai-story.html

Nuns, staff, priests sexually abused homeless kids at Catholic mission on Staten Island for decades:

Seven adult men and women charged in a 127-page lawsuit that they endured disturbing abuse at Mount Loretto Catholic Mission that was so brutal it left one of them brain damaged. In one instance around 1962, plaintiff Zaida Rivera said she was surrounded by a group of four or five nuns who forced her to lie down naked. They then made an older boy get on type of her and “grind and gyrate” his crotch on her privates as the nuns laughed, the suit says.

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-staten-island-mission-abuse-20190814-kzgvb3utcfgyphosko5c3uc4z4-story.html 

U.S. news Nun sexually abused me at Catholic orphanage, woman says

Susanne Robertson alleges that she was sexually assaulted by Sister Regina and a maintenance man while living at a Catholic-run orphanage in the 1960s. Susanne Robertson has devoted much of her life to sounding the alarm over the horrific abuse she says she suffered at a New York orphanage more than 50 years ago. A maintenance man sexually assaulting her in a boiler room. A nun violating her with a Lysol-soaked rag. For nearly 25 years, her efforts to force a reckoning on the St. Colman's Home near Albany have gone nowhere.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nun-sexually-abused-me-catholic-orphanage-woman-says-n1041876 

Leftists Crafting Vision for New Australian Church

CANBERRA, Australian Capital Territory (ChurchMilitant.com) - Leftist plans to radically alter the Church "Down Under" are advancing. After decades of modernist infiltration, collapsing vocations and clerical sex abuse scandals and cover-up, the Church in Australia is in meltdown. Recognizing this, the country's bishops and many lay Catholic leaders are entertaining radical changes to the Faith, including:

 https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/looking-ahead-to-the-1970s

A Hudson Megachurch, a Beloved Pastor and the International Sex Abuse Scandal They've Tried To Hide

For a man who purports to be so boldly committed to truth, American missionary and Christian pastor Tom Randall has been at the center of – in fact, may be the chief architect of – a long and wicked deception. Randall is a gregarious man with an earnest, unsophisticated preaching style. He stands 6'5" and ambles about with the busted-knee hitch of a former serious athlete.

 https://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/a-hudson-megachurch-a-beloved-pastor-and-the-international-sex-abuse-scandal-theyve-tried-to-hide/Content?oid=31021768

Raped and abused • Chilling tale of teenager sexually assaulted

Sexual relationship is meant to be consensual. This means it is something that is expected to take place between two adults who have an agreement to do so. What this means is that when either of the partners is forced, it becomes a case of rape, and that is criminal. It becomes more complicated when the victim is a minor.

https://www.sunnewsonline.com/raped-and-abused/ 

45 Seacoast priests on child sex abuse list

A former priest alleged to have sexually abused children in New Hampshire, his name made public for the first time this week, spent time at eight Seacoast churches or religious organizations between 1962 and 1986, according to new information released by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Manchester. In 2011, the Diocese received reports of abuse involving David Morley that allegedly took place more than 45 years ago, said Bevin Kennedy, spokesperson for the Diocese.

https://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20190801/45-seacoast-priests-on-child-sex-abuse-list

A Popular Pastor, Involved in an Abuse Scandal, Is Being Protected By His Church

Tom Randall is a Christian pastor from Ohio who is also a documented liar. He lied about getting drafted in the NBA. He lied about how he became a Christian. And, most importantly, there’s a lot of evidence that he lied about his involvement in a child sex scandal at a Philippine orphanage that he founded.

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/08/01/a-popular-pastor-involved-in-an-abuse-scandal-is-being-protected-by-his-church/

'The toughest story I've ever done': Inside Louise Milligan's investigation of George Pell

As an award-winning journalist on Australia's premier current affairs program, Louise Milligan is used to tackling difficult stories and upsetting people in power, but her three-year investigation into allegations of child sexual abuse against George Pell, the country's most senior Catholic, was daunting. "Without a doubt this is the toughest story I have ever done," Milligan said. "This is a person who had immense political and cultural power so taking that on is enormous and very, very stressful.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/about/backstory/investigative-journalism/2019-03-04/how-louise-milligan-investigated-the-george-pell-case/10867884 

Parkerville Children's Home child sex abuse survivors say redress scheme taking too long

Tragedy has been a constant in 84-year-old Ian Stewart's life. At five he lost his mother to cancer, and by the time World War II ended his father had surrendered him and his two brothers to Perth's Parkerville Children's Home. Mr Stewart said while he was an altar boy two nuns regularly molested him, then later his so-called house parents abused him.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-16/parkerville-child-sex-abuse-survivor-wants-redress-scheme-action/11310738 

Catholic Church Not About To Be Out-Molested By Goddamn Boy Scouts

Telling the youth organization that if they come for the king they best not miss, the Catholic Church announced Thursday that it was not about to be out-molested by the goddamn Boy Scouts. “If some pissant organization like the Scouts thinks they can beat us at the molestation game, then they have another fucking thing coming,” said Pope Francis, directing his message to the Scouts’ leaders

https://www.theonion.com/catholic-church-not-about-to-be-out-molested-by-goddamn-1836702707

Woman who was beaten by nuns and sexually abused by older girls

A woman who was physically, mentally and sexually abused in a covent from the age of six has told how breaking her silence after 60 years has prompted other victims to speak out. Marie Hargreaves, from Oldham, has waived her right to anonymity to speak about alleged assaults ordered by Sister Isobel O'Brien at Greenfield House Convent in St Helens.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7289923/Woman-beaten-nuns-sexually-abused-older-girls-convent-age-6.html

Debate should be over, Canada is guilty of genocide

It's no longer up for debate. Canada is guilty of genocide. The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls has found that Canada has and continues to engage in "race-based genocide." The inquiry called to investigate the circumstances surrounding the murder and disappearance of an estimated 1,200 Indigenous women and girls came to its conclusion after hearing from their family members, survivors of violence and expert witnesses, as well as conducting its own independent research.

http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/indigenous-nationhood/2019/07/debate-should-be-over-canada-guilty-genocide