Homeless pregnant teen says childhood mistreatment inspired her life's passion

Fostering supergran and Wicked Girl author Jeanie Doyle, 72 - who has looked over more than 100 children - reveals how as a child she suffered shocking cruelty and was abused by convent nuns after the tragic death of her mother. Every year on Jeanie Doyle’s birthday, the cards she receives don’t just fill up one mantelpiece, they spill across every room of the house.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/homeless-pregnant-teen-who-slept-21279426 

Australian court to say if will hear Cardinal Pell’s appeal

CANBERRA, Australia — The most senior Catholic to be found guilty of sexually abusing children will learn this week whether Australia’s highest court will hear his appeal against convictions for molesting two choirboys in a Melbourne cathedral two decades ago.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/australian-court-to-say-if-will-hear-cardinal-pells-appeal/2019/11/10/10fd3cec-043d-11ea-9118-25d6bd37dfb1_story.html 

Victims of child sexual abuse heartened by widening of Royal Commission

News that a Royal Commission will be expanded into faith-based institutions – and confirmation it will include day schools – is being cautiously hailed as a "game changer". The Government on Monday announced the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Historical Abuse in State Care would be expanded to include faith-based institutions. The move followed extensive lobbying from child sexual abuse survivors and their advocates.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/108553225/victims-of-child-sexual-abuse-heartened-by-widening-of-royal-commission?rm=a

Child sexual abuse inquiry scope clarified

Priests who abused children in their own homes will be included in a Royal Commission into historical sexual abuse. The move is being described as a change-in-scope by advocates but the Royal Commission says it is only a clarification of the exiting scope. After the Government bowed to pressure and added abuse in faith-based institutions to the Royal Commission, victims and survivors were concerned the scope was too narrow, because it only looked at abuse in bricks-and-mortar institutions.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/111025706/child-sexual-abuse-inquiry-scope-widens?rm=a 

Sisters who say they were abused at Catholic orphanage lose faith in Royal Commission

It's a four-hour drive for Alexandra Murray from her home in Perth to the Western Australian costal settlement of Albany. It's a windy city, just like Wellington, where Alexandra was born and raised. The 59-year-old regularly visits Albany because it's the one place in Australia that reminds her of home.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/115033531/sisters-who-say-they-were-abused-at-catholic-orphanage-lose-faith-in-royal-commission 

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 

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