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News Articles: sex abuse

On Wednesday, the Maryland Attorney General's Office publicly released a redacted version of an investigative report detailing sex abuse allegations against more than 150 Catholic priests and examining the Archdiocese of Baltimore's response.

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Maryland attorney general releases report on decades of sex abuse by Catholic priests

The redacted report paints a damning picture of abuse allegations against nearly 160 priests, involving more than 600 victims and spanning 80 years, and the Archdiocese of Baltimore's response.

April 05, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Immigration detainees being held in the Stewart Detention Center in south Georgia have a filed a federal lawsuit against the for-profit company that operates the 2,000-bed facility, citing “deplorable conditions” inside the prison. LEDGER-ENQUIRER FILE PHOTO

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Four women allege they were sexually assaulted by nurse at Georgia ICE facility

Four women allege they were sexually assaulted on multiple occasions by a male nurse at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Stewart Detention Center in late 2021.

July 14, 2022
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  • Nick Wooten
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A New Jersey Catholic diocese agrees to pay $87.5M to settle sex abuse lawsuits

The Diocese of Camden agreed to settle claims involving clergy sex abuse with some 300 alleged victims in one of the largest cash settlements involving the Catholic Church in the United States.

April 20, 2022
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Britain's Prince Andrew speaks during a TV interview in April 2021. Lawyers for Prince Andrew and Virginia Giuffre, who accused him of sexually abusing her when she was 17, formally asked a judge Tuesday to dismiss her lawsuit.

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Sex abuse lawsuit against Prince Andrew has been formally dismissed by a judge

Lawyers revealed three weeks ago that they had tentatively agreed to a settlement in which the prince would donate to Virginia Giuffre's charity and declare he didn't intend to malign her character.

March 08, 2022
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In this June 16, 2021, file photo, people attend the morning session of the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Nashville, Tenn.

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Southern Baptist leader resigns amid internal division over sex abuse review

President and CEO of the SBC's Executive Committee Ronnie Floyd announced his departure Thursday in a statement critical of recent decisions related to the third-party review.

October 15, 2021
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The University of Southern California has agreed to an $852 million settlement with more than 700 women who have accused the college's longtime campus gynecologist of sexual abuse, officials announced Thursday.

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USC Agrees To $852 Million Settlement To End Sex Abuse Litigation

Added to a separate 2018 settlement of $215 million, the agreement means the university is paying more than $1 billion to clear the lawsuits related to former campus gynecologist George Tyndall.

March 26, 2021
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  • Vanessa Romo
An illustration to go with Doctors & Sex Abuse series by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

AJC Named Pulitzer Finalist For Doctor Sex Abuse Coverage

This week, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution was honored as a Pulitzer Prize finalist for its investigation of thousands of doctors across the country ....

April 13, 2017
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  • Sean Powers

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