Public institutions, including schools, are immune from lawsuits for the alleged incidents, preventing many from filing civil claims, despite legal reform efforts that have eliminated the statute of limitations. One man who says he was victimized calls it ‘another injustice.’
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Posted inHealth, Nation & World
Internal documents show WHO paid sexual abuse victims in Congo $250 each
The World Health Organization has paid at least 104 women who say they were sexually abused or exploited by officials working to stop Ebola.
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Posted inKennebec Journal, Local & State, Maine Crime, News
Monmouth woman sentenced to 40 years for sexually assaulting child
Natasha Venable, 47, was sentenced Thursday for assaulting and photographing a child multiple times.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Maine AG defends law eliminating statute of limitations on child sex abuse claims
This is the first time the Office of the Maine Attorney General has weighed in on the constitutionality of the 2021 law, which the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland is challenging on the grounds that it creates new liability and exposes defendants to ‘tens of millions of dollars’ in potential claims.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Maine Catholic Diocese faces 6 more childhood sexual abuse claims
The newest complaints allege the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland knew about the abuse, which occurred between 1954 and 1988.
Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: The Gospel according to Bishop Robert Deeley
Deeley is leading Maine’s 200,000-plus Catholics in an all-out war to block victims and survivors of childhood sexual abuse from seeking reparations no matter when the abuse occurred.
Posted inNation & World, News
Sports doctor Larry Nassar, who sexually assaulted athletes, stabbed at Florida prison
Nassar is serving decades in prison for abusing athletes when he worked at Michigan State University and at Indianapolis-based USA Gymnastics, which trains Olympians.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine Crime, News
Advocates say children surrounded by honesty, neutrality during forensic interviews
“I’m not coming in here to decide if a kid’s telling the truth or not telling the truth,” forensic interviewer Jenny Moody said. “I’m coming in here to say, ‘I need every single detail that you can possibly remember.'”
Posted inNation & World, News, Sports
Supreme Court allows former students to sue Ohio State over team doctor’s sexual abuse
They say university officials failed to stop the late Richard Strauss despite complaints raised as early as the late 1970s.
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Indiana doctor reprimanded for talking publicly about Ohio 10-year-old’s abortion
Dr. Caitlin Bernard has consistently defended her actions, telling the Indiana Medical Licensing Board she followed the state’s reporting requirements by notifying hospital social workers about 10-year-old girl’s rape.