A growing number of cheerleaders who claim to have been sexually abused as minors have filed lawsuits against their coaches, gyms, fitness organizations, and more. In December 2022, for instance, a group of 21 cheerleaders filed lawsuits against gyms in 7 states. The plaintiffs claim…
Pennsylvania lawmakers have been trying for a couple of years to pass a law granting a two-year window for civil claims concerning childhood sexual abuse. Back in 2021, the House approved a bill that would give adults who survived abuse as children two years to…
For years we’ve been hearing about the child sexual abuse that took place in the Catholic Church. In August 2018, a Pennsylvania grand jury report revealed that over 300 priests were accused of abusing more than 1,000 children in six dioceses in the state over…
Australian police recently charged Brian Houston, founder of the Australia-based megachurch Hillsong, with concealing the sexual abuse of a child. The police alleged in a statement that Houston knew about the sexual abuse of a young male in the 1970s and failed to bring that…
After decades of child sexual abuse within the Catholic Church, Pope Francis recently pledged to “eradicate this evil” after the release of the McCarrick report—a document detailing the decades-long cover-up of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s sexual misconduct. McCarrick Report Details Church’s Cover-Up of Abuse On November…
On Tuesday, November 26, 2019, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf signed three bills that will give future victims of child sexual abuse more time to file lawsuits against their abusers and any related institutions. It was over a year ago that a Pennsylvania grand jury released…
Back in 2011, the State of Virginia passed a law extending the statute of limitations for sexual abuse civil lawsuits from two to 20 years. The law went into effect on July 1, 2011. It allows victims to file lawsuits against their attackers and others…
According to information revealed in a newly filed Boy Scouts of America (BSA) sexual abuse lawsuit, over 350 previously unknown scoutmasters and volunteers have been identified as sexual predators. Neither law enforcement nor the BSA had a record of these individuals’ abusive activities, despite estimates…
The Catholic Diocese of Crookston, Minnesota recently announced that it had reached a $5 million settlement with victims of childhood clergy sexual abuse. The settlement resolves 15 lawsuits filed between April 2016 and May 2017—after the state of Minnesota extended the statute of limitations to…
As survivors of Catholic clergy sexual abuse seek justice in courts around the country, a new report indicates that the Church has spent millions to prevent victims from filing clerical sex abuse lawsuits. According to reports, the Catholic Church spent more than $10 million on…
