Jury Awards $4.2 Million to Child Sex Abuse Survivor
U.S. Twirling Association Liable for 2019 Abuse of 17-Year-Old Member A New York federal jury recently awarded $4.2 million to a sexual abuse survivor. The young 17-year-old girl was raped after she was drugged while away at a twirling competition under the supervision of the United States Twirling Association (USTA). Child sexual abuse must be...
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How Grooming Happens & Ways to Protect Children
Grooming involves using persuasion and manipulation. If you’re experiencing the pain of child sexual abuse, it’s important to know that you’re not alone. There are many reasons why these experiences often go unnoticed or unspoken. Please consider reaching out to a trauma-informed therapist who can offer you a safe space to process your feelings and...
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PA May Change Child Sexual Abuse Law
More Than 20 States Have Recently Reformed Their Statute of Limitation for Child Sexual Abuse Pennsylvania law allows survivors of childhood sexual abuse to file civil lawsuits against their abusers up to the age of 55. Their law is similar to the law that existed in Maryland for years until Governor Wes Moore signed Maryland’s Child...
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Thomas Waxter Juvenile Detention Center Child Sexual Abuse Claims
It is a heartbreaking reality that child sexual abuse occurs in juvenile detention centers across Baltimore. Vulnerable young individuals should be protected against molestation in juvenile jails, but often they are not. The trauma of child sexual abuse in Baltimore juvenile detention centers is being addressed through legal action, advocacy, and support services. By law,...
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Cheltenham Youth Detention Center Child Sexual Abuse Claims
Cheltenham, previously called Boys Village of Maryland, ignored years of child sexual abuse claims against staff and guards. We are still talking about the bad conditions in Maryland‘s juvenile detention centers. Today, we are looking at the Cheltenham Youth Detention Center. Many people have made claims of rape and sexual abuse for years, but authorities...
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Charles H. Hickey School Juvenile Detention Sexual Abuse Lawsuit
Formerly Known as the Maryland Training School for Boys, This Juvenile Detention Center Has a History of Rape and Sexual Abuse of Minors Maryland Juvenile detention centers have been irresponsible in their duties to protect the vulnerable minors in their care. Youth detention centers, like the Charles H. Hickey, Jr. School, ignored reports of rapes...
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Sex Abuse in Maryland Juvenile Detention Centers: The Yost Legal Group Is Taking Cases for Survivors
If You Were Raped or Sexually Abused as a Minor in a Maryland Youth Detention Center, You May Have a Case With the quickly approaching deadline to file a lawsuit against the Catholic Church and Archdiocese of Baltimore in Maryland for sexual abuse and assault committed by Catholic Church clergy members and Catholic school employees,...
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Deadline Against Archdiocese of Baltimore for Sexual Assault Is May 31: File Your Catholic Church Rape Lawsuits Before Deadline
In a move that surprised no one, the nation’s oldest Catholic diocese filed a bankruptcy petition two days before a statute of limitations waiver took effect. The bankruptcy filing immediately stopped lawsuits against the archdiocese itself. In another move that was no surprise, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Michelle M. Harner upheld the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s bankruptcy...
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Uber Sexual Assault Litigations Go Global
Last week, a group of Canadian lawyers filed a class-action lawsuit against Uber “on behalf of passengers that were sexually assaulted, assaulted, battered, raped, kidnapped, forcibly confined, stalked, harassed, otherwise attacked or subjected to other sexual misconduct by an Uber driver with whom they had been paired through the Uber App.” It is a comprehensive...
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Culpable Catholic Church Criticizes Continued Investigation of Its Sexual Abuses
A Catholic Church advocacy group asked the Maryland Attorney General to stop digging into allegations that the Catholic Church tolerated child sex abuse for decades. A year ago, the Maryland Office of the Attorney General released its scathing “Report on Child Sexual Abuse in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.” The Archdiocese of Baltimore has been on...
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