Multiple Patients Allege Sexual Abuse at Montgomery County Hospital
Prosecutors believe that the ten patients who have come forward so far might be just the tip of the iceberg in an extensive sex abuse operation at Montgomery County Hospital. Montgomery County police arrested a doctor who works at Advanced Walk-in Urgent Care in Silver Spring on two counts of rape in February. “I want...
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Baltimore Catholic High School Sexual Abuse Claims
for Sexual Abuse Survivors at Catholic High School in Baltimore CNN recently ran a story about four real-life survivor’s accounts of rampant sexual abuse against young girls in Baltimore. Four survivors shared their stories more than 50 years after priests brutally, physically, and sexually assaulted them. It happened repeatedly at an all-girls Catholic high school...
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Examining the Complexities with Prosecuting Online Predators
Many people say things anonymously online they would never say to someone else in person. For the most part, the law protects this kind of “speech.” Generally, the First Amendment guarantees free speech unless that speech hurts someone else. This freedom, along with the fact that online posters and chatters are anonymous, makes online sexual...
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MD Choir Director Resigns in Sex Abuse Scandal
The director of the Catholic Church-affiliated Maryland State Boychoir, a redacted name from the sweeping Attorney General sex abuse report, has resigned. His name has since been revealed by The Baltimore Sun. Frank T. Cimino, Jr. was the minister of music at St. Thomas More Catholic Church when he allegedly sexually abused a choirboy in...
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Appeals Court Expands Definition of Sexual Abuse
The Maryland Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s decision that a father’s religious-based homosexuality and transgender comments constituted sexual abuse. This ruling buries the age-old “sticks and stones” proverb. It also opens the door for further sex abuse claims, especially since the legislature abolished the statute of limitations in these claims. Facts About three...
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The Major Kinds of Sexual Abuse Torts
Negligence or a lack of care is the most common personal injury claim (tort). Examples include car crashes and slip-and-falls. Sexual abuse claims are intentional torts. There is a difference between intentional and negligence. In one famous case, a court ruled that a boy who pulled a chair from underneath an elderly woman, causing her...
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Jury: Donald Trump Sexually Abused Woman in Department Store
A jury ordered the former president to pay $5 million to E. Jean Carroll who, according to the court ruling, was sexually abused by Trump some 30 years ago. During the trial, Ms. Carroll, a former advice columnist for Elle magazine and who was well-known in Manhattan media circles, testified that the attack followed a...
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Help for Survivors of Clergy Sexual Abuse in Baltimore
Sexual abuse is a terrible crime. It not only violates a person in a physical sense but also robs them of their innocence and dignity. There is help available for Survivors of Clergy Sexual Abuse in Baltimore. This is especially heartbreaking when those in positions of morality, such as members of the Catholic Church, are...
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Like Churches, Maryland Schools Found to Harbor Sexual Abusers
A recent investigation shed light on the tendency of schools to quietly allow teachers accused of sexual abuse to transfer to other schools. Unsurprisingly, those teachers accused of sexual misconduct often repeat the same bad behavior at their new schools. This practice is repeated in schools across the United States, risking harm to millions of...
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Local Catholic High School Renames Auditorium
When Sister Francis Marie Yocum was a music teacher at The Catholic High School of Baltimore in the 1950s, she wrote the school song. But after her name appeared in the Attorney General’s sex abuse report, her name will no longer be on the school’s auditorium. In 2012, a 75-year-old woman reported that Yocum sexually...
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