Clackamas County’s district attorney has asked Oregon’s attorney general to take over an investigation into a former West Linn doctor accused by dozens of former patients of sexual abuse.
Despite repeatedly defending his office’s handling of the sex abuse case against West Linn doctor David Farley, which ultimately led to no charges, Clackamas County District Attorney John Wentworth has now asked the Oregon Department of Justice to take on the case.
The agreement, believed to be the largest single settlement of its kind by a Catholic archdiocese, will settle 1,353 claims of childhood sexual abuse.
The settlement is the highest single payout by an archdiocese, experts said, and brings Los Angeles’s cumulative payout in sex abuse lawsuits to more than $1.5 billion.
Testifying Wednesday before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee, Breane Wingfield said she was 14 when, in 2005, she was sexually assaulted in a van by a deputy probation officer employed at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey.
A band teacher for an Anaheim junior high school is facing consequences after a woman revealed what she calls a decades-old secret. Teacher Steve Graves, 61, is accused of sexual abuse of two teenage girls nearly 40 years ago.
The three women sit huddled together, hands and arms intertwined, heads on each other’s shoulders. For too long, each felt utterly alone and it’s as if their physical closeness gives them a boost of strength.
Anaheim police are investigating a 61-year-old band teacher after two women accused him of having inappropriate relationships with them while they were students of his at Loara High School in the 1980s, authorities said on Friday, Sept. 13.
A new report from the Inspector General reveals that the FBI continued to mishandle child sex abuse claims, despite training policy updates and system changes after the Larry Nassar abuse scandal.
ABC News’ Juju Chang speaks with John C. Manly, the attorney representing survivors of sexual assault by Larry Nassar, about the watchdog report from the DOJ regarding sexual abuse against children.
Senior FBI official said bureau made mistakes in investigating crimes against children but that ‘vast majority of work’ handled appropriately.
The report comes three years after another report criticized the FBI's handling of allegations against convicted sexual abuser Larry Nassar.
The Justice Department’s inspector general cited significant improvements even as he identified structural issues, like high caseloads, that continue to hamper progress.
The Justice Department inspector general said Thursday that the FBI is still not adequately handling allegations of child sex abuse, years after the Larry Nassar scandal led to a series of new rules on such investigations.
'They paid out everything they had in terms of coverage,' an attorney for the victims
The first known survivor of sexual abuse at the hands of prolific pedophile Larry Nassar is advocating for sex awareness education in children from when they are in kindergarten.
Two boys allegedly targeted by a Beaumont Unified School District teacher's aide suspected of sending them explicit images and repeatedly harassing them in an attempt to sleep with them sued her and the district for infliction of emotional distress and negligence, it was announced today.
SAN JOSE — Eleven girls who say they were sexually abused by a convicted former teacher are suing the Alum Rock Union School District, claiming administrators conspired to cover up his past misconduct and move him around schools instead of reporting him to authorities.
A new lawsuit filed on behalf of students accuses the Alum Rock Union School District of placing a “serial pedophile” in three San Jose schools where he allegedly abused more than thirty female students.
Eleven victims in a lawsuit filed on Wednesday, June 12, allege the current interim superintendent at the Alum Rock Union Elementary School District and former staff conspired to cover up sexual abuse by a former teacher.
NYS Supreme Court Judge Alexandra Murphy rejected motions filed by the Village of Mt. Kisco and the Boys & Girls Club to remove themselves from lawsuits filed by 11 alleged victims of James “Jimmy” Collins. Collins, now in prison, is accused of sexually abusing 16 boys over a period of 40 years, starting in the 1970’s in his role as a coach, counselor and janitor for the Village of Mt. Kisco, the Boys Club of Northern Westchester and Chappaqua School District.
“Barstow Unified School District has a child sexual abuse scandal brewing that is on par with what we have seen within Redlands Unified School District and the Los Angeles Unified School District,” the victim’s attorney, Morgan Stewart, said in a May 23 statement.
Redlands Unified has paid more than $45.5 million to settle teacher sex abuse lawsuits since 2016
A former Redlands middle school teacher convicted in 2005 of sexually abusing three male students and sentenced to more than 74 years in prison, has been released from custody and is now living in Palm Desert. Sean Ramiro Lopez, 50, who taught at Clement Middle School from 1999 to 2002, is listed on the Megan’s Law database as “very low risk” to commit a new sexual offense. Under terms of his release, Lopez will spend the first six months of his parole in transitional housing.
Shortly after a New York appeals court overturned Harvey Weinstein’s conviction on rape charges in Manhattan, a defense attorney in the disgraced movie mogul’s Los Angeles case said the same should happen in California.
The Justice Department announced Tuesday it has agreed to pay nearly $139 million to victims of former Team USA gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, settling legal claims brought over the department’s failure to investigate allegations that could have brought the convicted child molester to justice sooner and prevented dozens of assaults.
