Between an explosive political climate and a global pandemic, the ins and outs of the U.S. justice system are more convoluted than ever before. If you are looking for more help on the latest changes in the legal system, you will find it here.
In the wake of Maryland’s Child Victim’s Act which is set to take effect October 1, 2023, the Archdiocese of Baltimore has announced that it is considering filing for federal bankruptcy protection. If the Archdiocese does file for bankruptcy it would be the latest in a…
The Wall St. Journal, in conjunction with researchers at Stanford University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, have discovered that Instagram’s algorithms have aided pedophiles to connect with pedophile content and their networks. Meta Platforms which owns Instagram has acknowledged the problem (after the WSJ…
The federal bankruptcy court handling the Diocese of Bankruptcy chapter 11 filing has set a deadline date of September 11, 2023 as the final day one can file a claim for sexual abuse against the Diocese of Oakland. If the date passes and you have…
After more than three years of wrangling in federal bankruptcy court, the Diocese of Syracuse has committed to pay $100 million to resolve claims in federal bankruptcy. The Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors, which is entirely made up of victims who as children were sexually…
On July 9, 2023 the Pensacola News Journal reported that a young man has alleged sexual abused by a prominent diocesan priest. Monsignor James Flaherty of the Pensacola-Tallahassee Diocese of Florida, is alleged to have abused the young man when he was a middle school…
Deacon Carlos Humberto Ramirez, 51, was arrested Wednesday on two counts of lewd and lascivious molestation of a child, an arrest report said. Ramirez, of Miami Gardens, had worked as a teacher and deacon at Holy Family Catholic School on Northeast 12th Avenue in North…
According to a recently completed investigation by the Illinois Attorney General, nearly 2,000 children were sexually abused by 452 Catholic clergy from 1950 until 2019. The Illinois report comes in the wake of the recently published Maryland investigation that found similarly shocking numbers of children…
After an investigation that took four years to complete, Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown has released a 463-page horror story of abuse dating from the 1940’s until last year. The Report describes in tragic detail the suffering endured by more than 600 Maryland children at…
In 2021 the Louisiana legislature passed House Bill 492 which removed deadlines for child sex abuse victims to pursue damages in civil court. The bill also created a three-year window where all unresolved child molestation claims — no matter how old — can be pursued in…
Well-known mediator Paul Finn who handled the Archdiocese of Boston sexual abuse settlement two decades ago, spoke out in frustration recently concerning the stalemate in negotiations between the Diocese of Albany and the abuse survivors. Speaking to reporters, Finn noted, “I’ve been doing this a…
