| | By JENNY ANDERSON The New York Times August 28, 2012
A top-tier Brooklyn private school cannot automatically use New York State’s statute of limitations to prevent a case involving sexual abuse allegations against a former football coach from proceeding, a judge ruled Tuesday, because of the possibility that the school may have engaged in a scheme to cover up decades of abuse. READ MORE |
| | By DR. SWATI SHROFF and DR. TIFFANY CHAO, ABC News Medical Unit Aug 21, 2012 Missouri Representative Todd Akin contradicted medical statistics with his statement that “women who are victims of ‘legitimate rape’ rarely get pregnant.” After a media storm — during which Mitt Romney called his words “indefensible” and President Obama said “rape is rape” — Akin has now released an ad in which he admits, “The fact is, rape can lead to pregnancy.” READ MORE |
| | BY MICHAEL LINHORST STATE HOUSE BUREAU THE RECORD TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2012A Senate vote on a bill to eliminate the statute of limitations for childhood sexual assault victims to sue their abusers was postponed Monday when one of its sponsors decided there were not enough votes to support it.
With six senators missing during Monday's session, which was held in the middle of the Senate's summer break, Sen. Joseph Vitale said he was worried the bill would not have garnered the 21 needed to pass. READ MORE |
| | BY REUVEN BLAU AND ROCCO PARASCANDOLA / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 2012, Assemblyman Dov Hikind tapped powerful Israeli group to fund cameras in Borough Park and Midwood after kidnapping and brutal death of Leiby Kletzky.Agudath Israel has been critcized for insisting rabbis grant permission to contact authorities in child sex abuse accusations. READ MORE |
| | The Patriot-News Wednesday, August 15, 2012,
Penn State will convene experts in child sexual abuse and child trauma research, prevention and treatment for a public forum in October. The Child Sexual Abuse Conference: Traumatic Impact, Prevention, and Intervention will take place at the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel on Oct. 29-30. READ MORE |
| | By SUSAN EDELMAN New York Post August 12, 2012State Police are investigating whether a kosher- food deliveryman snuck into bunks at an upstate summer camp for seventh- and eighth-grade Orthodox Jewish boys from Brooklyn and sexually molested several of them. The shocking intrusion occurred in the early hours Wednesday at Camp Shalva in South Fallsburg, sources said. READ MORE |
| | By Andrew Siff Thursday, Aug 9, 2012Prosecutors struck the deal in close consultation with Kletzky's family, said State Assemblyman Dov HikindAccused child killer Levi Aron pleaded guilty Thursday in a Brooklyn courtroom to abducting, killing and dismembering Leiby Kletzky. READ MORE |
| | TOT.com August 9, 2012NEW YORK, - A New York judge found no evidence of juror misconduct during a trial in which a Brooklyn rabbi was acquitted of violating an order barring him from interacting with a young boy who had accused him of sexual molestation. READ MORE
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| | RTE News, Ireland Wednesday, 8 August 2012A Dublin woman, who sued her father for damages for sexual assault between the age of two and 12, has been awarded €375,000 in the High Court. READ MORE |
| | By YAAKOV LAPPIN Jerusalem Post July 31, 2012
Police pose as 10-year-olds in chat rooms to get to suspects; senior officers: We're startled by scope of threat. Some 30 suspected pedophiles were arrested in early morning raids across the country on Tuesday, in the largest police operation against alleged sex offenders to date. READ MORE |
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