Sentences with phrase «against alleged sexual abuse»

The ruling is a preliminary issue in the Claimant's proceedings against alleged sexual abuse and rape at a children's home.

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Three additional civil suits alleging sexual abuse, by parties not named in the grand jury report, also have been filed against the Philadelphia archdiocese since February.

The Guardian: Bishop's arrest part of broad inquiry into Chichester diocese child abuse The arrest of Bishop Peter Ball on suspicion of sexual offences against boys and men at addresses in East Sussex and elsewhere is the latest development in a wide - ranging and often contentious series of official inquiries into decades of alleged child protection failures in the diocese of Chichester on England's south coast.

The Elliott Review was commissioned in September 2015 to look into alleged sexual abuse committed against a man known as «Joe» during the 1970s.

The measure, first introduced years ago by Margaret Markey, a New York State Assembly Democrat, would extend the statute of limitations for civil suits against alleged sexual abusers of children and against institutions that fail to act against such abuse under their roofs.

The report from the attorneys» group was released a negotiations stalled this week between the state Senate and Gov. Andrew Cuomo over enactment of a law that would create a one - year period for alleged victims of sexual assault to file a lawsuit against their abusers or any organization that may have enabled the abuse.

Now that the incredibly creepy sexual harassment allegations against New York State Assemblyman Vito Lopez have been made public, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver can't exactly sit by and do nothing — even if that's what he reportedly did while the alleged abuse was going on.

New York is among the most restrictive states in the nation when it comes to allowing victims of sexual abuse from years ago to file lawsuits against their alleged perpetrators.

In the mid-1980's, Richard Gardner, a child psychiatrist who testified in custody disputes, coined the term Parental Alienation Syndrome to explain why many cases of alleged child sexual abuse against fathers were actually the result of the child being purposely alienated against the father by the mother, to win an advantage in court.