Sentences with phrase «allegations of sexual abuse by»

We persuaded the judge that the mother's allegations of sexual abuse by the father on one daughter was false and got the judge to reject completely a Section 15 custody report by a psychologist that had recommended sole custody to the mother with the father to have supervised access of his daughters in Grand Forks.

At least 67 private schools in New England have been affected by allegations of sexual abuse by employees disclosed over the past 25 years.

A student at Le Moyne started a petition calling for a different speaker because of Dolan's handling of allegations of sexual abuse by priests and comments he's made about gays and lesbians.

Chair Keith Vaz asked the home secretary if it was wise to have appointed a parliamentarian (Butler - Sloss is a cross-bench peer), especially given the probity May exhibited when she refused to read a report into allegations of sexual abuse by members of parliament because they could be former colleagues.

Officials with the New York State Catholic Conference said the organization's schools already have their own reporting requirements when it comes to allegations of sexual abuse by staff.

[i] False Allegations of Sexual Abuse by Children and Adolescents; MARK D. EVERSON, PH.D., AND BARBARA W. BOAT, PH.D..

Not exact matches

Allegations of sexual abuse have ranged from a charge of rape by an activist in the opposition Labour Party by a senior party member, to unconfirmed details of serial «sex pests» on a list reportedly drafted by aides and researchers in parliament.

It outlines policies and procedures for the church to address allegations of sexual abuse of minors by Catholic clergy and deals with reconciliation, accountability and prevention.

The team reported that 10,667 people in the US had made allegations of child sexual abuse between 1950 and 2002 against 4,392 priests (about 4 % of all 109,694 priests who served during the time period covered by the study).

But allegations of sexual abuse related to BJU and the school's response have been ongoing at least since 2010, when former board member and former Trinity Baptist Church pastor Chuck Phelps was accused of helping to «cover up repeated instances of sexual abuse committed more than a decade earlier by an older male parishioner against his step - daughter.»

The complainant did not pursue the allegation again until 2012 after several high - profile cases of historical sexual abuse by church figures had broken in Australia and the US, as well as the Jimmy Savile scandal.

«Kicanas knew about serious accusations of child sexual abuse and misconduct by a Chicago priest but «did little or nothing to report these allegations to police, warn parents about him, or protect children from him,»» the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) said.

ABWE retained GRACE in May 2011 to investigate allegations of 1980s sexual abuse by former missionary Donn Ketcham in Bangladesh.

Megachurch pastor Andy Savage, of Highpoint Church in Memphis, Tennessee, has resigned in the wake of an investigation by Highpoint into sexual abuse allegations made against Savage in January.

Four young men have filed civil lawsuits accusing him of abusing his spiritual authority to coerce them into sexual relationships, allegations he has denied in a statement issued by his attorney.

«I never received any allegation, report or concern about McCormack during his seminary years at Mundelein that involved sexual abuse of anyone,» he says, rejecting reports by the Chicago Sun - Times newspaper, Chicago public radio station WBEZ and the Catholic - focused Spero News.

Since the Jimmy Savile abuse story broke last October, not a month has passed without a fresh allegation of sexual assault by authority figures.

As many have wondered why Camille Cosby continues to stand by her husband, Bill, in the wake of so many allegations of sexual abuse — including me — the comedian recently was defended by the woman who played his TV wife, Phylicia Rashad.

In several of the cases of bullying complaints, there is also a concern about the way the school has handled the allegations, failing to investigate accusations of bullying and physical abuse by teachers in some cases... «In four Steiner schools, the Department has received complaints about physical abuse from teachers towards pupils, including spitting in a pupil's face, making sexual innuendos and throwing a rounders bat at a pupil.

WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton says she was «shocked and appalled» by the revelations about disgraced movie titan Harvey Weinstein, who faces multiple allegations of sexual abuse and harassment from some of the biggest names in Hollywood.

Allegations of sexual harassment and assault by Mr. Weinstein were disclosed this month in The New York Times and The New Yorker, which prompted other women to share their accounts of his alleged abuse, set off criminal investigations, roiled the entertainment world and triggered a social media movement of women from other industries and backgrounds telling their stories.

Roughly half the cases in the study involved allegations of multiple incidents of physical abuse by parents, while the other half involved allegations of sexual abuse.

Today another wave of trials are under way involving allegations of sexual abuse of children by priests.

The body which bestows the annual Nobel Prize in Literature has been hit by the withdrawal of a number of its members after a row over allegations of sexual abuse and harassment.

Harvey Weinstein was terminated from The Weinstein Company Sunday following last week's New York Times expose detailing decades of sexual abuse allegations made against the Oscar - winning producer by employees and actresses including Ashley Judd and Rose McGowan, among others.

Vicky Cristina Barcelona was directed by Woody Allen, who of course has had his own sexual abuse allegations.

E! host Ryan Seacrest, accused of sexual abuse by a former employee (he denies the allegations), managed to get through the red carpet without too much rancour, despite #MeToo founder Tarana Burke calling for his suspension.

This awards season has been dominated by allegations of sexual harassment and abuse leveled at scores of entertainment figures since women began coming forward to accuse Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein last year.

In 1992 allegations that the UN peacekeepers were involved in cases of sexual abuse against local women were met by the infamous statement «Boys will be Boys» (Martin, 2005) by Yasushi Akashi, the then head of the UN's Transnational Authority in Cambodia.

Allegations of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) by the AU Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), published by

Contained in the Report of the Human Rights Watch on Allegations on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by AMISOM, Publication - AU Press Release, Addis Ababa, Accessed November 4, 2014

Beyond questioning the report, the AU Commission has deployed «an investigation team to look into allegations of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse levelled against» the AMISOM personnel and «establish the facts» and the team was expected to complete its investigation by November 30 2014 (AU, 2014, October, 17, p. 1).

The Rev. Georg Ratzinger, 86, said in the interview, published Tuesday, he was completely unaware of allegations of sexual abuse at the Regensburger Domspatzen boys choir, part of a string of charges of sex abuse by church employees across Europe in recent days.

A lawsuit has split a South Georgia town between supporters of a local church and those who are deeply troubled by allegations of child sexual abuse involving church members.

Already, the wall text mentions another model's anonymous allegations of inappropriate sexual contact by Mr. Araki, noting that «the controversy surrounding Araki's work has almost exclusively been about reception and meaning, and far less about the issues of consent and the potential abuses of power that can be at the foundation of artistic practice and artistic production.»

The allegations follow on from a renewed conversation around harassment and power in the art world, sparked by the resignation of Artforum's longtime co-publisher Knight Landesman after claims of sexual misconduct this October — the celebrated conductor James Levine was suspended by the Met Opera after abuse allegations just this weekend.

X made serious allegations to social workers of sexual abuse by J, which were said to have taken place when she was a child.

The injury claimant, 42 years of age was sexually assaulted by her father and her personal injury lawyer outlined allegations of repetitive sexual abuse commencing when she was a child.

While there are no easy answers or quick fixes, organizations can start by showing — not just saying — that they take allegations of sexual abuse and harassment (both new and old) very seriously.

Bruce Tregoning represented a Father against whom 14 allegations of serious abuse (including sexual abuse) against his two children had been made by the mother; necessitating a 4 day fact finding hearing involving several professional witnesses attending Court including a NYAS Caseworker (Guardian).

The disclosures of abuse at the Mount Cashel Orphanage was one of the most important, most public series of allegations of widespread child sexual abuse ever heard by the Canadian public.

Also, one of the problems of child sexual abuse is that it often takes many years for allegations to come to light; victims often only speak out for the first time in adulthood, and when emboldened by others.

Based on prior research suggesting that distinctions between allegations and substantiations are not useful, 31,32 official reports of alleged child abuse were coded using a slightly modified version33 of the maltreatment classification scheme developed by Barnett et al. 34 Three general indicators of child abuse were created, each dichotomized as present or not, based on the coding of the following records: (1) physical abuse (any blows or injury to the head, torso, buttocks, or limbs; and violent handling, choking, burning, shaking, or nondescript injury); (2) sexual abuse (any sexual exposure, exploitation, molestation, or penetration); and (3) psychological maltreatment (threats to psychological safety and security, lack of acceptance and threats to self - esteem, or failure to allow age - appropriate autonomy).

Fact: «On the basis of research that has been conducted so far, it is difficult to support an assertion that there are high rates of false allegations of sexual abuse consciously made by mothers in divorce situations.»

Interestingly, in Case One, the earlier case, the allegations were not of child sexual abuse by the father, but of neglect, inter alia, the child's being sexually molested by a third party while in the father's care.

The PAS criteria used by Gardner, as noted above, are essentially borrowed from and built upon his earlier (and now widely discredited) test for determining whether children were fabricating allegations of sexual abuse, the «Sexual Abuse Legitimacy Scale» (SAL Scalesexual abuse, the «Sexual Abuse Legitimacy Scale» (SAL Scale)abuse, the «Sexual Abuse Legitimacy Scale» (SAL ScaleSexual Abuse Legitimacy Scale» (SAL Scale)Abuse Legitimacy Scale» (SAL Scale)(Id.)

Sadly, there are even more severe and undermining tactics used by the alienator, these include false allegations of mental, physical and / or sexual abuse towards themselves or their children.

For example, in the 1 % or 2 % of the cases in which the child's allegation of sexual abuse incest against a parent is induced and elicited by the pathogenic parenting practices of a narcissistic / borderline parent, in those 1 % — 2 % of cases the likelihood that the child's symptoms were induced or elicited by the pathogenic parenting practices of a narcissistic / borderline parent is 100 % — in those cases.

The valid concern is that the narcissistic targeted parent will externalize responsibility by alleging «parental alienation,» thereby continuing the child's exposure to emotional and psychological abuse from profound parental empathic failure and nullification of the child's self - authenticity, physical and psychological control and intimidation of the child, or active sexual exploitation of the child, and if the child reports the abuse the narcissistic predator simply alleges that it's a «false allegation» because of «parental alienation.»

A narcissistic / (borderline) parent will induce or elicit false allegations from the child of sexual abuse victimization by the other parent as a means to exploit these child allegations to achieve power over the situation and the other parent.