(CNN)- A cardinal at the center of an international scandal
over alleged sexual abuse reversed course Sunday, acknowledging wrongdoing.
Not exact matches
had to do not with the number but with the nature of the
sexual abuses alleged: The report states that 80 \ % to 90 \ % of priests who sexually
abused children
over the past 52 years had been involved with adolescent boys - ephebophilia - not prepubescent children - paedophilia.»
Pennsylvania's attorney general charged Sandusky, 67, with 40 counts in what authorities
allege was the
sexual abuse of eight young boys
over several years.
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.
The controversy
over Allen's
alleged sexual abuse has recently increased.
The proposal, which was prompted by the scandal enveloping the Los Angeles Unified School District
over the long career of former Miramonte Elementary School teacher Mark Berndt, who now faces 23 charges of what the law politely calls lewd acts upon a child, arose the ire of the two unions because it would have allowed school districts to suspend teachers accused of
alleged sexual and substance
abuse crimes without pay and allowed dismissals to be presented before an administrative law judge instead of the usual three - person panel of the state's Professional Competence commission that is largely slated in favor of NEA and AFT.