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Emily Constant, who will succeed Suffolk District Attorney Thomas Spota after his imminent retirement, supervised domestic violence and child sex abuse cases for years.

Not exact matches

If you look at the high - profile history of the Roman Catholic sex abuse cases, for example, I would guess that some smaller portion involves the priests who actually engaged in the abuse, while some larger portion is the cover - up.

• In 1993, as the hysteria over child sex abuse cases was beginning to decline in the U.S., charges started flying around a reform school for boys in Shelburne, Nova Scotia.

Catholic News Service: Pope names Boston priest to be Vatican's abuse investigator Pope Benedict XVI has named a canon lawyer from the Archdiocese of Boston to be the new promoter of justice in the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a position that includes monitoring and investigating cases of priests accused of sex abuse.

What The New York Times calls the «blame Woodstock» explanation for the rise of clerical sex abuse cases in the Seventies, despite the paper's evident scepticism, can not be entirely discounted, since as the researchers of the John Jay College (hereafter JJC) pointed out in their latest report, «the sexual abuse of minors is a pervasive problem in society and in organisations that involve close relationships between youth and adults... No exact measure exists for the number of youths who have contact with priests in the Catholic Church in a year... [but] despite the media focus on child sexual abuse by Catholic priests, it is clear that these abuse acts are a small percentage of all child sexual abuse incidents in the United States.»

While there have been no formal studies to determine how many child molesters have coached youth teams, a computer - database search of recent newspaper stories reveals more than 30 cases just in the last 18 months of coaches in the U.S. who have been arrested or convicted of sexually abusing children engaged in nine sports from baseball to wrestling — and this despite the fact that child sex - abuse victims, for reasons ranging from shame and embarrassment to love or fear of their molesters, rarely report the crime.

We need to embed the learning from what's happened from this tragic case and ensure we can treat child sex abuse as a public health problem to ensure the victims are believed and treatment is available for them.»

Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco opposes opening a one - year legal window to revive old cases for child sex abuse survivors — yet he supports the concept for other victims.

U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer has added a provision to his Adam Walsh Reauthorization Act of 2016 that would extend the statute of limitations in federal civil cases for victims of sexual abuse, sex trafficking and other crimes related to child pornography.

American Family Association hate group mouthpiece Bryan Fischer said that gays should not be allowed to parent children because children in same - sex homes are at a higher risk for sexual molestation, citing the deeply flawed Mark Regnerus study and the Jerry Sandusky Penn State abuse case, Right Wing Watch reports.

Making the fight for justice for child sex abuse victims even murkier, a Staten Island lawmaker, Republican Sen. Andy Lanza, wants to make it easier to bring criminal cases against predators — even though he admits his idea is likely unconstitutional.

Kathryn Robb, a sex abuse survivor - turned - attorney and advocate for victims, has a meeting in Albany today Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco to discuss a bill that would eliminate the statute of limitations for pursuing criminal charges or filing lawsuits in child sex abuse cases.

Senate Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeffrey Klein said the law requiring victims of sex abuse to seek legal recourse before their 23rd birthday should be eliminated not just for civil cases, but for criminal cases as well.

The inclusion of the Child Victims Act, which would make it easier for survivors of child sex abuse to bring cases as adults, is a huge victory for advocates who have lobbied hard for it.

Survivors of child sex abuse recently have made themselves heard across New York in recent weeks, as they push for passage of the state's Child Victims Act (CVA), legislation that would increase both the criminal and civil statute of limitations on sex abuse cases.

With three weeks to go in the legislative session, advocates are still pushing for passage of a Child Victims Act that would do away with the statute of limitations on child sex abuse cases, create a one - year window so survivors who can't bring cases under current law could do so, and treat public and private institutions the same.

Robb, now a lawyer and victim advocate, has a meeting in Albany on Monday with Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco (R - Syracuse) to discuss a bill that would eliminate the statute of limitations for pursuing criminal charges or filing lawsuits in child sex abuse cases.

The Child Victims Act would ease current statutes of limitations for criminal and civil sex abuse cases.

Pirro's grand jury called for the Legislature to eliminate the statute of limitations on child sex abuse cases, which bars victims from pursuing criminal charges or civil litigation after their 23rd birthday.

ALBANY — Making the fight for justice for child sex abuse victims even murkier, a Staten Island lawmaker wants to make it easier to bring criminal cases against predators — even though he admits his idea is likely unconstitutional.

In the wake of the firestorm going on at Penn State, Assemblymen Jim Tedisco and George Amedore are calling for the closing of what they say is a «dangerous loophole» in state law that doesn't require coaches and other college athletic officials to report possible sex - abuse cases.

Assemblyman Michael Cusick (D - S.I.) has a bill that would eliminate the statute of limitations for the prosecution of child sex abuse cases.

During a visit to a Catholic high school near upstate Kingston on Monday, Dolan was greeted by about 10 protesters calling on him to back legislation — known as The Child Victims Act — that would remove the statute of limitations on cases of child sex abuse and allow a one - year look - back window for victims to revive old civil cases.

Oz also took the time to urge his viewers to call state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan to call for passage this year of a bill that would extend the timeframe that child sex abuse survivors can bring civil and criminal cases.

Some victim's advocates viewed Independent Reconciliation and Compensation Programs such as the one in Buffalo as further efforts by bishops to thwart the Child Victims Act, the latest version of legislation aimed at expanding the statute of limitations and establishing a look - back window for child sex abuse cases.

Diocese Bishop William Murphy has been a loud opponent of a measure that would extend or eliminate the statute of limitations pertaining to child sex abuse cases while also opening up a one - year window for those who can no longer sue under current law to bring civil cases.

Last month, Pope Francis apologized for «grave errors» in the way the Catholic Church handled sex - abuse cases in Chile, where a bishop, Juan Barros Madrid, was accused of covering up the crimes of another priest, Fernando Karadima.

Secondary students in schools across Victoria will soon receive instruction to look for signs they are being groomed for sex, with recently released figures revealing 258 suspected cases of sexual abuse in the state in 2015.

I think I can asssure Mr. Garrett that when it becomes almost impossible to get meaningful prosecution of child and sex abuse cases, as is often the case when animal cruelty is involved, a concerned public will indeed rally for stronger prosecution, provided of course, that the cases are publicized.

Ministry of Justice has defended their actions by presenting their reasons based on the percentage of evidence put forward on Terror, Fraud and Sex Abuse work, and have said that Solicitors should be paid for the vast amount of work that goes into these cases.

In some cases, if administrative persons failed to do thorough background checks, hiring registered sex offenders or criminal staff, they may be held responsible for the abuse as well.

For example, «good time» generally does require an inmate to participate in recommended therapy and rehabilitation activities and those activities, particularly in the cases of substance abuse and sex offenses, often require an admission of guilt to be considered to be participating successfully in those programs.

His forensic skills are frequently called upon for cases outside these areas such as child sex abuse, action relating to the police and medical crime.

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>> Finally — and it would be impossible not to have heard about it already after the blanket coverage the terrible case has received — Rolf Harris was found guilty of 12 sex attacks on young girls, including his daughter's best friend who was abused for 16 years from the age of 13.