Category Archive for : ‘SEX CRIMES STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS’

July 8, 2020
Jeff Cole
Fox 29
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DOYLESTOWN, Penn. – An ex-priest accused of sexually abusing boys in the area pleads guilty in connection with those crimes.

“Do you have any comment at all? Why plead guilty?” asked FOX 29’s Jeff Cole.

“No comment,” was Francis Trauger’s reply.

Suspended as a priest in 2003 and kicked out two years later, Trauger, now living in Brooklyn, New York, came to admit guilt.

“I was 12-years-old, so, today I represent that 12-year-old,” Mike McDonnell stated.

McDonnell, a leader of a Philadelphia group of survivors of priest abuse known as SNAP, says Trauger

June 15, 2020
Michael Goot
Post Star

LAKE LUZERNE — A late priest that served at a church in Lake Luzerne was named in one of 52 sex abuse lawsuits filed Monday against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany.

The Rev. Charles A. Gaffigan, who retired from Holy Mother and Child Parish in 2011, is accused of sexually abusing a minor from 1992 to about 1994 at what was then Holy Infancy Church in Lake Luzerne, according to a news release from Jeff Anderson & Associates. The law firm has filed a total of

June 15, 2020
Sawyer D’Argonne
Summit Daily

BRECKENRIDGE–– Craig Sikorsky pleaded guilty to a felony charge of attempted sexual assault on a child during a hearing at the Summit County Justice Center on Monday morning.

The case represents Sikorsky’s second known offense surrounding child sex assaults in the area.

Sikorsky, who owns Jersey Boys Pizza and Deli in Dillon, was arrested in July last year after an investigation by local law enforcement revealed he sexually assaulted a child in Summit County.

The month prior, deputies with the Summit County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call in

March 13, 2020
Euronews

A retired surgeon accused of sexually abusing as many as 349 young children over decades – primarily his patients, in their hospital rooms — is facing justice at last, in the worst such case to come to light in France.

The trial opening Friday in the western city of Saintes is only the beginning, however.

It concerns four people allegedly targeted by Joel Le Scouarnec, 69, including two of his nieces. Other legal complaints against the doctor have piled up since the original investigation wrapped up, and prosecutors are preparing

July 6, 2020
ESPN

NEW YORK — Last month, when former Major League Baseball All-Star Torii Hunter said he had been called the N-word “a hundred times” at Boston’s storied Fenway Park, the Red Sox were quick to back him up with a promise to fight racism.

“Torii Hunter’s experience is real,” the team said in a June 10 Twitter post, adding that there were at least seven incidents as recently as last year in which fans used racial slurs. The team promised to do a better job dealing with racism: “As

May 25, 2020
Alan Blinder
NY TIMES

For more than 40 years, Chuck Christian did not call himself a victim because he did not think he was one.
He was a muralist who had played tight end at Michigan. He grew up poor in Detroit but came to be a world traveler. He contracted prostate cancer and outlived his doctors’ predictions.
Then, in February, an old teammate called.
Remember Dr. Robert E. Anderson? The team doctor at Michigan who performed painful, unexplained rectal exams? Someone reported him, the former teammate said, and it turns out that