Category Archive for : ‘BOY GIRL SCOUT LEADERS’

January 21, 2021
BBC

Investigators have been focusing on tracking down offenders who operate online.

The operation led to a total of 4,760 arrests and 6,500 children safeguarded between April and September last year.

Meanwhile, the Home Office has launched a strategy to collect detailed data about child grooming gangs.

The Tackling Child Sexual Abuse Strategy aims to identify and convict offenders who operate in groups by gathering more information about their characteristics, including ethnicity.

It also involves investing in the national child abuse image database to identify offenders more quickly, protecting police from frequently being

December 31, 2020
Michael Ruiz
Fox News

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as the Mormon church, is facing at least seven new lawsuits that accuse it of playing a role in covering up sex abuse among Boy Scout troops in Arizona.
Earlier this year, the Boy Scouts filed for bankruptcy amid tens of thousands of sexual abuse lawsuits implicating troop leaders and other volunteers in incidents stretching back decades. Accusers’ current ages range from 8 to 93.
“The Boy Scouts filing for bankruptcy doesn’t end the investigation, as far as

July 27, 2020
Chris McKenna
Recordonline

In one lawsuit filed on Thursday, eight men alleged that a longtime Orange County priest sexually abused them when they were children, adding their claims to those of at least three other accusers of the late Rev. George Boxelaar who have sued.
In another case brought one day earlier, a former Middletown School District student alleges he was molested in second or third grade by Dr. Stefan Irving, a former school pediatrician now serving almost 22 years in prison for a 2003 conviction on charges he traveled abroad

December 3, 2019
Jeremy Roebuck
Inquirer

NEWARK, N.J. — Dozens of new allegations of sexual abuse against priests and scoutmasters have surfaced after New Jersey opened a two-year window granting victims a second chance to pursue court claims that had been barred by time limits.

New lawsuits filed Sunday and Monday include allegations against six priests in the Camden Diocese as well as previously undisclosed claims involving the now-defrocked cardinal Theodore McCarrick, former archbishop of Newark.

In another new filing, a 59-year-old man accused the Archdiocese of Philadelphia of failing to stop his abuser, Bucks

November 3, 2019
David Aaro
Fox News

An assistant scoutmaster on Long Island has been charged with sexually abusing a 12-year-old boy at Boy Scout retreats and meetings over an 11-month period last year.
Jonathan Spohrer, 26, was arrested by Nassau County police at his North Bellmore home on Thursday. He pleaded not guilty on Friday to a charge of second-degree sexual conduct against a child.
Spohrer’s lawyer, Joseph Carbone Jr., said his client denies the allegations.
“We look forward to vigorously defending these allegations in court and have faith in the legal system which presumes

October 14, 2019
MarketWatch

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is giving childhood victims of sexual abuse more time to decide whether to file lawsuits, joining several states in expanding the statute of limitations for victims over warnings from school districts that the new rules could bankrupt them.
The law signed Sunday by Gov. Gavin Newsom gives victims of childhood sexual abuse until age 40, or five years from discovery of the abuse, to file civil lawsuits. The previous limit had been 26, or within three years from discovery of the abuse.
It also suspends