Category Archive for : ‘VICTIM USES COURTS TO STRIKE BACK’

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

July 1, 2020
Jessica Napoli
Fox News In a new lawsuit, former “MythBusters” co-host Adam Savage is being accused of sexually abusing his younger sister when they were children.

Miranda Savage Pacchiana, now 51, claims that the abuse happened in the 1970s when she was between 7 and 10 years old and Savage was between 9 and 12 years old and they lived in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.

According to the lawsuit, Savage allegedly raped Pacchiana, forced oral sex upon her and forced her to perform oral sex on him. He has denied the allegations in a statement to Fox News through this attorney.

“While I

July 14, 2020
Larry Lage
Freep

The first female to publicly say she was sexually abused by a team doctor at the University of Michigan says she hopes to inspire other women and men to come forward.

Cathy Kalahar, who played tennis for the Wolverines in the 1970s, joins hundreds of Michigan graduates who have already alleged that doctor Robert Anderson molested them. Anderson died in 2008.

Kalahar told The Associated Press on Monday that Anderson assaulted her during an exam when she was a freshman in 1973, when the school had its first women’s tennis team.

Kalahar

July 8, 2020
Frank Fernandez
Herald Tribune

A 33-year-old man has filed a lawsuit against a retired Catholic priest who lives in Ormond Beach, accusing the priest of sexually molesting him two decades ago when the man was a teenager being held in a juvenile detention facility.

Louis Reed, the accuser who has filed the lawsuit, agreed to have his name published for this story.

Reed’s suit is filed in Polk County Circuit Court against the Rev. Fred Ruse. An attorney for the former priest said his client did not want to discuss the lawsuit and denied

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 29, 2020
Patch 

LOS ANGELES, CA — A judge Monday approved a $5.5 million settlement of a lawsuit filed against Los Angeles County on behalf of a teenage girl who was sexually abused by a former sheriff’s detective in 2017.

Former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Detective Neil David Kimball, 47, of Agoura, pleaded guilty last July to child molestation charges. Ge was sentenced last August by a Ventura County Superior Court judge to three years in prison for crimes committed in that county between October and December 2017, when the girl