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

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

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

May 21, 2020
Greg LaRose
WDSU

NEW ORLEANS —
Warning: Some readers may find the graphic descriptions of abuse that follow to be objectionable.
The Archdiocese of New Orleans has filed for bankruptcy, and survivors of abuse at the hands of Catholic clergy say it’s just a maneuver meant to silence them. They include one man who says he was molested by nuns at a West Bank youth home in the 1970s, and he’s now urging other victims to speak out.
Jeff, whose real name isn’t being used, says his parents sent him to Madonna Manor

February 1, 2020
Michele Newbanks
Marietta Times

Stephen Matt Snider, 39, of 801 Talbot St, Belpre, was indicted on six counts of gross sexual imposition, all third-degree felonies. The indictments stem from incidents involving two juvenile girls from January 2018 to December 2018, from January 2019 to July 2019 and on July 13-14.

The victims were ages 10 and 12, said Washington County Assistant Prosecutor Joe Derkin.

Derkin said gross sexual imposition is seen mostly with children. If someone has used an intoxicant or if they don’t have the physical or mental capacity to

November 22, 2019
Chris Baynes
Independent

A woman who says she was raped and trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein when she was 17 has joined the growing list of alleged victims who are suing the shamed financier estate’s over sexual abuse.
Teala Davies, 34, said she had suffered lasting damage from her ordeal at the hands of the billionaire child-sex offender, who died in prison awaiting trial in August.
She filed her lawsuit on Thursday at Manhattan’s federal court, where a magistrate urged lawyers for Epstein’s estate to negotiate with victims about compensation, and later appeared

December 4, 2019
Alison Knezevich
Baltimore Sun

The former pastor of a Dundalk church pleaded guilty Wednesday to a sex offense against a student when she was 17, in what Baltimore County prosecutors described as a coercive relationship more than a decade ago.

Baltimore County prosecutors said Cameron Giovanelli, now 42, used his position of authority at Calvary Baptist Church to pressure the girl — who babysat for his family and attended the church school — into sexual activity in 2007. She reported the incidents to police last year, when she was in her