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Earlier this month, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) announced that it had reached a potential settlement with groups representing about 60,000 men who claim they were sexually abused during their youth by scout leaders and other personnel. The settlement would also...
We’ve all heard of the Child Victims Act, New York’s law allowing survivors of childhood sexual abuse additional time to sue their abusers and hold them financially accountable under the law. The 2019 law gave relief from the statute of limitations for a special...
According to the New York Times, fee applications for lawyers and other professionals involved in the bankruptcy of the Boy Scouts of America have been shockingly high. So far, the applications have surpassed $100 million. At least one lawyer is charging $1,725 an...
Every act of child abuse has the potential to affect that child for the rest of his or her life. This is especially true of child sexual abuse. Nevertheless, child sex abuse is pervasive in our society. One reason survivors of child sexual abuse feel they receive...
Since 2020, at least 230 people have filed suit against the Youth Development Center in Manchester, New Hampshire, a secure state mental health facility, for allowing staff to systematically abuse patients physically and sexually between 1963 and 2018. So far, 150...
Survivors of childhood abuse face countless challenges when they take the courageous step of speaking out. Many tried to speak up as children. Their concerns went unheeded, swept under the rug or, worse, used against them to trigger backlash and retaliation. As...
The landmark passage of New York's Child Victims Act opened the doors to justice for survivors of childhood sex abuse. Many of those survivors suffered at the hands of familiar culprits – Catholic priests. But many victims suffered abuse in other trusted institutions...
In the year-and-a-half since New York passed the Child Victims Act, horrific claims of childhood sexual abuse have continued to pour in. Many involve institutions that are notorious for sweeping such abuse under the rug – the Catholic Church and the Boy Scouts of...
Sexual abuse of children is a horrifically widespread problem in many of the institutions that are (or were) pillars of society. The Catholic Church is a prominent example. However, another core American institution – the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) – has also been...
As more allegations surface of childhood sexual abuse at the hands of Catholic priests across New York, more dioceses are turning to bankruptcy. The Diocese of Rockville Center in Long Island was the latest to file for reorganization under Chapter 11. Facing more than...
