Category: abuse
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After conducting a funeral, a predatory Michigan Catholic priest abused a boy aged five
WHEN paedophile Vincent DeLorenzo, above, comes up for sentencing on June 13, the 84-year-old is expected to sent to prison for a year. DeLorenzo pleaded guilty this week to a charge of sexual assault on the youngster following a family funeral in 1987. The priest, who served for many years in the Roman Catholic Diocese…
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Clerical abuse probe is an ‘open wound that hurts and shames us’ says Portuguese bishop.
Jose Ornelas, above, head of the Bishops’ Conference, is himself under investigation. A teacher has accused him of covering up sex abuse at an orphanage in Mozambique in 2011, something he denies. A REPORT, commissioned by the ConferĂȘncia Episcopal Portuguesa and released on Monday. shows that at least 4,815 children were sexually abused by members…
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Probe into child sexual abuse by Jehovah’s Witnesses leads to indictments against five
The suspects ‘used their faith communities or their own families to gain access to victims,’ Pennsylvania’s acting Attorney General, Michelle Henry, above, announced. FOR several years the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office has been investigating whether the Jehovah’s Witnesses repeatedly failed to report child sexual abuse allegations to authorities. On Monday Henry announced at a press…