More than 300 former students of Pennsylvania’s Glen Mills Schools are taking legal action alleging a wide variety of physical, mental, and sexual abuses at the hands of staff members and administrators. And while the Delaware County schools for court-ordered boys is no longer in operation thanks to a 2019 investigation published by The Philadelphia Inquirer, the wounds for the survivors of the abuse ...
Former Glen Mills Schools Students Coming Forward with Sexual Abuse Allegations
Posted February 18, 2020 in Product News and Recalls | Sex Abuse and Trafficking
PA Priest Caught Photographing High School Wrestlers from Behind
Posted January 29, 2020 in Product News and Recalls | Sex Abuse and Trafficking
PA priest Monsignor Thomas Derzack was dressed in plain clothes when he attended a wrestling tournament at Bethlehem Catholic High School late last December. That’s when, according to Bethlehem police and the Pennsylvania diocese, he was caught photographing the boys from behind. A police officer present at the event noticed Derzack’s behavior, confronted him, and had him delete the photos from his camera. He then left the school.
The Diocese has since removed Derzack, age 70, from his position in ...
continue reading...Uber: 3,000 Sexual Assaults During U.S. Rides Last Year
Posted December 18, 2019 in Product News and Recalls | Sex Abuse and Trafficking
On July 1, 2016, Twitter user Carol Nichols Goulding sent out a tweet destined for internet infamy. The soon-to-go-viral musing read “1998: Don’t get in strangers’ cars, don’t meet [people] from internet. 2016: Literally summon strangers from internet to get in their car.” It was a brilliant observation on how quickly the internet had gone from an environment of carefully protected anonymity and screen ...
NYC Hotels Hit with $10 Million Sex Trafficking Lawsuit
Posted December 17, 2019 in Product News and Recalls | Sex Abuse and Trafficking
The details of this story are particularly disturbing. As a result, and as a service to our readers, we are urging caution when reading.
Two hotel chains operating facilities in New York City have been hit with a $10 million lawsuit over allegations that not only was child sex trafficking and assault happening on their properties, but that they knew about it, did nothing to stop it, and – in some cases – participated.
As detailed by the ...
continue reading...Boy Scouts, Catholic Church Using Variety of Tactics to Lobby Against Abuse Statutes
Posted October 31, 2019 in Product News and Recalls | Sex Abuse and Trafficking
In early 2000, an episode of The West Wing aired in which a lawyer – in an effort to influence the White House to commute his client’s death sentence – convinces a rabbi to deliver a sermon on capital punishment during that week’s services as a senior aid to the President is known to sit among the attendees. The President, a devout Catholic, would himself ...
Church Sex Abuse Accusations Extend Beyond Catholic Dioceses
Posted October 16, 2019 in Product News and Recalls | Sex Abuse and Trafficking
A prominent Southern Baptist megachurch is facing allegations that a pastor in the organization sexually abused a child at one of its summer camps. Village Church, based in Flower Mound, Texas, has been accused of being “willfully negligent” in the care of the children attending the camp and, as a result, has turned a member family’s life upside down.
The child, referred ...
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