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Placer County sexual abuse case On Feb. 16, 2022, Kristy pleaded no contest to one felony count of committing lewd or lascivious acts with a child younger than 14 in September 2004, according to ...
A two-week undercover operation based in Sacramento County led to 37 served search warrants and 23 arrests throughout Northern California, as a regional task force continued a crackdown on child ...
The Kern County child abuse cases started the day care sexual abuse hysteria of the 1980s in Kern County, California. [1] The cases involved allegations of satanic ritual abuse by a sex ring against as many as 60 children who testified they had been abused. At least 36 people were convicted and most of them spent years in prison.
The Department of Justice is investigating allegations of rape, groping and sexual harrassment by correctional officials in California women's prisons.
Since 2002 nearly 1,000 people have filed sexual abuse claims in California. [5] The archdiocese agreed to pay out $60,000,000 to settle 45 lawsuits it still faces over two pending cases of sexual abuse. According to the Associated Press, a total of 22 priests were named in the settlement, with cases going as far back as the 1930s.
The largest numbers of sex abuse cases have been in the United States; [citation needed] some have led to multimillion-dollar settlements with many claimants. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Dallas paid $30.9 million in 1998 to twelve victims of one priest. [8]
The California AG has opened a rare probe into El Monte High School District's handling of sex abuse claims at Rosemead High after a Business Insider report.
Before the Boston Globe coverage of the sexual abuse scandal in the Boston archdiocese, handling of sexual abuse allegations was largely left up to the discretion of individual bishops. After the number of allegations exploded following the Globe's series of articles, U.S. bishops felt compelled to formulate a coordinated response at the ...