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US bishop accused of sex abuse cover-up steps down

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 05 07:30 AM

Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Bishop Richard Malone of Buffalo, New York, and named Albany Bishop Edward Scharfenberger, to administer the Buffalo diocese until a new bishop can be appointed.  Read more »

Fil-Am allegedly abused by Pinoy priest sues LA Archdiocese

Steve Angeles, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 21 03:34 PM

A 34 year-old Filipina has sued the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in what is believed to be the first civil suit against the country's largest Catholic diocese since California passed a law last month that extends the statute of limitations for child abuse survivors. Read more »

R&B singer R. Kelly gets May 2020 trial date in sex abuse case

Brendan Pierson, Reuters
Posted at Oct 03 06:53 AM

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Singer R. Kelly will face a May 18 trial on charges that he recruited underage girls and women to have sex with him, isolating them and controlling what they ate and when they went to the bathroom, a US judge ruled on Wednesday. Read more »

Cambodia feared lagging behind predators in cybersex trafficking crackdown

Matt Blomberg, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Posted at Sep 11 11:55 AM

PHNOM PENH (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - US and Australian crime fighters are preparing Cambodia for a spike in online child sex abuse cases but local officials fear that predators are a step ahead of police due to narrow laws. Read more »

Chile removes statute of limitations on child sex abuse amid Church crisis

Natalia A. Ramos Miranda, Reuters
Posted at Jul 12 07:07 AM

SANTIAGO - Chilean President Sebastian Pinera signed into law on Thursday a bill to remove the statute of limitations on sex crimes involving children amid a sex abuse crisis that has rocked the country's Catholic Church and claimed more than 200 victims. Read more »

Michael Jackson fans defiant as abuse claims loom over anniversary

Andrew Marszal, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 24 10:44 AM

Defiant fans are preparing to mark 10 years since Michael Jackson's death as fascination with the King of Pop remains undimmed despite lurid claims of child sex abuse. Read more »

Former UK army officer jailed for online sex abuse of Filipino children

Sonia Elks, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Posted at May 24 12:18 AM

LONDON - A former British Army officer who spent thousands of pounds on directing and viewing live-streamed child sexual abuse from the Philippines was sentenced to more than three years in prison on Wednesday. Read more »

PH needs 'war on pedophiles,' says Locsin

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 15 10:36 AM

MANILA - The Philippines needs a "war on pedophiles," Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said Monday. Read more »

Pope promises 'healing' of Church amid sex abuse scandal

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 01 03:46 PM

Abuse scandals have hit countries around the world, with lives devastated from Australia to Chile, Germany and the US. Read more »

Pope signs law to prevent child abuse in Vatican and its embassies

Philip Pullella, Reuters
Posted at Mar 30 05:39 AM

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis on Friday made it compulsory in law to report the sexual abuse of children within the Vatican and in its diplomatic missions worldwide. Read more »

Convicted Australia cardinal sentence to be broadcast live

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 12 12:45 PM

Pell, the most senior Catholic clergyman ever found guilty of child sex abuse, faces a maximum 50 years in prison for assaulting 2 choirboys in a Melbourne cathedral in 1996-97. Read more »

'Unreasonable verdict': Catholic Cardinal convicted of sexual abuse eyes appeal

Glenda Kwek, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 27 04:34 PM

Here's what the legal team said are going to be Pell's grounds of appeal Read more »

Disgraced Cardinal Pell behind bars for child sex crimes

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 27 01:19 PM

Cardinal George Pell was ordered held in custody Wednesday following his historic conviction for child sex crimes Read more »

Vatican has 'utmost respect' for justice after Pell conviction

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 26 07:55 PM

The Vatican said Tuesday it has the "utmost respect" for the justice system following the "painful news" of the conviction of Australian Cardinal George Pell for child sex crimes. Read more »

Facing charges of sex abuse against minors, R. Kelly surrenders to police

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 23 09:27 PM

R&B superstar R. Kelly turned himself in to Chicago police on Friday, after prosecutors charged him with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sex abuse against four victims, three of them minors. Read more »

R. Kelly charged with 10 counts of sex abuse in Chicago

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 23 05:33 AM

R&B superstar R. Kelly was charged Friday in Chicago with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sex abuse against four victims, three of them minors. Read more »

Survivors of sex abuse by clerics describe horrors to world's bishops

By Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 21 08:35 PM

VATICAN CITY- Survivors of pedophilia committed by clerics related their traumatic experiences to the world's top bishops on Thursday at a landmark summit at the Vatican on the protection of minors. Read more »

'Concrete measures' on sex abuse needed, pope tells Vatican summit

Catherine Marciano with Ella Ide in Rome, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Feb 21 08:07 PM

The pontiff will dedicate the next three and a half days to discussing the Church's response to child abuse by members of the clergy with bishops from around the world. Read more »

Ex-NBA exec Leung hired to help lead USA Gymnastics past sex scandal

Frank Pingue, Reuters
Posted at Feb 20 08:01 AM

USA Gymnastics on Tuesday named former National Basketball Association vice president Li Li Leung as its new chief executive officer to help the sport's national governing body navigate the aftermath of a devastating sex abuse scandal. Read more »

Norwegian jailed for ordering online child sex abuse in Philippines

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Jan 15 02:11 AM

A 71-year-old Norwegian man was sentenced to 12.5 years in prison on Monday for ordering sexual assaults to be carried out online against dozens of young Filipinas. Read more »