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Vermont Catholic Diocese in Bankruptcy Over Abuse Claims, With $500 Million Parish Trust Dispute Unresolved

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington, Vermont’s sole Catholic diocese, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on September 30, 2024, after facing a growing number of clergy sexual abuse...

Arkansas Assemblies of God Pastor Sued for Alleged Sexual Abuse
Pentecostal and Charismatic

Arkansas Assemblies of God Pastor Sued for Alleged Sexual Abuse

A Texas resident, Suzanne Lander, filed a lawsuit on January 26 against Pastor Rodney Loy and the North Little Rock First Assembly of God in Arkansas. The suit...

First Baptist Church in Modesto faces sexual abuse lawsuit under new California law
Baptist (American, National and Independent)

First Baptist Church in Modesto faces sexual abuse lawsuit under new California law

A survivor of childhood sexual abuse is suing a California church and her former youth pastor in one of the first of many lawsuits expected to be filed...

Abuse Claims Against Catholic Church Limited by 1986 California Ballot Measure

The California Court of Appeal ruled Monday that childhood sexual abuse claims revived by a 2019 law remain subject to a 1986 ballot measure limiting noneconomic damages. This...

Court Dismisses Unlawful Sexual Contact Conviction for Former Maine Jehovah’s Witness Elder

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has dismissed one of two sexual abuse convictions against a former Aroostook County Jehovah’s Witness elder, and asked for him to be resentenced...

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