OAKLAND — Survivors of sexual abuse by a local priest have filed two lawsuits against the Diocese of Oakland and church officials who they said allowed abuse by Stephen Kiesle to continue unchecked. “The diocese could have stopped this,” said Teresa Rosson, one of the accusers. Rosson, who is Kiesle’s stepdaughter, said he began sexually abusing her from the time she was 11 years old until 2001. She is now 48. Instead, she said, “They delivered him into our churches with our kids.” She said the abuse began when Kiesle served at St. Joseph’s parish in Pinole in 1972 — the year he was or
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Six women and one man who alleged they were sexually abused by a Roman Catholic priest decades ago filed two separate lawsuits Wednesday alleging the Diocese of Oakland was negligent in hiring the priest and failed to warn parents of potential abuse.
One of the most promising lawsuits from sexual abuse victims seeking to link the Vatican to the American priest abuse scandal has imploded in Kentucky, but a prominent plaintiffs’ attorney says it shouldn’t affect two other lawsuits aimed directly at Rome.
The leader of a northern Minnesota Christian retreat center took advantage of his grandfather-like role in a girl’s life and inappropriately touched and kissed her, according to the girl’s attorneys.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the sexual abuse conviction of a once-prominent Jesuit priest who insisted he was unfairly prosecuted for acts dating to the 1960s.
A California man who alleges he was abused in the 1960s by a priest who belonged to the Salesian order of the Roman Catholic church filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the order and the Vatican, claiming officials covered for the cleric by shuffling him between three continents over three decades.
Supreme Court won’t hear Vatican appeal over Oregon clergy sex abuse lawsuit
By Associated Press
June 28, 2010 | 8:46 a.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Supreme Court won’t stop a lawsuit that accuses the Vatican of conspiring with U.S. church officials to transfer a priest from city to city despite repeated accusations that the clergyman sexually abused young people.The high court Monday refused to hear an appeal from the Vatican, a decision that allows the lawsuit to move forward. No one has ever successfully sued the Vatican over sex abuse by clergy.Sovereign immunity laws
The St. Paul lawyer known for suing pedophile priests turns to those who look at abusive online images of kids. He vows to sue them and publicize their names.
A sixth lawsuit in North Dakota accusing a former religion teacher at Fargo Shanley High School of molesting a teenage boy in the 1970s was filed on Tuesday.
A St. Paul attorney has vowed to track down and expose people who so much as open a computer file with child pornography as part of a new initiative designed to stop the sexual exploitation of children at its source.