Two adult brothers who contend they were sexually assaulted by a Waukesha County Catholic priest when they were boys sued the Milwaukee Archdiocese on Tuesday, saying it knew Father David Hanser had a history of molesting children and failed to warn their family.
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STEVENS POINT — A teacher accused of sexually abusing students at Catholic schools in Minnesota during the 1970s taught at Pacelli High School, according to the teaching order that administered the school at the time.
A teacher accused of sexually abusing students at Catholic schools in Minnesota during the 1970s taught at Pacelli High School, according to the teaching order that administered the school at the time.
Fights order to disclose sexual abuse records
Today, we filed legal briefs in Navajo Nation Tribal Court relating to two childhood sexual abuse lawsuits. Since we filed the lawsuits in the Navajo Court, the Defendants desperately have attempted to get the cases removed from the Navajo Court and instead handled in state or federal court.
Phil Saviano and Susan Pavlak led separate lives in different states, both fighting for people who — like them — had been abused by clergy years ago.
Judge Timothy Wikowiak ruling against Bishop Callahan and the Milwaukee archdiocese today sends another hopeful signal that clergy predators and church officials in Wisconsin who covered up their crimes are going to be held accountable to victims and citizens through our courts and the rule of law.
John Doe RG, as he is known in court papers, always struggled with trusting people.
Personal relationships usually lasted no more than a year. His second-guessing of his bosses sent him hopping from job to job.
A civil lawsuit filed Thursday against the Milwaukee Archdiocese is the first by a former student of St. John’s School for the Deaf in St. Francis, where the late Father Lawrence Murphy is believed to have molested as many as 200 boys from 1950 to 1974.
Based on an unscientific survey of everyone with whom I have spoken in recent months, I have come to the conclusion that there is an untold story that would shock the vast majority of Americans. Pieces of it have appeared in various publications, but never the whole story. It is the story of the New York Catholic Conference’s outrageous measures to stop the reform of New York’s laws that govern child sex abuse.