VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis issued a groundbreaking law Thursday ... to become their spokesman when they first adopted measures to combat child sex abuse in 2002. The law goes into effect June 1 ...

Francis underlined the advances which recent reforms to canon law ... abuse scandal to impact the Catholic Church. Earlier this week, the 94-year-old former pope denied he knew about allegations ...

after a series of liberal declarations by Pope Francis. The new treatise denounced attempts to obscure the “sexual difference between man and woman” and stated that “any sex-change ...

The Servites’ web site acknowledges the sex abuse crisis, but doesn’t list its predatory members. But, because Pope Francis lets ... education or law enforcement,” Bishop Thomas McManus ...

The bill was authored after the faces of female Demopolis Middle School students were superimposed over pornographic images.

Chapter 11 has been used to address mass child sex abuse claims for 20 years ... If the bill becomes law, child sexual abuse claims would be allowed in Chapter 11 even if they’d be barred ...

They were not really parts of the community and they didn't comply with the mandatory abuse reporting law. I mean, even now, they don't comply with it. So, this is very troubling. If you're a ...

Ward admitted to having sex with the teen ... Consent is not a valid defense to charges of sexual abuse by a school employee, according to state law. Ward is scheduled to be back in court for ...

In his appeal, Kelly argued that Illinois’ former and shorter statute of limitations on child sex prosecutions should have applied to his Chicago case rather than current law permitting charges ...

The firm's moves are consistent with a slew of large law firms making staff and associate cuts in 2023, as firms focused on efficiency, outsourcing and productivity in a year of declining demand.

Hate crime laws in Scotland could help “eradicate” abuse targeted towards marginalised ... However, she added that the new hate crime law will not immediately improve the lives of minorities ...

He was convicted in 2022 on three charges of producing child sexual abuse images ... of child sex crime charges within 10 years - should have applied, rather than the current law permitting ...