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Ireland�The country's Catholic bishops apologized Wednesday and asked for forgiveness after an official report discovered decades of child sex abuse by priests and a cover-up by top churchmen. The bishops, meeting for their winter conference, said the...
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The Pope's Ambassador to Ireland today said the Vatican was ashamed by the devastating findings of a damning inquiry into clerical sex abuse in Dublin. Papal Nuncio Archbishop Giuseppe Leanza expressed his shock and dismay at the Murphy Report into paedophile...
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Ohio New charges have been filed against an Ohio pediatrician awaiting trial on child sex abuse allegations. Butler County Prosecutor Robin Piper says Dr. Scott Blankenburg is in jail after being charged Friday with three counts of unlawful sexual contact...
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Leo Bravo, the 61-year-old director of the Multicultural Center of Cache County, was charged Tuesday with two counts of forcible sex abuse, second-degree felonies. He allegedly touched the woman in "inappropriate areas" at a time when she felt vulnerable...
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They chose him to be a godfather of one of their identical twin sons. They allowed him to baptize the boys, serve their first Holy Communion and confirm them as Catholics...Along the way, however, the reverend committed some unspeakable acts against several...
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The Irish church's legacy of abuse In covering up the appalling abuse of chlidren in its care, the Irish Catholic church broke its own rules, as well as the state's Thursday's report into the appalling cover-up by the church and public officials of abuse...
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Conference of Catholic Bishops, there was the oddest presentation at their Tuesday morning session. Maggie Smith and Karen Terry from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York were giving an update on a long-awaited "causes and context" study...
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The ministry said it would not give up the fight against child abuse as it aggressively beefs up its advisory role to clamp down on perpetrators of these heinous and despicable acts on children. "For parents who love their grog, it is time to cut down...
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U.S. researchers said initial results of their study on clergy sex abuse shows a decline in such cases in the United States after 1985. John Jay College of Criminal Justice researchers said in an interim report while sexual abuse cases involving clergy...
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Thomas Ray Vernon, 50, was arrested after being indicted on the charges by a Colbert County grand jury, the newspaper reports .
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