Young was born in Newcastle, in 1959. At two, he was taken into care, and his parents were convicted of wilful neglect. At eight, at a school in Devon, he was sexually abused by the gardener. At 14, at St Camillus, a Catholic residential school in Yorkshire, he was sexually assaulted by the headteacher, James Bernard Littlewood. But none of this compared with his experience at Medomsley.
CNN anchor Erica Hill was taken aback when a guest told her he understood what Megyn Kelly was trying to do when she dissected sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein's pedophilia, or lack thereof. Kelly has gone viral over a two-minute segment during which she argued that Epstein was not a pedophile, expanding on what an unnamed confidant told her. While describing Epstein as sick and disgusting, she still explored the difference between a 15-year-old and a 5-year-old claiming Epstein was into the barely-legal type.
Prosecutors say Farwell groomed Birchmore from the time she was a high school student, committing statutory rape and engaging in a yearslong sexual relationship with her. She became pregnant in late 2020 and told Farwell that he was the father. He allegedly killed her in February 2021 to prevent the truth about their relationship from coming to light, strangling her in her apartment and staging it to look like a suicide.
"You are nothing but a coward. You ducked and dived all your life, but the jury saw through you. You are the abuser, you are the rapist," one victim said. A "monster" whose sexual abuse of four victims spanned three decades has been jailed for 20 years. Declan Daly (54) of Cassidy Apartments, Kells, Co. Meath pleaded guilty before his trial to 12 counts of sexual assault and indecent assault against three female victims on dates between 1982 and 2002.
The Victor Valley Union High School District has agreed to pay $12.5 million to eight former students who alleged they were sexually abused more than 20 years ago by a former middle school guidance counselor. In five lawsuits filed in San Bernardino Superior Court in August and September 2022, the alleged victims claimed Eric Lynn Brown sexually abused and molested them in his office at Victor Valley Junior High School and off campus from 1991 to 2002.
About 260 sexual abuse lawsuits were paused when the Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa filed for bankruptcy in 2023. That has been a frustration for survivors who want the actions of their abusers, and the failings of the powerful institution that obscured the crimes, dragged into the daylight. Now, it looks like a few of those survivors may have their days in court. RELATED: Diocese of Oakland seeks to pull plug on bankruptcy, send sex abuse cases back to court
"Sean Combs used violence, threats, substances, and control over my career to trap me in over a decade of abuse," she wrote. "He groomed me into performing repeated sex acts with hired male sex workers during multi-day 'Freak-Offs,' which occurred nearly weekly. I was forced into lingerie and heels, told exactly how to look, and plied with drugs and alcohol so he could control me like a puppet," Cassie wrote.
Fourteen former N.C. State male athletes have filed a civil lawsuit in state court alleging sexual abuse under the guise of treatment and harassment by the Wolfpack's former director of sports medicine, expanding a case that began with a federal lawsuit from a single athlete three years ago. The lawsuit filed Wednesday evening in Wake County Superior Court alleges years of misconduct by Robert Murphy Jr., including improper touching of the genitals during massages and intrusive observation while collecting urine samples during drug testing.
Five women who said they were sexually assaulted by their high school teacher in the 1980s won a combined $13.6 million judgment Monday after a jury concluded that the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District failed to prevent the abuse. The Torrance jury found that district administrators were negligent in allowing longtime Rolling Hills High School English teacher and baseball coach Garry Poe to groom and, ultimately, sexually abuse teenagers.
When we hear about children who've survived brutal abductions, we expect that once they're back with their loving family and have had some therapy, they'll be okay. However, it's not that simple. The story of Shasta Groene in Gregg Olsen's book, Out of the Woods, is tough to read. Molested and exploited by multiple people, she seemed to have caught few breaks. Her first post-abduction treatment program was itself abusive, and her father was a thief.
