Irrev-Black wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2024 4:58 pm
"More, mon!" drooled the bishop. Eight years had changed nothing.
Goodrich’s arrest in Virginia comes nearly eight years after he was arrested in Idaho on similar charges. Chelsea and her mother, Lorraine, went to Idaho police in 2016 to report wide-ranging allegations of abuse during her childhood.
Those charges were eventually dropped after a key witness in the case, another Mormon bishop to whom John had made a spiritual confession about him and his daughter, refused to testify. While the details of that confession have not been made public, the church excommunicated Goodrich.
A former Jehovah's Witness elder has been committed to stand trial for raping and sexually abusing young men on the Sunshine Coast over a 10-year period.
Police arrested 62-year-old Mooloolaba man Peter Mitchelson in August 2022 and charged him with more than 50 sexual offences, including 21 counts of rape that allegedly occurred at various locations on the Sunshine Coast and in Brisbane from 2008 to 2018.
The charges relate to five adult male complainants known to Mr Mitchelson through the Jehovah's Witness faith.
A committal hearing at Maroochydore today heard Mr Mitchelson allegedly used his seniority as a former congregation elder to coerce the younger men to perform sexual acts for his gratification.
The malnourished and badly bruised son of a parenting advice YouTuber politely asks a neighbour to take him to the nearest police station in newly released video from the day his mother and her business partner were arrested on child abuse charges in southern Utah.
The 12-year-old son of Ruby Franke, a mother of six who dispensed advice to millions via a popular YouTube channel, had escaped through a window and approached several nearby homes until someone answered the door, according to documents released Friday by the Washington County Attorney's office.
Former YouTuber charged with aggravated abuse
Police reports say Ruby Franke's child appeared "emaciated and malnourished" when they knocked on a neighbour's door asking for food and water.
Crime scene photos, body camera video and interrogation tapes were released a month after Franke and business partner Jodi Hildebrandt, a mental health counsellor, were each sentenced to up to 30 years in prison.
A police investigation determined religious extremism motivated the women to inflict horrific abuse on Franke's children, Washington County Attorney Eric Clarke announced Friday.
There are some pretty grotty details here. Apparently Kamm wanted to get this 9Y) kid over to the Philippines, where he thought the laws were lax enough to let him do what he wanted.
(institutions like private schools are mostly religious-run)
Parents weighing up which school to send their child to will often consider its reputation, cost, and academic results.
But there's another key question that relates to the safety of every student.
How does the school handle allegations made against one of its teachers?
The query is particularly salient in the wake of the ABC's Four Corners investigation into Cranbrook.
It led to revelations the independent school principal decided no disciplinary action was required against a teacher accused of sending sexually explicit emails to a former student, when she was a young adult, admitting he saw up student's skirts in class.
The teacher was later promoted by the same headmaster.
The federal education minister Jason Clare earlier this month labelled the teacher's alleged behaviour as "extremely serious," however it had been investigated by peak body the Association of Independent Schools New South Wales (AISNSW) in 2015.
The school's body found it was not "reportable" conduct, and the outcome was reviewed by the NSW Ombudsman.
At the time of its investigation into the Cranbrook teacher the AISNSW also had a convicted child sex offender on its board.
For parents trying to work out how each school system handles child safety allegations, it quickly becomes convoluted.
We've mapped out the key differences, and who ultimately decides what action should be taken.
One of the world's foremost employers of child abusers wants to play the "I'm Special" card.
Pope Francis is claiming legal immunity as a head of state to fight a damages claim brought by two Aboriginal men over the Vatican’s failure to protect them from the priest who sexually abused them as children.
Documents filed in the Victorian Supreme Court last month by lawyers representing the Pope flag the church’s intention to rely on the Vatican’s unique status in international law to stop the pontiff from being drawn into a civil lawsuit involving one of Australia’s most notorious paedophile priests.
Renowned human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson KC said the case raised questions about the Vatican’s century-old claim to statehood and technical legal defences it has previously employed to escape accountability for crimes against children committed by its priests.
Speaking to this masthead from London, he said the case was likely to gain international attention. “If it does reach the stage of answering the vexed question of whether the Vatican is in practice a state, it could have considerable consequences,” Robertson said.
The case centres on the abuse of two Aboriginal boys by Michael Glennon, a serial child rapist who despite being convicted and jailed for the indecent assault of a girl in 1978, remained an ordained priest for the next 20 years. At the time of Glennon’s death, he was in jail for crimes against 15 children.
The plaintiffs are seeking to hold Melbourne Archbishop Peter Comensoli and Pope Francis vicariously responsible for the alleged failings of their predecessors which enabled Glennon to keep accessing and abusing children for years after senior figures in the church, both here and in Rome, knew he was a paedophile.
The former Bishop of Broome Christopher Saunders is facing two new indecent assault charges after his home in Western Australia's north was raided on Wednesday morning.
The 74-year-old is already facing 26 charges, including two counts of sexual penetration with consent, three counts of indecent dealing with a child and 14 counts of unlawful and indecent assault.
Police have conducted a number of searches of Christopher Saunders' home in Broome, both before and after his initial arrest.
WA Police confirmed on Wednesday a 74-year-old Broome man is facing two charges of indecent and unlawful assault.
While police have not named the man, the ABC has confirmed through sources these charges have been laid against the former Broome Bishop.
The "two by twos" are hard to pin down, but the FBI is on to them.
This bunch are also very active in Oz. (including, of course, a presence in Toontown.)
he global fundamentalist sect does not have an official name. It is referred to by believers as The Truth or The Way, or by non-believers as the Two by Twos, or the Church with No Name.
Believers of the church meet in people's homes for prayer sessions, with the group's ministers moving between the different cities and countries where followers are based.
In February in the United States, the FBI launched a probe into the group after widescale reports of abuse were publicised by the BBC earlier this year.
A hotline for former members who have experienced sexual abuse within the sect in Australia and New Zealand has received allegations involving about 130 separate people.
