An epidemic of sexual abuse involving evangelical church leaders is hurting victims across the country. Even worse, churches far too often have covered up the abuse. While the evangelical church is not a monolith and all churches should not be blamed for the failures of some, there is a pattern of abuse in a number […]
Two decades before pastor Robert Morris publicly confessed last week to engaging in “sexual behavior” with a child and resigned from Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, his accuser had confronted him and sought compensation, according to copies of emails obtained by NBC News. “Twenty-three years after you began destroying my life, I am still dealing […]
Family members have identified a Kansas City infant who died Thursday after suffering severe abuse as Giovanni Carr, 7 months. Giovanni, known as Gio, was the only child of Armoni Carr, 20, according to family. ““This is so unfair to a 7 month old,” Carr’s aunt, Thea Harris, told The Star. “There’s no way he […]
A man who raped and abused children in Kent for more than 15 years has been jailed. Grant Venamore first attacked two children, from Tunbridge Wells and Paddock Wood, in the 1990s. One of the children was just four years old when the abuse began. Venamore, now 48, of Stroud Road, South Norwood, London, denied […]
Robert Morris, the founding pastor of a prominent Texas megachurch, has spent years telling congregants that about a “moral failure” from his past. The evangelical Christian didn’t go into detail, but he conceded that it involved a sexual sin that he committed as a young minister. This week, as NBC News reported, the story took […]
BALTIMORE — A woman is suing the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales, a Catholic order based in Delaware, for sexual abuse she says she suffered as a young girl at the hands of a priest on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Joyce Harper, 74, who now lives in Florida, alleges in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that […]
Two North Florida men have been arrested and charged for possessing and transmitting child sexual abuse material (CSAM). >> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE
LOGAN, Utah (ABC4) — A Cache County woman faces 18 felony child sex abuse charges from incidents dating back over the last 30 years, according to court documents. Ruth Zurcher Worthen, 75, was arrested Tuesday, June 18, on 15 felony counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child and three felony counts of object rape […]
Robert Morris should resign from his job as the leader of North Texas megachurch Gateway Church in response to allegations of child sexual abuse, former Southlake mayor John Huffman said in a statement he shared on social media. Morris, the founder and senior pastor of Gateway Church in Southlake, admitted to sexual contact with a […]
Phoenix police are resisting federal accountability after the Justice Department released a scathing report that detailed a disturbing pattern of violating the civil rights of minority groups and unhoused people. The Phoenix Police Department has developed a reputation as America’s deadliest police department in recent years, and public reporting on officers’ violence prompted a multiyear […]
By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday for the second time, after a recent change to California law prompted 457 legal claims alleging decades-old sex abuse by the diocese’s priests. San Diego is the site of Catholicism’s first foothold in California, through […]
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