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75-year-old Cache County woman facing 18 child sex abuse charges over last 30 years
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 […]
Officials respond to reported child sex abuse by Gateway Church pastor
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 union resists reform after DOJ finds officers engaged in rampant abuse
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 […]
San Diego Diocese files for bankruptcy after 457 sex abuse claims
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 […]
MAGA pastor’s sexual abuse scandal underscores the right’s hypocrisy on LGBTQ people
Take that mask off, I wanna see what’s under them achievements Why believe you? You never gave us nothing to believe in ’Cause you lied about religious views, you lied about your surgery You lied about your accent and your past tense — all is perjury. Shoutout to Kendrick Lamar for giving us all some […]
Paul Pressler, conservative Baptist leader later accused of sexual abuse, dead at 94
Paul Pressler, an influential former Texas judge who spearheaded a movement to shift the Southern Baptist Convention in a conservative direction, has died at the age of 94. In 2017, a civil lawsuit accused Pressler of sexually abusing boys and men, including one of his Bible study students, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. […]
‘Scarred us for life.’ Canton man gets life term in prison for child rape, years of abuse
CANTON ‒ A 44-year-old man convicted of sexually abusing a girl for seven years subjected her and her siblings to “unspeakable horrors that have scarred us for life” in the words of one of them. In a letter read Monday in Stark County Common Pleas Court, she wrote that the abuse from Adam M. Burton […]
Teacher’s assistant, principal charged in connection to child abuse at Woodlawn Middle School, Alamance County Sheriff’s Office says
BURLINGTON, N.C. (WGHP) — A teaching assistant and a school administrator have been charged in connection to the abuse of a student. According to the Alamance County Sheriff’s Office, they began investigating alleged abuse of a student on April 26 at Woodlawn Middle School. Court documents say William Michael Jackson, 55, of Haw River, a […]
UNC System, arts school to pay alums $12.5M for sex abuse claims. You can’t know why.
University of North Carolina leaders refuse to release details on why the state agreed to pay millions to former students over allegations of decades-long sexual abuse by faculty at the state’s most prestigious arts campus. Actions by state lawmakers last year ensured they’ll never have to. In May, the UNC System and the UNC School […]
Longtime Southern Baptist leader Paul Pressler, who was accused of sexual abuse, dies at 94
HOUSTON (AP) — Paul Pressler, a leading figure of the Southern Baptist Convention who was accused of sexually abusing boys and young men and later settled a lawsuit over the allegations, has died. He was 94. Pressler’s death, which happened on June 7, was announced in an obituary posted online by Geo. H. Lewis and […]
Paul Pressler, who led conservative SBC push and later faced abuse allegations, dies at 94
Paul Pressler, a former Texas judge who altered the Southern Baptist Convention twice, first when he led a fundamentalist takeover of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination and second when he faced sexual abuse allegations, has died at 94. Pressler, who died June 7, was a symbol for both the Religious Right’s marriage with Republican politics, […]