European leaders are addressing the situation after an aborted coup by the Wagner group in Russia over the weekend. Russian President Vladimir Putin maintained his silence on the events at a planned address. The United States saw a major increase in sexual abuse in public schools over the past decade, according to a recent report by…

European leaders are addressing the situation after an aborted coup by the Wagner group in Russia over the weekend. Russian President Vladimir Putin maintained his silence on the events at a planned address. The United States saw a major increase in sexual abuse in public schools over the past decade, according to a recent report by…

Public schools have experienced a major increase in sexual abuse over the past decade, according to a recent report by the Defense of Freedom Institute (DFI), which blames the rise on local, state, and federal officials not doing enough to hold perpetrators accountable. In many cases, agreements between school districts and teachers unions even promote…

A $14.7-million settlement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit brought against the Montreal Roman Catholic archdiocese, and a judge will be asked to sign off on the deal in the coming weeks, the plaintiffs’ lawyer said Thursday. The lawsuit, filed in 2019 and authorized by Quebec Superior Court in 2021, covered victims of sexual…

A Melbourne school has praised Vatican leader Cardinal George Pell, who recently died from heart complications in Rome, for his administrative strength. Pell, formerly the archbishop of Melbourne and Sydney and Australia’s most senior Catholic, passed away on Jan. 10 following hip replacement surgery aged 81. He gained notoriety in Australia after standing trial and being found…

Chicago Public Schools (CPS) had 1,735 reported adult-on-student sexual misconduct cases in the past four years, according to a report by the Chicago Board of Education’s Office of Inspector General (OIG). Hundreds of cases couldn’t substantiate sex abuse allegations, 302 discovered substantial policy violations, and at least 16 resulted in criminal charges. A backlog of…

BERLIN—A 45-year-old German man who had offered babysitting services online went on trial Tuesday in the western city of Cologne accused of almost 100 counts of child sexual abuse. Prosecutors told the Cologne regional court that the man documented the abuse of babies, children, and teenagers, and shared videos and images of “unimaginable brutality” with…

“Coercive control” has now been defined as an offence under a new law being passed in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW). Dubbed the Coercive and Controlling Behaviour Bill 2020, the legislation creates an offence for “violent, menacing or intimidating” behaviour in a domestic relationship. It describes coercive control as isolating, controlling, frightening, humiliating,…

A wake of destruction left in South West Florida.  Hurricane Ian knocked out power for over 2.5 million people and destroyed homes.  Some are now picking up the pieces. Advocates for victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests release a list of more than 300 accused abusers.  They are demanding action from the Archdiocese of San Francisco….

A federal judge has signed off on a settlement that provides compensation to over 1,000 victims who claim to have been sexually abused by a former doctor at the University of Michigan. The $490 million settlement was agreed in January. However, it took many more months for the final details of the agreement to be…