The topic of child sexual abuse can be difficult to talk about. It is important to do so to bring justice and healing to survivors. Recently, news broke that the Archdiocese of Baltimore has filed for bankruptcy. This was due to lawsuits filed on behalf…

As the number of sexual abuse cases against priests and other church staff mounted, one of the largest Catholic Church organizations in the country threatened to file Chapter 11 bankruptcy as a measure to protect itself and limit survivor payouts. “We believe the bankruptcy process…

Lawsuit Won for Failing to Stop Abusive Paraeducator The Tahoma School District recently paid a sexual abuse survivor $3.9 million to resolve a child sexual abuse lawsuit. The School District negligently continued to employ Bryan Neyers, a former para-teacher, after receiving allegations that he was…

Prosecutors believe that the ten patients who have come forward so far might be just the tip of the iceberg in an extensive sex abuse operation at Montgomery County Hospital. Montgomery County police arrested a doctor who works at Advanced Walk-in Urgent Care in Silver…

 for Sexual Abuse Survivors at Catholic High School in Baltimore CNN recently ran a story about four real-life survivor's accounts of rampant sexual abuse against young girls in Baltimore. Four survivors shared their stories more than 50 years after priests brutally, physically, and sexually assaulted…

Many people say things anonymously online they would never say to someone else in person. For the most part, the law protects this kind of “speech.” Generally, the First Amendment guarantees free speech unless that speech hurts someone else. This freedom, along with the fact…

The director of the Catholic Church-affiliated Maryland State Boychoir, a redacted name from the sweeping Attorney General sex abuse report, has resigned. His name has since been revealed by The Baltimore Sun. Frank T. Cimino, Jr. was the minister of music at St. Thomas More…

The Maryland Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s decision that a father’s religious-based homosexuality and transgender comments constituted sexual abuse. This ruling buries the age-old “sticks and stones” proverb. It also opens the door for further sex abuse claims, especially since the legislature abolished…

Negligence or a lack of care is the most common personal injury claim (tort). Examples include car crashes and slip-and-falls. Sexual abuse claims are intentional torts. There is a difference between intentional and negligence. In one famous case, a court ruled that a boy who…

A jury ordered the former president to pay $5 million to E. Jean Carroll who, according to the court ruling, was sexually abused by Trump some 30 years ago. During the trial, Ms. Carroll, a former advice columnist for Elle magazine and who was well-known…