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CNA Staff, Jan 11, 2021 / 05:06 pm (CNA).- The Diocese of Buffalo released thousands of clergy abuse documents and related records to abuse victims and their lawyers this week as part of an agreement in ongoing clergy abuse negotiations during its bankruptcy.
According to The Buffalo News, these records were given to victims in exchange for an agreement that pending lawsuits against individual Catholic entities such as parishes or schools are stopped from proceeding.
These abuse victims, who make up a committee of unsecured creditors in the ongoing Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization for the diocese, have also agreed to keep the contents of the records confidential.
Former Valhalla High School student accuses music teacher of rape
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Updated on:Jan 06, 2021, 9:26am EST
A Valhalla High School
student claims a music teacher threatened her with bad grades, unless she had
sex with him.
The allegations are outlined in a lawsuit filed by the student against the
teacher, school district and high school under the Child Victims Act in State
Supreme Court.
The student, identified as Jane Doe, claims the abuse began in the spring of
1985 when she was 15 years old and continued until the fall of 1986.
At one point, she claims the teacher raped her.
She said the teacher knew she needed a scholarship to go to college and bad grades
New nonprofit runs fund for survivors of Children s Theatre abuse The Children s Theatre Company agreed to start the fund with $500,000. January 6, 2021 4:01pm Text size Copy shortlink:
Survivors of sex abuse at the Children s Theatre Company have formed a new nonprofit to administer a fund seeded with money from the south Minneapolis theater, doling out grants starting this spring.
It comes more than a year after the theater reached final settlements in sex abuse cases involving the then-child actors in the 1970s and 1980s. Children s Theatre Company (CTC) Managing Director Kimberly Motes issued a public apology in November 2019 and vowed to make changes, including establishing the survivors fund.
Child abuse allegations against Troy church divide family, friends, community
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ALBANY “No matter what people say negatively, it’s painful, it’s hurtful, it’s discouraging, it’s angering and it can defame the Lord’s pride, the church, most of all,” Pastor Phil Smith, of Victorious Life Christian Church, said in an early August sermon. “The enemy seeks to defame our Lord and give Him a bad name.”
His message only God is the source of ultimate judgment and forgiveness was typical for a sermon. But the apparent inspiration for the message on that Sunday was atypical, and it was not the enemy harming the church’s reputation, but a young woman suing them for allegedly abetting and harboring a Sunday school teacher who she says sexually abused her as a girl.
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