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ALBANY, N.Y. — A man who says he was sexually abused as a child nearly 60 years ago by a priest at the Highland Residential Center can proceed with a Child Victims Act claim against the state of New York, the state Appellate Division has ruled. Fred U. Young III claims New York failed to […]
The lawsuit, filed on Oct. 6 in Broward Circuit Court, alleges that "Zisblatt blatantly stole other Jewish people's experiences during World War II and passed them off as her own in order to further the Jewish political agenda and profit off of these fantastical tales." Zisblatt, 80, survived the Holocaust and watched her parents and five siblings die in Concentration camps during World War II, and is now a resident of Pembroke Pines. She appeared in Spielberg's 1998 documentary "The Last Days." Hunt, who is representing himself in the suit, adds that "the defendants must not go unpunished fo...
NorthJersey.com WOODLAND PARK, N.J. – As clergy abuse lawsuits proliferate across the U.S., a growing number of priests who say they were falsely accused are pushing back — by suing their accusers, investigators and even church officials. The list includes the Rev. Roy Herberger of the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo, New York. Last year, he filed a defamation case against a 42-year-old man who said the priest had assaulted him as a boy. The diocese cleared Herberger after a six-month investigation, but the experience was devastating, he said. "I felt abandoned, embarrassed and...