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Child-Abusing Former Bishop's Tell-All Shocks Belgium
By not in system - AOL NewsBRUSSELS, Belgium -- A former bishop's televised admission that he sexually abused two of his nephews caused an uproar in Belgium on Friday, with the prime minister, senior clergy and a prosecutor expressing shock at the way the ex-prelate made light of his offenses. In an interview that aired Thursday, Roger Vangheluwe, the former bishop of Bruges, spoke of his sexual abuse as "a little game," that involved fondling, but no "rough sex." Peter Maenhoudt, AP Former Bishop of Bruges Roger Vangheluwe, seen here in 2007, admitted sexually abusing two nephews but referred to the abuse ...
Brooklyn Janitor Charged in Rape of Middle School Girl
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsA janitor at a New York City middle school has been arrested and charged in the rape of a 13-year-old student, officials said today. Ambiorix Rodriguez, 32, is accused of raping and sexually abusing a female student multiple times in the basement of the Public School of Marketing and Legal Studies in Brooklyn, police told the New York Post today. He has been charged with rape, sex abuse and committing a criminal sex act. The student told the school principal about the alleged assault Monday, New York City Department of Education spokeswoman Marge Feinberg told AOL News today by ...
Irish Soon to Publish New Report on Catholic Abuse
By not in system - AOL NewsDUBLIN -- A judge cleared the way Friday for Ireland to publish a new report into decades of Catholic Church cover-ups of child abuse - and how a Cork bishop kept crimes in his diocese secret long after the Irish church issued orders to start telling police. Dublin High Court Justice Nicholas Kearns ruled that only one chapter out of 27 in the upcoming Cork report required temporary censorship, because its subject is a priest about to face a criminal trial for rape and indecent assault. He said that chapter might be published as soon as July. Ireland's Justice Department, which sought the ...
Lawyer: Man Inspired by Sen. Scott Brown Reports Abuse at Camp
By Lisa Flam - AOL NewsA man inspired by Massachusetts' U.S. Sen. Scott Brown's disclosure earlier this year that he was sexually abused as a child at a Christian summer camp on Cape Cod has come forward to report that he, too, was molested there as a camper, his lawyer said. The 35-year-old man, who lives in the Boston area, said he was repeatedly molested at age 10 in the summer of 1985 by an employee who held various titles, including assistant director and counselor, his lawyer, Mitchell Garabedian, told AOL News, without identifying either man. "He said Scott Brown inspired him to come forward," Garabedian ...
American Apparel Accuser Hid Alleged Sex Slavery Out of Shame
By Lisa Flam - AOL NewsThe woman who filed a $250 million lawsuit accusing the founder of American Apparel of turning her into a teenage sex slave said she stayed quiet because she was ashamed and assumed such alleged behavior was virtually standard in the high-flying worlds of retail and fashion. Irene Morales, 20, claimed in a lawsuit last week that CEO Dov Charney demanded she "send him sexually explicit photographs" in 2007 when she was a 17-year-old sales clerk for the apparel chain, and forced her to perform sex acts for eight months after she turned 18. At one point, she alleged, he held her prisoner for ...
Scott Brown: 'That Life Made Me the Man I Am Today'
By Michele McPhee - AOL NewsSen. Scott Brown gave the first copy of his memoir, "Against All Odds," to his mother, Judith, weeks before news broke that he was sexually abused as a child by a camp counselor, the Massachusetts Republican told AOL News. It was also the first time his mother would learn about the physical attacks allegedly inflicted on him by her husbands -- childhood traumas he had never shared with anyone. "I told her, 'I think you need to read this, Mom.' I gave a copy to my sister [Leeann], and she tried to get her to read it too,'' Brown said. "She didn't. She was dealing with some health issues, and ...
Scott Brown: Could Erin's Law ('Get Away, Tell Today') Have Helped?
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyAs a child, I learned how to duck and cover in case of a nuclear attack. My mother told me not to run with scissors, lest I "put out" my eyes. And instructional films, similar to this one, warned me not to walk off with strangers. Why these strangers were coming around in the first place, or what could happen to me if I succumbed to an invitation, I had no idea. Erin Merryn aims to change all that with a simple, memorable phrase: "Get away, tell today." Merryn, who testified before the Illinois Legislature in 2010, states her case eloquently: Currently in the state of Illinois, schools ...
5 Browns: 5 Facts About the Piano-Playing Mormon Quintet [VIDEOS]
By Torie Bosch - AOL NewsUPDATE: Keith Brown pleaded guilty today to charges he sexually abused his daughters when they were kids. The women are part of the 5 Browns musical group. BELOW IS OUR EARLIER POST: They seemed to be the picture of a wholesome family. But there apparently was a dark secret in the 5 Browns. The classical-piano-playing siblings in their 20s and 30s who make up the 5 Browns quintet are making headlines after the daughters accused their father of molesting them when they were children. Keith Brown has been charged with "one count of first-degree felony sodomy upon a child and two counts of ...
Father of Music Group The 5 Browns Admits Sexually Abusing Daughters
By not in system - AOL NewsPROVO, Utah -- The distraught father of The 5 Browns musical group pleaded guilty Thursday to sexually abusing his daughters when they were children in a deal that will send him to prison for at least 10 years. With scratches and bruises on his face from a crash in which his Porsche plunged 300 feet into a canyon, Keith Brown, 55, entered his plea to three felony counts in Fourth District Court. "He is terribly remorseful for what has happened and for what he has put his family through," defense attorney Steven Shapiro said after the hearing. "He recognizes that this is the next step in the ...
Philadelphia Archdiocese Suspends 3 Accused Priests
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsThe Philadelphia Archdiocese has placed three priests on leave and ordered the re-examination of cases involving more than 30 other priests amid allegations of child sex abuse detailed in a grand jury report. "Many people of faith and in the community at large think that the archdiocese does not understand the gravity of child sexual abuse," Cardinal Justin Rigali of the Philadelphia Archdiocese said in a statement to reporters. "We do. The task before us now is to recognize where we have fallen short and to let our actions speak to our resolve." The cardinal said the Revs. Joseph ...
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