Bishop Thompson last year told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse his efforts to expose a decades-old culture of abuse and cover-ups had led to a concerted push to get rid of him.
The agreement comes before a report expected this month by a third-party investigator hired by the prestigious school, and SGS for Healing, an alumni survivors’ group into sexual abuse of dozens of students by teachers and staff in the 1970s and 1980s.
“The Pomfret School in Connecticut said it, too, is reviewing its policies and campus culture and has hired an investigator to receive reports of wrongdoing. Pomfret’s headmaster was formerly an administrator at St. George’s and has acknowledged not reporting some of the alleged abuse there to authorities.” – AP
In a private meeting with several victims of clerical abuse, Pope Francis asked for their forgiveness, and said that the Church had been wrong in
There is no woman who I have ever met personally or as an OB/GYN who thinks that surviving a rape confers some sort of privilege.
Churches in Brazil are working together to battle child sex abuse during the World Cup games, which begin June 12. From Religion News Service:
Boz Tchividjian lists six ways the church marginalizes sexual abuse survivors.
Mark Silk at Religion News Service writes about clergy sexual abuse and misconduct in
Over two decades, the Boy Scouts of America failed to report hundreds of alleged child molesters to police and often hid the allegations from parents and the public.
Why did Kansas City’s Bishop Robert Finn, convicted in criminal court Thursday of failing to report child abuse, work so hard to ignore the sins