#sexual-abuse

#sexual-abuse

Prosecutors say Farwell groomed Birchmore from the time she was a high school student, committing statutory rape and engaging in a yearslong sexual relationship with her. She became pregnant in late 2020 and told Farwell that he was the father. He allegedly killed her in February 2021 to prevent the truth about their relationship from coming to light, strangling her in her apartment and staging it to look like a suicide.

"You are nothing but a coward. You ducked and dived all your life, but the jury saw through you. You are the abuser, you are the rapist," one victim said. A "monster" whose sexual abuse of four victims spanned three decades has been jailed for 20 years. Declan Daly (54) of Cassidy Apartments, Kells, Co. Meath pleaded guilty before his trial to 12 counts of sexual assault and indecent assault against three female victims on dates between 1982 and 2002.

The Victor Valley Union High School District has agreed to pay $12.5 million to eight former students who alleged they were sexually abused more than 20 years ago by a former middle school guidance counselor. In five lawsuits filed in San Bernardino Superior Court in August and September 2022, the alleged victims claimed Eric Lynn Brown sexually abused and molested them in his office at Victor Valley Junior High School and off campus from 1991 to 2002.

"Sean Combs used violence, threats, substances, and control over my career to trap me in over a decade of abuse," she wrote. "He groomed me into performing repeated sex acts with hired male sex workers during multi-day 'Freak-Offs,' which occurred nearly weekly. I was forced into lingerie and heels, told exactly how to look, and plied with drugs and alcohol so he could control me like a puppet," Cassie wrote.

Fourteen former N.C. State male athletes have filed a civil lawsuit in state court alleging sexual abuse under the guise of treatment and harassment by the Wolfpack's former director of sports medicine, expanding a case that began with a federal lawsuit from a single athlete three years ago. The lawsuit filed Wednesday evening in Wake County Superior Court alleges years of misconduct by Robert Murphy Jr., including improper touching of the genitals during massages and intrusive observation while collecting urine samples during drug testing.

Five women who said they were sexually assaulted by their high school teacher in the 1980s won a combined $13.6 million judgment Monday after a jury concluded that the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District failed to prevent the abuse. The Torrance jury found that district administrators were negligent in allowing longtime Rolling Hills High School English teacher and baseball coach Garry Poe to groom and, ultimately, sexually abuse teenagers.

When we hear about children who've survived brutal abductions, we expect that once they're back with their loving family and have had some therapy, they'll be okay. However, it's not that simple. The story of Shasta Groene in Gregg Olsen's book, Out of the Woods, is tough to read. Molested and exploited by multiple people, she seemed to have caught few breaks. Her first post-abduction treatment program was itself abusive, and her father was a thief.

Hollingsbee, 21, was sentenced to five years and two months for sex offences against teenage girls, admitting to 42 charges involving 14 victims.

The school alone was a breeding ground for predators, said Lauren Cerri of Cerri, Boskovich & Allard, who represents both plaintiffs in the suits.

The criminal charges against Saul Duran are based on allegations that he molested two teenage sisters between 2008 and 2010, but prosecution was limited due to statutory restrictions.

Sir Chris Bryant has revealed that he was sexually abused as a teenager by the head of the National Youth Theatre, Michael Croft, who was significantly older.

Gabrielli now faces a total of 26 child molestation charges, with key offenses involving oral copulation upon minors under 14 through force or duress, continuous sexual abuse, and lewd acts.

Thomas Partey has been charged with five counts of rape and one count of sexual abuse, according to police in the United Kingdom. The charges involve incidents alleged to have occurred between 2021 and 2022 involving three women.

Christopher Brain, who led the progressive Nine O-Clock Service (NOS) in Sheffield, is accused of dominating and sexually assaulting numerous women from his congregation.