NEW YORK (AP) — As a Girl Scout growing up in upstate New York, Alice Weiss-Russell says she lived with a dark secret: The husband of her troop leader was sexually abusing her in the bathroom of a church basement where scout meetings were held ...

More former students of a Scarsdale catholic school filed lawsuits this week that accused a former sports coach who taught there in the 1960s of sexual abuse. They also claimed the coach's behavior was well known in the community. The ...

(NEW YORK) — For underprivileged boys from rough-and-tumble New York City neighborhoods, the Madison Square Boys Club stood as an oasis — a home away from home where they could shoot hoops, swim laps, and learn skills, like cooking and ...

When Jim Clemente walked into the Bronx home of his former summer camp director, it wasn’t for old time’s sake. The twenty-something Clemente was wearing a wire. Federal agents and an NYPD detective were listening ...

Two former New York public school employees were accused of sexual abuse in some of the first cases brought against school systems under the new Child Victims Act on Wednesday. Auset Love, 45, said her former teacher at Public School 189 in ...

UPDATE:  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Scores of people in New York state who were sexually abused as children sued institutions, including the Roman Catholic Church, on Wednesday, the first day a new law temporarily enabled them to file lawsuits over ...

A Catholic mission on Staten Island was a hellish house of horrors where priests, nuns and staff abused destitute children for decades, a new lawsuit filed Wednesday charges. Seven adult men and women charged in a 127-page lawsuit that they ...

Thousands of child sexual abuse lawsuits are expected to flow into New York State courts in the coming weeks exposing decades-old misconduct at schools, hospitals, churches and youth clubs, according to lawyers for victims. On Aug. 14, the Child ...

A slew of men who claim they were sexually abused at Yeshiva University’s all-boys high school from the 1960s to the ’90s are preparing to sue the school — thanks to a new law that has temporarily lifted the statute of limitations in such ...

Seyfarth Synopsis: The Child Victim Act is now law and will have a significant impact on New York's educational and religious institutions and other civic organizations that care for children. It extends the Statute of Limitations an additional ...

After a successful push to pass legislation that extends the statute of limitations for child sexual abuse cases, Gary Greenberg has a new cause: Erin's Law. Greenberg is partnering with Erin Merryn, a fellow child sexual abuse survivor, who ...

An auxiliary Catholic bishop in New York, John Jenik, has been accused of sexual abuse and removed from his public ministry, Catholic officials said, the latest scandal to hit an institution already reeling from revelations of inappropriate ...

For almost 30 years, parents sought out Dr. Reginald Archibald when their children would not grow. They came to his clinic at The Rockefeller University Hospital, a prominent New York research institution, where he treated and studied children ...

Speedskating's national governing body last month stripped the lifetime membership of three-time Olympian Andy Gabel, who had been accused of inappropriate sexual relationships with minors during the 1990s. » Please click here to read the full ...

Brian Fanelli was his police agency’s computer maven, and in his spare time he taught children at a Roman Catholic church in northern Westchester County how to look out for sexually abusive behavior. On Monday, Mr. Fanelli, the short-lived ...

Brian Fanelli was his police agency’s computer maven, and in his spare time he taught children at a Roman Catholic church in northern Westchester County how to look out for sexually abusive behavior. On Monday, Mr. Fanelli, the short-lived ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- A Jamesville-DeWitt substitute teacher was indicted this morning on charges of sexually abusing four children in DeWitt. Paul Haley was charged with four counts of felony first-degree sexual abuse in the 17-count indictment. ...

PRINCETON — A former church youth volunteer and child mentor has been indicted on 50 charges related to alleged sexual abuse of children. An indictment was returned against Timothy Probert, 56, of Mercer County, Tuesday, Mercer County ...

Disturbing and emotional testimony marked the Orleans County Court trial of a minister accused of sexually abusing young children. Orleans County District Attorney Joseph Cardone began his opening statement by telling jurors they would hear a ...

The investigation began with one explicit picture, sent by a teacher at one of New York’s elite public high schools to one of his female students through a messaging app. » Please click here to read the full article....