Recent Posts in Clergy Abuse Category
Posted on Apr 16, 2013 By Zalkin Law Firm
More and more victims of clergy abuse are speaking out against the authorities that damaged their childhoods. Recently, another priest was accused of sexually abusing youth in the clergy in ...
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Posted on Apr 9, 2013 By Alex Zalkin
The heads of some very powerful corporations, the Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church in America, are at it again. They are doing their best to silence survivors of childhood sexual abuse. They are ...
Continue reading "The Need To Amend Statutes Of Limitations" »
Posted on Apr 8, 2013 By Zalkin Law Firm
Part of the reason for the former pope's resignation may have been due to the many clergy abuse scandals taking place all over the world within the Catholic religion. Advocates for the end of ...
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Posted on Apr 2, 2013 By Zalkin Law Firm
If you are the victim of a tragic clergy abuse case, then you deserve to receive monetary compensation for the pain and suffering that you grew up with as a result. Thousands of children in the ...
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Posted on Mar 1, 2013 By Alex Zalkin
Survivors of childhood sexual abuse are frequently told that it is unfair to amend a statute of limitations to allow them to seek a remedy for the abuse they suffered while participating in youth ...
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Posted on Feb 11, 2013 By Alex Zalkin
One of the central figures in the scourge of childhood sexual abuse that has rocked the Roman Catholic Church has stated his intention to resign. After less than eight years in office, Pope Benedict ...
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Posted on Feb 8, 2013 By Alex Zalkin
By now, most have heard that a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge recently ordered the LA Archdiocese to release tens of thousands of documents that reveal the extent of that institution's cover up ...
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Posted on Feb 1, 2013 By Alex Zalkin
Recently, the Los Angeles Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church took two major actions: it released 12,000 documents relating to priests accused of child sexual abuse, and simultaneously announced ...
Continue reading "Six Things To Know About The LA Archdiocese's Predator-Priest Records" »
Posted on Jan 17, 2013 By Alex Zalkin
Six years ago, Irwin Zalkin was preparing to serve as a lead trial attorney in a 14-victim clergy sex abuse case against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese. Just before trial, a group of 562 victims of ...
Continue reading "Court Fulfills Promise of 2007 Settlement: LA Archdiocese Ordered to Reveal Full Truth" »
Posted on Nov 8, 2011 By Zalkin Law Firm
Check out this interesting USA Today article on the parallels between the institutional responses to the recent Penn St. sexual abuse scandal, and the Catholic Church’s ongoing Priest Abuse ...
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Posted on Nov 4, 2011 By Zalkin Law Firm
The following is the first entry in a three part series discussing the disclosure of documents during and after litigation, and the legal arguments invoked by religious institutions to protect ...
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Posted on May 20, 2011 By Zalkin Law Firm
The bishops of the Roman Catholic Church in America are at it again, attempting to defend the indefensible – the sexual abuse of children by their priests. In a report recently commissioned, financed, ...
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Posted on Oct 28, 2010 By Zalkin Law Firm
News of what may be the largest public disclosure of previously secret or confidential documents maintained by the Roman Catholic Bishop of San Diego relating to known pedophile priests has gone ...
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Posted on Oct 12, 2010 By Zalkin Law Firm
While there are many studies of the risk factors and consequences of sexual abuse of girls, we lack the same comprehensive data when it comes to the sexual abuse of boys. [1] One of the main reasons ...
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Posted on Sep 28, 2010 By Zalkin Law Firm
Childhood Sexual Abuse needs to be talked about. It happens, over and over again. One quarter of our daughters are abused before they turn eighteen. A slightly smaller percentage of our sons are ...
Continue reading "Talking About Childhood Sexual Abuse: CNN Anchor Don Lemon Discloses Past Abuse" »
Posted on Sep 21, 2010 By Zalkin Law Firm
Note to Pope Benedict: Actions speak louder than words. Last week, at Westminster Cathedral in Great Britain, the Pope expressed shame and humiliation for the sin of childhood sexual abuse committed ...
Continue reading "POPE’S RECENT APOLOGY TO CATHOLIC SEXUAL ABUSE VICTIMS IS FORM OVER SUBSTANCE" »
Posted on Sep 10, 2010 By Zalkin Law Firm
More than 500 witnesses of child molestation inflicted at the hands of Roman Catholic Clergymen have come forward in Belgium according to a report issued today, September 10th, 2010. As noted by the ...
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Posted on Sep 7, 2010 By Zalkin Law Firm
Often, young survivors of abuse struggle the hardest with making a decision to proactively begin the healing process. Whether because of fear that their friends and family may view them differently, ...
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Posted on Aug 17, 2010 By Zalkin Law Firm
It is more than ironic that Pope Benedict and his public relations advisors have opted to respond to the worldwide sexual abuse crisis within the Catholic Church by extending the time within which ...
Continue reading "EXTENSION OF THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS FOR DEFROCKING A PRIEST HAS NO IMPACT ON SURVIVORS OF ABUSE BY CATHOLIC CLERGY" »