Clergy Abuse in Nebraska

Sexual abuse has many negative aftereffects other than the obvious pain and suffering incurred at the time of the sex abuse act. Sometimes, the memory is repressed by the victim for years, only to unearth itself painfully sometimes decades later. So what is to be done? Is the victim to suffer with no vindication? Is…

Clergy Abuse in Montana

Over 100 Montana citizens recently filed church sex abuse claims against Jesuit priests in Montana. The Oregon Province of Society of Jesus was forced to declare bankruptcy because of the scandalous church sex abuse suits. The sex abuse cases involved over $25 million already paid in previous sex abuse suits. The church sex abuse suit…

Clergy Abuse in Missouri

Shawn Davies was convicted of 25 counts of sexual abuse, some of which occurred in Missouri, and there’s no telling how many more cases of church sex abuse committed by this monster have gone unreported. Davies was employed by a number of churches and though he was known for being addicted to pornography and for…

Clergy Abuse in Mississippi

Superintendent of Church of God in Christ Saints Academy in Lexington, Mississippi Larry Weem offered to pay off all 5 female plaintiffs in a disturbing sexual assault case a few years ago. He avoided an embarrassing clergy sex abuse case as well as a lengthy stay in prison. The 5 child sex abuse victims received…

Clergy Abuse in Puerto Rico

Many Puerto Rican professionals are required by law to report child sex abuse. This is an important law because these people have a tremendous ammount of contact with and influence over children. These professionals include social workers, teachers and school employees, medical professionals such as physicians, nurses, mental health care professionals, child care providers, and…

Clergy Abuse in Oklahoma

A former Oklahoma City Catholic priest has been accused of childhood sexual abuse in a lawsuit by one of his former parishioners. The Rev. Stephen D. Cude is named as a defendant in a lawsuit filed recently in Oklahoma County District Court. The plaintiff’s identity is not revealed in the filing. Cude did not return…

Clergy Abuse in Ohio

A former Washington County priest, Fr. Anthony Jablonowski was notified this week that Pope Benedict XVI has declared (defrocked) him no longer a member of the clergy, following his sexual abuse of a 17-year-old boy. Anthony Jablonowski, 69, who still resides at a religious community he helped establish in 1997 in Waterford, was the priest…

Clergy Abuse in North Dakota

In May, a North Dakota newspaper disclosed, for the first time, that Fr. Gregory Patejko molested a teenager named Richard Jangula in 1976. Church officials aren’t denying the allegations. http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2009/05_06/2009_05_06_Lee_ACrime.htm Patejko worked at two Trenton diocese parishes: St. Stanislaus in Sayreville (1968-70) and St. Mary’s Polish church in South River (1971). Both had parochial schools.…

Clergy Abuse in North Carolina

The insurance company for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charlotte has agreed to pay $1 million settle North Carolina sexual abuse allegations that former altar boy Robby Price was sexually abused by Rev, Robert Yurgel in 1999 at St. Matthew Catholic Church. The diocese will also pay Price, now 25, another $47,500 for counseling medication…

Clergy Abuse in Wyoming

Anthony Jablonowski, a former Churchtown, Wyoming pastor was convicted of committing clergy sex abuse against a 17-year-old boy. Jablonowski, from the St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Churchtown two decades ago, was finally brought to justice. It’s never too late to bring church sex abusers and child sex abusers to justice, but in the…