News of abuse

Probe finds ex-pope Benedict failed to act in German abuse cases

20-01-2022 15:21 Former pope Benedict XVI knowingly failed to take action to stop four priests accused of child sex abuse in Munich in the 1980s, according to a damning independent report published Thursday that risks shattering the ex-pontiff's reputation.

Abortion rights

Horror in Tucumán: 10-year-old girl gives birth following rape

14-01-2022 17:24 Young girl had been sexually abused by her foster mother's partner; Accused has been on the run since last October.

PROVOLO CHURCH ABUSE CASE

Catholic Church ordered to pay 14 million pesos to sexual abuse victim

07-01-2022 18:13 Mendoza judge orders multi-million-peso compensation be paid to an ex-pupil of Antonio Próvolo Institute for Deaf and Hearing Impaired Children in Mendoza Province who suffered serious sexual abuse.

SEXUAL ABUSE IN SPORT

Venezuelan footballers denounce sexual abuse by former coach

06-10-2021 09:51 Twenty-four of Venezuela's top football players denounce alleged sexual abuse by their former coach Kenneth Zseremeta, whom they describe as a "monster" in a statement posted on social media.

CATHOLIC CHURCH

'Massive' child sex abuse in French Catholic Church, inquiry finds

05-10-2021 12:17 French Catholic clergy sexually abused around 216,000 minors spanning seven decades since 1950, a "massive phenomenon" that was covered up by a "veil of silence," an independent commission said Tuesday.

COURTS

Man who raped four daughters for decades sentenced to 50 years in jail

24-09-2021 15:10 Alejandro Manuel Rosario Leguizamón, 55, convicted by court in Morón for repeated sexual abuse and rape of his four daughters over past two decades.

COURTS

Santa Cruz: Priest jailed for 17 years for sexual abuse of two minors

10-09-2021 01:01 Priest Nicolás Parma sentenced to 17 years in prison after being found guilty of the sexual abuse of two seminarians in Santa Cruz Province.

CATHOLIC CHURCH

Brazil bishop resigns amid sex scandal

18-08-2021 21:09 Pope Francis accepted a Brazilian bishop's resignation Wednesday amid a scandal over a leaked sex tape and allegations he covered up cases of sexual abuse by priests in his diocese.

church sex abuse

Priest sentenced to 12 years in jail for three counts of sexual abuse

13-07-2021 16:43 Rubén Agustín Rosa Torino, 67, sentenced to 12 years in prison by a Salta court for three counts of sexual abuse against victims following a six-week trial.

Venezuelan exodus

NGO: Almost 2,000 Venezuelan refugees murdered in Colombia in 5 years

24-06-2021 09:50 At least 1,933 Venezuelan migrants were killed in Colombia between 2015 and 2020, and another 836 are "considered missing," reports Colombian NGO

CATHOLIC CHURCH

UN rights experts urge Vatican to halt child sex abuse

21-06-2021 11:02 Experts voice "utmost concern about numerous allegations around the world of sexual abuse and violence committed by members of the Catholic Church against children."

CATHOLIC CHURCH

Pope Francis updates canon law to address paedophilia by priests

01-06-2021 12:15 Pope Francis has updated the Catholic Church's criminal code, adding details on punishing sexual abuse crimes of minors by priests, measures long sought by activists against paedophilia.

FOOTBALL

AFA women's youth coach accused of sexual harassment

08-05-2021 00:18 Group of players allege a youth team coach currently employed by AFA sexually harassed players, some as young as 14, for years. FIFPRO calls on football officials to remove alleged abuser from post.

Sex abuse

Second Próvolo abuse trial gets underway with two nuns in dock

03-05-2021 17:00 Two nuns and seven other woman stand trial, accused of complicity in the sexual abuse of deaf children at the Próvolo Institute in Mendoza Province.

church sex abuse claims

Ex-priest controversially cleared of 'outrageous sexual abuse' charges by court

09-03-2021 22:01 Court in Buenos Aires Province controversially clears retired priest Carlos Eduardo José of sexual abuse charges, ruling that the statue of limitations on the case had expired.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Slow justice for women abused by Chile's dictatorship

05-03-2021 12:22 More than 40,000 people were tortured and another 3,200 were murdered or disappeared in the 17 years of Augusto Pinochet's regime (1973-1990), which savaged women, making them victims of aberrant methods of torture specially focused on sexual violence.

Global pandemic

Amid virus, a shadow pandemic for domestic abuse sufferers

05-03-2021 02:08 From Argentina to Singapore, virus-induced confinement has caused an increase in violence cases and their severity and made it more difficult to report abuses and help victims, activists say.

Ángel Cabrera

Brazil arrests Ángel Cabrera, fugitive golfer accused of abuse

15-01-2021 14:19 Ángel Cabrera, wanted by Interpol on domestic violence charges, was arrested in Rio de Janeiro Thursday, and will be extradited to Argentina to stand trial.

EDITORIAL

Maradona: The national mourning is also global

28-11-2020 09:09 Argentina’s greatest sporting idol born and died in the same metropolis, yet the contrast between the Villa Fiorito slum of his birth and the San Andrés gated community of his death could hardly be greater – renewed testimony to this country’s extreme social inequalities.

CATHOLIC CHURCH

Pope meets with Australian cardinal acquitted of child abuse charges

12-10-2020 12:35 Pope Francis met Monday with Australian Cardinal George Pell for the first time since he was jailed – and then acquitted – on child sex abuse charges.

CHURCH SEX ABUSE SCANDALS

Prosecutors in Entre Ríos investigate claim priest raped nephew

29-09-2020 14:03 Sergio Decuyper accuses his paternal uncle, Reverend José Francisco Decuyper, of raping him more than 35 years ago. 42-year-old says Pope Francis asked him not to file a criminal complaint.

CHURCH SEX ABUSE SCANDALS

Argentine bishop resumes work in Holy See as Vatican abuse probe wraps

15-06-2020 15:28 Vatican spokesman confirms Archbishop Gustavo Zanchetta has resumed work in Holy See, but claims it in no way interferes with investigations probing alleged sexual abuse.

Argentina

'We live with racism and marginalisation,' assert Afro-Argentine activists

11-06-2020 16:23 Three activists from different cultural backgrounds explain what it means to live as a member of the black community in Argentina, which, according to the last census, numbers more than 150,000.

by Stephanie Peuscovich

FURORE AT PROSECUTOR

Outrage over prosecutor who says alleged rapists were 'letting off steam'

06-06-2020 10:01 Chubut prosecutor Fernando Rivarola comes under criticism for description of 2012 gang rape by five youths.

Assault, torture and sexual abuse

Chaco police officers removed from post after vicious attack on Qom family

04-06-2020 09:00 Shocking scenes go viral on social media of police officers assaulting members of the Qom indigenous community in the Chaco Province town of Fontana. Local authorities intervene, "removing" officers from service and placing them under investigation, amid widespread condemnation of attack.

CHURCH SEX ABUSE SCANDALS

Cardinal Pell lawyers claim child sex conviction is 'wrong' in appeal

11-03-2020 12:48 Lawyers for disgraced cardinal claimed the senior cleric's conviction for child sex abuse was based on "improbabilities", as they launched a last-ditch appeal in Australia's top court on Wednesday.

LANDMARK #METOO TRIAL

Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 23 years for rape, sexual assault

11-03-2020 12:25 Weinstein, who has been accused of violating scores of women, was convicted last month of raping a woman in New York City in 2013 and forcibly performing oral sex on another woman at his apartment in 2006.

Coronavirus outbreak

Vatican suspends investigative mission to Mexico over coronavirus

06-03-2020 17:08 The Vatican suspends a mission to Mexico to investigate clerical abuse due to the inability to travel in the face of coronavirus.

CHURCH SEX ABUSE SCANDALS

French cardinal exits over failure to report alleged sex abuser

06-03-2020 13:34 The Pope has accepted the resignation of French Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, whose conviction for shielding an alleged child-molesting priest was overturned on appeal last month.

Church Abuse

Vatican sends top two sex crimes investigators to Mexico

03-03-2020 10:42 Mexico, the second-largest Catholic country after Brazil, will be aided by the same investigators who shed light on Chile's extensive church abuse in 2018.

CHURCH SEX ABUSE SCANDALS

Próvolo abuse survivors ask Pope for justice

22-02-2020 10:26 Deaf survivors of clerical sexual abuse fly to Vatican, hoping to build pressure on Pope Francis to come clean about the crimes committed against them.

Church Abuse

Deaf Argentine abuse survivors target pope with defiant message

19-02-2020 15:33 The victims of the Próvolo Institute are seeking a private meeting with Pope Francis in an effort to bring the perpetrators to justice.

Child Abuse

Boy Scouts of America's future uncertain after bankruptcy filing

18-02-2020 11:51 A new barrage of sex-abuse lawsuits have forced the 110-year-old institution to reassess its future.

Long read: Church Abuse

Disgraced religious order tried to get abuse victim to lie

17-02-2020 16:04 The church went through great lengths to hide the truth that Reverend Reséndiz sexually abused a Venezuelan child, among others.

ABUSE SCANDAL

Harvey Weinstein trial reaches closing stages with jury set to decide fate

14-02-2020 14:01 The weeks-long trial against US movie mogul Harvey Weinstein nears the end with the prosecution making closing arguments in today's trial.

CHURCH ABUSE SCANDALS

Deaf Próvolo child abuse victims accuse Pope Francis of inaction

13-02-2020 14:49 The victims, represented by the global organisation Ending Clergy Abuse, have requested a public audience with the Argentine pontiff.

CHURCH SCANDALS

Pope defrocks Argentine priest for sexual misconduct, abuse of power

10-02-2020 22:57 Pontiff moves against Roberto Juan Yannuzzi, after a four-year investigation determined he had sex with adults under his authority, absolved them of the sin during confession and otherwise abused his power.

Catholic Church Abuse

Pope defrocks fellow Argentine priest Roberto Yannuzzi

05-02-2020 15:27 Yannuzzi stands accused of abusing his power by having sex with adults under his authority.

ABUSE SCANDAL

Court clears French cardinal who failed to report abusive priest

30-01-2020 17:00 Court in Lyon rules Cardinal Philippe Barbarin should not be held criminally liable for his lack of action over behavior of Priest Preynat, who had allegedly abused dozen of boys scouts during the 1980s and the 1990s.

News of abuse

Probe finds ex-pope Benedict failed to act in German abuse cases

Horror in Tucumán: 10-year-old girl gives birth following rape

Catholic Church ordered to pay 14 million pesos to sexual abuse victim

Venezuelan footballers denounce sexual abuse by former coach

'Massive' child sex abuse in French Catholic Church, inquiry finds

Man who raped four daughters for decades sentenced to 50 years in jail

Santa Cruz: Priest jailed for 17 years for sexual abuse of two minors

Brazil bishop resigns amid sex scandal

Priest sentenced to 12 years in jail for three counts of sexual abuse

NGO: Almost 2,000 Venezuelan refugees murdered in Colombia in 5 years

UN rights experts urge Vatican to halt child sex abuse

Pope Francis updates canon law to address paedophilia by priests

AFA women's youth coach accused of sexual harassment

Second Próvolo abuse trial gets underway with two nuns in dock

Ex-priest controversially cleared of 'outrageous sexual abuse' charges by court

Slow justice for women abused by Chile's dictatorship

Amid virus, a shadow pandemic for domestic abuse sufferers

Brazil arrests Ángel Cabrera, fugitive golfer accused of abuse

Maradona: The national mourning is also global

Pope meets with Australian cardinal acquitted of child abuse charges

Prosecutors in Entre Ríos investigate claim priest raped nephew

Argentine bishop resumes work in Holy See as Vatican abuse probe wraps

'We live with racism and marginalisation,' assert Afro-Argentine activists

Outrage over prosecutor who says alleged rapists were 'letting off steam'

Chaco police officers removed from post after vicious attack on Qom family

Cardinal Pell lawyers claim child sex conviction is 'wrong' in appeal

Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 23 years for rape, sexual assault

Vatican suspends investigative mission to Mexico over coronavirus

French cardinal exits over failure to report alleged sex abuser

Vatican sends top two sex crimes investigators to Mexico

Próvolo abuse survivors ask Pope for justice

Deaf Argentine abuse survivors target pope with defiant message

Boy Scouts of America's future uncertain after bankruptcy filing

Disgraced religious order tried to get abuse victim to lie

Harvey Weinstein trial reaches closing stages with jury set to decide fate

Deaf Próvolo child abuse victims accuse Pope Francis of inaction

Pope defrocks Argentine priest for sexual misconduct, abuse of power

Pope defrocks fellow Argentine priest Roberto Yannuzzi

Court clears French cardinal who failed to report abusive priest

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