sexual abuse
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Pope Leo XIV will give an unprecedented address on Monday to the Spanish parliament and is set to meet with victims of sexual abuse by clergy.
From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026
Federal juries in both cases found in favor of Carroll, awarding her $83 million in the defamation case and $5 million in the sexual abuse one.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
It was a post-#MeToo law, the Adult Survivors Act, that allowed the journalist and advice columnist E. Jean Carroll to bring her civil sexual abuse case against Trump.
From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026
In the hours and days after the late farmworkers rights leader César Chávez was accused of sexual abuse, his name and image were stripped from schools, streets and murals.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
It didn't appear that emotional trauma or abuse was bedizened as sexual abuse in a display to get others to empathize with her tattered past.
From Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America by Sills, Steven (Steven David Justin)
