A New York jury recently awarded $2.7 million to former nightclub manager Maria Jose Pizarro after considering her claims of sexual harassment.

State appellate court reopened a sexual abuse lawsuit filed against rock musician Marilyn Manson.

A former North Carolina teacher is required to pay $140 million in damages to 14 plaintiffs in a civil case after pleading guilty to 59 sex crimes against children.

A widely utilized chat website has ceased operation after 14 years. Why?

Montgomery County School District faces serious allegations of neglect in the face of sexual misconduct.

Westlake Police Department received a tip from a local Catholic priest reporting a “disturbing incident” that involved Luis Jesus Barajas and a 15-year-old girl suffering from cancer.

In North Olmsted, the traditional police interview rooms for survivors of sexual assault and trauma are being remodeled through the lens of a “safe space” approach. Previous interview rooms forced survivors to recount painful memories in impersonal and potentially frightening environments.

The University Place School District in Washington State reached a $9.5 million settlement in a sex abuse case against three former students.

An ongoing case against Tabor Community Partners has resulted in an $11 million settlement. The adoptive mother of a young infant stated that the Philadelphia child welfare non-profit provided “inadequate in-home safety and case management services” when caring for the baby.

A Butler County youth pastor is under police investigation after accusations surfaced of multiple sex crimes involving minors. Jario Isidro Thomas Sanchez was a pastor at many southwest Ohio churches, and he currently faces 14 criminal charges “including gross sexual imposition, abduction, sexual imposition and unlawful restraint.”

Warren Jeffs, leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, owes $152 million to 15 victims as a result of a recent Utah federal ruling. Jeffs appeared on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List in 2006 after evading charges of arranging illegal marriages between adult male FLDS followers and underage girls.

The principal of Kensington Intermediate School in Rocky River has been placed on immediate leave following an investigation involving a former high school student. Kensington is a public intermediate school for grades three through five, with over 600 students.

The New York Child Victims Act has granted a survivor of childhood sexual assault the opportunity to receive $95 million. The unnamed Rochester man was assaulted by Reverend Foster P. Rogers in 1979.

The foster care system has failed an eight-year-old New Mexico girl, and will finally pay the price. $485 million in damages has been awarded by a Rio Arriba County jury in the civil case against Clarence Garcia, the 66-year-old foster parent assigned to the young girl.

A Cleveland dance instructor found guilty of sexually assaulting his former students was sentenced by Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Kevin Kelley to life in prison on June 8th, 2023.

Bad facts often make bad law. In the matter of Cummings v. Premier Rehab Keller, P.L.L.C, 142 S.Ct. 1562 (2022), the bad law has even broader implications.

Over 100 men abused by Ohio State University medical doctor Richard Strauss in the late 1970s finally have an opportunity for justice. The Supreme Court has allowed lawsuits against Strauss to move forward, rejecting an appeal made by the university.

New York State’s Child Victims Act was ruled constitutional earlier this month after a taxing Supreme Court battle. This recent development has the potential to alter the course of many survivors’ lives for the better.

In the case of Fonderlin v. Trumbull Family Fitness, 2023 WL 2472994 (Eleventh District 2023), the Trumbull County Court of Appeals in Ohio concluded that genuine issues of material fact existed …