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Doctors and Sex Abuse
How doctors who abuse patients keep practicing, 50-state investigation finds. By Carrie Teegardin, Danny Robbins, Jeff Ernsthausen and Ariel Hart.
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Ex-altar boy who killed himself mourned in church where he was molested
Brian Gergely, who died at 46, battled alcoholism from the age of 10, amid what a grand jury concluded was widespread rape and abuse in Pennsylvania. Brian Gergely’s body lay at his funeral mass just feet from where, in the same church, his revered priest had shattered his innocence and trust by molesting him when he was 10 years old. “The root of all his problems was what happened to him as a kid,” said John Luther, a friend and former schoolmate of Gergely’s at a Catholic elementary school in the small Pennsylvania town of Ebensburg.
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Refugees banned from Austrian pool after ‘foreigner’ sexually assaults teenage girl
Authorities in the Austrian town of Mistelbach issued a temporary pool ban for refugees following a sexual assault by a “dark-skinned’ man on a 13-year-old girl. "This news was a shock," said the town’s mayor, Alfred Pohl, as quoted by the Heute media outlet. According to Austrian newspaper Kronen Zeitung, the attack happened on Wednesday afternoon.
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Father Doyle’s disappearing act: how a paedophile priest hid in plain sight
Parishioners believed the Catholic hierarchy when they said a much-loved priest had retired. They were happy when he still played a part in their lives. Then, 11 years later, they learnt the truth. By Chris Vedelago, Beau Donelly and Cameron Houston. (May 28, ’16)
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Shandra Woworuntu: My life as a sex-trafficking victim
Shandra Woworuntu arrived in the US hoping to start a new career in the hotel industry. Instead, she found she had been trafficked into a world of prostitution and sexual slavery, forced drug-taking and violence. It was months before she was able to turn the tables on her persecutors. Some readers may find her account of the ordeal upsetting. I arrived in the United States in the first week of June, 2001. To me, America was a place of promise and opportunity.
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The savage descent of Mustang Sallie
A rebellious country girl studying high-level maths and science becomes a hooker and junkie roaming [Sydney’s] Kings Cross. How does this happen? By Stephanie Wood. [Autoplay]
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No, Lolita
He wasn’t just my teacher. He was the rockstar teacher of our theater program. By Marissa Korbel.
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Jimmy Savile Inquiry Accuses BBC of Failing to Report Sexual Abuse
A culture of fear that persists to this day at the BBC and a permissive attitude to stars allowed Jimmy Savile, the disgraced British television personality, to sexually abuse 72 victims, including children, according to a long-awaited report published on Thursday... By Dan Bilefsky.
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The Funny Thing About Abusive Relationships
I write comedy, so jokes became my DEFCON when I thought my boyfriend might hurt me. By Julieanne Smolinski
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“Spotlight” and Its Revelations
How the film, and the journalists it depicts, laid bare the power of disclosure, and even conversation. By Sarah Larson.
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Teen gets 20 years for fondling student at Hurst elementary
A teen who groped a third-grade boy at a Hurst elementary school and recruited other victims was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Monday. Hurst police said Ricardo Lugo, 18, of Fort Worth posed as a 12-year-old last year to enroll at Hurst Hills Elementary School where the incidents occurred. Lugo on Monday was sentenced to 20 years for indecency with a child, the maximum sentence for the charge, according to court records.
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