Sex abuse claims against school aren’t time-barred 
Published: March 21, 2013
Tags: sexual abuse, statute of limitations
A state statute of limitations did not bar the personal injury claims of adults who claimed they were sexually abused by a public school teacher when they were children, the Oregon Supreme Court has ruled in reversing a dismissal.
$635,000 settlement for abuse at church
Published: November 16, 2012
Tags: child sex abuse, molestation, sexual abuse, Washington
The Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle has agreed to pay $635,000 to settle a lawsuit from a man who says he was molested in the 1980s by a youth minister at St. John Vianney Church in Kirkland, Wash.
Child abuse experts can’t testify on repressed memory
Published: July 27, 2012
Tags: expert witness, fraud, negligence, repressed memory, sexual abuse, statute of limitations
Experts in a child sex abuse case could not testify on repressed and recovered memory to explain the plaintiff’s delay in filing his personal injury lawsuit, the Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled in reinstating a dismissal.
Child prostitution charge doesn’t require ‘knowledge’
Published: July 6, 2012
Tags: child prostitution, sexual abuse
The government did not have to prove that a defendant knew that the victim was a minor in order to obtain a conviction for facilitating interstate child prostitution, the 11th Circuit has ruled in affirming a conviction.
State pays $2.85 million settlement in case of child sex abuse
Published: May 7, 2012
Tags: child sex abuse, Department of Social and Health Services, sexual abuse, Washington
The Washington State Department of Social and Health Services will pay $2.85 million to settle a lawsuit brought by a Grays Harbor County woman who was sexually abused by her father when she was 13 years old.
Jury awards sisters $2 million over abuse
Published: April 26, 2012
Tags: Alaska, child abuse, sexual abuse
After an eight-day trial, a Kenai, Alaska jury has awarded $2 million to two sisters who were abused in foster care.
State law doesn’t revive priest sex abuse claims
Published: April 2, 2012
Tags: negligent hiring, sexual abuse, statute of limitations
State law does not authorize the revival of personal injury claims brought by men who alleged that in recent years they discovered that their psychological problems were due to sexual abuse by a priest in the 1970s, the California Supreme Court has ruled in reinstating a dismissal.
Expert couldn’t testify on reliability of confession
Published: April 2, 2012
Tags: expert testimony, sexual abuse
A child sex abuse defendant could not introduce an expert to testify regarding the reliability of confessions that she later claimed were involuntary, New York’s highest court has ruled in affirming a conviction.
School didn’t have duty to prevent molestation
Published: March 28, 2012
Tags: civil rights, sexual abuse, §1983
A public elementary school did not have a constitutional duty to prevent a student from being molested by a man who removed her from school by posing as her father, the en banc 5th Circuit has ruled in affirming a dismissal.
Oklahoma jury awards $4.55 million in sex abuse case
By:
Brianna Bailey
Published: March 26, 2012
Tags: counselor, failure to report, gross negligence, mental health, Oklahoma, sexual abuse
An Oklahoma jury has handed down a $4.55 million verdict in a gross negligence lawsuit against a mental health counseling center and one of its employees who failed to report sexual abuse.
