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Nova Scotia man accused of sexually abusing children since the 1970s: RCMP
Investigators say all of the complainants were known to the accused and were children or youth when the alleged assaults occurred.
#Crime
https://globalnews.ca/news/11805970/nova-scotia-historic-sexual-abuse-charges/

Bich Nguyen 17h ago

"For four years running, policy experts and survivor advocates with RAINN, the nation’s largest anti-sexual violence advocacy organization, have come to Capitol Hill for a day of lobbying. This year, their annual advocacy day came amid a reckoning over sexual misconduct in the halls of Congress."

https://19thnews.org/2026/04/congress-sexual-misconduct-survivors-advocacy/

#PublicHealth #SexualAbuse #AI #technology #UScongress #USpol

CBC Canada 1d ago

Three years after clergy-abuse case settled for $10M, victims still haven’t been paid
More than 60 victims of sexual abuse by clergy from what is now the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth are still waiting to be paid from a settlement that was approved in November 2022. Some are growing frustrated with the delays and what they view as a lack of information.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/clergy-abuse-halifax-yarmouth-victims-not-yet-paid-9.7163025?cmp=rss

CBC Top Stories 1d ago

Three years after clergy-abuse case settled for $10M, victims still haven’t been paid
More than 60 victims of sexual abuse by clergy from what is now the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth are still waiting to be paid from a settlement that was approved in November 2022. Some are growing frustrated with the delays and what they view as a lack of information.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/clergy-abuse-halifax-yarmouth-victims-not-yet-paid-9.7163025?cmp=rss

Deb Nam-Krane 1d ago

The US did horrible things in #southkorea The South Korean government helped. Ah, empire.

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Camptown victims’ suit over US troop abuses reaches Seoul court - The Korea Herald
https://m.koreaherald.com/article/10719122

#sexualabuse #humantrafficking

Camptown victims’ suit over US troop abuses reaches Seoul court - The Korea Herald

The Seoul Central District Court on Wednesday held the first preparatory hearing in a state compensation suit filed by 117 women who said they were forced into

The Korea Herald

UC Access Now 1d ago

"The renowned UCLA gynecologist, who at one point was one of the highest paid physicians employed by the school, was indicted in 2021 on multiple counts each of sexual battery by fraud, sexual exploitation of a patient and sexual penetration of an unconscious person by fraudulent representation. The charges were linked to the sexual assaults of seven women between 2009 and 2018."

https://apnews.com/article/james-heap-ucla-gynecologist-sexual-abuse-conviction-41d02d54f363ada78fa8c87926d57e4d #SexualAbuse #MedicalAbuse

Former UCLA gynecologist pleads guilty to sexual abuse charges

A former University of California, Los Angeles, gynecologist has pleaded guilty to sexual abuse charges in connection with the sexual assault of several patients over his career, after an appeals court reversed his conviction earlier this year. Instead of going to trial again, James Heaps pleaded guilty Tuesday to 13 felonies involving a total of five victims and was sentenced to 11 years in prison, the same as his previous sentence. His attorney did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment.

AP News

CBC Nova Scotia 1d ago

Three years after clergy-abuse case settled for $10M, victims still haven’t been paid
More than 60 victims of sexual abuse by clergy from what is now the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth are still waiting to be paid from a settlement that was approved in November 2022. Some are growing frustrated with the delays and what they view as a lack of information.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/clergy-abuse-halifax-yarmouth-victims-not-yet-paid-9.7163025?cmp=rss

Bich Nguyen 1d ago

"A former longtime University of California, Los Angeles gynecologist at the center of a sexual misconduct scandal that prompted the school to pay $700 million to settle hundreds of claims pleaded guilty Tuesday to sexual abuse charges and now faces 11 years in prison."

https://apnews.com/article/james-heap-ucla-gynecologist-sexual-abuse-conviction-41d02d54f363ada78fa8c87926d57e4d

#healthcare #physicians #MedSchools #misconduct #SexualAbuse #bioethics

Former UCLA gynecologist pleads guilty to sexual abuse charges

A former University of California, Los Angeles, gynecologist has pleaded guilty to sexual abuse charges in connection with the sexual assault of several patients over his career, after an appeals court reversed his conviction earlier this year. Instead of going to trial again, James Heaps pleaded guilty Tuesday to 13 felonies involving a total of five victims and was sentenced to 11 years in prison, the same as his previous sentence. His attorney did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment.

AP News