ST. LOUIS (AP) — Advocates for victims of abuse at Missouri boarding schools on Monday urged the state’s attorney general to launch an investigation, work with local prosecutors and take other steps aimed at stemming the tide of abuse. Three …
Staff at Wyoming’s state youth detention facility locked juveniles in solitary confinement for weeks at a time, repeatedly buckled one in a restraint chair for up to 12 hours a day and poked fun at another while withholding the leg …
Workers for corporations owned by Michael Jackson had no legal obligation to protect children from the pop star, an attorney told an appeals court. Jackson estate lawyer Jonathan Steinsapir pushed back against a tentative decision by California’s 2nd District Court …
Childhood sexual abuse victims in Colorado will no longer be able to file lawsuits over abuse that happened decades ago, as the state Supreme Court struck down a law Tuesday that gave victims a three-year window to sue over abuses …
A former gynecologist at the University of California, Los Angeles was sentenced Wednesday to 11 years in prison for sexually abusing female patients, in a criminal trial that came after the university system made nearly $700 million in lawsuit payouts …
People who were sexually abused as children in Washington state may soon be able to bring lawsuits against the state, schools or other institutions for failing to stop the abuse, no matter when it happened. House Bill 1618 would remove …
Two women who say a nurse sexually assaulted them while they were unconscious in intensive care filed a lawsuit against the Colorado hospital where they were being treated, alleging the hospital’s management didn’t do enough to prevent the abuse. The …
A Clackamas County grand jury has declined to indict a former suburban Portland, Oregon, doctor on criminal charges of sexual misconduct and abuse of patients, finding there isn’t enough evidence to prove the claims, the county district attorney’s office announced. …
A licensed clinical social worker has been charged with sexually assaulting patients while working at a Southern California psychiatric hospital, prosecutors said. The alleged abuse occurred between 2014 and 2018 at Patton State Hospital east of Los Angeles, the San …
Five additional lawsuits have been filed accusing a southwestern Missouri boarding school of abusing students. The lawsuits alleging physical and emotional abuse at Agape Boarding School were filed last week in Vernon County. All told, 19 lawsuits have been filed …
