Assaults and Sexual Crimes 04/30/2023
Apr 29, 2023(April 27) $2.3B Awarded In Sex Abuse Lawsuit That Named Mormon Church | Riverside, CA
Attorneys say a California jury has awarded $2.28 billion to a woman who was molested for years by her stepfather.
The panel in Riverside County awarded damages Tuesday to a woman who says she was sexually assaulted from age 5 until she was 14, beginning in the 1980s. The stepfather spent three years in prison for lewd acts on a child. The suit also named the woman’s mother and the local Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
It alleged that church officials repeatedly failed to report the abuse. The church denied wrongdoing but last year settled its part of the case for $1 million.
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(April 26) Church, School Leader Charged; Allegedly Groomed Child For Years | Memphis, TN
A former Mid-South church leader and Christian school administrator is accused of persuading a high school student to engage in sexual activity online, and then recorded that activity without the victim’s knowledge.
John “Jay” Brownlow, 32, allegedly groomed the teen, a Westminster Academy student, at the peak of the pandemic, and installed cameras in the boy’s bedroom without him knowing.
The Action News 5 Investigators have been watching Brownlow’s case move through a Shelby County courtroom since September when he pleaded not guilty to seven felonies and one misdemeanor.
The Investigators were tipped off about the arrest, and have since been corresponding with the teen’s family.
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(April 25) Woman Files Lawsuit Alleging Sexual Abuse By Former Philadelphia Priest While She Was A Student At Aquinas College In Nashville | Philadelphia, PA
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia is facing a civil lawsuit over claims it covered up for one of its former priests who allegedly sexually abused a student at a Nashville, Tennessee, Catholic college run by Dominican women religious.
The complaint highlights problems in the sharing of information among dioceses and institutions, as well as unaddressed challenges in the Catholic Church’s handling of allegations of sexual abuse involving adult victims.
Attorneys for “Jane Doe,” an undergraduate at Aquinas College in Nashville from 2014-2018, filed a 31-page complaint April 18 with the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas Civil Trial Division, naming as defendants the archdiocese and Kevin Barry McGoldrick, a former priest of the Philadelphia archdiocese and currently a Nashville resident.
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(April 25) Man Files Lawsuit Against Diocese Of Little Rock And Two Churches Over Alleged Sexual Abuse By Now-Deceased Pocahontas Priest | Little Rock, AR
An anonymous White County man has filed a lawsuit against the Diocese of Little Rock and two churches where a now-deceased Catholic priest from Pocahontas served as pastor.
The man alleges that he was sexually abused by the priest, Richard Davis, when he was a 10-year-old altar boy 42 years ago. According to a report by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, the man, referred to in the suit as "John Doe," is seeking compensation for vicarious liability for Davis' actions, as well as negligence, negligent supervision and retention of an employee, failure to protect him, and premises liability.
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