Of Note
Child sex abuse is a zero-sum game: Either we choose to let the victims tell their stories when they can, or we choose to continue to cover up the abuse and empower the predators. It is really as simple as that.
Marci Hamilton, JD
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Childhood Photos Presents Real Faces of Some of the One in Five Children in America Who are Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse
Display and Speaking Program to Inform Legislators and Public About Impact of This Abuse and Urge Support for the Child Victims" Act of NY
WHO: Advocates, Supporters and Assembly and Senate Sponsors of Child Victims' Act of New York (A2596-S2568).
WHAT: "Faces of the 1 in 5" exhibit of childhood photos of childhood sexual abuse victims in NY State to educate legislators and public about long term impact of abuse.
WHEN: State office business hours, Monday through Wednesday June 1-3.
OPENING PROGRAM: 11:00 a.m., Tuesday, June 2nd, with remarks by some individuals whose faces are shown in the exhibit.
WHERE: Concourse Entrance, State Legislative Office Building, Albany, NY
"Faces of the 1 in 5" Exhibit in Albany, NY from June 1 - June 3
The "Faces" exhibit will include many displays and informational posters. Eight of them are available below. The displays will be up in Albany's Legislative Office Building from June 1 to June 3 during business hours.
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In the next 2 days your action now could help get the NY Child Victims Act (NY Assembly Bill 2596) passed.
There
is a bill in the New York Assembly that has a chance to extend the
statute of limitations on child sex abuse and to open a one year
window to allow survivors to have a chance for justice. The NY
Catholic Conference is promoting a competing bill which extends the
statute of limitations minimally and does not have a window. It
is imperative that NY Legislators hear from survivors and their
supporters. Please call or email the people on the list below
(Full document HERE) and share this email with
everyone you know who cares about children.
THE TIME TO CALL/EMAIL THEM
IS NOW!
These members of the New York Assembly may be on the
fence about the Child Victims Act . It is
imperative that they hear from victims and their supporters to
encourage them to vote yes on this bill.
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Team Recognizes Their Work for Child Sex Abuse Awareness and Preventio Former Philly Eagle and TNA Pro Wrestler Will Throw Out First Pitch
They Will Also Sign Autographs, Meet Fans
Use Delaware's Civil Window to Protect Kids - Before It's Too Late, They Ask Attendees, Victims
At a Wilmington Blue Rocks Baseball game, two sport stars who are also victims of childhood sexual abuse will throw out the first ceremonial pitch and sign autographs for fans. Both men are being honored for their work for victims of child sex abuse and for raising awareness for Delaware's Child Victims' Act.
Wilmington's Frawley Stadium 801 Shipyard Drive (at Madison), Wilmington DE
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Ceremony begins at 6:30 pm Game starts at 7:05
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PRESS
STATEMENT:
CONTACT: John Salveson 215.870.0680
PHILADELPHIA (APRIL 16,
2009) --- John F. Salveson, Founder and President of the Foundation
to Abolish Child Sex Abuse, Inc. (FACSA) announced today the
Foundation’s enthusiastic and unequivocal support of NY Assembly Bill
2596, sponsored by Assemblywoman Marge Markey. The bill, known as
the Child Victims Act, would lengthen the statute of limitations for
filing civil claims against sexual predators and those who protect
and shield those predators. The bill would also create a one-year
window during which prior claims could be brought without regard to
statute of limitations.
(Full Press Statement here)
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Compromise law permits charges in molestation cases until victim’s 28th birthday
Richard Roesler / Staff writer The Spokesman-Review
Spokane, Washington
OLYMPIA – After years of lobbying by local victims of childhood sex abuse, state lawmakers and the governor have changed Washington law to allow prosecutors several more years to go after rapists and molesters.
Senate Bill 5832 extends the statute of limitations on child sex abuse crimes from the victim’s 21st birthday to age 28.
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By SARA GIBONEY, World Herald News Service
Published: Thursday, April 9, 2009 8:09 AM CDT
KEARNEY - "This is where they bled, this is where they cried, this is where they were tortured," he said.
Gary Phillips, section chief for the Department of Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement, presented a photo of Michael Pepe's bed.
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Henry McDonald
The Guardian
Friday 10 April 2009
One of Ireland's most senior clergyman admitted yesterday that an imminent report on the sexual abuse of children by clergy will shock the country and reveal that thousands of children were abused by priests.
In an unprecedented homily for Holy Thursday, Diarmuid Martin, the Archbishop of Dublin, warned that the depth of the abuse "will shock us all".
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Law, school workers let man accused of abuse start anew in Metro
By Jaime Sarrio
THE TENNESSEAN
April 12, 2009
Ronald Boykin
Jr.'s teaching career did not end when he was charged with raping a
child. It did not end when he listed on a job application that his last
employer suspended him for misconduct. It did not end when he submitted
to three criminal background checks.
Instead, Ronald Boykin Jr.'s teaching career ended on March 22 when he disobeyed a traffic sign.
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Opening up a window for victims to file suit against their perpetrators would provide one form of justice.
Editorial
Posted: Mar. 27, 2009
After a car crash, some walk away with mere bruises. Others spend the rest of their lives suffering deep and persistent pain. That lifelong, wracking pain is a trademark characteristic resulting from sexual abuse.
There is much to shock the conscience and strain belief in the case of Daniel Acker of Waukesha, the part-time aquatics program coordinator suspected of sexually assaulting young boys and teens for more than 30 years.
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The News Journal
delawareonline
April 17, 2009
Two new suits alleging sexual abuse by former Delaware priests were filed Thursday in Delaware Superior Court.
In the first, plaintiff Kevin Cuff alleges the late Rev. John M. McDevitt and the Rev. Dennis W. Killion abused him while he was a student at Salesianum School in Wilmington. The alleged abuse by Killion began in 1983 when Cuff was a freshman in the priest's religion class and continued his sophomore year; McDevitt began abusing him when he was a junior, according to the suit.
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By Jessica Musicar, Staff Writer
Saturday, April 11, 2009 8:57 PM PDT
Your neighbor down the street. A local coach. A trusted family friend.
Pedophiles can be anyone, but they're probably people you know.
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Stephanie Hockridge, edited by Jason Vaughn
WDAF-TV
April 9, 2009
KANSAS CITY, MO - Pornography and sexual enticement charges against St. Joseph Baptist minister Robert Black have many parents across the metro area combing through their children's Facebook and MySpace profiles to see if he had contact with their child. But for one metro woman, word of the charges were especially shocking.
Marcia Franke says she first met Black at a court-ordered facility where parents bring their kids for supervised visitation.
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Friday, 10 April 2009
belfasttelegraph.co.uk
Thousands of children were raped and abused by Catholic priests, many of them serial offenders in the Dublin diocese over a 30-year period, a shocking report on clerical sex abuse will reveal next month.
The scale of the abuse between 1975 and 2004 was revealed yesterday by Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin, who urged his priests and Catholic lay people to receive the damning report with “humility”.
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By LAURIE GOODSTEIN, New York Times
April 3, 2009
The founder of a Roman Catholic religious order that ran retreat centers for troubled priests warned American bishops in forceful letters dating back to 1952 that pedophiles should be removed from the priesthood because they could not be cured.
The Rev. Gerald M. C. Fitzgerald, founder of the order, Servants of the Paraclete, delivered the same advice in person to Vatican officials in Rome in 1962 and to Pope Paul VI a year later, according to the letters, which were unsealed by a judge in the course of litigation against the church.
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Meg Kissinger of the Journal Sentinel
Posted: Mar. 27, 2009
People who have molested children for years typically get away with it for so long because the victims are not inclined to tell others, said Dale Bespalec, a psychologist for 30 years who has specialized in sex crimes against children.
Victims, especially young children, might feel threatened, he said.
"The molester might say, 'If you tell, Mommy or Daddy will go to jail.' Or, 'Your dog will die,' " Bespalec said.
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