‘I Want to Be Heard’: Adult Sex-Abuse Victims Demand New Rights

Adult victims often have little legal recourse. A bill in New York would give them a “look-back window” to revive claims in civil court.

A bill being introduced in the State Capitol will seek to change that. The Adult Survivors Act would create a one-year window that would allow adults to revive old sex-crime accusations and bring them to court.

The proposal mirrors parts of the “look-back window” that began in August under the Child Victims Act, which has resulted in a deluge of lawsuits related to allegations of child sex abuse, some decades old. read more »

Child sexual abuse inquiry criticizes lack of cooperation from Vatican

The Vatican’s repeated refusal to cooperate with official investigations into paedophile priests and its delay in stripping convicted offenders of their clerical status has been condemned by the UK’s child sexual abuse inquiry.

In a highly critical attack on the papacy’s stonewalling response to decades of complaints, the lead counsel to the inquiry, Brian Altman QC, said it was “very disappointing” that significant evidence and statements had been withheld. read more »