The President signed legislation passed by Congress in January to protect athletes from sexual abuse. The Protecting Young Victims from Sexual Abuse and Safe Sport Authorization Act requires national governing bodies to report suspected child abuse to law enforcement within 24 hours. The Act provides for criminal penalties if those required fail to report and authorizes the Center…

Eleven years after Jeffrey Epstein was given a very lenient plea deal following being charged with sexually abusing teenage girls in Florida, federal law enforcement officers arrested him this past weekend on new sex trafficking and conspiracy charges. Law enforcement officials told reporters the new case is related to allegations that Epstein paid underage girls for massages…

Dozens of men remember a Rockefeller researcher, now dead, sexually abusing them decades ago. After inquiries from BuzzFeed News, the editors of two journals have decided to acknowledge the allegations in the scientific record. Harold Marmon had always been small for his age. When he was 14, his parents were worried enough to enroll him…

According to KCBS News, Santa Monica police took Eric Uller into custody in October after an investigation on a child sexual abuse claim that reaches into the 1980s. He is being held on $750,000 bail, and is charged with a number of crimes including lewd acts upon a child, oral copulation of an individual under the…

Many states limit the power of survivors to seek civil justice in child sex abuse cases, and Texas is little different. While there are no limitations on the criminal statutes involved, the victims involved have just five years to file a civil suit. Many are calling for reform, as demonstrated by a recent editorial in…

For many years I have written about the necessity of extending the statute of limitations for victims of sexual abuse in order to afford them the needed time to both process the psychological and emotional effects of the abuse and gain the inner wherewithal to confront their abusers and those who enabled them. In this…

On Wednesday, August, 15, U.S. District Court Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings released the names of four more police officers who are defendants in the suit – Matthew Gelhausen, Paul Brandon Parris, Julie Schmidt, and Casey Scott. These names had not previously been known to the public. Jennings’ fifteen page ruling ordered the suits opened, but…