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• Paradise lost for LA Times religion reporter

  Published: July 25, 2007, 7:43 pm

  Tags: Los Angeles, Sexual Abuse, Grief, Theodicy, God, Christianity, Media

  change how they handled sexual abuse allegations, including a promise to kick out any priest with a credible molestation allegation in his past. It emerged that both dioceses had many known molesters on duty. Los Angeles had two convicted pedophiles still working as priests.While reporting the Harris story, I learned from court records

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• Cardinal Mahony as the serpent and the mayor as Adam

  Published: July 23, 2007, 4:13 pm

  Tags: Roger Mahony, Los Angeles, Sexual Abuse, Antonio Villaraigosa, Politics, Christianity, Media

  victims of clergy sex abuse and about Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's philandering ways.Well, the LA Daily News put the two together in this cover for the Sunday Viewpoint section. That's Mahony as the serpent and the mayor chasing his adulterous lover Mirthala Salinas through the "Garden of Telemundo." You obviously get the

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• LA Archdiocese to sell headquarters

  Published: July 19, 2007, 12:21 pm

  Tags: Roger Mahony, Los Angeles, Sexual Abuse, Christianity

  settlement with alleged sexual abuse victims (insurers and religious order pick up the rest). From the LA Times:Cardinal Roger M. Mahony and others have said the archdiocese, which drained its litigation reserve fund in payouts for a partial clergy-abuse settlement in December, will try to avoid harming "essential ministries" and does not

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• Accused pedophile allegedly faked his death

  Published: August 22, 2007, 4:52 pm

  Tags: Sexual Abuse, Christianity

  youth pastor accused of sexually assaulting a child in Texas was tracked down living here Tuesday, six months after he allegedly faked his own death. Kevin Othell Laferney, 40, is wanted in Upshur County, Texas, on four counts each of aggravated sexual assault of a child and bail jumping. According to the U.S. Marshals Service, he

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• Accused pedophile allegedly faked his death

  Published: August 22, 2007, 4:52 pm

  Tags: Sexual Abuse, Christianity

  youth pastor accused of sexually assaulting a child in Texas was tracked down living here Tuesday, six months after he allegedly faked his own death. Kevin Othell Laferney, 40, is wanted in Upshur County, Texas, on four counts each of aggravated sexual assault of a child and bail jumping. According to the U.S. Marshals Service, he

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• Fashion Designer Anand Jon Released on Bail

  Published: April 7, 2007, 6:41 pm

  Tags: Designers, Assult, Rape, Models, Anand Job, Sexual, Abuse

  added to the seven original sexual assault charges he already faced following his arrest on Mar. 6 by the Beverly Hills police.Jon was originally charged with seven counts of rape and sexual assault between October 2004 and Mar. 5, 2007, and was arrested at his Beverly Hills condominium less than 24 hours after a woman filed charges of rape

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• Nuns on the run (sort of)

  Published: September 7, 2007, 11:24 am

  Tags: Los Angeles, Sexual Abuse, Christianity

  people who claimed they were sexually abused by Catholic priests -- is forcing out Escalera and the other nuns of Sisters of Bethany house in Santa Barbara. From the LA Times:SANTA BARBARA -- For 43 years, Sister Angela Escalera has lived and often worked out of her order's small convent on this city's east side, helping the area's many poor and

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• Resilience

  Published: August 31, 2007, 5:12 pm

  Tags: School Trauma, Meltdowns, Disability Blogs, Activism, Sexual Abuse, Ptsd

  up to my cousins when they sexually abused me. I suspect they pressured me into cooperating with the abuse - part of why I'm terrified of giving in.Since I've left school, I've stood up for myself and others many times. I've advocated on the internet, even wading into the vicious yahoo group EOHarm to tell them they shouldn't be insulting

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• 8 Random Things About Myself

  Published: July 20, 2007, 4:03 pm

  Tags: School Trauma, Sexual Abuse, Autism, David Hingsburger

  Whereas many survivors of sexual abuse have trouble saying 'no' to things, I have trouble saying 'yes' (only when I'm having flashbacks). I feel like by saying 'yes', I'm giving away my power and giving other people permission to hurt me.2. I suggested people read First Contact by David Hingsburger on this one CBC call-in for people to suggest

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• The Risks of Incorrect Assumptions in Facilitated Communication

  Published: May 25, 2007, 3:39 pm

  Tags: Assumptions, Sexual Abuse, Unable Disabled, Facilitated Communication

  has made an allegation of sexual abuse, the consequences for them are much more severe. They could be left to suffer further abuse despite their seeking help or taken away from good parents. If the allegation is true, the abuser benefits if they are ignored and suffers justly if they are listened to, whereas if the allegation is false, the

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• Emotional Differences

  Published: May 19, 2007, 12:28 pm

  Tags: School Trauma, Sexual Abuse, Steroids, Ptsd, Normal Parents, Joint Problems, Asthma, Autism

  who specializes in sexual abuse but knows very little about autism. Fortunately, she knows it, unlike many autism 'experts', so she's teachable.Anyway, the second-last session I had, she was trying to give me a piece of advice which I could tell didn't apply to the kind of mind I have, but whenever I tried to explain, her reply made it

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• The transsexual minister and the president's pick for America's physician

  Published: September 9, 2007, 2:01 pm

  Tags: Sexual Abuse, Christianity

  morning took note of a transsexual United Methodist minister -- the former Rev. Ann Gordon, now Drew Phoenix -- mentioned here in May. But an interesting twist on the story is this:(w)hen Phoenix, 48, was reappointed to another year of ministry this spring by his bishop, it sparked a protest in the United Methodist Church.The denomination's

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• Bishop: Parishioners should pay for pedophile priests

  Published: October 8, 2007, 11:50 am

  Tags: Catholicism, California, Sexual Abuse

  bill comes due for all this sexual abuse, the San Diego Diocese asks the friends and family and neighbors of those who were abused to help pay?"The people who are actually culpable, a lot of them are dead, and among the rest of us, nobody has any more culpability than anyone else," said Sheridan, a homemaker. "But I do think the Vatican can sell

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• The sex abusers no one talks about: teachers

  Published: October 22, 2007, 7:01 am

  Tags: Protecting Children From Sexual Assault, Protectingchildrenfromsexualassault, Sex Offenders, Sexoffenders, Sexual Abuse Teachers, Sexual Misconduct Among Teachers, Sexualabuseandteachers, Sexualmisconductamongteachers, Teachers As Sex Offenders, Teachersassexoffen

  shameful secret of priests sexually abusing children has been brought out into the open, but there is another occupation loaded with sexual misconduct with minors that hasn't been discussed: teachers. An Associated Press investigation turned up 2,500 cases of educators punished for sexual misconduct in American schools over the past five

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• Giuliani Defends, Employs Priest Accused of Molesting Teens

  Published: October 25, 2007, 6:33 pm

  Tags: Alan Placa, Sexual Abuse By Catholic Priests, Rudy Giuliani

  personally involved in the sexual abuse, the grand jury also said that Priest F became instrumental in a church policy that used "deception and intimidation" to keep the church scandal quiet.Placa served as a lawyer for the diocese in dealing with allegations of abuse against other priests and, according to the grand jury report, claimed he had

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