A recent article published by the Associated Press reports on how The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its policy towards sexual abuse within the church does little to stop abuse and protect victims. Rather than helping those in need, this policy has lead to a system that is misused by church leaders...

The San Diego Union-Tribune recently reported a story on Brad Davis, a former instructor at El Cajon-based Christian Youth Theater who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a 16-year-old girl from the program. Davis was one of two men charged in October of 2021 with sexually abusing girls in the Christian Youth Theater program. The...

On May 15, 2022, a report was released detailing rampant sexual abuse within the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) along with widespread efforts to ignore victims and cover-up allegations.  The report included a list of hundreds of credibly accused offenders with abuses spanning decades.  If you or a loved one suffered sexual abuse at any...

The Houston Chronicle has published an article reporting that for over 20 years, leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention - including a former president now accused of sexual assault - routinely silenced and trivialized sexual abuse survivors, ignored pleas to enact systems to stop predators, and disregarded reforms that they privately acknowledged could protect children but, in...

Barry Todd Noden, of Calimesa, is the music teacher and school band leader (at Rialto Unified's Eisenhower High School) recently arrested for having sex with his 16-year-old student over the period of March through May of 2016. Nodded is 57 -- he turned himself in and has pleaded not guilty, despite the fact that...

Music teacher Henry Reed in Sunnyvale was arrested for sexually-inappropriate behavior with a minor, Friday January 12, 2017. According to police, Reed worked part-time as a musician's assistant. The name of the school where the incidents took place is being withheld at this time, to protect the identity of the survivor -- the school...

Gerardo Custodio Jr, the long-time youth pastor at Ontario's Iglesia La Familia de Dios, was arrested Sunday January 14, 2017. He is suspected of having sexually abused two minors between 2012 and 2015. 30-year-old Custodio has been a youth pastor there for many years; he had been away from the church while attending college,...

51-year-old Daniel Rios is a former substitute teacher and coach at El Monte, California's Arroyo High School, part of El Monte Union School District. Rios was arraigned at Pomona Superior Court for five counts of child sexual molestation of his former students. The student victims were molested over the course of five months, August...

Jason Morris Gorski has already pleaded guilty on Tuesday, November 14, 2017, to sexual abuse of a 13-year old boy, a former student of his. Gorski is a 44-year-old former teacher and Jehovah's Witness elder. The sentencing, currently scheduled for January 26, 2018, is expected to earn Gorski six years in prison. His former...

Steve James Howard, the 58-year-old pastor of the United Methodist Church in Muscoy, California, was just convicted on Friday October 27, 2017 of over 30 counts of child sexual molestation. Sentencing is set for November 29 in San Bernardino; in the meantime Pastor Howard sits at the West Valley Detention Center, in Rancho Cucamonga....