The fight is on in Pennsylvania to remove the statute of limitations for sex abuse victims. Following yet another sex abuse scandal surrounding the Catholic Church, Harrisburg lawmakers are fighting to extend the rights of older sex abuse victims to file a complaint against their abusers and the institutions which enabled them. At the...

While the Jehovah’s Witnesses insist that child molestation among their 1.9 million American followers are rare, they do occasionally occur. If you’ve recently learned that your church or clergy members has committed child molestation crimes, it’s natural to feel angry, confused, betrayed, and unsure what to do next. The law firm of Estey Bomberger can help...

Attorneys Representing Victims of Foster Care Molestation In 2010, there were 60,000 children in the Californian foster care system. Between 2008 and 2009, California’ child welfare expenditures totaled $5.4 billion dollars. Half of that amount was used to fund services which addressed the abuse and neglect of children both entering and leaving the foster...

A Law Firm Representing Victims of Coaching Sex Abuse The news media called him a “no-nonsense father figure.” Yet that same father figure—Santa Ana youth boxing coach Anthony Serrano—took advantage of his position of trust to molest a fatherless teenage boy as many as 50 times over a period of five years, according to...

It’s a tragic reality that many students suffer sexual abuse at the hands of their teachers. New school teacher molestation cases arise on a consistent basis, and learning that a child has suffered sexual abuse is any parent’s worst nightmare. It’s vital for parents to recognize the signs of school teacher molestation and know...

A Law Firm for Victims of Clergy Child Molestation The Los Angeles Archdiocese’s clergy child molestation sex scandals go back all the way to 1968 and beyond. For decades, the Catholic Church of California has struggled with allegations of clergy sex abuse of children as young as four years old. If you’ve recently learned...

  A youth coordinator at St. Francis of Assisi Church in Fillmore, California, has been arrested and charged with the sexual molestation of a young girl. Vidal Morales, 55, was taken into custody in Ventura on March 3. He is accused of lewd acts with a minor under the age of 14, a felony...

A duo of Alpine men has been arrested and charged with more than 30 counts of lewd acts with children, according to NBC 7. Christopher Harper and Brandon Lightcloud Alto, who were a couple according to Alto’s Facebook profile, are accused of molesting the same three children on separate occasions. Harper, already a fugitive...

Sexual Assault Report on Violence Against Women Fifty percent of British women have been sexually or physically abused, according to a shocking new report. The Violence Against Women report, released Tuesday, March 4, by the European Union’s FRA (Agency for Fundamental Rights), indicates that approximately one of out every two women in the United...

Avenal teacher Christopher Nugent, a one time a teacher of the year at Avenal Elementary, was arrested in January and charged with sexually molesting several of his students. After receiving a complaint from a student, Avenal Elementary School officials notified police. According to the complaint, Nugent had allegedly touched students in an inappropriate manner....