Hermendegildo Huizar-Vera, 51, a volunteer choir leader at St. Isidore Catholic Church in Yuba City, was arrested March 24 and is awaiting extradition to Arizona, where he will face child sex abuse charges. Perhaps the most disturbing thing about this case is that, in order to become a volunteer choir leader in Yuba City,...

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...

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...

The Paterson Roman Catholic Diocese has reached a “six-figure” settlement with a woman who alleged that she was repeatedly abused by Monsignor Ronald Tully, her vice-principal at Passaic Catholic High School. According to her suit, Tully fondled her 20 times in 1977 when she was 16-year-old student at Pope Pius XII Retional High School....

Multiple news outlets reported that Christopher Bryan McKenzie, Costa Mesa resident and a volunteer Sunday school teacher at several Orange County churches, was convicted of sexually assaulting five boys and attempting to attack a sixth boy. According to the OC Weekly, McKenzie meet three victims through Rock Harbor Church in Costa Mesa, one through...

A Catholic priest who was also a high school chemistry teacher was sentenced to 12 years in prison Tuesday after pleading guilty to transporting child pornography to Chicago, USA Today reported. Richard James Kurtz, 70, was dismissed from the University of Detroit Jusuit School in 2001 when a 16-year-old boy accused him of sexual...

The San Diego Union Tribune reported this week that a San Diego judge has ordered the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, the governing body of the Jehovah’s Witness church, to pay $13.5 million to Jose Lopez, who was molested in 1986 at the age of 7, by Gonzalo Campos , a...

PHOENIX, AZ -- A 47-year-old pastor is facing multiple counts of child molestation, sexual abuse, sexual assault, and sexual conduct with a minor, Fox News reported Friday. Phoenix police detectives arrested Jorge Vasquez Thursday at his home. Vasquez is accused of having inappropriate, unsolicited sexual contact with two girls and two women, who were...

A 57-year-old Ontario Catholic priest has been arrested on charges of molesting a 12-year-old boy, the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin reported. The priest, the Rev. Jose Alejandro Castillo, a.k.a., Father Alex, was booked into the West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga in lieu of $1 million bail. Prior to his arrest, Castillo worked...