New Michigan Child Sexual Abuse Laws Take Effect in Wake of Larry Nassar

The new Michigan law is designed to strengthen state laws to protect survivors of sexual abuse better and hold abusers accountable by ensuring young people know how to identify abuse and where to turn if they need help.

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California Prison Guard Awaiting Trial for 96 Counts of Rape and Sexual Abuse of Inmates

Gregory Rodriguez, a prison guard at the Central CA Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, CA, is awaiting trial after pleading not guilty to 96 counts of sexually harassing, assaulting and raping more than 22 women over the span of nearly a decade.

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Maryland Youth Track Coach Sentenced to 21 Years in Prison for Child Sexual Abuse of Team Member

34-year-old Warren Gray, a former youth track coach from Waldorf, Maryland, will spend 21 years in prison after pleading guilty to committing second degree rape, child pornography, and other offenses, over the course of 4 years against a 13-year-old victim.

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A CA Jury Awarded 2 Men $135 Million for their Sexual Abuse by a Middle School Teacher in the 1990s

Two men who were sexually abused by a teacher when they were boys in the 1990s won a $135 million judgment against a Southern California school district after a jury determined that school officials had failed to protect them from a predator that had a history of molestation complaints.

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Oregon to Use First-of-its-Kind Specialized Police Dog to Combat Child Sexual Abuse

Trinity is a K-9 in Lincoln County who has been trained to primarily search for devices containing child sexual abuse material by detecting a chemical found in storage devices like cell phones, hard drives, and SD cards.

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Maryland Eliminates the Statute of Limitations for Civil Sexual Abuse Claims

Maryland’s Child Victims Act, which completely eliminated the statute of limitations for civil sexual abuse claims, officially went into effect on October 1, 2023.

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Victim of a VA School Bathroom Sexual Assault Schools the School District

A teenage girl who was sexually assaulted in a Virginia high school bathroom has sued Loudoun County Public Schools, alleging that school officials failed to heed warning signs about her attacker and responded to her May 2021 assault by trying to cover it up.

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Missouri Lyft Driver Gets 13-Year Prison Sentence for the Rape and Kidnapping of a Passenger

57-Year-Old Larry Ward plead guilty to the 1st-degree kidnapping and 1st-degree rape of a woman who called the rideshare company for a ride home from a bachelorette party at a downtown bar in 2019.

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