Child Sexual Abuse Content and Online Risks to Children on the Rise

Research shared in the “Emerging Online Trends in Child Sexual Abuse 2023 report,” indicates that minors are increasingly taking and sharing sexual images of themselves, which may occur consensually or coercively, as youth also report an increase in risky online interactions with adults.

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Prominent Horse-Riding Coach Received 50-Month Prison Sentence for the Sexual Abuse of an Underage Student

A 63-year-old former Olympic equestrian competitor who later taught horse riding in Oregon was sentenced to more than four years in federal prison for sexually abusing an underage student.

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Over 85 Women File a Class Action Against a MA Doctor for Sexual Assault

According to court documents, while Dr. Derrick Todd, a rheumatologist, practiced "primary care" on patients at Boston's Brigham & Women's Hospital and other various local hospitals, he also performed inappropriate pelvic examinations, breast examinations, and rectal examinations.

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Jehovah’s Witness Elder Found Guilty of Sexually Abusing Children

A jury has found former Jehovah’s Witness elder in northern Maine guilty of the gross sexual assault and unlawful sexual contact of 2 children under the age of 12.

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Report Publicly Released on Failure of Virginia’s Loudoun County Public Schools’ Handling of Sexual Abuse Investigations

A report on sexual assault investigations in Loudoun County Public Schools was released and looks into the handling of two 2021 sexual assaults that happened at 2 schools by the same student, with the report detailing the district's handling of the investigation and stating that LCPS didn't begin investigating for nearly 3 months after the 1st assault.

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96-Year-Old Grandmother Sexually Assaulted in an East Chicago Nursing Home

According to a police report, a nurse stated she witnessed a 90-year-old resident, who is a registered sex offender still living on the grounds, with his shirt unbuttoned inside a dementia patient’s room while his hand was on her breast.

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52 Bay Area Schools in CA Face Sexual Abuse Lawsuits

Bay Area school districts faced more than 50 sexual abuse lawsuits in the last six months of 2022 alone, with only 8 of the 52 cases had been previously reported, and some of them go back to the early 1960s.

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CA School District to Pay $2.25 Million to the Sexual Abuse Victim of Teacher Who Gave Birth to his Baby

Redlands Unified School District has now paid $8.25 million to Laura Whitehurst's victims since her 2013 arrest, including $6 million to a former student who impregnated her while she was his teacher; and a lawsuit by another former student who alleged he was preyed upon and sexually abused at Redlands High School when he was 14.

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