this may be heavy for survivors
South Carolina Judges Seek to Ban Secret Settlements By Adam Liptak "outh Carolina's 10 active federal trial judges have unanimously voted to ban secret legal settlements, saying such agreements have made the courts complicit in hiding the truth about hazardous products, inept doctors and sexually abusive priests. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/02/national/02JUDG.html
from L Moss-Sharman Woman sues church over sex-abuse stance - Claims conspiracy by Jehovah's Witnesses By Brodie Fenlon -- Sun Media 9/1/02 Toronto -- A New Brunswick woman claims two Jehovah's Witness elders and the Canadian church hid the sexual abuse she says she suffered at the hands of her father. The woman, whose case comes to court next Monday in Toronto, is suing the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Canada and two elders of her former congregation in Shelburne, just north of Orangeville, for $700,000. http://www.canoe.ca
Priests Admonished in Abuse Case - Bridgeport, Conn. (AP) - "Two priests have been disciplined for not telling the Bridgeport Roman Catholic Diocese that they knew the location of a former clergyman who had been accused of sexual abuse. The Revs. David Howell of Norwalk and Gerald Devore of Stamford admitted to diocesan officials that they knew former priest Laurence Brett was living on the Caribbean island of St. Maarten...Brett, 65, has been accused of abusing two dozen altar boys and other children in Connecticut, New Mexico, California and Maryland. He disappeared in 1993 and was discovered recently on St. Maarten by reporters from The Hartford Courant. After Brett vanished, church officials said they wanted him found and brought to justice." from AOL 9/1/02
from L Moss Sharman Polygamist jailed for child rape Nephi, Utah (AP) —— A polygamist was sentenced yesterday to spend five years to life in prison for a child rape that occurred when he took a 13-year-old girl as his "spiritual" wife more than a dozen years ago. It was the lightest possible sentence for raping a child. He could have received a minimum of 15 years in prison.
Researchers Find Clues Linking Child Abuse to Addiction "A five-year study conducted by researchers at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass., is providing a better understanding of the link between child physical and sexual abuse and subsequent substance abuse by victims. Carl Anderson, Ph.D., research associate in McLean's Developmental Psychiatry Research Laboratory and Brain Imaging Center, and colleagues found that repeated sexual abuse affects the blood flow and function of a key brain region related to substance abuse, the cerebellar vermis. In other studies, this part of the brain has been found to affect the coordination of emotional behavior and to be strongly affected by alcohol, cocaine and other drugs of abuse...."Damage to this part of the brain may cause an individual to be particularly irritable and to seek external means, such as drugs or alcohol, to quell this irritability," said Anderson." Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly 14(2), 2002.
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