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“Lawyers and campaigners have condemned the “horrifying” scale of child-on-child sexual abuse in schools after a Guardian investigation revealed thousands of sexual offences against under-13s, including multiple rapes, are reported to police every year.”

“More than 270 Catholic clerics sexually abused nearly 1,000 children across three Massachusetts dioceses over several decades, according to a report released by the state’s attorney general’s office on Wednesday.”

“For more than a decade, he participated in a series of data collection efforts – wearing a sleep monitor and a fitness watch, answering detailed and highly personal survey questions about education, childhood experiences and even sexual abuse.”

“The cases centering on Sidell and Perry came amid a broader, years-long scandal involving the handling of matters related to sexual abuse by the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), the US’s largest Protestant denomination.”

“Alabama attorney general Steve Marshall said it was particularly disturbing to have to prosecute Blacklidge on child sexual abuse allegations because his responsibilities at HSI included “trying to provide justice in cases involving kids”.”

“Survivors of child rape and other sexual abuse within New Orleans’s Roman Catholic archdiocese learned that $641,000 or so is the most they can individually get under a settlement approved in December to resolve a years-long bankruptcy protection case.”