Between the end of 2019 and early 2020, nearly 600 Child Victims Act lawsuits were filed against the Brooklyn Diocese. “This agreement concludes a difficult period in the life of the church. While the ...

While the church should have been a sanctuary, I am deeply sorry that it was a place of trauma for the victims of clergy sexual abuse,” said current Brooklyn Bishop Robert Brennan.

NEW YORK -- A child died Tuesday after being struck by a driver in Brooklyn. It happened just before 2:45 p.m. at Wallabout ...

"HIGHLY LIKELY" AS IT LOOKS TO RESOLVE THOSE LAWSUITS FILED AGAINST THE DIOCESE.. WITH ROUGHLY 100 LAWSUITS ALLEGDING CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE FILED AGAINST THE DIOCESE OF MONTEREY.. CHURCH LEADERS NOW ...

The Diocese of Rockville Centre in court papers said it offered to settle sex abuse claims with a $200 million compensation package, but the committee for victims argued the true figure would be ...

But the diocese filed its motion immediately as the voting deadline hit. Attorneys for survivors ... The abuse cases stem from the state 2019 Child Victims Act, which opened a one-year window ...

The cases stem from the 2019 Child Victims Act, which opened a one-year window — later extended to two years because of the pandemic — for childhood victims of sexual abuse to file lawsuits ...

The Diocese of Rockville Centre is awaiting the results of a vote by claimants on its $200 million plan to settle child sex abuse ... plan to compensate 300 abuse victims, opening the door for ...

California’s Child Victims Act, signed in 2019 and enacted at the beginning of 2021, extended the statute of limitations on clergy sexual abuse. Since then, survivors of abuse have brought ...