The team’s recent statement about fighting racism rings hollow for several Black men who have spent years trying to get the Red Sox to listen to their claims that they were sexually abused by former clubhouse manager Donald Fitzpatrick.
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Epstein confidante Ghislaine Maxwell moved to New York to face sex abuse charges
Maxwell is facing charges she recruited women and girls for Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse.
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Posted inMaine, News
Former Biddeford man, abused by priest, loses court battle over $875 counseling payment
David Gagnon, 54, who now lives in Montreal, sued the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland in small claims court after it failed to reimburse him.
Posted inNation / World, News
Migrant children separated at border were harmed, abused in foster care, families say
Taxpayers could be on the hook for more than $200 million in damages as a result of the Trump administration’s zero tolerance policy.
Posted inFranklin, The Franklin Journal
Former Phillips man sentenced to 10 years in sexual abuse case
FARMINGTON — A Franklin County justice sentenced a former Phillips man Tuesday to serve three years of a 10-year sentence for sexually abusing two girls under age 14. Michael Harriman, 28, will serve the sentence after he completes the four years he is serving for a probation violation in an Androscoggin County case. Harriman pleaded […]
Posted inMaine, sj-web
Former priest and Cheverus teacher pleads guilty to sexual abuse
James Talbot, a former Roman Catholic priest and long-time teacher at Cheverus High School in Portland, pleaded guilty Monday to charges that he sexually assaulted a boy in Freeport in the 1990s. Talbot, 80, was ordered to serve three years in prison. The full sentence on a charge of gross sexual assault was for 10 […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Greene man found not guilty of sex abuse
AUBURN — An Androscoggin County Superior Court jury acquitted a Greene man of 15 counts of sexual abuse Tuesday, apparently believing the testimony of the 46-year-old Roger Hamel Jr. over the statements of a 9-year-old girl. It took the panel of seven men and five women less than two hours to return not guilty verdicts […]
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Breaking the shackles of religious bondage
My family and I were deeply, fervently Catholic. Catholic kindergarten and grade school: Notre Dame, New Hyde Park, New York; St. Molloy Catholic Summer Camp, New York; St. Mary’s High School, Manhasset, New York; St. John’s University, New York City. We prayed the rosary on our knees every night along with my Italian, immigrant grandmother […]
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Shut down Catholic churches
I have been a Catholic all my life, and I am totally disgusted with the Catholic Church and its protection of hundreds of pedophile priests. I really think it is time to shut down the church and take all the millions of dollars the Vatican is holding and give that money to those people and […]
Posted inFranklin, The Franklin Journal
Florida man tells Franklin County court the effect of sexual abuse on his daughter
FARMINGTON — The father of a girl who was sexually abused in 2014 said Wednesday that she is terrified of her abuser. “I can’t tell you what that is like to have a child you cannot console because someone violated her,” her father said in Franklin County Superior Court. Ross Adams, 52, was convicted Tuesday […]