Are Jesuits Liable For Sexually Abusive Priest?
A Cook County judge will decide in a couple weeks whether the jury in a civil suit against the Jesuits over the sexual misdeeds of one of their own can impose punitive damages.
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A Cook County judge will decide in a couple weeks whether the jury in a civil suit against the Jesuits over the sexual misdeeds of one of their own can impose punitive damages.
Authorities have charged a suburban woman with sexually assaulting four students – three girls and a boy – when she was working at a Christian school on the city's West Side more than a decade ago.
A former Aurora gymnastics coach, who was cleared of sexual assault charges in 2008, is now facing new charges.
A north suburban Wadsworth man is going to prison for 26 years for committing a crime he said haunts him
Crete-Monee High School boys basketball coach Matt Ryndak was charged with aggravated criminal sexual abuse for allegedly fondling a teenage boy four times in 2010.
A 23-year-old Elgin man charged this week with sexual abuse of a student was a hall monitor at Larkin High School.
A new study out today analyzes the causes of the priest sex abuse scandal, which has left a cloud over the Roman Catholic Church for the past decade.
A lawsuit is expected to be filed today against the Roman Catholic Church – specifically, the Vatican – over a former priest who molested young boys on the city's West Side.
If there's going to be a second sexual abuse trial for Michael Cardamone, it will not take place until at least March 2012.
A man was ordered held on $350,000 bond after being charged with sexually assaulting a 5-year-old girl in her home.
A man was sentenced to 18 years in prison after admitting he had molested a female relative for nine years.
Transgender inmates at Cook County Jail can now be housed, dressed and searched according to their gender identity rather than their sex at birth, under a new policy.
New allegations are being made in connection with one of the many sex abuse cases against the Rev. Donald McGuire, a Roman Catholic priest who is now serving a 25-year prison sentence.
A former Diocese of Gary, Ind., priest, who has been accused of molesting boys in a handful of civil lawsuits, filed for bankruptcy last month.
A 27-year-old Chicago man and a relative of a runaway from Schaumburg are now charged with sex crimes and obstructing a police investigation.
A 58-year-old teacher's aide from Naperville has been arrested for an alleged sexual relationship with a male student.
An underage drinking party at a north suburban Glenview hotel Feb. 27 resulted in charges against a 21-year-old Niles man, who police said had sexual contact there with a teenage girl.
A 74-year-old Elgin man has been charged with putting sleeping pills into his female home health caretakers' fruit juice, and sexually abusing one of them afterward.
More charges could be coming against former Aurora gymnastics coach Michael Cardamone, who spent three years in prison for molesting young girls.
Two more young men filed suit Thursday claiming that Daniel McCormack sexually abused them when he served as pastor at St. Agatha parish in the Lawndale community on the West Side.
A security guard contracted by the CTA handcuffed and sexually abused a teenage boy who jumped a turnstile on the Orange Line over the weekend, Cook County prosecutors said Thursday.
The Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee has directed its attorneys to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, saying that pending sexual-abuse lawsuits have left it with financial claims that exceed its means.
A Cook County grand jury has indicted a Wisconsin man for aggravated criminal sexual abuse involving a 14-year-old Chicago-area girl he allegedly met online.
An elderly orthodontist pleaded not guilty Tuesday to fondling a 13-year-old patient last summer at his Northwest Side office.
A Hoffman Estates man is going to prison for 27 years for making and distributing child pornography – including a video he produced of himself sexually molesting a 1-year-old.
