When your son or daughter has been sexually abused by a teacher, you need to know your rights and what can be done about them.

Over the recent past, the law has made clear the rights and remedies available to child victims of abusive teachers, both under state negligence law and state and federal statutes. There have been successful claims under the following causes of action:

1. Claims of assault, battery, and other intentional torts (wrongs) under state tort law against the offending teacher.

2. A school district may be held liable for authorizing or ratifying the teacher’s conduct. [Read more…]

The first two Civil Lawsuits to be settled since the scathing Grand Jury Report by the Philadelphia District Attorney’s office about the pattern and practice of clergy sexual abuse of minors by priests from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia was announced today in a Press Release. [Read more…]

In a public statement by the survivor of sexual abuse by priest and seminarian William Ayres of the Philadelphia Archdiocese was issued in the aftermath of a historic settlement, the first since the Philadephia District Attorney’s office published its scathing Grand Jury Report in January 2011.  That Report was in follow up to the DA’s previous report in 2005.  As noted, officials of the Archdiocese were condemned by their failures to heed the warnings of the 2005 Grand Jury Report.  In addition, in another first in the United States, Monsignor William Lynn, was criminally charged as result of these findings.

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Dan Monahan and Tammy Lerner spoke to Bikers Against Child Abuse in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.  This organization provides support across the eastern part of the United States to victims of child sexual abuse including attending criminal hearings with survivors as a support system.  Tammy Lerner is an incest survovor and founding member and Vice President of the Foundation to Abolish Child Sex Abuse which works to change antiquated statutes of limitations law that protect perpetrators.