An $8 million dollar settlement has been reached in the case of the late Brother Stephen Baker. A Boston attorney who represents 34 of the former Bishop McCort victims and several others in other states, said, “A victim who was outside the statute of limitations, in...

Despite prior protestations by his lawyer that allegations of abuse were unfounded and denied by his client, Mark Haynes, Chester County priest Mark Haynes pleaded guilty to federal child pornography counts and charges of destroying evidence. Mark Haynes, 56,...

As I have mentioned before, John Doe 10 had difficulties with coming forth with his story of abuse.  It was difficult to tell his family, it was difficult to tell me, his attorney, and it was difficult to report the abuses to the police and District Attorney's...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court reinstated the conviction on child endangerment charges of a priest in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Monsignor William Lynn, the first U.S. church official ever prosecuted over his handling of sex abuse complaints, had been freed of...

A state Superior Court panel upheld this week the prison sentences of a Catholic priest and former parochial-school teacher convicted of sexually abusing a 10-year-old altar boy from Northeast Philadelphia. The Rev. Charles Engelhardt and Bernard Shero, a former St....

In a continuing update of the numerous clergy sexual abuse cases filed against the Philadelphia Archdiocese, attorney Daniel F. Monahan reported the level of activity in the pending litigation before the Court of Common Pleas in Philadelphia. legal intelligencer art

The Federal authorities have announced new evidence of more crimes committed by Father Mark Haynes. The new evidence includes destroying a laptop (which was evidence) and, far worse, allegations of sexual abuse of at least three children. However, despite three...