Introduction Sarah Powers Barnhard is a former elite youth athlete who was repeatedly sexually assaulted by Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) coach Rick Butler. In 2018, Sarah and five others filed a class-action lawsuit against Butler for sexual abuse. In response to the sexual abuse allegations...

In 2002, the nation was rocked by the Boston Globe’s publication of its bombshell report exposing the intentional coverup of child sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of Boston.  Our country was forced to reckon with the Catholic Church’s contribution to the national child sex abuse crisis that...

CHILD USA has recently adopted a new initiative, ending Educational Neglect.  Educational Neglect is defined as “the failure of a parent or caregiver to enroll a child of mandatory school age in school or to provide appropriate homeschooling or needed special education training.”  Of course,...

The revival window which gives all survivors of child sex abuse in Arizona more time to file lawsuits for their abuse is closing soon. Survivors who are currently over age 30 only have until December 30, 2020 to file their previously expired civil claims, and then unfortunately, their claims will...

Jason Lauren I am originally from Union County, New Jersey in the New York Metropolitan Area.  I relocated to California shortly after graduating from Rutgers University in 1979. In 1984 I graduated from law school in San Diego, magna cum laude, having earned a Juris Doctor degree. I then settled...

How many children experience child sexual abuse (CSA) in the United States? This question has been difficult for researchers to answer definitively, in part due to delayed disclosure arising from trauma, shame, and humiliation. For over 20 years, various organizations including CHILD USA have...

CHILD USA tips its hat to attorneys Richard Serbin, of The Law Office of Richard M. Serbin, and Alan Perer, of Swensen & Perer, whose skillful and zealous advocacy on behalf of their client, Renee Rice, could change the landscape of child sexual abuse claims in Pennsylvania. On Tuesday October...

Last year was a banner year for helping child sex abuse survivors access justice by changing the statutes of limitations (SOLs).  In 2019, with the public more awake than they’ve ever been to the injustice survivors faced by being shut out of courts, there was a surge of SOL reform, with 23 states...

In 2015, on one cold winter evening, my wife and I rushed our son to a local children’s hospital. We were scared out of our minds and could not understand why our 18-month-old could not stop coughing. Upon arriving at the hospital, we were granted immediate access to an infant emergency room. A...