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Settling Sex Abuse Cases Against Catholic California Clergymen

Jan 20, 2025 | Blog, Child Sex Abuse, Clergy Abuse, Institutional Liability

Leslie C. Griffin* Roman Polanski is a famous movie director and actor, known for directing the films Rosemary’s Baby and Chinatown. He left the United States for France in 1978, after he pled guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl, Samantha Geimer. He worried that the judge in that case...

How Vermont Handled Abuse at Catholic St. Joseph’s Orphanage

Oct 31, 2024 | Child Sex Abuse, Clergy Abuse

by Leslie C. Griffin* Do You Know About the Orphanage? St. Joseph’s Orphanage in Burlington, Vermont was open from 1854-1974. It closed a long time ago. Yet over the years since 1974, survivors of abuse by its Catholic nuns and priests came forward with their tales of orphanage horror. Today St....