In a victory for victims of child abuse all over the United States, the Utah Legislature announced in March of 2015 that it will sign a bill into law effectively eliminating the statute of limitations in all cases of child sexual abuse. It is a well-known fact that undergoing the horrors of child abuse, whether it
On Monday, May 18th, the Utah National Parks Council announced a major change to the policies that allow them to guard against and weed out incidents of child sexual abuse in the Boy Scout Corps. The Utah National Parks Council is the nation’s largest youth scouting organization, made up of over 89,000 youth spread across 5,000
DALLAS NEWS BY HOLLY K. HACKER The state’s education chief is seeking to permanently close a Dallas charter school, citing a repeated failure to protect students from teachers and staff with criminal backgrounds. Children First Academy in southeast Oak Cliff, along with a sister campus in Houston, has been shuttered since early September. The Texas
Aaron Fisher is known to many people as Victim 1 in the Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal. But the 19-year-old is focusing on being a survivor, not a victim. “I was inappropriately touched,” Fisher told children and their parents Sunday at the Dallas Child Advocacy Center. “And standing here now before you and telling you
Dallas Police Chief David Brown fired three officers on Friday, including one who they say was piloting a convicted child molester back and forth to St. Louis to meet with a drug kingpin. The two other firings were for alcohol-related offenses. With these firings, Brown has terminated at least 38 officers since May 2010. He
According to Cox’s arrest warrant, the tip leading to his arrest came from the parent of a 14-year-old former pupil. The parent alerted authorities after seeing an inappropriate message from the coach on her son’s Facebook page, the warrant says. The parent reported the message on Friday and police followed up that same day by
