child sex abuse

The Federal Monitor overseeing efforts to improve the Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services says good progress is being made, but there's a lot more work to be done. 

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Legislation aimed at gaining justice for sexual abuse victims was advanced Thursday by the Assembly Judiciary Committee.

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In 2009, the Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional for municipalities to put such severe restrictions on where convicted sex offenders could live that they could not live anywhere in certain towns.

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The case of an assistant principal accused of videotaping teenage boys in the shower of a Somerville high school is but the latest in a series of disturbing stories involving teachers, coaches and priests accused of child sex assault.

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A Penn State trustee heading the board's inquiry into child sex abuse allegations against a retired assistant football coach says he hopes the probe will be finished by the end of the academic year.

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Two men who say they were sexually abused by an assistant basketball coach at Syracuse University are suing the school and men's basketball coach Jim Boeheim for defamation.

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Outside the New Jersey State House on Thursday, Prevent Child Abuse-New Jersey and the NJ Partnership to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse announced the launch of the Enough Abuse Campaign in the Garden State.

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The wife of ex-Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky says her husband is innocent of the child sex abuse allegations against him and that his accusers are making up their stories.

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Penn State football bowl revenue this year will reach at least $2 million, $500,000 more than the amount the school promised last week would be donated to charities to raise awareness of child abuse issues.

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