New-York-Clergy-Abuse-Lawyer

The lawyers and attorneys at our firm are currently offering free case evaluations to victims of clergy sexual abuse. Sexual abuse is always a devastating crime, but when it is committed by a trusted member of the clergy, it is especially wrenching. In many cases, religious leaders knew that some members of their clergy where habitual sexual predators of children. Yet, when faced with this fact, they did nothing. In some cases, they even covered up these crimes, moving guilty parties to new communities, and exposing hundreds of other children to sexual abuse.

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Although clergy sexual abuse has been reported in nearly all religions and denominations, the Roman Catholic Church has been at the center of some of the most sensationalized clergy sexual abuse cases. In some instances, abusive priests were allowed to torment children for decades. Many Roman Catholic families involved in priest sexual abuse incidents held their priest in great esteem, and trusted them with the wellbeing of their children. When this trust was abused, and they approached church officials for help, they were often at best ignored. At worst, they were intimidated into staying silent. Often, abusive priests were simply moved from parish to parish to keep abuse allegations quiet.

In 2004, the John Jay College of Criminal Justice released a report of the scope of priest sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church that was …