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Ex-Philly cop facing 233 more charges in sexual abuse case spanning over a decade
The Philadelphia Districts Attorney’s Office announced an additional 233 charges in the case of Patrick Heron, former Philly police officer, who is accused of sexually abusing young girls and women, and threatening witnesses.
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I-Team: NY Health Dept. Was Aware of Sex Abuse Claim 5 Years Before Doctor's Arrest
Five years before a New York doctor was criminally charged with sexually abusing underage boys, one of the urologist’s former patients notified the state’s Health Department about alleged misconduct that closely mirrors the kind of abuse now detailed in a federal indictment against the physician.
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Regulators Were Aware of Abuse Claim Against Doctor Years Before His Arrest
A New York doctor was criminally charged and indicted in April after allegedly fondling underage patients. While the doctor denies the allegations, the I-Team has learned at least one former patient complained to health regulators five years before the physician was arrested. NBC New York’s Chris Glorioso reports.
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Lawyer Urges NYC Jurors to Acquit Ex-Doctor in Sex Abuse Case
Jurors hearing evidence Monday against a former New York gynecologist accused of sexually abusing nearly 150 patients can “cancel” and “condemn him,” but they should acquit him of federal charges that he enticed women to cross state lines to be abused because he didn’t know where they were coming from, his lawyer said in an opening statement. Defense attorney Deirdre…
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Rochester Diocese to Pay $55 Million to Sex Abuse Survivors
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester will pay $55 million to survivors of sexual abuse committed by clergy members under a settlement announced by church officials. The diocese, which declared bankruptcy in 2019 after hundreds of lawsuits were filed against it under the state’s Child Victims Act, will create a trust for abuse survivors, Rochester Bishop Salvatore Matano said Thursday. Survivors...
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Knife-Wielding Stranger Terrorizes NYC Girl, 11, in Mid-Afternoon Subway Attack
Police are looking for a man who sexually abused an 11-year-old girl on a New York City subway at knifepoint in the middle of an afternoon last month, authorities say. The girl was on a northbound No. 4 train approaching the East 149th Street and Grand Concourse station in the Bronx around 3:30 p.m. Oct. 18, which would have been…