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Working to End Child Abuse with Kathryn Robb, Executive Director of ChildUSAdvocacy: On Record PR
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On April 15, 2024, Governor Josh Shapiro signed Senate Bill 55, “Kayden’s Law,” making changes to the Pennsylvania child custody factors set forth in Title 23 in an effort to provide further protection to children’s safety....more
Legislation aimed at protecting children involved in custody battles emerged from tragic events occurring in 2018, marked by the murder of seven-year-old Kayden Mancuso at the hands of her father, Jeffery Mancuso, despite her...more
The Adult Survivors Act, signed into law by New York Governor Kathy Hochul in May 2022, created a one-year lookback window for individuals who experienced sexual abuse after they turned 18 years old. From November 2022 to...more
On September 5, the attorney generals (AGs) of 54 U.S. states and territories called on Congress to address bad actors who generate child sexual abuse material (CSAM) using artificial technology (AI). Framing the issue as a...more
Former residents of the Sununu Youth Services Center in Manchester, previously the Youth Development Center, are calling for federal authorities to initiate an investigation into allegations of serious physical, sexual and...more
VisionQuest (“VQ”) is yet again in the headlines over allegations of turning a blind eye to the physical and sexual abuse of children committed by staff members. VisionQuest runs multiple facilities to care for children who...more
The trust that parishioners have historically had in religious organizations has been strong. However, over the past several decades, allegations of sexual abuse throughout many denominations have caused many to give pause...more
Parents are made to be the natural custodian of a child upon his birth, and in cases where parents are not fit to take custody, it may be given to the close relatives of the child, or a person competent to be a custodian in...more
Trigger warning: These show notes and the related audio recording contain material about sexual violence. In this episode of On Record PR, Gina Rubel goes on record with Kathryn Robb, executive director of Child USAdvocacy,...more
On May 24, 2022, Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the Adult Survivors Act (ASA) into law. The ASA allows victims of sexual abuse that were 18 years or older at the time of the alleged abuse to now commence otherwise time-barred civil...more
The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals confirmed that school districts may only be liable for employee sexual misconduct when a school official has actual notice of the conduct. In C.S. v. Madison Metropolitan School District, the...more
Jenner & Block filed an amicus brief in Travis County, Texas in Doe v. Abbott on behalf of Professor Ron Beal, a Texas administrative law expert, in support of the plaintiffs’ application for a temporary injunction and as...more
The recently settled legal battle between Prince Andrew and Virginia Giuffre has been plastered all over the news. In short, Ms. Giuffre initiated a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New...more
Governor Pritzker recently signed Public Act 102-0676 (HB 1975) into law, which addresses sexual abuse prevention in schools. The new law is intended to address staff-student boundaries and appropriate professional conduct,...more
Our personal technology is so complex that making a change in one aspect is likely to affect us in many ways. When tech companies step into social issues, we are likely to see unintended consequences....more
Two years after an investigative report uncovered allegations of shocking abuse occurring at a juvenile detention center once known as “the Harvard of reform schools,” Glen Mills sexual abuse lawsuits are still being filed....more
With Devereux Under Investigation, Sexual Abuse Victims Still Have Time to Seek Justice - When allegations came to light in August 2020 that dozens of children had been physically and sexually abused by employees of...more
As you no doubt have noticed, virtually every batch of opinions from our State appellate courts includes at least one “Rule 3.1” case involving allegations of abuse, neglect, or dependency. What you may forget is that each...more
As for one of our times’ most notorious sex-trafficker’s and the abuser of 100’s of young girls, the downfall of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse pyramid came crashing down due to do a simple every day high school occurrence – two...more
More current and former students of a youth detention center in Glen Mills, PA, are coming forward with their own stories of appalling abuse. They join the hundreds of students, each with their own shattering tales of...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: As previously discussed here, on September 29, 2020, Governor Newsom signed AB 1963, an amendment to the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act, which will become effective January 1, 2021. The revised Act...more
“Dogs have more rights than children.” These are the powerful, haunting words spoken by the aunt of Kayden Mancuso, a 7-year old child who was brutally bludgeoned to death by her Father, Jeffery Mancuso, on August 6, 2018,...more
Some important news on the CVA front. Wednesday evening the New York State Legislature responded to mounting criticism that Gov. Cuomo exceeded his executive authority in issuing an Executive Order that extended the CVA look...more
By enacting Session Law 2019-245, the North Carolina General Assembly imposed new broad-sweeping requirements to protect children, making failure to report certain criminal acts perpetrated against children a crime. The new...more
Synopsis: Almost a year after the New York State Legislature enacted the Child Victim Act or “CVA” in February 2019 -- which included a one-year “revival window” under which claims for child sexual abuse could be brought...more