The bishop of the Diocese of Sacramento, California, announced on Saturday that the diocese will file for bankruptcy amid a slate of over 250 clergy abuse lawsuits.
Orange-Osceola Circuit Judge Jeff Ashton will not face charges of child abuse after a review by the state attorney’s office concluded allegations were “unsupported by the facts.” The abuse allegations came to light in an executive order signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis in October accusing Ashton of “lewd and lascivious molestation on a child under 16 and failure to report child abuse.” In the .
Over 200,000 minors are estimated to have been sexually abused in Spain by the Roman Catholic clergy since 1940, according to an independent commission published Friday.An independent commission in neighbouring France concluded in 2021 that some 216,000 children mostly boys had been sexually abused by clergy since 1950.