Pedophilia Symbolism (We have to talk about it!)

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Not even a drop in the ocean...

"China breaks up child-trafficking rings

Chinese police have broken up two child-trafficking rings after a six-month nationwide investigation, rescuing 178 children and arresting 608 suspects, Press TV reports.

The Asian country's Ministry of Public Security has called the operation the biggest achievement yet in a national campaign against human trafficking that has so far rescued more than 18,000 children.

The case started after police investigating a road accident in the western province of Sichuan stumbled across one trafficking gang. Links were then found to at least 26 other gangs across the country.

“China is a developing country and trafficking is a major problem in Asia especially in the border states,” Dale Rutstein of UNICEF told Press TV.

“Whenever people are in a very poor area and they do not have opportunities, they become mobile. Therefore, it is an absolutely common thing in poverty especially when people are living in remote conditions and they are looking for opportunities,” he added.

Child trafficking, with centuries of history in China, remains a problem in spite of vigorous efforts by the Chinese government to stamp it out.

Critics blame the national one-child policy and lax adoption laws for the thriving child trafficking market."

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"Sex abuse claims prompt look at youth sports culture

BOSTON (Reuters) - Millions of children are lacing up sneakers and skates, donning swimsuits and grabbing rackets to join the ranks of youth sports teams and leagues across the country, often with minimal parental supervision.

But accusations of abuse last week against a major figure in amateur athletics have renewed concerns that the dynamics of youth sports could provide predators easy access to children in an environment where abuse could go undetected.

Young athletes may spend significant amounts of time with coaches or team volunteers on the playing field or traveling to tournaments or taking part in camps. Rarely does this happen with close parental supervision.

"You don't necessarily know a lot about these people except they know how to coach basketball," said Jarrod Chin, director of training and curriculum at Northeastern University's Sport in Society program, citing basketball as an example.

The Amateur Athletic Union said on Saturday it was investigating allegations of child sex abuse against its former president Robert W. "Bobby" Dodd dating back several decades. The union contacted police in Memphis, Tennessee, who said they have opened a probe into the matter.

The allegations against Dodd surfaced after a series of accusations of child sexual abuse against assistants to high profile coaches at Penn State and Syracuse universities rocked the world of major college athletics.

Sports network ESPN has reported that two players who accused Dodd of abuse said he had engaged in a pattern of inappropriate touching and sex acts in hotels during tournaments and that he gave alcohol to underage players.

Dodd, who has not been charged with a crime, was not available for comment. An attorney for Dodd has not yet been identified.

Past instances of alleged sexual abuse in youth sports have ranged from a figure skating coach accused of molesting students to youth baseball and basketball coaches accused of abusing boys, the National Council of Youth Sports said.

Nor has the abuse been limited to boys. Coaches of girls' track and volleyball teams have also been accused of interacting inappropriately with young women, the council said.

"It's a larger social issue, and sport is one avenue where sexual predators find ways to assault young people," Chin said.

BACKGROUND CHECKS

The National Council of Youth Sports has been trying to find the best way to screen coaches for at least a decade, and some sporting organizations have made background screening mandatory, executive director Sally Johnson said.

The National Council, whose members include the AAU, recommends guidelines for such screening as well as use of a third-party company to process comprehensive checks. Johnson also wants to see better training and reference checks about past behavior by coaches.

The AAU, one of the nation's largest youth sports groups, has said it planned to review the safeguards it has in place to protect youngsters, but did not elaborate on what those procedures were.

Despite an eagerness for their children to join sports teams, especially those organized for all-star youth athletes, parents often don't have the financial means to travel along for tournaments, which means an inordinate amount of trust is handed to coaches.

Johnson said parents and children needed to trust their gut reactions.

"I think children get a feeling if something's not right, and they need to be comfortable coming forward to report that," Johnson said.

Northeastern's Chin said that publicity from the abuse probes of coaches at major universities may be spurring victims to speak up.

"I think a lot of people are feeling like they can say something, tell their story, that they are not alone," he said, adding that the Sport in Society program works to educate coaches, parents and teammates to recognize the signs of possible sexual abuse and to address it.

David Clohessy, director of Chicago-based support group Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, said that it was always hard for victims of child sexual abuse to speak up.

"It's especially hard when the predator is a popular, well-loved individual," he said, adding that in his experience it helped victims to hear about other people coming forward.

"Somehow as a society we've got to come to grips with the fact that people who sing, dance, coach, preach or perform well in public can also have horrific private demons," he said.

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INDIA'S DEADLY SECRET

news.yahoo.com/video/tech-15749651/india-s-deadly-secret-27566497.html

[lucy]

Unfortunately, sports/high profile sports is one area of child abuse, and mind control programming. I had done a Google on mind control, and there were some articles on mind control experimentation that had taken place at Penn State. While I did not actually read the article, because I was just looking at headlines at the time, so I'm suspecting that this Second Mile organization was a front to find these young boys, put them into sports settings, and abusing potential elite athletes for future drafting to the different colleges that play into this mind control game.

While this would never be revealed publically, I'm suspicious that Sandusky was used as a lower level "handler" to abuse and program these boys. I've noticed the mugshots of him and a glazed over look in his eyes, which I suspect mind control programming. For some bizarre reasoning, the others who have been fired from Penn State, or have stepped down, perhaps a bigger role in this mind control abuse than what they are letting on. More than just knowing about the abuse an brushing it under the carpet, but actually involved in the obtaining of young boys and abusing them as well.

Really sickening. He was supposed to go in for a preliminary hearing, waived that, and now it has to go to trial. I'm thinking this guy will get off the hook.

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"Dutch church hit by sex abuse scandal

An independent inquiry in the Netherlands has revealed the sexual abuse of tens of thousands of children by Roman Catholic clergy since 1945.

According to the probe, tens of thousands of minors were exposed to "mild, severe or very severe sexual behavior" either by clergy or lay workers in the Dutch Catholic Church between 1945 and 2010, AFP reported.

"Based on 1,795 reports, the commission could find the names of 800 abusers who work or have worked for the bishops," the study said. Out of the 800 perpetrators, 105 are still alive.

The Roman Catholic Church has been faced with thousands of sex abuse scandals in recent years. This is while Pope Benedict the sixteenth has been accused of having tried to cover up the scandal.

Advocacy groups representing victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests have filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court against the Pope and three other Vatican officials over the alleged cover-up.

Earlier this month Amnesty International urged Northern Ireland to hold an inquiry into clerical child sex abuse.

Meanwhile, in 2010, some 180,000 Germans left the Catholic Church due to the revelations of priests sexually abusing minors. "

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"112 arrested in online child porn swoops in 22 European countries after year-long investigation

More arrests likely after raids find child sex networks

Police have arrested 112 people in 22 European countries after a year-long child pornography investigation, it was revealed today.

Europol's 'Operation Icarus' targeted paedophiles sharing 'extreme' online videos of children, including babies, being sexually abused and raped.

There are 269 suspects so far and more arrests are likely after the raids uncovered previously unknown networks of child sex offenders operating on different Internet chat channels.

Much of the information seized is still awaiting analysis with the sheer volume of encrypted material so vast, the task is described as 'daunting',

A suspect in Switzerland had more than 120 terabytes (1,000 gigabytes) of data - amounting to thousands of hours of high-definition video footage.

The investigation was carried out under the leadership of Danish police Jens Henrik Hoejbjerg, due to Danish expertise in analysing the peer-to-peer networks that were used to share files.

Nineteen men aged 24 to 55 are facing preliminary charges in Denmark.

Mr Hoejbjerg, said 59 computers and 2,430 storage devices had been seized in Denmark alone.

The other nations involved were Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Croatia, Norway and Switzerland.

Investigators said one of the men arrested was in the process of grooming a young child and was arrested before an attempted face-to-face meeting.

Speaking from Europol's HQ in The Hague, director Rob Wainwright called the operation a success, but warned technological advances made detection harder.

He said: 'The Internet is helping offenders to develop better techniques for sharing images on a global basis and for protecting their identity.'

'The problems involved are becoming harder to police.'

EU Home Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said the operation showed the 'importance of co-operation between law enforcement authorities at European and international level to tackle criminal activities that know no borders.'

In March, Europol announced the bust of an even larger ring, with 184 arrests and 670 suspects in 30 countries."

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"NY Giants Linebacker Investigated for Child Abuse

NY Giants linebacker Michael Boley -- who signed a $25 million contract in 2009 -- is being investigated for allegedly abusing his 5-year-old son earlier this year ... TMZ has learned.

According to the official incident report, taken by the Gadsden Police Department in Alabama -- Boley is accused of the repeated willful abuse of a child under 18 from May 30 to June 5.

Officials will not release details surrounding the nature of the alleged abuse.

A rep for the Gadsden PD tells us the case was investigated and has been handed over to the District Attorney's Office, which will present the case to a grand jury. The grand jury will then decide if there is enough evidence to formally charge Boley with a crime.

Boley's attorney, Randall M. Kessler, tells TMZ ... "These allegations were brought to our attention along with outrageous monetary demands in a contested child support case which she filed over a year ago."

Kessler added, "At final trial about a month ago, she did not seek an order restricting visitation. The only relief she requested from the judge was that child support be more than quintupled to, in her words, 'increase her lifestyle.'"

In light of the allegations, another woman who has a 2-year-old child with Boley, has filed court papers in Georgia asking a judge to require the NFL star to be supervised when spending time with their child.

The judge has not yet ruled on her request."

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Sometimes it's just evil money-hunger talking and not necessarily an evil parent, right?

[artemis]

Paedophilia runs rampant like hell...

"Philadelphia columnist retires amid abuse allegations

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Award-winning sports columnist Bill Conlin retired abruptly from the Philadelphia Daily News on Tuesday, the newspaper said, as a rival newspaper published an article accusing him of child sex abuse.

The Philadelphia Inquirer, in an article posted online on Tuesday, said three women and a man claim they were molested as children by Conlin in the 1970s.

One of them, Conlin's niece Kelley Blanchet, was quoted by the Inquirer as saying: "People have kept his secret.

"There were so many people who knew about this and did nothing," she said.

Conlin offered to retire on Tuesday afternoon, said Daily News editor Larry Platt at a news conference.

"I immediately accepted," said Platt. "It was a painful conversation."

Conlin, visited at his condominium in a gated development in Largo, Florida, by a Reuters reporter, said, "I have nothing to say" and provided contact details for his attorney before closing the door.

The condominium is about a mile from beaches on the Gulf of Mexico, and not far from the spring training camp of the Philadelphia Phillies baseball team in Clearwater.

Conlin's attorney, George Bochetto, was not immediately available for comment. But he said in the newspaper that the columnist is "obviously floored by these accusations, which supposedly happened 40 years ago."

Prosecutors also could not be immediately reached for comment. A detective with the Gloucester, New Jersey prosecutor's office said in the Inquirer that criminal charges could not be pursued due to the state's statute of limitations.

According to the Inquirer, the four adults said Conlin groped and fondled them and touched their genitals when they were ages 7 to 12.

Blanchet, now a prosecutor in Atlantic City, New Jersey, told the Inquirer she and the others decided to speak out after the child sex abuse scandal at Pennsylvania State University brought back painful memories.

At Penn State, former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky faces 52 counts of child sex abuse stemming from accusations from 10 adult men who say he abused them as children.

Also, at Syracuse University, a former basketball coach was accused by at least three men of abuse, and the former president of the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is under investigation over allegations of abuse from former youth basketball players.

Both Philadelphia newspapers are owned by Philadelphia Media Network Inc.

"I am sickened by these allegations," said Greg Osberg, publisher of the Inquirer and Daily News, at the news conference in the Daily News' lobby.

"There were several very specific claims from multiple victims and their families to support our decision to publish this article," he said.

Platt said in the Daily News newsroom, there was "a sense of shock, outrage, a sense of sadness for the victims."

Conlin started in 1965 at the Daily News, where he wrote about Penn State and other college football, professional boxing, baseball, the Olympics and tennis.

He was named to the Baseball Hall of Fame this year."

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"7th person alleges abuse by Philly columnist

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A seventh person has come forward with allegations she was sexually abused by former Philadelphia Daily News sports columnist Bill Conlin.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports (http://bit.ly/sPrYkt ) the woman says Conlin assaulted her at the beach in Margate, N.J., when she was 11 years old in the 1960s.

Conlin retired from the Daily News on Tuesday, hours before The Inquirer posted a story about allegations that he had abused four people decades ago when they were children. Two other accusers have since come forward.

The Inquirer reports the unidentified woman who spoke out Friday says Conlin, a family friend, assaulted her twice while he was visiting the Jersey Shore.

The 77-year-old Conlin has vowed through his lawyer, George Bochetto, to clear his name. Messages left for Bochetto were not immediately returned."

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"Priest accused of 55 child sex crimes in Ireland is deported from Brazil after eight years on the run

A fugitive Catholic priest accused of 55 child sex crimes has been deported from Brazil after eight years on the run, it was reported today.

Father Peter Kennedy, 72, was a the centre of a major abuse scandal in 2003 after one of his victims was awarded £271,000 - the largest known pay-out in a clerical sex abuse case in Ireland.

The man claimed the priest had raped him as a 13-year-old boy after coming to his family's County Sligo home to administer the last rites to his father, who was dying of cancer.

Kennedy disappeared weeks later after it emerged up to 18 other individuals had come forward, accusing him of a catalogue of abuse stretching back to the 1980s.

More alleged victims have since made themselves known to police.

At the time, the cleric was rumoured to have fled to Brazil, and in 2004 Interpol issued a 'blue notice' against him, formally requesting his capture and deportation.

Kennedy is now known to have used a British passport to travel from London to Brazil, where he settled in Osasco, on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, and made a living by teaching English.

Brazil's Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper reported today that federal police had been following the priest's movements for the last four months, but didn't make an arrest before necessary deportation documents had been finalised.

A police source told the newspaper that, as Brazil and Ireland don't have a formal extradition treaty, police acted with deliberate caution so as not to arouse suspicion and allow Kennedy time to make legal attempts to block his deportation.

Brazilian Federal officers finally made their move on Monday morning, when they swooped on the priest before taking him directly to Sao Paulo International Airport.

At 11.30pm that night he was then boarded on a plane bound for London, where Irish authorities were waiting for him.

Kennedy was suspended from the ministry in 1986 after claims of abuse began to emerge and he had moved to London, where up until his escape to Brazil he had been working as a taxi driver.

Seven years later the Kiltegan Fathers, the order to which Kennedy belonged, paid the record-breaking compensation to his victim following a settlement of a High Court case.

When news of Kennedy's disappearance broke, the man's victim's brother made a passionate plea to track down the priest and bring him to justice.

The victim's brother, named only as Joe, told how his mother had caught the priest molesting the young boy at their home.

He said: 'My mother heard some roaring from my younger brother's room. She found him on the floor with his pants down. Kennedy was standing over him adjusting his trousers.

'The priest had told him he had power over life and death and the abuse was to have been their secret. My mother ran him from the house and told him never to come back.'

He said his brother had become an alcoholic at the aged of 18, self-harmed and tried to commit suicide as a result of the abuse he suffered.

He said: 'No amount of money can compensate for that. What is 325,000 euros to a man who had 20 years of turmoil? It won't bring back his life.

'Until he is brought to justice the compensation money means nothing.'

Kennedy's brother, named only as Joe, said at the time that he believed the priest had escaped to Brazil in a bid to evade prosecution.

He said: 'We are happy that he (the victim) has had some recognition for what he has been through but nothing will compensate him for the misery he has been through.

'The information available to us is that the gardam wanted to extradite Father Kennedy from London and when they went to get him he was gone.

'It is believed that he is now in Brazil. To me that is a man on the run, there is no extradition from Brazil.'

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"Police: NJ educator videotaped boys in shower

SOMERVILLE, N.J. (AP) — An educator using a secretly installed camera videotaped teenage boys in the shower at a Catholic high school for nearly three years, authorities said.

Patrick J. Lott, who was arrested last week, was arraigned Wednesday on charges he videotaped students in a communal shower area at Immaculata High School in Somerville starting in January 2008. He did not enter a plea.

The prosecutor's office said that there were at least 22 victims and that nine boys identified in the videos are currently under the age of 16. To protect the boys' identities, they were referred to only by their initials in court filings.

Lott, 54, is an assistant principal at a public middle school who volunteered at the Catholic high school. Authorities declined to provide further details about his volunteer position.

Immaculata officials alerted prosecutors when they received allegations of inappropriate conduct by Lott and later removed him from any involvement at the school, diocesan officials said.

Videos of boys showering together were recovered as a result of searches of Lott's home on Dec. 13 and 16, Somerset County prosecutor Geoffrey Soriano said. Detectives later located an area at the school where a camera had been installed surreptitiously, his office said.

Lott said little during his court appearance. His attorney, James Wronko, did not attend the hearing and did not return a telephone call seeking comment.

Lott is a longtime area educator who was active in local and county politics, and he served as chairman of the Somerville Republican Committee.

Bail for Lott was set at $500,000, with the condition he have no contact with any child under the age of 16, any of the boys in the videos or any member of the staff or faculty at Immaculata.

Lott was charged with 22 counts of invasion of privacy, one for each victim, and more than two dozen counts of various degrees of endangering the welfare of a child, prosecutor's office spokesman Jack Bennett said."

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"Facebook photos lead to child abuse arrests in Arizona

PHOENIX (Reuters) - Two Arizona parents were arrested by sheriff's deputies after apparently posting pictures on Facebook that showed their children, an infant and a toddler, bound with duct tape, authorities said on Thursday.

Coconino County deputies arrested Frankie Almuina, 20, and Kayla Almuina, 19, on suspicion of two counts of child abuse on Wednesday at their northern Arizona home after being alerted to the photos by an anonymous tip.

The children, a 2-year-old toddler and a 10-month-old infant, were seen online bound with duct tape on their wrists and ankles with their mouths taped shut, Commander Rex Gilliland told Reuters. One of the children was shown hanging upside down on an exercise machine.

The parents told investigators that the photos, posted on the mother's Facebook account, were a joke and that the children were not harmed, Gilliland said.

"It's clear in our minds that these children were placed in a very extreme situation," Gilliland said. "By the look on their faces, they were in sheer terror. I don't know how this could have been a joke."

Authorities were called to the scene after a person who likely knew the couple saw the postings and called the Arizona Child Abuse Hotline, Gilliland said. The caller knew the names of the parents and where they lived.

He said investigators seized about a dozen similar photos, some that were not posted online, from the home north of Williams, Arizona, about 175 miles north of Phoenix.

The couple were being held in a county jail as of late on Thursday. The children have been turned over to another family member, Gilliland said."

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""Coronation Street's Michael Le Vell cleared of child sex abuse allegations 'due to insufficient evidence'

Coronation Street star Michael Le Vell has been cleared of child sex abuse allegations.

The 46-year-old actor, who had always strenuously denied the claims, had been under investigation by police over the past three months after the accusations.

However, the Crown Prosecution Service has decided there is not enough evidence to go ahead with the case, according to The People.

A police spokesperson was quoted as telling the newspaper: 'No further action will be taken against a 46-year-old man arrested on suspicion of an historic rape.

'A file was prepared for the CPS who decided there was insufficient evidence to charge.'

Le Vell, who plays Kevin Webster in the ITV soap, was arrested back in September following the allegations of a teenage girl that she was raped by him in the past.

Following the arrest, Le Vell vowed to do ‘everything in his power’ to clear his name after he was held at his £750,000 home under his real name, Michael Turner.

He was taken to a police station and questioned by detectives for almost eight hours before being released on bail.

In a statement, he said: 'I strenuously deny these allegations and will do everything in my power to prove my innocence.'

Nazir Afzal, Chief Crown Prosecutor, CPS North West Area said: 'I have decided that Michael Robert Turner will not face any charges in relation to allegations of historic sexual assault against a child.

'Following enquiries by Greater Manchester Police I have concluded that there is insufficient evidence to put before a court.

'As there is no realistic prospect of conviction it is therefore only right that the allegations against Mr Turner are prevented from going any further and I have informed the police that they should take no further action against him.'

It is believed that Le Vell is aware the charges have been dropped, as is the female who made the allegations.

Shortly after the claims first surfaced, it emerged that Le Vell had split from his wife Janette Beverley following 25 years of marriage.

The actor had apparently parted from Beverley months before the allegations first emerged.

Le Vell and childhood sweetheart Beverley married in October 1986 after appearing together in Coronation Street in 1984.

Le Vell is one of the longest-serving actors in Coronation Street and his character has been at the heart of some of its most dramatic storylines."

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"More lawsuits filed over sex abuse of Haitian boys

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Seventeen Haitian men are suing Fairfield University in Connecticut, the Society of Jesus and others alleging they failed to protect them from a man who sexually abused them when they were poor children or young adults attending a school he founded in Haiti.

The lawsuits bring to 21 the number of alleged victims suing Douglas Perlitz and the others. Perlitz was sentenced in 2010 to nearly 20 years in prison for sexually abusing children at Project Pierre Toussaint.

The victims ranged from ages 9 to 21 at the time of the abuse and are now 18 to 29.

The lawsuits seek $20 million for each victim. They contend Perlitz's supervisors disregarded warning signs of inappropriate behavior with boys.

The Rev. Paul Carrier, a Jesuit priest who was Fairfield University's chaplain, saw Perlitz show a student a pornographic video and saw boys in his bedroom, according to the lawsuits. A school board member, Hope Carter, flew to Haiti in 2008 and removed Perlitz's computer, according to the lawsuits.

"It appears that Carter removed the computer or computers to prevent investigators, including, ultimately, federal law enforcement personnel, from discovering pornographic material, which may have included pornography relating to young boys, stored on the computer or computers," the lawsuit states.

Carter delivered the computer to Perlitz in the United States, according to the lawsuit. Authorities later seized the computer, which Perlitz had used to access websites focusing on sexual material relating to boys.

Federal authorities say an investigation is continuing.

The lawsuits say none of the defendants took any steps to protect the children in Perlitz's care.

"On the contrary, they facilitated Perlitz's crimes by continuing to provide him money and facilities to run PPT in the face of evidence that Perlitz was maintaining inappropriate relationships with boys in his care," the lawsuit states.

The Society of Jesus called the crimes "deeply disturbing" but said the school wasn't a mission of the society, also known as the Jesuits. Telephone messages were left Thursday for the other defendants.

The defendants have sought dismissals of the first lawsuits filed last year.

Fairfield University said it did not retain or employ Perlitz and that Carrier was a volunteer officer of the Haitian school, which is separate from the university. Carrier also called himself a volunteer and argued he's immune from liability and that there was no evidence he knew of the abuse. Carter's attorney said there was no allegation that Carter knew of any sexual misconduct by Perlitz or that Carter "consciously assisted" Perlitz's abuse.

The lawsuits argue that Fairfield University, which is operated by the Jesuits, raised more than $600,000 for the school and hired Perlitz in connection with the Haitian school and was negligent in its duty to supervise him. The suits say the Society of Jesus had the same responsibilities with Carrier, who served as chairman of a fund that ran the school.

Those who were abused by Perlitz told school staff, according to the lawsuit. Carrier and Carter failed to speak to the victims in a setting where they could feel safe about reporting what had happened, the suits say.

The school conducted an investigation after learning of the abuse claims in 2007 and 2008, but that probe was designed to discredit the claims and exonerate Perlitz, according to the lawsuits. Carrier and Carter prevented other school board members from questioning independent witnesses, the lawsuit alleges.

Mitchell Garabedian, an attorney for the victims, said the abuse shows rules put into place by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in 2002 were either ignored or ineffective."