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Nestled in a Southwest Iowa town of the same name, Clarinda Academy, a facility for troubled youth, has been shuttered. The closing of the center, operated by a for-profit company known as Sequel Youth & Family Services, comes after persistent and pervasive and persistent allegations of sexual assault and physical abuse perpetrated on minors by Clarinda Academy staff. Clarinda Academy was operated as a facility to provide for the needs of children with more significant behavioral and mental health issues….

Throughout 2020, more allegations about male students being sexually assaulted on campus were levied against Ohio State University. Richard Strauss, the now-deceased doctor once on the payroll of OSU, is now known to have committed well over 2,000 instances of sexual assault of male student athletes during his tenure at the school. Strauss was the team doctor at OSU for two decades. The sexual assault perpetrated by the OSU team doctor included 2,200 incidents involving the fondling of male students….

New York Extends Child Victims Act As we noted in a previous post, in February 2019 the State of New York enacted the Child Victims Act in order to extend the statute of limitations that apply to lawsuits filed by victims of childhood sexual abuse. Since our first post, we have learned that Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed into law legislation that extends the “look-back” provision of the Child Victims Act. Under that extension, childhood victims of sexual abuse who…

Every state allows an adult survivor of childhood sexual abuse to file a lawsuit against their abuser, but limit the “time window” to file such lawsuits. In today’s post, our sexual abuse victims’ lawyer explains how “discovery” of sexual abuse affects a victim’s ability to sue their abusers.

Recent Child Sexual Abuse Cases In other posts, the clergy sexual abuse lawyer at The Doan Law Firm has discussed the problem of sexual abuse of children by members of both the Catholic and Protestant clergy. In today’s post, we report on several recent cases where members of the Protestant clergy used their positions of trust to abuse and exploit children. He will then discuss the legal options that may be available to adult survivors of child sexual abuse who…