Category: Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse and Assault

Government Liable for Shooting Deaths In this blog post, I argue that local governments may be held liable when they fail to secure firearms when given the opportunity and direction to do so. Indeed, by holding the government accountable, we may be able to prevent tragic shootings like the one that just happened in Sutherland  … Read more

Former Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert, was sentenced in a federal court in Chicago on Wednesday, April 27, 2016, for illegally structuring bank transactions to keep a sex abuse scandal secret.  Unfortunately, he could not be prosecuted for the sexual assaults themselves because the statute of limitations had already run out on the offenses.   … Read more

  In a move that smacks of blaming the victim, BYU routinely investigates women who report sexual assaults.   Several women who have reported being raped while they were students at Brigham Young University are scared they may be disciplined by the school for so called “honor code” violations. One courageous young woman, Madi Barney,  … Read more