The Child Protection eNewsletter
 The lingering effects of the clergy abuse scandal continue to plague the church as much as the victims. The Orange County Register reported that l eaders of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange scripted public statements to hide sexual misconduct involving a priest and a choir teacher, based on sealed court documents which were accidentally released. http://www.newsday.com Editor Ken Brusic said The Register decided to publish information from the documents -- over the objections of the diocese and the plaintiff's attorney who inadvertently released the files -- because clergy child abuse is a "matter of compelling public interest."  Meanwhile, the Diocese of Stockton will pay $3 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that former priest Oliver O’Grady raped a boy in a church confessional while he forced the child to say penance. http://www.latimes.com O’Grady has admitted molesting 25 children but denied the allegations in this case. Diocese leaders in Dallas, Texas are reportedly eyeing bankruptcy protection as lawsuits set for trial beginning next month say day care center officials ignored "red flags" about two day care workers, despite tremendously expensive 1990s litigation showing that Dallas Catholic Diocese leaders had turned a blind eye to evidence of sexual abuse by priests. http://www.quickdfw.com Finally, proving that this is not a problem unique to the Catholic Church, Louisiana officials have charged that children, dogs and cats were sexually abused by a minister and his "cult-like" group of members, authorities alleged. http://www.nola.com
 A major new study in the June issue of the American Journal of Preventative Medicine has once again affirmed that roughly 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys are victims of child sexual abuse (CSA) contact by the their 18 th birthdays. http://www.ajpm-online.net The retrospective study, based on 17,000 Southern  California HMO patients was designed to look at the effects of CSA on both men and women and found that child sexual abuse affects both men and women long term. http://www.foxnews.com A study by the North Carolina Child Advocacy Institute presented this week found that children from military families are twice as likely to die from severe abuse as other children are. http://abcnews.go.com A University of Virginia study in the May/June issue of the journal Child Development finds that the most well-liked seventh- and eighth-graders are much more likely to adopt risky behaviors than their less well-liked peers. http://www.nlm.nih.gov The abstract is available online at http://www.blackwell-synergy.com
Investigators cleared a man they called a "person of interest" in the bloody murders of three people and the disappearance of two Idaho children after the man passed a lie detector test. http://www.foxnews.com Officials are also investigating claims that the two children were seen in a van 75 miles away looking for directions to Libby, Montana. http://www.foxnews.com
Amber Alerts may soon be coming to your cell phone. http://www.wkrc.com The nationwide program, which began Tuesday, sends text messages to subscribers who opt in to receive the alerts. All the major wireless carriers, including Cingular Wireless, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, T Mobile and Nextel, are participating in the program. You can register for the program at http://www.wirelessamberalerts.org
Long before she turned up murdered in an abandoned fish pond, 13-year-old Sarah Lunde endured a childhood full of physical abuse, neglect and starvation, according to 1,300 pages of documents released by the Florida Department of Children and Families. http://www.sptimes.com
Standards for enlisting foster children in federal medical experiments vary widely among the states, and the Bush administration is examining how best to protect "the most vulnerable in our population," a top government health official says. http://www.cnn.com The comments came at a Congressional hearing called after allegations surfaced that New York AIDS babies in foster care were the subjects of federally-funded medical studies.
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