In 2008, Father Jeff Bayhi was a pastor in Louisana at the parish of St. John the Baptist in Zachary, Louisana when a fourteen year old girl came to him in confession. She revealed that a member of the church had been abusing her. Father Bayhi, now six years later, faces possible excommunication because the parents of the girl had sued him and the Diocese of Baton Rouge for not reporting the crime. In the district’s court, the parents won the appeal for forcing the priest to testify. However, the state’s highest court reverted the district court’s decision.
On May 12, 1983, Suzanne Figueroa was abducted at gunpoint in a child care center’s parking lot after dropping off her child. Subsequently, Figueroa was sexually assaulted and sliced with a knife. Suzanne and her husband, Luis Figueroa, sued North Park, the child center operator doing business at Evangelical Covenant Church, for negligent failure to provide adequate parking lot security. After the district court ruled against the Figueroas, they appealed the case arguing material issues of fact exist to prove the Evangelical Covenant Church owed them a duty of protection. The appeals court disagreed and affirmed the district court’s judgment.
Once the awareness of the sex abuse became known, the investigation began. During the investigation, witnesses of the abuse came forward
The Pennsylvania State University Jerry Sandusky Child Molestation case shed light on to a long line of horrific acts of sexual abuse and corruption within college football. Jerry Sandusky was an assistant football coach alongside the iconic football coach, Joe Paterno. While Sandusky was not brought to trial until 2012, reports of Sandusky sexually molesting football players and young boys date back to 1994 (Chappell, 2012). This was not through lack of acknowledgement; many of Sandusky’s victims came forwarded and reported the assaults to campus police, the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare, head coach Joe Paterno, the senior Vice President, and the Penn State Athletic Director. Penn State’s blatant cover up of abuse allegations is worrisome and cannot be tolerated.
The Penn State scandal involved more than just the individual committing the crimes. Many of the university’s officials were at fault for not reporting the alleged crimes to the Board of Trustees or Pennsylvania police. This type of behavior shows how the culture was a clan style and more of a family characteristics of protecting their own (Brumfield, 2012). Jerry Sandusky, a former assistant football coach, was with the university for almost forty years and was admired as an upstanding citizen. He was the organizer of a charity call The Second Mile, which assisted disadvantage youth.
Penn State football was once the pride of Pennsylvania. The Sandusky scandal changed all of that forever. The University had to learn many lessons. According to Layden, T. (2014), one of the biggest issues that caused the scandal to strive was the fact that those in charge probably felt the football program was too big to fail. In other words, they felt the success of the program was so important to the University and its fans that the scandal needed to be kept on a low profile.
The Combahee River Collective Statement: A Summary, Including Today’s Relevance The Combahee River Collective, founded in Boston in 1974, was organized by black feminists, many of whom identified themselves as lesbians, who believed it was their duty and right to define their own politics among society. For years, black women alone had been oppressed, but for a black lesbian, the oppression was even greater. The Collective made it their mission to combat racial, sexual and class oppression as it related to the domination of patriarchy within their current society. This essay will summarize the history, the Collective’s Statement and how their practices are related to today’s feminist issues.
To most people’s surprise, even in the professional and highly political National Hockey League (NHL), there are people involved with the association that suffers from mental illness and addictions. One of those people was Theo Fleury. Theo Fleury’s book takes you back in time to his dark childhood and bumpy National Hockey League career. Fleury certainly does not hold back in detail when it comes to the sexual abuse he experienced as a child, and the drug abuse as an adult. Though all this happens to him, he perseveres and attempts a National Hockey League comeback as well as becoming a number one best selling author.
Twenty-seven stab wounds. A gunshot to the face. Throat slashed from ear to ear. These are not examples of multiple murders, but rather the gruesome details of Travis Alexander’s death (Archer, 2013). Jodi Arias, charged with his murder, consistently lied throughout the ordeal, changing her story three different times and demonstrating a history of deceiving people on even the smallest of details (Archer, 2014).
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The Renaissance or “rebirth” was a time when humans began to rise intellectually from the Middle Ages. During this rebirth, artists, scholars, physicians among other professionals began to look into the ideals of the ancient philosophers of the classical world, a time known for its high standards and human achievements. They did this to reshape their thinking. This meant that they began to deviate from the religious point of view and began to conform into a secular one. Moreover, the interest these men took in altering their way of thinking led to the ideology of Humanism.
Kassidy Chang Mrs. Olson English III 22 October 2015 Witch Hunts Gone Wrong: Africa Children Thousands of children in Africa are being beaten, tortured, and killed every year because they are denounced as witches. Due to the fact that Africa is a third world country with poor education and poverty, Africans turn to resign to guide them through life. Over thousands of cases of witch hunts take place involve children who are used as scapegoats for deaths and sicknesses in their local community. Today, witch hunts occur all over the world effecting the families and communities around the witch hunt. Governments are taking action to decrease witch hunts since it based on people who project their fears onto the African children.
On the morning of December 26, 1996 John Ramsey discovered the lifeless body of six-year old JonBenet Ramsey in the basement of the family’s home. This was the beginning of an American crime story that remains unsolved to this day, despite the Boulder Police Department processing over fifteen hundred pieces of evidence and interviewing more than one thousand people (Agrawal, 2016). The Ramsey family blamed the Boulder Police Department for their inexperience kidnapping and murder investigations and scrutinized the police for not seeking additional assistance from other law enforcement agencies (Ramsey, 2000). The Boulder Police Department immediately became suspicious that a member of the Ramsey’s family or someone close to them committed
The film Spotlight dives into countless examples of institutions and works to tie them all together with the central theme of dominants controlling the information that subordinates are allowed to receive. The main institution that The Boston Globe was attacking in the film was the Catholic religion. The members of the Spotlight team worked relentlessly to prove that the Bishops of Boston’s clergy, the dominants, were covering up hundreds of child molestations by their own priests. Since religion is an institution, people of Catholic faith will believe what the clergy say to be true because they feel religion does not need any further explanation. This film depicts institutions, such as religion, government, and media, as as an overbearing figure that control how society should perceive concepts.
Some people's biggest fear is being sex trafficked, but sadly that is a very common reality to not only women across the world but men also. Jeffrey Epstein's case led attention to the issues of sex trafficking and the criminal justice system. The investigators revealed crimes that were related to trafficking minors. Some girls who were as young as 14 lives were changed because of a man who abused power and wealth. The most notorious sex trafficker of modern time was Jeffrey Epstein; his background of wealth gave him the resources needed to securely sex traffic women, his time in jail along with his supposed suicide lead many questions regarding the rich and their connections to international sex trafficking rings.
