sex abuse

The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline counselors help people who may be on the cusp of taking their own life. But some counselors say that they’re also facing verbal and sexual abuse from a small fraction of callers.

Three Butler University women’s soccer players filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday alleging the team’s former athletic trainer sexually assaulted and groomed multiple players on the team.

Indianapolis-based USA Gymnastics told local FBI agents in 2015 that three gymnasts said they were assaulted by Larry Nassar. But the FBI did not open a formal investigation or inform federal or state authorities in Michigan, according to a report from the Justice Department’s inspector general.

A Southern District of Indiana judge Monday approved, subject to changes, USA Gymnastics' proposed plan to get itself out of bankruptcy.

The priest named in the lawsuit is among 12 priests the Lafayette diocese named in September 2018 as having "substantiated allegations of sexual misconduct with a minor" dating back decades.

Underwriters for Lloyd's of London contends in a federal lawsuit filed Monday that when the archdiocese applied for excess sexual misconduct liability insurance last year, it failed to disclose abuse allegations

The Roman Catholic religious order that founded the University of Notre Dame has identified 14 priests and one seminarian who it says were credibly accused of sexually abusing minors across the country since the 1940s.

Both lawsuits arose from allegations that former counselor Shana Taylor had sex with two students while working for the district in 2015 and 2016

Three confidential settlements connected to sexual abuse allegations were approved Thursday by the Indianapolis Public Schools Board.

A proposed bill would open a three-year window - through 2022 - when sex abuse victims can sue, regardless of whether the statute of limitations expired.