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Arizona
Indicted by a Pima County grand jury Apr 29 2025 (14 counts, six patients) and again Jun 12 2025 (12 more); license revoked; case pending. Adults: two years from discovery — about May 13 2027 if you learned at the announcement.
California
Brad Rowell pleaded guilty December 5, 2024 in Napa County (10 felony counts, 15 years); the principal was charged with failure to report; suits against Napa Valley USD have been filed and, in part, dismissed.
Worker pleaded guilty 2015; $13M verdict 2019 affirmed 2022. Cover-up window for adult patients who never sued runs through Dec 31, 2027; we are finding out whether that pool exists.
The state found Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall in Sylmar unsuitable to hold youth in 2023 and again in 2025; a 279-plaintiff complaint named it in 2022, and a federal complaint filed September 8, 2026 describes a boy held there in 2001.
Samantha Ciotta pleaded guilty May 10, 2018 in Riverside County to three felony counts involving a student; John Doe v. Beaumont USD, April 2018, alleges administrators were warned.
A former Robert Semple Elementary fifth-grade teacher is on trial in Solano County on 12 felony counts. Six former pupils at two Benicia schools have sued Benicia Unified, saying it hired him after a 2007 arrest and sat on a 2022 report.
Silva convicted 2019 on 25 counts, 18 students; nine families sued and settled 2022. The other nine, and the uncounted, have until 40.
The DOJ's August 13, 2026 findings name CIW: a longstanding pattern of sustained staff sexual misconduct, officials on notice since 2000; 130+ plaintiffs in Sacramento County and 20 CIW plaintiffs in JCCP 5276.
In August 2026 the U.S. Justice Department found California's women's prisons violate the Constitution by failing to protect the women in them from staff sexual abuse. 144 women are suing the State in one Sacramento case.
500+ patients filed; license surrendered 2025. California's cover-up window is open through Dec 31, 2027.
Summer Hansen pleaded guilty February 27, 2015 to all 16 felony counts involving five students; three years state prison, Riverside County.
Officer Gregory Rodriguez found guilty January 14, 2025 in Madera County on 64 counts (224 years); the DOJ found on August 13, 2026 an unbroken pattern of staff sexual misconduct since 2000; 279+ women in pending suits.
Two former staffers pleaded guilty (2022, Mar 2026); six men's suit alleging leaders concealed 1991–2011 abuse still pending; San Diego chapters closed.
Five women sued Jun 2025 over Fancher Creek 1998–2005, staff told and did nothing; Freedom Elementary teacher got 38 years federal in 2014.
Robert Pimentel pleaded no contest May 29, 2014 (12 years); LAUSD paid $58 million on 18 De La Torre cases in 2016 and $10 million on five more in 2020.
Two suits on file, including a 13-year-old assaulted on the adolescent unit in 2021; state Immediate Jeopardy findings 2014 and 2017; $47,250 fine Dec 2025 for another unreported incident.
The Diocese of Orange paid $100 million to 87 people in 2005, $10 million to one man in January 2024 and $3.5 million over Mater Dei in December 2024; its own list has 18 names.
- ActiveEl Monte Union High School District · Rosemead, El Monte, Arroyo, Mountain View, South El MonteUpdated Sep 7, 2026
State AG found in March 2026 the district failed to act on reports for years; HR discarded records; more than a dozen former students in court. Deadline to age 40 for minors, none after Jan 1, 2024.
Coach Joe Robles Jr. pleaded guilty August 2020 to eight counts (four years); five former students sued Corona-Norco USD in Riverside County, April 2022.
Named in the May 15, 2026 San Bernardino County complaint for 136 former detainees and the August 7, 2026 companion complaint for 123 more.
Mark Santo convicted June 5, 2023 (80 years to life, affirmed 2025); Jane Doe 1 et al. v. LBUSD, LASC 23STCV31632, filed December 27, 2023, alleges the district ignored and concealed the abuse.
Two dozen plaintiffs allege abuse by probation officers 1970–2022; John Doe v. County of San Diego, August 8, 2025; the Attorney General opened a pattern-or-practice investigation May 13, 2025.
Los Angeles County has approved $4 billion and then $828 million to settle sexual abuse claims from its juvenile halls, camps and MacLaren, and its own lawyers say about 5,000 more cases were filed after that.
L.A. Unified has paid more than $370 million to former students over teachers at Miramonte, Telfair, De La Torre and other schools, and in 2026 its board borrowed up to $250 million more.
LA County has approved $4 billion and $828 million in juvenile-hall settlements; the AG charged 30 officers on March 3, 2025 over staff-arranged fights; a federal suit filed July 17, 2025.
A third-grade teacher at Miramonte Elementary in South L.A. pleaded no contest in 2013 to 23 counts involving 23 children and got 25 years. LAUSD has paid former Miramonte students more than $200 million, 19 of them in April 2026.
Stacy Walker pleaded guilty July 2, 2024 in San Diego County to three felonies involving a student (three years); the district put her on leave in 2023.
More than 300 people are suing San Diego County over childhood sexual abuse in its facilities, 100+ of them former Polinsky residents (September 30, 2024 complaints; 1994–2023).
Three 2026 complaints for 269 former detainees (May 15, August 7, and a federal case) alleging abuse from 1996 through 2024; an officer pleaded no contest in 2015.
More than 300 people accuse the County of San Diego, in pending lawsuits, of childhood sexual abuse in its juvenile halls, camps, the Polinsky shelter and foster care, 1970 to 2022. The Attorney General is investigating two halls. Held or placed in a County facility as a minor? See where you stand.
Seven former foster children sued the County of Santa Clara on May 8, 2026, alleging it kept Dr. Patrick Clyne as its foster-care pediatrician for a decade after boys reported him in 2001; the County paid $5.5 million to another in 2025. Seen at a County clinic as a foster child, 1996 to 2011?.
$230M paid to 230+; ~180 new claims contested, bellwether trials 2027, city citing fraud. Discovery-rule claims only for most.
Seven former adolescent patients sued Aug 2025, eight staff named, cover-up pleaded; more filings Mar 2026. Nothing decided yet.
The school's own investigation (November 29, 2021) found boundary violations with at least 34 students; twelve graduates sued in Sonoma County on December 30, 2022; a settlement is pending.
David Bruce was charged in 2015 over six boys and died mid-trial in 2018 (no conviction); a November 20, 2024 complaint by 25 former students alleges the district was told twice.
The Board wrote on June 16, 2021 that "the School failed to properly protect its students and alumni"; Vurno v. The Thacher School, Ventura County 56-2022-00569736, filed August 26, 2022.
Paid on Kennedy (2019) and Savanna ($198,700, Feb 2025); 25 former Sycamore Junior High students' complaint (Orange County, filed Nov 20 2024) pending.
$660M (2007) and $880M (2024–26) paid to 1,861 claimants; its own list names more than 350 accused clergy; a Downey priest's criminal case, filed Apr 2025, is pending.
2021 patient-on-patient suit (sexual-risk alert ignored, hospital denies); John GT Roe v. UHS docketed 2025, details sealed for now.
Former dance instructor arrested Apr 30 2026, six felony counts (student 14–15, 2011–13), not-guilty plea; police say there may be more. No civil filing yet.
Named in the County's 2025 settlements and in Doe v. County of Los Angeles (C.D. Cal. 2:26-cv-10077, filed Sep 8 2026); the hall closed to youth Jul 2023; the defendant is Los Angeles County.
Dean charged May 2025 with forcible rape of a student; school closed Jun 30 2025; suit says the executive director dismissed a January warning. Who pays for a closed charter is the open question.
Former teacher's federal plea, 38 years (E.D. Cal. 1:12-cr-00037, Apr 30 2014); five former pupils' complaint against Clovis Unified over 1998–2005 (filed Jun 18 2025) pending in Fresno County.
CDCR's own PREA audits (2019, 2023) record staff-on-inmate allegations at FSP/FWF; the defendant is CDCR, named in the Aug 13 2026 DOJ findings and the Roe complaint; no filed complaint names FWF as the place, and the page says so.
History teacher pleaded guilty May 15 2013 in Van Nuys (misdemeanor battery, misdemeanor child abuse, luring a minor), five years' probation; LAUSD settled the one civil claim in 2015.
Morrow surrendered his license 2017 over sexual misconduct with a patient, reinstated 2021; 2009 staffer trial; a 2025 suit reported by a law firm, unverified on the docket.
History teacher convicted Jun 5 2023 including a lewd act on a Lindbergh pupil (2012–13), 80 years to life, affirmed May 2 2025; the district's 2013 written reprimand is pleaded in LASC 23STCV31632, pending.
Former Lindbergh and Jordan teacher convicted Jun 5 2023, 80 years to life, affirmed 2025; seven former students' suit (LASC 23STCV31632, filed Dec 27 2023) pending; a Burcham complaint served 2026.
Diocese settlements of just under $7M (2007, four cases), $2M (2012) and $3.5M (Dec 17 2024, its own statement) on Mater Dei claims; two further cases set for 2025 trial have no reported outcome.
One former student sued 2022 (2003 assault, told to stay quiet); two more spoke publicly 2023; school says it is investigating. Unresolved.
Liberty Elementary settlements of $6.2M (2018) and $13.5M (2022); a former Taft fourth-grade teacher charged Nov 2021 on 14 felony counts, not-guilty plea, no public update since.
Fifth-grade teacher held to answer Mar 17 2025 on 12 felony counts (four girls, 2022), on trial in Solano County as of Aug 14 2026, no verdict reported; two Solano civil complaints by five pupils (Apr 2024) pending.
Three former students sued the district in late 2022 over a history teacher acquitted of two misdemeanor counts in 2004; one case (30-2022-01289723) settled for $198,700 on Feb 14 2025; the other two have no public outcome.
LASC 19STCV46652 (filed Dec 23 2019) and about 26 suits over a Capuchin priest at the school 1970–95 who is on the Archdiocese's list; never charged; outcomes of the 2019–22 suits not on any public docket we have read.
Former fourth-grade teacher (1997–2002) arrested Nov 9 2021, arraigned Dec 3 2021 on 14 felony counts, not-guilty plea, $5M bail; no public update since; no civil complaint naming Taft found.
Third-grade teacher pleaded no contest Aug 20 2012 to 13 counts of lewd act on a child, 25 years; LAUSD paid former Telfair pupils in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019 and 2020 after a 1998 return to a classroom.
Amnesty International's 1999 findings and the 1999 Nightline pelvic-exam reports; the defendant is CDCR, named in the Aug 13 2026 DOJ findings and the 144-woman Roe complaint (23CV013894); no filed record names VSPW as the place, and the page says so.
$18.65M paid 2013–14; nothing filed since; cohort past 40. Discovery-rule door only. We say so on the page.
Connecticut
Teacher charged in six cases (fourth-degree sexual assault, risk of injury; $4.1M bonds); four families in Hartford Superior Court (HHD-CV26-5093159-S and three more, Apr–May 2026); licence surrendered May 2026. CGS 52-577d: decades of runway.
Florida
Two felony video-voyeurism cases in Lake County Circuit Court, 35-2026-CF-001621 (amended Information Sept 8, 2026, 19 counts) and 35-2026-CF-002041 (21 counts); not-guilty pleas; consolidation motion set October 1, 2026. Charged, not convicted; no civil filing names the church.
Illinois
The Illinois Attorney General's May 2023 report names 275 clerics with substantiated allegations in the Archdiocese; the Archdiocese has paid more than $400 million since 2001, nine more claims settled this September.
The Cook County Public Guardian sued Chicago Lakeshore Hospital and its owner in federal court in December 2019 for seven children in DCFS care over what the complaint says happened on the Children's Pavilion in 2017 and 2018. Still pending.
Complaints filed July 22, 2024 in the Circuit Court of Cook County for 193 people held there 1995–2022; about 400 suits name the JTDC by August 2026.
The Illinois Attorney General's 2023 report counts 69 clerics with substantiated allegations in the Diocese of Joliet; the diocese's own list has 76 names. A new Will County suit was filed in January 2026.
Father Alexander Baranowski served four Chicago parishes, 1955 to 1975. The Illinois Attorney General's 2023 report counts at least 7 reported survivors and a first report in 1963; the Archdiocese listed him in 2006.
Father Anthony Vader was pastor of Holy Name of Mary in Morgan Park for 29 years, after Holy Cross and St. Laurence. The Illinois Attorney General's 2023 report counts 13 reported survivors; the Archdiocese listed him in 2006.
On the Attorney General's report and the Archdiocese's list; the AG says the Archdiocese "knew what Holihan was doing to children years before it removed him"; a November 24, 2025 complaint alleges 20+ reports back to the 1960s.
Father James Flosi was a Chicago priest from 1971 until he resigned in 1992: St. Hubert in Hoffman Estates, Holy Name Cathedral, then River Forest, Franklin Park and Oak Park. The Illinois Attorney General's 2023 report counts 7 reported survivors; the Archdiocese has listed him since 2006.
On both lists; John Doe 105 v. Hagan and the Archdiocese, Circuit Court of Cook County, April 13, 2006; the Archdiocese's own 1991 letter after the 1988 report: "We can put it away for good now."
Father John Calicott served three South Side Chicago parishes, 1974 to 2002. The Illinois Attorney General's 2023 report counts 7 reported survivors; the Archdiocese sent him back to Holy Angels in 1995 and paid $8 million on his name in 2019.
Father John Curran was pastor of St. Christina in Mount Greenwood, 1980 to 1993, and at St. Albert the Great in Burbank the ten years before. The Illinois Attorney General's 2023 report counts 40 reported survivors; two former St. Christina students sued the Archdiocese over him in November 2025.
On both lists (at least 11 survivors, 1963–1981); named by the Archdiocese in its August 2008 $12,675,000 settlement of 16 claims; removed February 2006, laicized 2014.
Guilty plea May 4, 1987 in Cook County (No. 86MC1-234071, one year of supervision); assigned to three more parishes afterwards; at least 20 reported survivors per the Attorney General.
On both lists (16 reported survivors, 1955–1984); St. Rosalie parishioners wrote the dean in December 1984; reappointed pastor in 1989; a 1959 claim paid in the October 2003 settlement.
On both lists; the Archdiocese's file records the August 1987 St. Ignatius report and a 1993 review-board finding, and returned him to ministry as a hospital chaplain in 1988; resigned June 2002.
On both lists; St. Clement parents reported the Woodhaven Lakes trips in February 1986; a canonical mandate the same day, a tribunal appointment that November; died 1989; claims paid in the 2003 and 2008 settlements.
Found guilty on four counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse in Cook County on December 11, 1992, after the Archdiocese had moved him through five parishes on written warnings since 1982.
On both lists (17 reported survivors); DCFS "indicated" the 1986 Quigley South report; St. Leonard, Berwyn 1974–79; laicized 2009; listed in the Archdiocese's September 10, 2026 settlement.
On both lists (22 reported survivors); the Archdiocese's file shows a 1975 arrest, a 1983 confession and a 1990 "high risk" memo while he stayed pastor at St. Bede, Ingleside, until 1991; 24-claimant settlement October 2005.
Father Thomas Kelly served seven Chicago-area parishes, 1962 to 1990. The Illinois Attorney General's 2023 report counts 20 reported survivors and says the chancery had allegations by October 1967; the Archdiocese listed him in 2018.
Federal child-pornography conviction, 20 years (affirmed 437 F.3d 684, 7th Cir. 2006); the Archdiocese substantiated the abuse allegations it had been told about since 1980 and settled them.
On both lists (9 reported survivors, 1970s–1986); Quigley North faculty 1976–84; the Archdiocese's file has staff complaints from August 1989; on leave March 1999, laicized January 2002.
Father Walter Turlo was associate pastor at St. William in Chicago from 1975 to 1982. The Illinois Attorney General's 2023 report lists 4 reported survivors, 1975 to 1978; the Archdiocese removed him in 2005 and settled a Cook County suit over him in 2017.
On both lists (23 reported survivors); a June 1979 police complaint in the Archdiocese's own file, then a parish with a school in 1985; sued in Cook County August 14, 1991; resigned 1993.
Fifteen Cook County complaints name Hartgrove Hospital and its owner, Universal Health Services; a former counselor was charged on December 1, 2025 over five boys, 1996 to 2004; DCFS stopped placing children there in 2011.
About thirty former residents in consolidated Cook County cases; the 1985 Friese conviction; no deadline for most claimants born after 1983.
A Champaign County jury awarded a 13-year-old patient $535M in March 2024; cut to $180M, then reported settled. Trial evidence described a dozen assaults 2015–2020. No deadline for minors under Illinois law; no cap.
Substitute teacher Brett Smith pleaded guilty in Cook County on July 16, 2026 to aggravated battery of a child; a January 28, 2026 complaint alleges the Archdiocese hired him without catching a 20-year record.
Nine clerics on the Attorney General's report list Quigley among their assignments; a former student sued the Archdiocese on November 24, 2025 over grooming at Quigley in the early 1980s.
- ActiveSt. Agatha Parish and School · Father Daniel McCormack · Father Daniel McCormackUpdated Sep 11, 2026
McCormack pleaded guilty in Cook County on July 2, 2007 to five counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse of St. Agatha boys; the Archdiocese's own review records the 1999, 2003 and 2005 reports that came first.
Maday was convicted by a Wisconsin jury in 1994 (20 years); in June 2021 the Archdiocese paid $880,000 to two former St. Bede altar boys over 1977–1983 conduct.
Two complaints filed November 24, 2025 by former St. Christina students against the Archdiocese; the Archdiocese's released file records what it knew in 1990 and what the parish was told in 1993.
Five St. Leonard-assigned priests are on the Attorney General's report and the Archdiocese's own list; the Archdiocese's file shows a 1986 report about Kenneth Ruge and a 1991 removal.
UHS, Inc. and UHS of Delaware are named defendants in Cook County complaints over Hartgrove Hospital; a Champaign jury returned $535 million against UHS's Pavilion; UHS told investors it faces such suits "spanning decades.".
The same building on South Hamilton under its earlier name; roughly 400 complaints naming the center, Cook County and the Chief Judge's office pending in the Circuit Court of Cook County.
Louisiana
At least 29 suits in the 19th JDC since June 2024 naming 20 clergy, 12 never on the diocese's own list (WBRZ, Jan 2026); more than a third settled privately. Revival window closes June 14, 2027.
Fr. Robert Melancon convicted by a Terrebonne jury June 18, 1996 (aggravated rape; life without parole); the diocese's Jan 2019 list carries 14 names. Louisiana's revival window for childhood claims closes June 14, 2027.
About 50 suits in the 15th JDC since June 2024, at least 13 in 2025; Gauthe's Oct 1985 guilty plea (33 counts, 20 years) is the historic record. Diocese enrolled a bankruptcy lawyer in one case July 2026 — not filed. Window closes June 14, 2027.
- ActiveDiocese of Lake Charles · Calcasieu, Cameron, Allen, Beauregard, Jefferson DavisUpdated Sep 12, 2026
Ten suits in the 14th JDC under the revival window; Mark Broussard convicted Feb 5, 2016 (two life terms); a 1999 $15,000 release found forged (Nov 2025). One 14th JDC judge ruled the revival law unconstitutional in March 2026, then recused — contested. Window closes June 14, 2027.
Gilbert Gauthe was a Diocese of Lafayette priest from 1971 to 1983, in Broussard, New Iberia, Abbeville and Henry. He pleaded guilty in Lafayette in October 1985. New suits naming him were filed in 2024 and 2025.
Mark Broussard was a Diocese of Lake Charles priest, 1986 to 1994. A Calcasieu Parish jury convicted him in 2016; the Third Circuit affirmed in 2017.
Arrested June 2026, four counts; two suits name the hospital and Ochsner over 34- and 41-day notification delays.
- WatchingCongregation of Holy Cross, Southern Province · Holy Cross School, New OrleansUpdated Sep 15, 2026
$2,375,000 federal jury verdict Jun 25 2025 (E.D. La.); Louisiana's revival window for childhood claims runs to Jun 14 2027; appeal and payment status not in any public record we have read.
The Justice Department found evidence of sexual abuse and assault at Tallulah in 1997; Brian B. v. Stalder (3:98-cv-00886) and United States v. Louisiana (3:98-cv-00947) followed. Louisiana's revival window for childhood claims closes June 14, 2027; HB 409 of 2026, which would have moved it to 2029, went no further than committee.
Named in the 1997 federal juvenile-justice docket (3:97-cv-00001); 52 suits filed in East Baton Rouge Parish in 2026, no docket numbers printed yet. Window closes June 14, 2027.
Named in the 1997 federal docket (3:97-cv-00001) and the Justice Department's 1997 findings; still open, so a current-conduct record could arrive at any time. Window for the historic cohort closes June 14, 2027.
- WatchingBridge City Center for Youth · Jefferson Parish, formerly LTI-Bridge CityUpdated Sep 22, 2026
Named in the 1997 federal docket; an instructor was arrested in October 2024 on booking charges, no bill of information found in the 24th JDC as of September 22, 2026, so the page names no one. Window closes June 14, 2027.
Maryland
- ActiveFather Arthur Long, S.J. · Loyola Blakefield, Loyola College, Good Samaritan and Mercy hospitals, BaltimoreUpdated Sep 12, 2026
PA grand jury report (Aug 2018) records his admission of 'relations' with four or five girls and Cardinal Keeler returning him to ministry; on the Archdiocese of Baltimore list since Sept 2018. Died 2004. Archdiocese bar date passed — the school, college, hospitals and Jesuits are separate.
The school's own Jan 2019 report: ten adults, at least 16 students, 1970s–early 1990s, and colleagues who knew; six Child Victims Act suits from Oct 1 2023 (Anne Arundel Circuit; Bunker, D. Md., dismissed Oct 2025). Maryland: no time limit for childhood claims.
Massachusetts
- WatchingArchdiocese of Boston · Suffolk, Middlesex, Essex, Norfolk, Plymouth · John GeoghanUpdated Sep 22, 2026
The Attorney General's July 23, 2003 report: 789 victims, 250 accused, concealment findings. S.3141 / House Amendment 110 — the bill that would lift the age-53 rule and the $20,000 charitable cap — is in conference, due to the Governor by January 5, 2027.
Convicted February 7, 2005 in Middlesex Superior Court (two counts rape of a child, two counts indecent assault and battery), affirmed 455 Mass. 752 (2010). Same bill as the Archdiocese; the St. Jean's cohort (1979–1990) is largely under 53.
Guilty plea June 25, 1992, Essex Superior Court at Newburyport; on the Diocese of Springfield's credibly-accused list; the Hampden DA's May 24, 2021 statement on Danny Croteau. The payer is the Diocese of Springfield, not Boston. Same bill.
Missouri
Thirty-one former Lakeland Behavioral Health patients, children at the time, sued Acadia Healthcare in Greene County in May 2025; a former staffer pleaded guilty in 2024. Acadia also runs the CenterPointe hospitals in St. Charles and Columbia.
Three former child patients (ages 10–17, 2014–2025) sued in Vernon County Circuit Court, No. 26VE-CV00452, June 2026, naming UHS; no staff charged. RSMo 537.046 to 31 against the abuser; the institution claim runs on a shorter clock (McKenzie).
A former Lakeland Behavioral Health staffer pleaded guilty in 2024 to two felonies involving a 15-year-old patient; 32 former patients, children at the time, have sued the Springfield hospital and Acadia Healthcare in Greene County.
Federal guilty plea Aug 10 2026 (E.D. Mo. 4:23-CR-505), 18 counts, 18 men stopped or detained Nov 2022–Jun 2023; sentencing Nov 24 2026. §1983 five-year clock (Sulik) runs to 2027–28.
Four former residents, 11 to 16 at the time, have sued the owners of Piney Ridge Center, now Perimeter Behavioral of Missouri, in Pulaski County over abuse they say staff committed from 2016 to 2024.
State survey findings at both hospitals in 2024; the one lawsuit on the name (Boone County 25BA-CV01702) was voluntarily dismissed with prejudice Jul 8 2026; the defendant is Acadia Healthcare.
New Jersey
The Archdiocese's own 2019 list carries 63 names; 34 alleged abusers were named through the 2019–2021 window filings; N.J. Supreme Court cleared a statewide grand jury presentment June 2025. Deadline: age 55 for childhood claims, or 7 years from discovery.
Complaint MID-L-005430-21 pending in Middlesex County; the Appellate Division (Dec 2023) held the Diocese of Richmond had prior knowledge of a priest later assigned here; Grein's McCarrick-era suit settled April 2026.
Don Bosco case (D.N.J. 2:20-cv-02605) settled March 2025 after the diocese was dismissed in 2020; two new Passaic County suits filed Dec 2024–Jan 2025 name the diocese over Our Lady of the Valley and a second parish.
Two complaints filed in Mercer County Superior Court on September 14, 2021 name the Diocese of Trenton and two of its parishes; a 2026 federal suit names it alone. Its own list carries 31 names.
- ActiveFather John Capparelli · Archdiocese of Newark; Holy Trinity, Westfield; Newark schoolsUpdated Sep 12, 2026
Removed from parishes 1989, suspended 1992; on the Archdiocese's Feb 2019 list; more than two dozen men described the same conduct to the Star-Ledger in 2011. Claims run against the Archdiocese; he was never charged and died in 2019.
About 250 suits against the Youth Justice Commission consolidated before one Middlesex County judge; two officers charged by the Attorney General Oct 2024; first 40 test cases set by Case Management Order #3.
More than 150 men have sued the State since Jan 2024; a 2015 guilty plea by one staff member to criminal sexual contact is on the record; bellwether picks due Aug 17, 2026 under Case Management Order #4.
License suspended Nov 2024; 31 women sued July 2026. Watching for a hospital defendant.
New York
- ActiveColumbia University Irving Medical Center · Dr. Robert Hadden · Dr. Robert HaddenUpdated Sep 12, 2026
Hadden convicted in S.D.N.Y. January 24, 2023 (20 years); Columbia's own March 2026 report found complaints reached leadership in 1994, 2000 and 2008; more than $1 billion paid across four settlements; the City's reopened window closes July 29, 2027.
Velez v. City of New York, Bronx Index 816196/2026E, filed August 14, 2026; 112 filings name Crossroads; window to July 29, 2027, contested by the City.
The Attorney General's April 16, 2024 agreement over mishandled abuse cases; a January 20, 2026 Kings County ruling (Index 506289/2020) finding the diocese had actual notice of a priest's propensity; ~1,100 Child Victims Act claims in mediation.
Edwards et al v. City of New York, Bronx Index 807035/2024E (12 plaintiffs), re-pleaded March 2026 under Local Law 50; 76 filings name Horizon.
Former principal Eric Cato indicted August 2026 on eight counts including sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child (conduct October 2024–March 2026); pleaded not guilty. Charged, not convicted.
Hundreds of lawsuits in New York courts name the City of New York over sexual abuse of children in its juvenile lock-ups: Spofford, Horizon, Crossroads. A City window to file is open until July 29, 2027; the City has fought these suits. If the City held you as a kid, find out where you stand.
Three NewYork-Presbyterian campuses, three doctors now in prison: Hadden (Columbia, 1987–2012), Paduch (Weill Cornell, 2003–2019), Cheng (Queens, 2020–2022). The hospital is a named defendant. A New York City filing window is open until July 29, 2027; patients under 18 at the time have until 55.
- ActiveNorthwell Sleep Disorders Center · Great Neck · Sanjai Syamaprasad · Sanjai SyamaprasadUpdated Sep 12, 2026
Sleep technician pleaded guilty July 15, 2025 to five counts of unlawful surveillance (hidden bathroom cameras, July 2023–April 2024); six months jail; suits in Nassau and Kings County; Northwell's 13,000 letters went out May 2025.
Talavera v. City of New York, Bronx Index 807051/2024E (~150 plaintiffs); 539 filings by January 2025; Local Law 50 of 2026 reopened the City's window to July 29, 2027 after the 2025 dismissals.
The October 3, 2023 Bronx complaint ($40M, conduct 2003–2005); four City settlements 2017–2019; the 2013 federal survey put RMSC on its high-rate list; window to July 29, 2027.
Rivera v. City of New York, Bronx Index 802036/2025E, re-pleaded April 2026 under Local Law 50; 257 filings name Spofford; the City's window closes July 29, 2027 and the preemption question is before the Court of Appeals.
Paduch convicted May 8 2024 on all 11 federal counts, life sentence Nov 20 2024; Weill Cornell's Jul 26 2026 compliance agreement acknowledges its safeguards were inadequate; NYC window open to Jul 29 2027, Parker v. Alexander pending.
- ClosedDiocese of SyracuseUpdated Feb 25, 2026
$176 million bankruptcy settlement approved; the bar date has passed. Firms are still advertising into it. Don't.
Pennsylvania
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia ran St. Gabriel's Hall and the De La Salle programs through Catholic Social Services until 2020. Twelve men sued in June 2024; a 2011 grand jury report says what the Archdiocese knew about its own chaplain. If a judge sent you there, find out where you stand.
Over 140 former patients of pediatrician Johnnie Barto sued Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center and his Johnstown practices in Cambria County; Conemaugh settled in May 2026. He is serving 79 to 158 years.
- ActiveDevereux Behavioral Health · Chester County campuses (Kanner, Brandywine, Mapleton)Updated Sep 12, 2026
Four staff convicted in Chester County (2012–Feb 2026); 13 plaintiffs sued in Philadelphia CCP Oct 2020 (No. 2010005141), further waves 2021–2024. PA Act 87: open for people born ~Dec 1989 or later; no revival window has passed.
- ActivePhiladelphia Juvenile Justice Services Center · formerly the Youth Study CenterUpdated Sep 12, 2026
Jane Doe C.C. v. Youth Study Center et al. (CCP Phila. No. 230801536, filed Aug 2023, settled Jan 2025); 60+ plaintiffs filed Oct 2024. City immunity and the damages cap removed for these claims; born ~Dec 1989 or later.
Twelve men sued in 2024; the revival window for older claims is stalled in the Senate. Names now, filings when Harrisburg moves.
Seven former Summit Academy residents are suing The Summit School, Inc. in federal court in Pittsburgh, 23 more sued in Allegheny County in July 2024, and its consulting physician pleaded guilty in Butler County in 2013.
The City's detention center under its earlier name (1952–2012); a 2023 Common Pleas case naming both names settled Jan 2025; October 2024 filings naming the JJSC pending.
- ClosedDr. Johnnie Barto · JohnstownUpdated Sep 5, 2026
Pleaded guilty 2018, serving 66 to 146 years; the civil cases have run their course.
Rhode Island
Two former behavioral health specialists charged in Providence Superior Court: State v. Jones P2-2020-3110A (trial Nov 30 2026) and State v. Montanez P2-2026-0161A (PTC Oct 7 2026); both pleaded not guilty. RIGL 9-1-51; 2026 revival to June 30 2028.
The Rhode Island Attorney General's March 4, 2026 report names 75 credibly accused clergy and 300-plus children, 1950-2011, and finds the Diocese withheld complaints and moved priests. 50-plus suits since July 1, 2026.
Six men who lived at St. Aloysius Home as boys sued the Roman Catholic Bishop of Providence and the Home's corporation in Providence County Superior Court in July 2026. The Attorney General's March 2026 report names the Home and counts 15 children.
- ClosedSt. Mary's Home for Children · North ProvidenceUpdated Sep 5, 2026
The revival window is open, but the home is a defunct nonprofit with one parcel of land and no pleadable parent. Nobody to collect from.
Washington
Six suits in King County Superior Court (May–June 2026) v. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the NW, Northwest Permanente and the Wilmington estate, pleading reports to Kaiser from 2006 on; he died May 2 2026, never tried. RCW 4.16.340 — discovery route for most.
State wards placed there 1974–1999; a houseparent pleaded guilty Aug 2005 in King County to two counts of rape of a child; A.G. v. Children's Home Society and the State (filed Nov 1 2023) pending.
State placements at Cobb Center, Kiwanis Vocational Home, J Bar D and Toutle River; King County complaint over Cobb Center (filed Nov 1 2023) pending; RCW 4.16.340 amended 2024, no age limit for newer claims.
Wisconsin
Dean of students pleaded guilty Feb 6 2026 (W.D. Wis. 3:25-cr-00088), 18 years; the district was told in 2023 and April 2025; ex-principal pleaded no contest to failure to report (June 2026). District claim clock is short (Fleming, ~to 20).
National
16-count indictment (sex trafficking, interstate prostitution), Oct 2024; Jeffries ruled competent Aug 20 2026, jury selection Jan 4 2027; Bradberry v. A&F (S.D.N.Y.) pending. Adult men 2008–2015 — every clock is a lawyer's question.
Six state attorneys general have sued (LA, KY, TX, FL, NE, OK); families' suits centralized as MDL 3166 (N.D. Cal., Dec 2025). Section 230 contested; no liability ruling. CCP 340.1: no limit for conduct since Jan 1 2024.
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