For decades, young women from all over the world looking for a safe, affordable place to live in New York found a home at Centro Maria. The large boarding house on West 54th Street — one of the last women-only homes in Manhattan — took in tenants for a few hundred dollars a month, which […]
Child Victims Act
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Archdiocese Admits Accused Predator Priest Is Still Manhattan Pastor as Four More Abuse Suits Are Filed
A Manhattan Catholic priest who announced he was stepping down from public ministry last July amid multiple accusations of sexual abuse was on Wednesday named in four more Child Victims Act lawsuits, bringing the total to 11. But Msgr. John Paddack is still pastor of Notre Dame Church in Morningside Heights, the Archdiocese of New […]
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Poly Prep Coach Sexually Assaulted Student, Lawsuit Claims
An alumna of Poly Prep Country Day School is suing for compensation under the Child Victims Act — alleging a tennis coach who is still employed at the Brooklyn school abused her. The suit, filed in Kings County Supreme Court on Thursday against the elite Dyker Heights private school and coach William Martire, claims “the […]
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Children’s Aid Society Ignored Girl’s Sexual Abuse for Years: Lawsuit
Sign up for “THE CITY Scoop,” our daily newsletter where we send you stories like this first thing in the morning. The Children’s Aid Society “knew or should have known” kids it was charged with caring for were being sexually exploited by an employee, a lawsuit claims. The civil suit, filed Nov. 19 on behalf […]
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Judge Upholds Right to Anonymity for Child Victims Act Accusers
Sign up for “THE CITY Scoop,” our daily newsletter where we send you stories like this first thing in the morning. A New York City judge has shut down a Catholic order’s challenge of the use of anonymity in three Child Victims Act cases filed by plaintiffs alleging childhood sexual abuse. George J. Silver, deputy […]
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Sexual Abuse Plaintiffs Fight Jesuit Efforts to Reveal Their Identities
Sign up for “THE CITY Scoop,” our daily newsletter where we send you stories like this first thing in the morning. As hundreds of Child Victims Act lawsuits work their way through New York’s courts, defense lawyers for one Catholic religious order are pressing to expose the identities of plaintiffs who wish to remain anonymous. […]