On April 5, 2022, InspirationChurch youth paster Conner “Jesse” Penny was arrested on allegations of sexual abuse of a child under the age of 17. After the arrest, Mesquite police received allegations from more survivors that spanned a time period from 2013 to 2021. The 32-year-old youth paster had previously worked for the Mesquite...

Gerardo Custodio Jr, the long-time youth pastor at Ontario's Iglesia La Familia de Dios, was arrested Sunday January 14, 2017. He is suspected of having sexually abused two minors between 2012 and 2015. 30-year-old Custodio has been a youth pastor there for many years; he had been away from the church while attending college,...

Jason Morris Gorski has already pleaded guilty on Tuesday, November 14, 2017, to sexual abuse of a 13-year old boy, a former student of his. Gorski is a 44-year-old former teacher and Jehovah's Witness elder. The sentencing, currently scheduled for January 26, 2018, is expected to earn Gorski six years in prison. His former...

Steve James Howard, the 58-year-old pastor of the United Methodist Church in Muscoy, California, was just convicted on Friday October 27, 2017 of over 30 counts of child sexual molestation. Sentencing is set for November 29 in San Bernardino; in the meantime Pastor Howard sits at the West Valley Detention Center, in Rancho Cucamonga....

An article was published recently about Jehovah's Witnesses and their inappropriate handling of child sex abuse allegations after-the-fact, in The Guardian. Jonathan Rose is a convicted pedophile and a former "elder" of the Manchester New Moston congregation of the Jehovah’s Witnesses. He was jailed for nine months. As if his original sexual abuse of...

Diocese of Syracuse found that the victim's claims of violent sexual abuse were credible and resulted in the removal of Father Felix Colosimo A sexual abuse lawsuit (Federal District of Connecticut, Case 3:17-cv-00906) against the Diocese of Syracuse was filed in a Connecticut Federal Court due to acts of pedophilia committed by a priest...

Carlsbad pastor Matthew Tague of North Coast Calvary Chapel has been arrested for child molestation. It is unlikely that Mr. Tague has harmed only one child. Child molestation is a learned behavior and it is rare that the perpetrator is caught early on. If your child was harmed by Mr. Tague, or you suspect...

Estey & Bomberger attorneys have been fighting on behalf of victims of child molestation and their families for over 20 years. Our legal team is currently working with the family of a victim in the McGee case, and is committed to fighting on behalf of any other young victims in Round Rock and East...

An 80-year-old Orange County man was arrested April 5 on suspicion of child sex abuse. Douglas Dale Whinery, a native of Tustin, was an active missionary and was involved in several churches in Foothill Ranch, Santa Ana, and Yorba Linda. He even flew a personal jet to Indian reservations to do missionary work there....

Federal prosecutors might file a racketeering lawsuit against the Altoona-Johnstown Pennsylvanian Roman Catholic Diocese after a state grand jury found two former bishops conspired to cover up the sexual molestation of hundreds of minors by 50 clergy members over a period of four decades. This case bears a resemblance to the systemic abuse of...