The Vatican Has Updated Its Laws to Target Sexual Abuse in the Church, Yet Still Leaving Gray Areas to Be Explored The revision of "Book VI: Penal Sanctions in the Church" was promulgated June 1, 2021 and will go into effect on December 8, 2021, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. Book VI is one of [...]
Human Trafficking Victims Are Suing Well-Known Hotel Chains for Profiting from What the Hotels "Knew or Should Have Known" Was Taking Place Human trafficking is "the use of force, fraud, or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act."(1) Human traffickers earn global profits of approximately $150 billion a year, $99 billion of [...]
In February of 2019, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed into law a Bill lengthening the statute of limitations for childhood sex abuse survivors. This law effectively allows increased time for survivors of childhood sex abuse to file civil lawsuits against their abusers and the negligent institutions that harbored these perpetrators. Prior to this legislation, the [...]
