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Officials say tackling St. Louis and St. Louis County’s more than 6,000 abuse and neglect cases will require hiring more investigators.
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Balloon artists from St. Louis and around the globe are descending on a northern Colorado town this week to participate in a one-of-a-kind event. It’s called the Big Balloon Build. Artists are building a larger-than-life world out of biodegradable balloons to raise awareness about child abuse.
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The legislation changes Missouri law by requiring judges start each child custody case with the presumption that “equal or approximately equal” parenting time for each parent is in the child’s best interests. But the bill, passed in the final hour of the legislative session, could make it more difficult for victims to escape abusive relationships and protect their children.
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The Belleville News-Democrat published its first story on the issue in February 1993. By 2002, the diocese, which covers 28 counties in southern Illinois, had removed 15 priests and one deacon from ministry.
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Dozens of former students have gone public with their allegations of physical, mental, and sexual abuse at the Stockton-based Christian residential facility, which opened in 1996. For the last few years, Agape has been at the forefront of the state’s reckoning over abuse allegations at unlicensed faith-based boarding schools.
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House Speaker Rob Vescovo is calling for the U.S. attorney’s office to get involved because he believes local officials ‘either turned a blind eye to, or helped to cover up’ abuse at Agape Boarding School.
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Advocates praised the law, which prevents underaged survivors from being charged with prostitution and requires law enforcement to immediately report suspected cases to the state, as a step in the right direction.
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Six men who were sexually abused by Catholic priests from the Kansas City area tell their stories in Mizzou associate professor Robert Greene’s newest film.
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For 365 days a year, 24 hours a day, the St. Louis Crisis Nursery welcomes children in need of care due to factors like homelessness, illness or extreme parental stress. Molly Brown discussed the nursery's 35-year history on "St. Louis on the Air."
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Updated at 8:30 a.m. Thursday, June 25, with comments from the Surivors Network of Those Abused by Priests.The Marianist Province of the U.S., an…