Empowering Voices, Ensuring Justice: Insights and Updates on Sexual Abuse Legal Battles
Survivors of sexual abuse at Hanna Boys Center deserve answers and accountability. Manly, Stewart, Finaldi & Thom represented survivors in a $6.8 million settlement. Learn about sexual abuse lawsuits, filing deadlines, and your legal options, including how to request a free, confidential case review.
A Los Angeles-based high school soccer coach, Michael Avila, has been arrested following allegations that he sexually assaulted a minor.
A civil lawsuit has been filed against the Fullerton Joint Union High School District and former Sunny Hills High School music instructor Albert Anthony Morales.
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), Juvenile Division, Abused Child Section, is asking for the public’s help in identifying additional victims after the arrest of Christopher James Ramstead in connection with child molestation allegations.
A California appeals court has ordered a new trial for former UCLA gynecologist James M. Heaps, ruling that a critical jury note was improperly withheld during deliberations. The decision overturns Heaps’s 2022 conviction and reopens a case tied to one of the largest medical sexual abuse settlements in U.S. history.
Decades-long allegations of abuse by youth coach Jimmy Collins in Mount Kisco, New York have left lasting trauma and a community reckoning. One local man’s journey from childhood teammate to lead plaintiff helped expose how the “open secret” of Collins’ misconduct persisted for generations despite warnings and institutional failures.
