Subject: Urgent Petition for Comprehensive Child Protection in All Schools, Including Strict Religious Institutions I left the Amish in 2005 due to the rampant unreported child abuse involving severe corporal punishment and child sexual assault. Unfortunately, many strict religions strongly discourage or even forbid reporting child abuse. The protection of children from abuse is a fundamental imperative that transcends institutional boundaries and...

Mr. Van de Velde was convicted of raping a 12 year old child. Due to his criminal actions on a child, we firmly declare our opposition to his participation as an Olympiad in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games or any future Olympic Games. The IOC has standards Olympiads must uphold and clearly being a known, convicted rapist is not one of those "standards". In addition, Olympiads...

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO SIGN THE PETITION  Those whose names appear below implore the current leadership of Echo.church in San Jose, CA to release all former employees from any non-disclosure agreements, any non-disparagement agreements, and any documents that prevent former employees from telling their stories that exist.  While we acknowledge that non-disclosure agreements are commonplace in many church contexts, non-disclosures can act...

On March 22, 2024, the Louisiana Supreme Court, in a 4-3 split decision, overturned the three-year window that allowed child sexual abuse victims to sue their abusers and the institutions that shielded the perpetrators, even if the statute of limitations had run out on their claims. The majority of the high court said that the lookback law was “unconstitutional.” SNAP, the Survivors Network of...

Archbishop Cordileone knows about numerous priests who have sexually abused kids. Parents and the public need to know the names of these child abusers to keep kids safe.1.    Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone is the only bishop in the state of California who has not released a list of clergy credibly accused of child sexual abuse.2.    Every other bishop in the state of California has publicly...

Congress- Pass a Child Rights Act. At a minimum these rights should include Erin's Law being extended into private/religious schools (age appropriate sexual abuse prevention education) and unlicensed religious school teachers need to be required to take mandated reporter training and be held accountable to report suspected child abuse. Homeschoolers must take the same mandated reporter training and must also teach Erin’s law. 

Agape Boarding School in Stockton, MO needs to be investigated and the laws in your state regarding the treatment of children and who is allowed to operate institutions that house children and by what standards they may operate needs to be reviewed and amended. It is clear that Agape Boarding School and the Clemenson's family that runs the school found a safe haven in...

On July 2nd, 2019, the state of Tennessee tried to implicate an 'Abolish there Statute of Limitations on child abuse, child rape. This bill H-565 was presented to allow criminal and supposed freedom to sue organizations who protected child rapist.The original statutes in Tennessee blocked anyone from prosecuting or civil cases as the victim was 3 years from age 18. This statute blocked EVERYONE.

Although many survivors of Kanakuk child sexual abuse remain silenced by forced NDAs (see VICE News feature), the support and hope they have felt from over 25,000 people signing the Release Kanakuk Victims from their NDAs petition has been momentous.     Kanakuk abuse survivors are now assembling in the shadows to demand action. They have formed a community to support one another, to seek accountability...