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Two more men are accusing a now-dead former Red Sox clubhouse manager of sexually abusing them and are asking for $5 million settlements, their lawyer said Monday.Boston attorney Mitchell Garabedian said he sent the Red Sox a letter last month informing them of the new allegations against Donald Fitzpatrick.Both men, now in their 30s, were teenage clubhouse attendants in 1991 when they say Fitzpatrick molested them in the Fenway Park clubhouse. Fitzpatrick died in 2005. The statute of limitations has expired to file a lawsuit or seek criminal charges.In 2003, the team settled a lawsuit with seven Florida men who said Fitzpatrick molested them during spring training beginning in the 1970s. In 2002, Fitzpatrick pleaded guilty in Florida to four counts of attempted sexual battery on a child under 12. He received a 10-year suspended sentence and 15 years of probation.Garabedian, a prominent victims' attorney in the Catholic priest-abuse scandal, said both men decided to come forward after ...
Authorities are investigating an apparent suicide at the Massachusetts summer camp where Sen. Scott Brown says he was sexually molested as a child.An ambulance was s...
SANDWICH, Mass. -- The mother of a man who apparently killed himself after being accused of molesting a boy at a Cape Cod camp says she warned camp authorities becau...
A prominent lawyer for Boston-area clergy sex abuse victims on Wednesday released a new list of accused abusers, saying it was time to "end the secrecy."The list inc...
Prosecutors are investigating the Massachusetts summer camp where Sen. Scott Brown says he was sexually molested as a child after another former camper claimed he wa...
The Boston Archdiocese ( search ), after more than a year of embarrassing revelations and arduous efforts to deal with them, has offered $55 million to settle more ...
Cardinal Bernard Law became angry during testimony on his handling of a now-defrocked pedophile priest and "kind of wigged out" when a lawyer questioned his honesty,...
A watchdog group frustrated that Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley hasn't released a promised list of suspected pedophile priests disclosed the names Thursday of nine pr...
Five former altar boys who say a priest sexually abused them in the 1970s and 1980s have reached a settlement with the Catholic Church for more than $1 million, thei...
A man who worked as a teenager in the Red Sox clubhouse with big-name players such as Roger Clemens and Wade Boggs said his "dream job" ended abruptly when the clubh...
A lawyer says eight more men have come forward to say they were abused by a now-dead former Boston Red Sox clubhouse manager.The men, including two former Baltimore ...
A renowned former New York City youth basketball coach has been indicted on charges he sexually assaulted a player during a team trip to western Massachusetts three ...
A former priest convicted last month of sexually abusing a boy is arguing that separate child rape charges should be thrown out because they violate the statute of l...
He was one of the most notorious figures in the sexual abuse scandal that has shaken the Roman Catholic Church, but the trial of defrocked priest Paul Shanley ( sear...
The Archdiocese of Boston may mortgage church real estate to raise tens of millions of dollars needed for a global settlement with alleged victims of clergy sexual a...
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Another man has come forward to accuse a now-dead Boston Red Sox clubhouse manager of sexually abusing him.A lawyer for former Kansas City Athletics and Royals clubh...
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Nine more men are accusing a now-dead Boston Red Sox clubhouse manager of sexual abuse, including assaults at Fenway Park and Memorial Stadium, former home of the Ba...
Cardinal Sean O'Malley on Thursday released a long-awaited list of priests accused of child sex abuse in Boston in the last 60 years, but he opted not to include cer...