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House backs bill dropping deadline for child physical abuse claims
Burlington’s former St. Joseph’s Orphanage, which housed children from 1854 to 1974, is now an apartment building. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger The Vermont House has joined the Senate in advancing...
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Lawsuit alleges ‘conscience-shocking’ use of force at Vermont’s now-shuttered...
Woodside Juvenile Rehabilitation Center in Essex, now closed. Photo by Mark Johnson/VTDigger Updated at 6:13 p.m. A lawsuit filed on behalf of several youth who had been placed in Vermont’s now-closed...
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Online child exploitation tips jumped 37% during 2 years of the pandemic
One evening last December, a team of law enforcement officers carrying a search warrant knocked on an apartment door in Claremont, New Hampshire. After speaking with the tenants, the police seized...
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Youth organization founder facing new child sexual abuse charges
Wayne Miller is being held at Southern State Correctional Facility in Springfield. File photo by Elizabeth Hewitt/VTDigger The founder of a youth mentoring organization is facing a spate of new child...
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Senate panel gets first look at bill to scrap clergy exemptions for reporting...
Sen. Robert Norris, R-Franklin, listens to testimony as the Senate Judiciary Committee considers repealing the exception for clergy to report child abuse and neglects at the Statehouse in Montpelier...
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Clergy reporting bill fails to make key legislative deadline over...
Christopher Coyne, bishop of the Diocese of Burlington, center, answers a question from Sen. Phil Baruth, D-Chittenden Central, left, as the Senate Judiciary Committee considers a bill repealing an...
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Special report: ‘This never ends for him’
Editor’s note: VTDigger does not publish the names of alleged child sexual abuse victims or their families and has used pseudonyms to protect the identities of the parents, partners and child in this...
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