This case is akin to the many church molestation cases that receive substantial media attention.
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The timing of the molestation charges against Jackson was a hurdle for the prosecution.
When Michael faced molestation allegations in the early '90s and was tried in 2005, the family rallied around.
Miss Chambers was granted a non-molestation order against Oakes just two months before he killed her and their daughter.
Jackson was acquitted of child molestation charges in 2005, partly based on the testimony of Robson, his sister and his mother.
He was arrested in Britain in 2010 because Swedish authorities want to question him about allegations of rape and sexual molestation.
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Wade Robson, now 30, denied in testimony at Jackson's child molestation trial in 2005 that he had been molested by the singer.
The Los Angeles archdiocese, the largest in the US, has released thousands of pages of files on priests accused of child molestation.
Though Jackson's image eventually became sullied by the molestation allegations and stories of eccentricity, there was never any doubt about his entertainment legacy.
Ms Kosser then obtained a non-molestation order against him, claiming he had inflicted mental and physical violence on her - something he denied.
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Twenty-one priests in the US city of Philadelphia have been suspended after being named in an inquiry into claims of widespread child molestation.
Sollers brought in Thornburgh, as well as former FBI profiler and special agent Jim Clemente, described as a child molestation and behavioral expert.
But a good many of my fellow citizens retain the notion that nudity is shameful and that enhanced pat downs are akin to molestation.
They were among a series of incidents that prompted Miss Chambers to apply for a non-molestation order, which was granted on 21 April 2011.
Over the last 9 months, Penn State learned the afore-mentioned lesson the hard way in the aftermath of the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal.
At the time, the church was facing several pressing issues, including a growing crisis over the church's role in handling molestation accusations against priests around the world.
Simpson, Erik and Lyle Menendez, and various defendants in preschool molestation cases have been lengthy, lawyer-dominated soap operas in which the search for truth has been subordinated to the manipulation of procedures.
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In a February 2003 broadcast of an unflattering television documentary by British journalist Martin Bashir, Jackson was shown on the program holding hands with the boy who accused him of child molestation.
The evidence could be air-tight, but in cases from the Michael Jackson child molestation prosecution to the Dominique Strauss-Kahn rape prosecution, evidence that convinced prosecutors disintegrated in the face of vigorous defense advocacy.
"The defense is going to say the charges are nonsense and that the kids that reported this had ulterior motives, " said Thomas Mesereau, a California attorney who successfully defended late pop star Michael Jackson against child-molestation charges in 2005.
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"If there was also a register of offenders who have been ordered to stay away from their victims, and if breaking an injunction for non molestation is made a criminal rather than a civil offence, this could help too, " she said.
Roth would not release details of Foley's alleged molestation, saying only that making it public "is part of Mark's recovery" and that Foley would discuss it further when he is released from a center where he's being treated for alcoholism and mental issues.
One challenge that childcare providers run up against in providing the empathy that children need, especially with the very young where I think touch is vitally important, is that teachers have to very careful in touching and comforting children because of liability issues and how easily acts of compassion can be construed as child molestation.
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