A church on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is now in crisis following an investigation by WBEZ radio in Chicago, showing a long history of sexual and spiritual abuse amongst congregants, and subsequent cover-ups by church leadership.
It started with a Facebook post. Fayth Springer said that sparked her desire to protest.
Advocates for clergy abuse victims released the names Wednesday of 395 priests and lay people in Illinois they say have been publicly accused of sexually abusing children — a roster more than twice as long as what the state's six dioceses previously released.
The University of Illinois YWCA hopes to raise awareness about how trauma and abuse put women at greater risk of ending up in the criminal justice system.
A new Illinois law will require hospitals to ensure that sexual assault victims receive timely treatment from someone trained to examine them.
