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Former Regent assistant dean, wife guilty of child sex abuse: Court records show the McPhersons manipulated the teens into submitting to fondling, kissing and other sex acts. They cited Bible verses that they said justified the abuse and, afterward, would pray together for God’s forgiveness.

Priest charged with abuse for 1978 incident : Sixty-four-year-old James R. Blume, a former member of the Christian Brothers religious order who later became a Catholic priest, has been charged with sexually assaulting a 12-year-old boy in Elm Grove in 1978.

Australian Prime Minister to apologise for care home abuse of British children : With the support and encouragement of organisations such as the Salvation Army and Barnardo’s, children were removed from their familes – often having been told that their parents had died – and sent thousands of miles away to a life of starvation, slave labour and sexual abuse. Beatings with straps, canes and even cricket bats were common as was sexual assault. In some Christian Brothers institutes, small boys were forced into bestial acts.

Harrowing documentary uncovers the cruelties of Franco’s paedophile priests: Some 30,000 Spanish children were forcibly removed from their parents and given to childless pro-Franco couples – or put into Catholic Church-run institutions where they were brainwashed and cruelly abused.

Sunday school teacher indicted in CA girl’s death: A San Joaquin County grand jury has indicted Sunday school teacher Melissa Huckaby on charges she kidnapped, raped and killed an 8-year-old girl and drugged two other people.

Ex-priest probed over abuse claim: West Midlands Police is reviewing the case after admitting it failed to investigate when a complaint was made about Father James Robinson in 2003. Father Robinson, who denies the claims, worked in Sutton Coldfield, Cradley Heath and Newcastle-under-Lyme, but moved to California in 1985.

Sydney priest ‘groomer’ caught on webcam, court told: Police allege they posed as a 13-year-old girl on the internet to catch Robert Fuller, a priest of three decades standing and the parish priest of All Saints at Liverpool for six years. Prior to that he was the parish priest at a Punchbowl parish.

All articles continue at links.  These are the stories that one person found, in a short period of time, in English-language news sources. Is it possible there are more and more and more and more such stories to be found?  How about a corresponding number – or 1/10,000th of a corresponding number – of similar stories about atheists abusing children as part of their atheism, using atheism as an excuse to the child and in court?