A person familiar with the allegations said on Friday that the Illinois Republican is accused of sexually molesting someone decades ago.
Shannon's new beau is a convicted sex offender, a prior boyfriend of Shannon's who was jailed for 10 years after molesting her eight-year-old relative.
And then in the 1990s and the 2000s the clerical scandals erupted, in which ghastly episodes of priests molesting and sometimes raping children and young people were brought to light.
One involved an American musician, working at a swanky Bangkok hotel, who was accused of molesting girls.
But an LA paper, the New Times, has still managed to identify several priests, accused of sexually molesting children in their charge, whom it claims the cardinal helped to protect from exposure.
It would be good if they got one next month, but if they don't it will not be a disaster.Correction: In an earlier version of this article we said that a woman was hanged on Sunday for killing the man she accused of molesting her.
Seven "ordinary" ex-convicts robbers, burglars and thex-convicts robbersd for molesting children for every one convicted child sex offender who was collared for the same offence.
Since 2004 it has defrocked 848 priests for raping and molesting children, and meted out lesser punishments to 2,572 others (usually because they were elderly and defrocking would have left them destitute).But the Vatican has not obliged bishops to report suspected abuse to the police because, say officials, in some places paedophile clerics could suffer barbaric punishment or execution.
"What happens to record sales if the star is caught molesting kids?" asks Paul Taylor, of Duff & Phelps, a bond-rating agency.Odd couplesOne reason investors love securities which pool assets is that they limit risk by minimising the loss if something awful happens to any one asset.
On Saturday a woman was hanged for killing the man she accused of molesting her, shortly before a UN envoy condemned a surge in executions and the treatment of Iran's women.
And his ostrich-leather boots tripped over the line when he was accused in 2003 of molesting a grandchild.
