MLB Star Mariano Rivera and Wife Clara Added as Defendants in Child Sex Abuse Suit

The initial January filing, alleging a girl was sexually abused by an older minor at church-connected events, previously did not name the Riveras as defendants

Mariano Rivera and his wife Clara Rivera have been added as defendants in a January civil lawsuit accusing them of covering up child sex abuse.

As previously reported, the 55-year-old New York Yankees Hall of Famer and Clara were named in a lawsuit filed earlier this year in New York Supreme Court, and were alleged to have ignored the sexual abuse of a young girl who was a member of his Refuge of Hope Church in Westchester County, N.Y.

At the time, the Riveras' attorney, Joseph A. Ruta, told the New York Post in a statement that "allegations that they knew about or failed to act on reports of child abuse are completely false."

Now, the Riveras have been added as defendants in an amended court filing, the girl's attorney, Adam Horowitz, initially told ESPN. Horowitz said details in the filing have remained largely the same.

PEOPLE has since obtained the amended document, which was filed on April 25 and lists both Mariano and Clara as defendants — along with Refuge of Hope, which was previously named as a defendant along with an LLC that included the couple's former home address. As Horowitz told ESPN, the couple was later named as defendants after it was determined they were not connected with the LLC, which is now no longer named as a defendant.

An attorney for the Riveras did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment on Thursday, May 1.

The filing alleged that a minor born in 2007, identified as Jane Doe, was sexually abused by an older female minor (identified as "MG") at the Ignite Life Center in Gainesville, Fla. during a 2018 summer internship program affiliated with the Rivera’s church. The updated complaint claimed that the Riveras "separately isolated and intimidated Jane Doe to remain silent about her negative experiences at the summer internship, including her abuse by MG, to avoid causing trouble for Refuge of Hope and the Ignite Life Summer Internship."

Per Refuge of Hope's website, Clara served as its head pastor.

According to the complaint, the internship program "required children to reside at Ignite Life Center for the duration of the program, without parental supervision," and the church “paid Jane Doe’s expenses” in order to “ensure she could attend the summer program.” The complaint alleges that, during a summer 2018 BBQ at the Riveras' Brook View home, MG again abused Jane Doe.

It also alleges that Jane Doe was sexually abused by Ruben Tavarez Jr., the son of the Refuge of Hope associate pastor, in August 2021.

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/mlb-star-mariano-rivera-wife-154416938.html

Lead Singer of Famed Rock Band Dead at 66

Another rock legend has fallen.

Mike Peters, the lead singer of the Welsh rock band The Alarm, has died, BBC reports.

While Peters’ cause of death is not known at this time, The Alarm front man struggled with blood cancer for 30 years in the wake of his diagnosis with lymphoma in 1995. Aside from battling non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Peters was diagnosed twice with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, which returned in 2015 before he went into remission.

Peters was best known as the co-founder and the frontman of the rock group The Alarm, which started performing in 1977 as their former moniker, The Toilets. After settling on their official name, The Alarm would go on to play together from 1981 to 1991 and sell an estimated five million records.

The Alarmwould go on to release hit songs like "Sixty Eight Guns," "Spirit of '76," and “Sold Me Down the River." Peters left the group in 1991 to embark on a solo career.

Aside from music, Peters was also a founder of theLove Hope Strength Foundation, a charity organization dedicated to helping people fight cancer. Peters would often using live music shows as a means to recruit bone marrow donors. For his charity work to benefit cancer care, Peters was awarded the MBE in 2019. Peters is currently survived by his sons Dylan, 20 and Evan, 18.

Mike Peters was only66years old.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/lead-singer-famed-rock-band-210548067.html

Christian organization plagued by allegations of child sex abuse faces another lawsuit

A Florida-based Christian organization with a history of child sex abuse allegations against it has been hit with a lawsuit claiming one of its missionaries sexually assaulted a minor overseas 15 years ago.

Ethnos360, a nonprofit formerly known as New Tribes Mission, sends missionaries and their families throughout the globe. In 2019, multiple women told NBC News that they had been sexually abused decades earlier by their “dorm dads” — missionaries who were supposed to care for children at the mission’s boarding schools while their parents served in foreign countries.

The group settled several suits related to those allegations and issued a public apology to the abuse survivors following the 2019 NBC News report. It also said it had “incorporated significant child safety training” after an independent party commissioned by New Tribes Mission shared recommendations in 2010 amid the abuse allegations.

But Wednesday's lawsuit, filed in Circuit Court in Seminole County, Florida, says the group “failed to offer any care or professional assistance” to the family of an American child who came forward to report inappropriate sexual conduct in 2012, two years after those recommendations were issued.

The girl, Kayla McClain, is now 24, lives in Michigan and recently graduated from nursing school. NBC News does not normally identify alleged victims of sexual assault, but McClain opted to be identified by her full name in the legal filing.

“I’m tired of being quiet and tired of being invisible,” McClain said in her first public remarks about the case. “I just want people to know what really happened and that there’s actually a face and a name behind what’s going on.”

David Doyle, an attorney for Ethnos360, said the group “takes allegations of this nature very seriously” and “categorically denies any merit to allegations made against it.”

McClain was around 5 years old in 2005 when she met her alleged abuser, Nate Horling, the lawsuit said. Like McClain and her family, Horling lived with his wife and children in housing in Indonesia provided by what was then New Tribes Mission. He had a child about McClain’s age whom McClain would play with, the legal complaint said, adding that the alleged abuse by Horling started with inappropriate touching while McClain was playing with his child. Afterward, Horling would allegedly tell McClain “he was sorry and instructed her not to tell anyone and blamed her for what occurred,” the lawsuit said.

The abuse escalated after both families relocated to a different part of Indonesia in 2009, where Horling later allegedly sexually assaulted McClain in a closet, according to the lawsuit.

Horling, who is not named as a defendant, told NBC News in an email that he “absolutely” denies all allegations.

The lawsuit comes less than a year after another legal filing against Ethnos360, which alleged the group failed to protect a girl from repeated sexual misconduct by a peer at its missionary training center in Missouri in 2016 and failed to adequately investigate the abuse allegations.

That lawsuit is ongoing, though Ethnos360 has filed a motion to dismiss it, arguing in court documents that because the alleged abuse occurred in private residences on Ethnos360 property, not while children were under Ethnos360 staff supervision, the group did not have “any right and /or duty to control, occupy, or monitor the families and activities within the residences

https://www.yahoo.com/news/christian-organization-plagued-allegations-child-214053540.html

Five more accusers come forward against SoCal school counselor charged with molesting children

A former Ventura County school counselor, who was arrested in November on suspicion of molesting eight young children, has been charged with 14 additional felony counts of lewd acts upon a child after five more victims came forward, authorities said.

David Lane Braff, Jr., 42, of Thousand Oaks now faces 31 counts of child molestation involving a total of 13 male and female victims, according to an amended criminal complaint filed Tuesday by prosecutors from the Ventura County District Attorney's Office. He is set to be arraigned on the new charges on May 21, prosecutors said.

Braff was initially accused of molesting eight students ages 6 to 10 in a school office at McKevett Elementary School in Santa Paula, where he worked as a counselor from 2015 to 2019. In November he pleaded not guilty to 17 felony counts of lewd acts upon a child under 14 years old, according to court documents.

Since his arrest, four additional victims have come forward from from McKevett Elementary School. In addition, a fifth new victim has come forward who was allegedly abused between 2004 and 2005, while Braff was employed at the Conejo Recreation and Park District in Thousand Oaks.

"The defendant is now accused of molesting even more young victims across multiple years and locations," Ventura Dist. Atty. Eric Nasarenko said in a statement. "Our investigators and prosecutors remain committed to uncovering the full extent of this defendant’s crimes, and we urge anyone with information to contact our office."

Over the last 24 years, Braff has worked at 10 different school districts and youth sports facilities in Ventura and Los Angeles counties, prosecutors said. He has held numerous positions including counselor, sports coach, child-care assistant, substitute teacher and behavioral therapist.

At the time of his arrest, Braff was working as an assistant principal and school counselor at Ingenium Charter Middle School in Winnetka, prosecutors said.

He faces sentencing enhancements alleging that he took advantage of a position of trust, preyed on particularly vulnerable victims and committed the crimes with planning and sophistication.

Prosecutors are continuing to seek additional victims and encourage anyone with information related to Braff's alleged abuse to contact Investigator Greg Webb at (805) 477-1627.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/five-more-accusers-come-forward-010517202.html

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Those you trust the most.

Who is the top Procurer of Children?

HHS, Social Services/Child Protective Services, and Dependency Courts.

Who helped open the door?

Billary Clinton through the fake "Family Preservation Act" which gave access to all states, to kidnap children, using fake, hearsay reports by social workers, doctors and corrupt Judges, who don't have any idea what due process is.

Violation of the Constitution of the United States, Violation of each State Constitution and Violation of Social Workers Oaths.

Every single one of them, were granted unfetter access to kidnap via nothing but LIES, and every single tax payer, is funding it.