11.   DSS supported that abuse allegation, but school officials are appealing, saying the girl was not mistreated.

12.   Documents revealed this week show Law gave Shanley a favorable recommendation, and wrote him a fond and gentle letter, knowing about the serious abuse allegations against him.

13.   Egan met with hundreds of New York City priests to detail his meeting last week with the pope and discuss future responses to sexual abuse allegations.

14.   Four years have passed since the wave of child sex abuse allegations swept across this city.

15.   He became the highest-ranking cleric brought down by the sexual abuse allegations that have spread from Boston to other dioceses.

16.   He is the highest-ranking cleric brought down by the sexual abuse allegations that have spread this year from Boston to other dioceses.

17.   If the committee is going to unravel the complex web of campaign abuse allegations that have surfaced around the Democratic party, testimony from Huang may be necessary.

18.   King, who lives in Upland in San Bernardino County, denied spousal abuse allegations.

19.   Last week, abuse allegations surfaced that had been made during divorce proceedings four years ago by his former wife, Wanda Mora, who lives in New Jersey.

20.   Middlesex District Attorney Martha Coakley said she could recall only one case of a prosecution for failure to report abuse allegations.