51.   Johnson believes athletes receive a disproportionate amount of attention in domestic abuse cases.

52.   Jeffrey Anderson wants to take the sexual abuse cases rocking the Roman Catholic Church where no man has taken them before.

53.   Kathleen Mahoney, an assistant Jackson County prosecutor who handles many abuse cases, agrees with Gulino.

54.   Lawyers on both sides of clergy sexual abuse cases estimate that about two dozen people have spoken to the press in the face of confidentiality agreements.

55.   Like dioceses in Philadelphia and Los Angeles, among others, the Archdiocese of St. Louis was prompted to reexamine abuse cases after the scandals involving priests in Boston.

56.   McCown also notes that Texas falls far below the national average in handling child abuse cases.

57.   McCown pictured something out of Charles Dickens when he first began hearing child abuse cases and learned of the shelter.

58.   Mejia wound up with a child abuse case against her after a school official reported it to the state central register.

59.   Merchant, who said there are no statutes of limitations for sex abuse cases, said that about one third of his clients made sex abuse charges.

60.   Matt Lane, a spokesman for Keeler, said that the archdiocese was proud of its procedures for handling sexual abuse cases.