1.   Prosecutors claim the abuse allegations are fabrications.

2.   Rumours of sex abuse allegations against the priest have caused shock waves among local people.

3.   Among other things, the program requires the Chicago archdiocese to go beyond legal requirements and report all child sex abuse allegations to the state.

4.   And in the absence of action by Gospel Missionary Union, Conservative Baptist International took on the abuse allegations at the Ivory Coast Academy.

5.   Besides screening prospective employees and volunteers, the commission proposed training all school employees in the appropriate response to sexual abuse allegations.

6.   Belfast police recently questioned Smyth about additional sexual abuse allegations.

7.   Blount, a native of Vidalia, has a similar home in Pennsylvania, which also has been the target of abuse allegations.

8.   According to Morrissey, a previous investigation into a separate abuse allegation against Nyhan was closed after his accuser recanted.

9.   Catholics clearly are not reserving their anger for abusive priests, but fault church leaders for their handling of the abuse allegations.

10.   Catholic officials had lobbied against lifting that exemption for years, relenting after the controversy over unreported sexual abuse allegations engulfed the Catholic church in January.