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Jul 8, 2026

Clergy Sexual Abuse & Institutional Cover-Up — Attorney911 Pursues the Archdiocese and Its 150 Affiliates for Decades of Predation Across New Orleans Churches and Schools, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Secure the Internal Abuse Files, Personnel Records and Assignment Histories That Prove Negligent Supervision and Fraudulent Concealment, Louisiana’s Childhood Sexual Abuse Revival Statute Reopened Courthouse Doors to Time-Barred Survivors and the Active Trafficking Investigation Opens TVPRA Civil Claims Against Non-Debtor Church Officials, Complex PTSD and Religious Trauma from Clergy Authority-Figure Abuse, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The New Orleans Archdiocese $230 Million Clergy Abuse Settlement: What Survivors and Families Need to Know If you are reading this page, you may be one of the roughly 600 survivors whose claims forced the second-oldest Catholic archdiocese in the United States into federal bankruptcy court — or you may be someone who was abused by clergy in Louisiana and is only now learning that the law changed in ways that might still give you a path forward. Either way, what happened in a New Orleans federal courtroom in December 2025 was not just a number on a page. It was the end of more than five years of litigation that an institution initially believed it could settle for less than $7 million — and that ultimately cost it $230 million, with another $75 million possibly coming from its insurer, plus more than $50 million in legal fees it spent fighting the very people it had failed to protect. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We are a trial firm that takes cases in Louisiana, and we built this page because the settlement confirmation raises questions that general news coverage does not answer: How will the points system actually determine what each survivor receives? What claims survived the bankruptcy channeling injunction — and what claims against individual church officials who covered up abuse are still alive? What is the open criminal trafficking investigation, and could it create an entirely separate federal civil remedy with treble damages? And perhaps…

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Jul 8, 2026

Clergy Sexual Abuse Attorneys for South Jersey Survivors: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Institutional Abuse Claims Across the Diocese of Camden’s 62 Parishes in Atlantic, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem Counties, We Pursue the Diocese and Its Parish Network Behind Decades of Predator Priest Reassignment and Concealment of Abuse Allegations, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Church’s Historical Insurers Value and Deny These Cases, We Secure Diocesan Personnel Files, Clergy Assignment Matrices and Internal Complaint Records Before They Disappear in Administrative Transitions, New Jersey’s Expanded Statute of Limitations Allows Survivors to File Until Age 55 or Within Seven Years of Discovering the Harm, Delayed Disclosure Is a Documented Psychological Response to Childhood Sexual Trauma Not a Credibility Weakness, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Diocese of Camden $180 Million Settlement: What South Jersey Survivors Need to Know You may have heard the news and felt something shift inside you — anger, relief, fear, or a combination of all three that doesn’t have a name. A $180 million settlement has been announced for survivors of clergy sexual abuse in the Diocese of Camden. More than 300 people came forward across South Jersey — Atlantic, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, and Salem counties — and the institution that failed them has agreed to pay. If you are one of those survivors, or if you are reading this because someone you love was abused by clergy in one of those 62 parishes, this page is for you. Not for the headlines. For you, at whatever hour you are reading this, trying to understand what this settlement means and whether the door is still open. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We are a trial firm that takes institutional sexual abuse cases and fights for survivors. We are writing this page as the senior trial attorneys we are, not as the lawyers on this specific settlement — we are not counsel of record in the Diocese of Camden bankruptcy. What follows is our expert analysis of what happened, what the law says, what the settlement structure means for individual survivors, and what you need to know if you or someone you love was abused by clergy in South Jersey. Everything here is legal information, not…

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Jul 8, 2026

Clergy Sexual Abuse & Institutional Liability in Albany, New York: Michael Harmon Survived Five Years of Abuse by a Diocesan Vice Chancellor Who Lived Across the Hall from the Bishop in the Chancery, and the Diocese Settled for $8 Million Days Before Trial After Prior Abuse Reports Had Already Been Made, Attorney911 Brings 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Cases Against the Dioceses and Archdioceses That Knew of Abuse and Still Gave Priests Overnight Access to Children, We Secure Personnel Files, Prior Complaint Records and Internal Communications Before They Disappear Into Bankruptcy Sealing, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, New York’s Child Victims Act and Diocese Bankruptcy Claims, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Albany $8 Million Clergy Sexual Abuse Settlement: What the Child Victims Act Case Means for Survivors in New York If you are reading this because you were abused by a priest, a clergy member, or anyone in a position of institutional authority — or because someone you love was — you are not alone, and you are not out of time. The $8 million settlement that the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany paid to a survivor of childhood sexual abuse is not the end of a story. It is the first crack in a dam holding back more than 400 similar claims, all stalled in federal bankruptcy court, all waiting for someone to decide what they are worth and when the people who suffered will see anything at all. We are Attorney911. We are trial lawyers. Ralph Manginello has spent 27-plus years in courtrooms, including federal court, and before he was a lawyer he was a journalist — which means he learned early that institutions protect themselves first and answer questions second. Lupe Peña spent years inside a national insurance-defense firm, in the rooms where claims like yours are priced, delayed, and devalued, before he chose to sit on the side of the people the insurance machine was built to grind down. Lupe is fluent in Spanish and conducts full consultations in Spanish without an interpreter. We handle cases in New York. This page is legal information, not legal advice, and contacting us is free and confidential. What happened in…

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Jul 8, 2026

New York Child Sexual Abuse & Clergy Abuse Attorneys: Attorney911 Holds the Diocesan Institutions and the Corporate Structures That Shielded Known Abusers — the New York Child Victims Act Look-Back Window That Revived 440 Time-Barred Claims Against the Albany Diocese, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Denies and Delays, We Pursue the Diocesan Personnel Files, Assignment Records and Secret Archives That Prove the Concealment and Reassignment Pattern, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims, the Statute of Limitations Is Running for Survivors Who Have Not Yet Filed — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

New York Child Sexual Abuse Settlement: The Albany Diocese, 440 Survivors, and What Comes Next If you are reading this, you may be one of the hundreds of survivors whose courage made this settlement possible — or someone who survived abuse in a Catholic institution and has not yet come forward. Either way, you need to understand what the $148 million agreement between the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany and approximately 440 survivors actually means, what happens next, and what your rights still are. We are going to tell you everything we know about this case, this process, and this state’s law — not as a recitation of news, but as trial attorneys who have spent decades in courtrooms fighting for people who were failed by institutions that were supposed to protect them. The settlement is real. It is substantial. And it is not the end of the road. The diocese’s own bishop stood before cameras and said what many survivors waited decades to hear any representative of the Church acknowledge: “It cannot adequately compensate the survivors for the horrors they experienced. [The settlement can] hopefully provide some solace to all those affected by the pain caused by the perpetrators and the failings of those who could have intervened but did not.” That statement — from the institution itself — is a public acknowledgment that the harm was not just the work of individual perpetrators. It was the failings of those who could have intervened but did not. That is…

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Jul 8, 2026

Three Boys Sexually Assaulted by a Casper Youth Minister Who Plied Them With Alcohol While the Diocese and Parish Failed to Supervise Despite Warnings: Attorney911 Holds Religious Institutions Accountable for the Grooming, Isolation and Betrayal of Trust Behind Clergy Child Sexual Abuse, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo-Rated Excellent, Wyoming’s Discovery Rule Lets Survivors Sue Years After Childhood Sexual Abuse and the State Has No Criminal Statute of Limitations, We Pull Personnel Files, Assignment Records and Insurance Archives Before Decades-Old Evidence Disappears, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Institutional Insurers Value and Deny These Claims, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Casper, Wyoming Clergy Sexual Abuse Lawsuit: Youth Minister, Diocese of Cheyenne Sued Over 1990s Assaults of Three Boys If you are reading this page at 2 a.m. — if you or someone you love was sexually abused as a child by someone the church put in a position of trust — we need you to hear one thing before anything else: the fact that it took you decades to understand what happened does not make your case weaker. It makes it human. And Wyoming law specifically recognizes that. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We build cases for people who were failed by the institutions that were supposed to protect them. This page is about a lawsuit filed in Wyoming alleging that a former Catholic youth minister sexually assaulted three boys in Casper in the 1990s while the Diocese of Cheyenne and Our Lady of Fatima Church failed to supervise him — even after his own supervisor was warned that he was plying adolescent males with alcohol. But this page is also for you, if your story sounds anything like theirs. Whether the abuse happened in Casper, in Cheyenne, in a parish across Wyoming, or in a church anywhere — the law that protects you is the same, and the clock on your rights may not be where you think it is. Ralph Manginello has spent 27 years in courtrooms, including federal court, fighting for people whose lives were torn open by someone else’s choices. Lupe Peña…

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Jul 8, 2026

Clergy Sexual Abuse Attorneys Serving Oakland, California: After a $16 Million Jury Verdict Against the Oakland Diocese for Childhood Abuse by a Priest in Its Ministry, Attorney911 Pursues the Dioceses and Religious Institutions Behind the Cover-Up and the $106 Million Pre-Bankruptcy Asset Transfer That Exposes the Concealment Pattern, We Pull the 50-Year-Old Personnel Files, Assignment Records and Internal Communications Before They Are Lost, California’s Treble Damages for Institutional Concealment and the Revival Window for Childhood Sexual Abuse Claims, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims, the Bankruptcy Claims Deadline Is Running — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

If You Are a Survivor Reading About This Verdict You may have seen the news and felt something shift inside you. A jury in Oakland just told a survivor of clergy abuse that what happened to him was real, that the institution that let it happen is responsible, and that his suffering is worth $16 million. Maybe you carried the same secret for decades. Maybe you thought it was too late. Maybe you filed a claim when the California Legislature briefly opened the courthouse doors and you have been waiting in the bankruptcy process ever since, wondering whether anyone would ever be held accountable. We are writing this page for you. The shame and guilt you have carried since childhood are not yours to bear. That is not a platitude — it is what a jury of twelve people in an Alameda County courtroom just said, in the only language the civil justice system speaks: a verdict. The survivor in this case was ten years old when the abuse began. He waited more than fifty years for someone in authority to confirm what he already knew. The jury confirmed it. The institution that enabled it was found liable. Our firm handles catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases, and we take California cases. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. Ralph Manginello has spent 27+ years in courtrooms, including federal court. Lupe Peña spent years inside a national insurance-defense firm — the rooms where claims like yours are priced,…

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Jul 8, 2026

Clergy Sexual Abuse Survivors & the Rhode Island Revival Window: Attorney911 Pursues the Diocese of Providence and the Supervisors Who Reassigned Known Abusers and Concealed Decades of Child Abuse, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Secure Diocese Personnel Files and Clergy Assignment Records Before Evidence Degrades, the 2019 Law Reached Individual Perpetrators But Not Institutions — the Revival Window Opens July 1, 2026 and Closes June 30, 2028, Fraudulent Concealment Tolling as an Independent Path If the 1996 Precedent Strikes the Window, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Catastrophic Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Rhode Island Clergy Abuse Revival Window: Your Right to Hold the Institution Accountable If you survived sexual abuse by clergy in Rhode Island, you have been told — by the passage of time, by the statute of limitations, by a system that protected the institution instead of you — that your chance to hold the people who enabled your abuse accountable had expired. The Rhode Island General Assembly is now considering legislation that would reopen that door. A two-year revival window, set to open July 1, 2026 and close June 30, 2028, would allow previously time-barred civil claims against institutions like the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence and against supervisors who failed to protect children from known abusers. We are writing this for you — the survivor who has carried this for years or decades, who may have told no one, who may have tried to move on and found that moving on from what was done to you is not the same as healing from it. We are also writing for the family member who loves a survivor and is trying to understand what this legislation means and whether it is real or just another promise that will collapse under the weight of legal maneuvering. What we can tell you is this: the legislation is real. The Attorney General of Rhode Island released a 282-page investigative report documenting decades of clergy sexual abuse and systematic cover-up by the Diocese of Providence. The House has already passed a companion bill.…

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Jul 8, 2026

Child Sexual Abuse & the Diocese of Ogdensburg’s $45M Settlement with 125 Survivors Under New York’s Child Victims Act — Attorney911 Pursues the Dioceses, Parishes and Affiliated Entities Behind the Negligent Supervision and Reassignment of Known Abusers Across 12,000 Square Miles of Isolated North Country Parishes, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Institutional-Abuse Cases, We Move to Secure the Personnel Files, Assignment Histories and Concealment Records Before They Are Sealed in Bankruptcy, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims, the CVA Look-Back Window Has Closed but Fraudulent-Concealment Doctrine May Preserve Survivors’ Claims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The $45 Million Diocese of Ogdensburg Settlement: What Child Sexual Abuse Survivors in New York Need to Know You are reading about a $45 million settlement and you are trying to understand what it means for you. Maybe you are one of the 125 people who filed a claim under New York’s Child Victims Act and you want to know what happens next — how the vote works, when the money arrives, whether the amount is fair. Maybe you are someone who did not file in time and you are sitting with the fear that the door has closed forever. Maybe you love someone who was abused by someone they trusted in a parish, a school, a youth program, and you are trying to figure out whether anything can still be done. We are going to tell you the truth about all of it. Not the headline version. The version that a trial attorney would give you across a kitchen table at two in the morning — what the law actually says, what the process actually does, what the evidence actually shows, and what your options actually are. This page is legal information, not legal advice, and contacting us is free and confidential. But the information here is real, and it is yours. The Diocese of Ogdensburg, its parishes, and affiliated entities have agreed to pay $45 million to 125 survivors who say employees and volunteers abused them as children. The diocese filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in July…

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Jul 8, 2026

Clergy Sexual Abuse Lawsuits in Boston, Massachusetts: Attorney911 Holds the Roman Catholic Dioceses and Archdioceses Behind Decades of Concealment and Reassignment of Known Abusers to New Parishes, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Religious Institutions Value and Deny These Claims, We Pursue the Diocesan Personnel Files, Assignment Histories and Internal Correspondence That Prove Institutional Knowledge Before Records Are Lost and Aging Witnesses Pass, the Psychological Trauma, Moral Injury and Addiction That Followed Survivors Including Patrick McSorley — the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims, Massachusetts’ Extended Statute of Limitations for Childhood Sexual Abuse Civil Claims and the Discovery Rule for Survivors Whose Trauma Delayed Disclosure — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Boston, Massachusetts Clergy Sexual Abuse Lawsuits: Your Civil Rights as a Survivor If you are reading this at 2 a.m., years or decades after what was done to you — by a priest, a nun, a lay minister, a volunteer at your parish — we want you to hear one thing before anything else: the shame belongs to the institution that protected the person who hurt you, not to you. Not to the child you were. Not to the adult who coped the only way a child could — by burying it, by drinking it away, by never telling a soul, by pretending it didn’t happen until the day you couldn’t pretend anymore. Boston, Massachusetts is where the American clergy abuse crisis was forced into the open. It is the city where the cover-up was exposed — where the public learned that the Archdiocese of Boston had known about abusive priests and reassigned them to new parishes anyway, sending them to new children without warning a single family. Nearly a thousand children were molested by priests in the Boston archdiocese over a five-decade period, according to the archdiocese’s own report. One priest alone — John Geoghan — molested approximately 150 children. The institution knew. The institution moved him anyway. The institution sent him to the next parish, and the next, and the next. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle catastrophic injury and wrongful-death cases, and we take cases in Massachusetts working with local counsel where…

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Jul 8, 2026

60,000 Financial Records at Issue as Diocese Civil Suit Is Dismissed — Parishioner Data-Security & Institutional Records Claims in Las Cruces, Doña Ana County, New Mexico: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pursue the Institution and Those Behind the Unauthorized Removal of Financial Documents from the Diocese and Basilica of San Albino in Mesilla, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Preserve IT Access Logs and Digital Audit Trails Before Server Overwrite Cycles Erase the Evidence, State Data-Breach Notification and Consumer-Protection Doctrine, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ Total — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Las Cruces Diocese Records Dispute: What Happened, What It Means, and What Your Rights Are If you are a parishioner in Las Cruces or Mesilla reading about 60,000 financial records removed from the Diocese, a priest suspended, and a lawsuit quietly dismissed — you are not overreacting by wanting to know whether your personal information was in those files. You are doing exactly what a careful person does when an institution that holds your data loses control of it. We are going to tell you everything we know about how these situations work under New Mexico law, what the Diocese’s own statements reveal and what they do not, and what your actual rights are — whether you gave money in a collection plate, enrolled a child in a parish school, or simply have your name and address on a parish registry. This page is legal information, not legal advice, and contacting us is free and confidential. But the information here is real, it is specific to New Mexico, and it is written by trial lawyers who have spent decades holding institutions accountable for the records they keep and the duties they owe. What Actually Happened in Las Cruces Here is the timeline as publicly reported, and we are going to walk through it carefully because the sequence matters. In September 2025, the Diocese of Las Cruces filed a civil lawsuit against a former employee named Georgina Lavery. The lawsuit alleged that Lavery had accessed financial records belonging to the Diocese…

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