Rhode Island Personal Injury

Jul 9, 2026

Clergy Sexual Abuse of 300+ Children by 75 Catholic Priests Across Rhode Island Since 1950, Diocese of Providence Concealment Exposed — Attorney911 Pursues Institutional Liability for Fraudulent Concealment and Negligent Supervision of Accused Priests Transferred Without Investigation, We Secure the Secret Archive Files and Bishop Correspondence Before Any Diocesan Bankruptcy Filing Freezes Discovery, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims, Rhode Island’s Fraudulent Concealment Doctrine May Revive Time-Barred Claims for Providence County Survivors — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

What the Rhode Island Attorney General’s Report Means for Survivors of Diocese of Providence Clergy Abuse If you are reading this page, you already know what happened to you. You may have known for decades. You may have carried it in silence since you were a child — a priest at a parish in Providence or Cranston, the grooming that started with attention and gifts, the abuse that followed in a rectory bedroom, the words that still echo. And you may have just learned, from a report released on March 4, 2026, that the Attorney General of Rhode Island spent years investigating the Diocese of Providence and confirmed what survivors have been saying all along: 75 Catholic clergy abused more than 300 children since 1950, while bishops worked to downplay, minimize, and conceal what was happening inside their own churches. This page is not a news article. It is a legal resource — written by trial attorneys who understand how institutional sexual abuse cases are built and fought — for one person: the survivor in Providence, Cranston, or anywhere in Rhode Island who is deciding, maybe for the first time, maybe after thirty or forty years of silence, whether the…

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Jul 9, 2026

Clergy Sexual Abuse & the Diocese of Providence: 75 Identified Abusers, 300+ Children Since 1950, and a Wall of Secrecy That Kept Survivors Disbelieved for Decades — Attorney911 Pursues the Catholic Institution, Its Parishes and Schools Under the Civil Accountability Law Survivors Fought to Pass, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Religious Institutions Deny Survivor Claims, We Pull Diocesan Personnel Files, Clergy Assignment Records and Internal Communications Before Decades-Old Evidence Is Lost, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims, From East Greenwich to Every Rhode Island Parish Where Children Were Betrayed — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

East Greenwich Clergy Abuse: What the Rhode Island Attorney General’s Report Means for Survivors — and What Comes Next The sound of a school nurse’s office door opening. Light reflecting off a stained-glass window. The dread of getting on the school bus every morning. If you are reading this page, those fragments may be yours — and the report that came out of the Rhode Island attorney general’s office this week may be the first time anyone in authority has said, in writing, that what happened to you was real, that it was not your fault, and that the institution you trusted knew about it and hid it. We are Attorney911, and this page is written for one person: the survivor — or the survivor’s family — who is sitting with this report and deciding whether there is anything left to do about it. There is. The road is not simple, and we will not pretend it is. But a state government just corroborated what survivors have been saying for decades, and the law in Rhode Island has changed in ways that may open a door that was locked for most of your life. This is what that door looks…

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Jul 8, 2026

Clergy Sexual Abuse & Institutional Cover-Up in Rhode Island: 315 Children, 72 Accused Clergy, Decades of Priest Shuffling and File Destruction by the Diocese of Providence — Attorney911 Pursues the Diocese and the Bishops Behind the Concealment, 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 These Cases, We Secure the Personnel Files, Transfer Records and the AG’s 282-Page Findings Before Surviving Evidence Is Lost, Rhode Island’s Fraudulent-Concealment Doctrine Tolls the Statute of Limitations When an Institution Hides the Truth, Punitive Damages for Wanton and Willful Conduct, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Report Changed Everything — But It Didn’t Change the Clock If you are reading this, you may have spent decades carrying something that no one in authority was willing to confirm. On March 4, 2026, Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha released a 282-page report documenting what the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence concealed for more than seven decades: the sexual abuse of at least 315 children by 72 priests and deacons, dating back to 1950. The Attorney General called the numbers “staggering, shocking, astounding” — and then added, “we know we didn’t get it all.” For survivors who reported their abuse to the diocese and were questioned, discredited, or ignored — like Dr. Ann Hagan Webb, who was deemed “not credible” by diocesan officials for 32 years — the report is something else entirely. It is the government of Rhode Island looking at what happened to you and saying, in writing: this is real, and you were telling the truth. But validation is not the same as justice. The report is a government findings document, not a verdict. It does not write a check. It does not hold the diocese legally accountable in a court of law. It…

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Jul 8, 2026

300+ Victims, 72 Credibly Accused Priests & 70 Years of Diocese of Providence Concealment — Rhode Island Clergy Sexual Abuse Attorneys, Attorney911 with Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pursue the Diocese and the Religious-Order Provinces Behind the Priest Shuffle, the Tuesday Group and the File Destruction That Hid Generations of Abuse, We Move to Secure the Secret Archive Files Before They Disappear, Fraudulent Concealment and Equitable Tolling to Overcome the Statute of Limitations in a State Where 40% of Residents Are Catholic, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Institutional Claims Are Valued and Denied, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Rhode Island Clergy Abuse: 72 Priests, 300+ Victims, and the Civil Claim That May Still Be Yours If you are reading this page, you may have just seen a name you have carried in silence for decades — confirmed, finally, in a government report built from 250,000 pages of the church’s own secret files. Or you may be the family member who always suspected and now knows. Or you may be someone who has never told a single person what happened to you, and the news that more than 300 others exist has made you realize, for the first time, that what was done to you was not a private catastrophe but part of a pattern a state attorney general has now called “sordid and shameful.” We are Attorney911. We are a trial firm that takes clergy abuse and institutional child sexual abuse cases. We are writing this page for you — the survivor, the family member, the person at the kitchen table at 2 a.m. who has been carrying this alone and is now trying to understand whether the law still offers them anything. It does. But the law in this area is a battlefield, and the single most…

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Jul 8, 2026

Clergy Sexual Abuse in Providence, Rhode Island: 75 Accused Clergy, 300+ Child Victims, and Decades of Institutional Concealment in the Diocese of Providence — Attorney911 Holds the Institution That Transferred Known Abusers Instead of Removing Them, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Preserve the Personnel Files, Assignment Records and Internal Communications Before They Disappear, the Fraudulent Concealment Doctrine May Reopen Claims Survivors Were Told Were Time-Barred, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Institutional Claims Are Valued and Denied, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

What the Attorney General’s Report Found — and What It Means for Survivors in Providence If you are reading this page, you may be one of the more than 300 people the Rhode Island Attorney General identified as victims of clergy sexual abuse in the Diocese of Providence — or you may be someone who has never told anyone what happened to you and is now wondering whether the law can still do anything about it. We want you to hear this first: the report validates what you have always known. What the Church denied, what the institution minimized, what bishops wrote memos about avoiding — a sitting Attorney General just put it in a government document and called it what it is. You were not believed because the system chose not to believe you. That system just broke open. The report, released by Attorney General Peter Neronha, is the first comprehensive independent audit of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence. It identifies 75 credibly accused clergy members who, between 1950 and 2011, abused more than 300 victims according to the Diocese’s own records. Twenty of those 75 names were not on the Diocese’s own published “Credibly Accused Clergy” list…

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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…

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Jul 8, 2026

Clergy Abuse Revival Window Attorneys for Rhode Island Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Time-Barred Claims Now Revived by Legislation, the Attorney General’s 282-Page Report Documenting Decades of Cover-Up by the Diocese of Providence Is the Liability Roadmap, We Pursue the Chancery Files, Personnel Records and Assignment Histories That Prove Institutional Knowledge Before Aging Witnesses and Old Records Are Lost, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Catastrophic Injury Cases, Two-Year Filing Window Opens July 1, 2026 and Closes June 30, 2028 — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Rhode Island Clergy Abuse Revival Window: Your Right to File Is Real — and It Has a Hard Deadline If you survived childhood sexual abuse by clergy in Rhode Island, you already know what it cost you. What you may not know is that the Rhode Island legislature has passed a law that reopens the courthouse door — a door that was slammed shut by the statute of limitations before most survivors were ready to walk through it. A two-year “revival window” opens on July 1, 2026, and closes permanently on June 30, 2028. During that window, previously time-barred civil claims against institutions and supervisors who failed to protect children — claims that expired under the old filing deadline — can be filed again. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence, which exercises canonical jurisdiction over every parish, school, and Catholic institution in the state, is the primary institutional defendant. And the evidence supporting these claims is extraordinary: a 282-page investigative report by the Rhode Island Attorney General, documenting decades of systematic concealment, reassignment of known abusers, and failure to report abuse to law enforcement. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We built this page for one person:…

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Jul 8, 2026

Rhode Island Clergy Sexual Abuse & Institutional Liability Attorneys: 34 Suits Filed on Day One of the Revival Window, Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Cases Against the Diocese and the Parishes That Concealed Decades of Abuse, the 282-Page Attorney General Report Documenting 72 Credibly Accused Clergy and Systematic Cover-Up, We Pursue the Diocese’s Personnel Files, Assignment Histories and Internal Communications Before Decades-Old Records Are Lost, Fraudulent Concealment and Negligent Supervision Doctrine Under the Two-Year Revival Window Now Open, Survivors in Their 70s and 80s Whose Testimony Is on the Clock, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Institutional Cases, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Institutional-Liability Lawsuit — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Rhode Island Clergy Abuse Lawsuits: Your Rights Under the Revived Statute of Limitations Before the June 2028 Window Closes If you were sexually abused by clergy in Rhode Island — whether at a parish in East Providence, a seminary, a school in Central Falls, or anywhere else under the Diocese of Providence’s authority — and you thought it was too late to do anything about it, the law just changed. On June 11, 2026, Governor Dan McKee signed landmark legislation reopening the door to civil claims that had expired years or even decades ago. Thirty-four lawsuits were filed on the very first day the window opened. The oldest claim dates back to 1958. At least 130 more are being prepared. The window stays open until June 30, 2028 — but that is not the same as having until 2028 to decide. Evidence is dying. Survivors are in their seventies and eighties. And the constitutionality of the law itself is being challenged. We are going to walk you through every piece of what this means for you, honestly, including the risks nobody else will tell you about. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We take institutional abuse cases.…

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Jul 2, 2026

Hazing-National School Hazing Injury & Institutional Liability Attorneys: Rhode Island’s 2026 Zero-Tolerance Anti-Hazing Law Sets a New Standard of Care, Attorney911 Holds School Districts, Coaches and Administrators Accountable When Initiation Rituals Cause Physical Trauma and Psychological Harm, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Preserve Texts, Social Media and GroupMe Logs Before Deletion, Rhode Island’s Municipal Liability Cap Demands We Pursue Every Liable Party, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Rhode Island’s 2026 Anti-Hazing Law: What It Means for Your Child’s Safety — and What to Do Now If you are reading this at 2 a.m., you already know something happened to your child. Maybe your son came home from football practice with bruises he cannot explain. Maybe your daughter stopped eating after a team “initiation.” Maybe a coach called it “tradition,” or a principal asked you to “let the school handle it internally.” You are here because your gut is telling you that what happened was not an accident — it was hazing — and you need to know whether the law is finally on your side. It is. On June 24, 2026, Rhode Island’s governor signed a statewide anti-hazing law that changes what schools owe every student who puts on a uniform. That law does not just create a policy — it creates a standard of care your school district must meet, and a paper trail you can use when they fail. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We litigate hazing cases. Right now, we are lead counsel in an active $10M hazing lawsuit against the University of Houston and Pi Kappa Phi fraternity, and the…

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